Australia in World War I

The ANU Archives collect records of federally registered trade unions and their predecessors, and of peak councils such as the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).

Included in the records of many unions are files about wartime production and staffing, post-war reconstruction and the rehabilitation of ex-servicemen.

E220/16 - Dispute and industrial correspondence files - Townsville railwaymen's strike, Apr - Oct 1914

E220/17 - Dispute and industrial correspondence files - Dispute with Institute of Marine Engineers, Nov 1914 - Feb 1915

E220/18 - Dispute and industrial correspondence files - Claim resulting in Mechanical Engineers' Award, Central Division, May 1916 

E220/19 - Dispute and industrial correspondence files - Disputes and negotiations of agreements with Institute of Marine Engineers, Oct 1916 - Apr 1919 

E220/20 - Dispute and industrial correspondence files - Claim for variation of Mt Morgan award of 1916 and claim for consolidated award for Brisbane, Southern and Central divisions, including Mt Morgan, Nov 1917

E220/21 - Dispute and industrial correspondence files - Application to amend 1917 consolidated award for engineering and allied trades industry for the Brisbane, south-eastern and central divisions, Apr-Nov 1918

E164-33-1 - Our part in the World War 1914-1918, British Thomson-Houston Company Ltd, c. 1919

T34/5/3 - First Executive Committee of the No-Conscription Fellowship, Melbourne (names given), 1916

E154/41/1 - Annual reports and balance sheets regarding the anti-conscription levy, 1916-1917 

S100 - 'No Conscription Campaign’ The Australian Worker special edition, 19 Nov – 17 Dec 1917 

P112/6 - Australian Workers’ Union, Central Branch, no-conscription voluntary levy receipt, Nov 1917

T13/32/43 - Photograph – Group of soldiers, c. 1915

T11/18 - Anti-conscription campaign correspondence, 1916-1917 

E218/13 - Correspondence with Department of Defence, 1918

E218/14 - Correspondence with Government Small Arms Factory (Lithgow), 1914-1919 

E85/1/3 - ‛The cost of the war to the navigator’ - Annual Report, 1917 
E85/1/4 - Report of proceedings regarding Captain Manning (Olaf Skold) a German national, 1917 

E117/27 - Register of Victoria Branch members’ payments of the ‘anti-conscription’ levy, 1917-1918

E117/55 - Contribution book for Pentridge Lodge (includes contributions to anti-conscription levy), 1917-1918

E245-129 - Stovemakers evidence of inquiry re effect of war on industry, 1915 

T63-7 - Photograph of honour roll of Burnie branch members who served in World War I, 1914-1918

Z432/Box 4 - Distribution of work to returned soldier volunteers Victoria Dock, Melbourne, 1933
Z432/Box 75 - Printed material, pamphlets, etc. re Australian trade unionism and conscription, labour and the cost of war, peace after the war, 1914-1918; also movement against war and fascism, 1930s