The Archives hold a variety of personal collections of people connected with the labour movement or Australian industry. Some of these include files and printed material about the munitions industry, wartime working conditions, anti-war activities, nuclear disarmament, post-war Australia and world peace.
P8/3: Correspondence, printed material and photographs documenting Australian left-wing political and industrial activities; includes pamphlets, leaflets and other printed material relating to conscription, referenda, union affairs (1939 - 1945)
Z296/Boxes 33, 43, 58: Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia constitution, rules and by-laws (1946, 1951)
Z296/Boxes 1, 11, 58: Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia - Annual State Congress agenda papers (1948 - 1954)
Z296/Box 33: Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia
Z296/Box 1: Returned Services League
Z296/Box 10: Subject files
N121/1-2: J L Knight, Explosives in Australia: the Australian munitions industry
N121/3-7: J L Knight, The Story of a Factory: Mulwala Explosives Factory
Working files and research papers
N121/36-37: Commonwealth Government Ammunition Factory, Footscray
N121/44-46: Commonwealth Government Explosives Factories, Maribyrnong and Mulwala
N121/9-25: Reports, research papers and addresses regarding the munitions industry in Australia (1937 - 1950)
N121/63-65: The Explosives Committee and Operational Safety Committee of the Department of Supply (1936 - 1976)
N121/73-78: Departmental Organisation, including factory rule books (1936 - 1945)
N121/57-59: Briefing notes, reports and position papers by J L Knight and others on topics such as cluster weapons, small arms, guided weapons, shell filling and production, supply of ammunition and warlike stores, cast double base propellant, the Propellant Section, Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong
Subject files
P94/33/2: Discharged and demobilised service personnel (1945 - 1947)
P94/33/5/24: Clothing rationing (1942)
P94/33/5/30: Food for Britain (1945 - 1946)
P94/33/5/31: Civil Construction Corps (1941 - 1942)
P94/33/5/1: Advisory Committee Report on the internment of Max Thomas and Horace Ratliff (1941)
Periodicals on topics such as:
P94/33/5/40: Repatriation (1941)
P94/33/5/42: Return to civil life (1944 - 1945)
P94/33/5/46: Transport of workers, war industries (1943)
P94/33/5/47: War Railway Committee (1945)
P94/33/5/48: Women's Employment Board (1942 - 1943)
P94/33/11/88: Air raid precautions (1941)
P94/33/11/32: Rehabilitation of ex-servicemen (1946)
Leaflets relating to:
P94/54/9: Compulsory military service (1939 - 1945)
P94/33/11/4-10: Post-war reconstruction (1945 - 1946)
N57/1319-1321: Anti-conscription movements in Australia (1936 - 1940)
N57/602: Australian Communists' achievements (1948)
N57/27-34: Communist Party policies and activities, Australia and overseas (1939 - 1945)
N57/474, N57/805, N57/2035-2052: Movement against war and fascism (1933 - 1939)
N57/542: Returned Sailors & Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (1933, 1939)
P2/1/29-134: Pamphlets, serials, press cuttings and other printed material relating to post-war reconstruction (1940s - 1950s) - the national economy, the political scene, resources and prospects, demobilisation and re-establishment, return to civil life
P2/1/29-33: Department of Information: Facts and figures of Australia at war (1944 - 1946)
P2/1/34: Department of Information: Forty facts about Australia's wartime agriculture (1945)
P2/1/35-39, P2/1/58-59: Army Education Service: Australian resources and prospects; people at work; the man on the land; the Australian political scene (1945 - 1946)
P2/1/40-54: Department of Post-War Reconstruction: the land; the menace of soil erosion; return to civil life; the progress of demobilisation and re-establishment (1944 - 1946)
P2/1/56-57: Universities Commission - Commonwealth Post-War Reconstruction Training Scheme (1945 - 1950)
P2/1/132-134: Australian Railways Union - a trade union plan for post-war reconstruction
P2/4/1-18: Newsclippings, magazines and posters concerning the World Peace Movement:
N296/5: Letters from military service, Cowra. Private (NX205757), 1 Aust Recruit Trg Bn, later 2 AAT Regt
N296/31: Photographs: returned servicemen supporting the 40-hour week campaign (1945); returned servicemen carrying a 'Jobs, homes, adequate pensions await every demobilized Soviet fighter' banner in a CPA-organised parade (1945)
Z267/Box 4; P120/1266: Sheet Metal Workers' Union Soldiers Welfare Fund (1943 - 1945)
P120/1267: 'Our part in the war' - a statement by the Executive Committee, Sheet Metal Workers' Union, NSW Branch (1942)
P120/1154: Merchant seamen in the war by E V Elliott, General Secretary, Seamen's Union of Australia, being the annual report delivered to Annual General Meeting (Mar 1944)
P120/1675: The Armed forces and the elections, a reprint of a commentary broadcast by Sid Jordan over Station 2KY, Sydney (1943)
Z267/Box 30: Enlistment certificate for Tom Wright (1942); ration card for Mary Wright (1949)
Z267/Boxes 2-4: Pamphlets (1943 - 1947):
Z267/Boxes 25-27: World Peace Movement papers and pamphlets (1930s - 1990s)
Z267/Box 7: Newspaper clippings - Manpower register (1939)
Z267/Box 11: Subject file - Max Thomas and Horace Ratliff (1941)