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Peace Movement

Actors' Equity of Australia

N122/37 - Actors for Nuclear Disarmament, 1982

Amalgamated Metalworkers' & Shipwrights' Union

Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union National Office

N24/562-563 - Amalgamated Engineering Union Commonwealth Secretary's correspondence - Peace movements, 1959-1970

N24/464-475 - Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union Assistant Secretary's papers - Vietnam/anti-conscription, 1964-1971; Vietnam post-war reconstruction including Australian and international peace activities, 1974-1976 

N24/460 - Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union Assistant National Secretary's files - International Women's Year 1975 - Women in Solidarity for Peace letters and information sheets, 1975-1977

N24/464-475 - Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament (Sydney) and Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament (Victorian Branch) - assorted papers, 1964-1973

 

Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union New South Wales Branch

E262/75 - Disarmament and nuclear tests ministerial statement - Speeches by Calwell, Whitlam, Hayden and Ward from Hansard, May 1962

E262/97 - End this war: Withdraw all troops and negotiate peace for Vietnam, Sydney Trades Hall. 1966

Amalgamated Metalworkers Union

Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union South Australian State Council

N131/226 - Politics - peace - Vietnam war, 1961-1966

N131/227 - Politics - peace - Vietnam war, 1966-1969

N131/228 - Politics - peace - Vietnam war, 1970

N131/229 - Politics - peace - Vietnam war, 1970

N131/230 - Politics - Peace - CPV - Campaigns for peace in Vietnam, 1969-1970

N131/231 - Politics - Peace - CPV - Campaigns for peace in Vietnam - Vietnam Moratorium Committee, 1971

N131/232 - Politics - Peace - CPV - Campaigns for peace in Vietnam - Vietnam Moratorium Committee, 1971-1974

N131/233 - Politics - peace congresses - Vietnam war, 1959-1964

N131/234 - Politics - peace congresses - Vietnam war, 1964-1974

N131/235 - Politics - peace congresses - Vietnam moratorium campaign - National Anti-War Conference papers, 1971

 

Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union, New South Wales Branch (Ron Arnold)

N395 - Papers, newspaper clippings, correspondence, publications relating to the peace movement, disarmament, nuclear weapons, peace organisations and events including the Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament [AICD], NSW Trade Union Peace Committee, Australian and New Zealand Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament, World Peace Congress, International Symposium on Damage and After-Effects of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,  Organising Committee for the United National Movement Against Atom & Hydrogen Bombs, World Conference for Nuclear Disarmament and Relief of Hibakusha, Australian Peace Committee, National Conference for an Independent and Non-Aligned Australia, International Conference for the Establishment of Zones of Peace in the Indian Ocean and for a Nuclear Free Zone in the South Pacific, Australian People's Disarmament Conference, Australian Peace Union Movement and peace in Vietnam and Japan, c. 1950s-1980s

Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation

N144/336 - General Secretary's files - Vietnam re joint delegation (provisional revolutionary government - Vietnam Peace Committee) visit to Australia and special minute re levy for ploughing machines for Vietnam, 1973

Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)

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N21/824 - Nuclear tests, 1956-1957

N21/939 - Asian International Conference for Peace, 1966

N21/1292 - Industrial Peace Conference, 1973-1974

N21/1751 - Uranium, 1978

N21/1758 - Vietnam, 1965-1970

N147/575 - Tripartite Industrial Peace Conference, 1972

N68/39 - Asian Peace and Anti-Nuclear Arms Congress, 1960s 

N68/110 - ACTU Uranium Delegation to Europe, UK & USSR, 1979

N68/508 - Nuclear International Conference, 1965-1971

N68/559 - Ranger Uranium Inquiry, 1975-1976

N68/1295 - Industrial Officer Len Schurr's file - Uranium, 1974-1978

N160/Box 232 - SPOCTU Steering Committee French nuclear testing decisions, 1995

Australian Education Union

Z483/Box 122 - Australian Association for Peace, Justice and Development, no date

Z483/Box 122 - Australian Nuclear Disarmament Movement, no date

Z483/Box 129 - Education for Peace Steering Committee, no date

Z483/Box 134 - International Year of Peace in Schools, no date

Z483/Box 137 - Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Coordinating Committee, no date

Z483/Box 184 - People for Nuclear Disarmament, no date

Australian Hairdressers, Wigmakers and Hairworkers Employees' Union

E114/7/38 - Pamphlet - Road to Peace, 1940

Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers

Z123/31 - Subject files - Vietnam charters (ships Boonaroo, Jeparit), 1967

Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union

Z102/Box 70 - Disarmament and peace - general, 1968

Z102/Box 80 - International Correspondence 1972–75; Amnesty International 1973–75; Local Peace and International Peace 1971–77

Z102/Box 94 - Peace – Australian Organisations & Sister Bertell's Press Kit, 1976-1978

Z102/Box 535 - Report on International Year of Peace, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1977-1981

Z102/Box 546 - Disarmament: general correspondence, United National Disarmament Week National Conference, Sydney University, 25 Oct 1980; Australian Peace Committee, 1976-1977

Z102/Box 547Disarmament Times, 1982-1987

Z102/Box 548 - United Nations Special Session on Disarmament, June 1982-February 1983

Z102/Box 550 - Peace International and Pacific Concerns Research Centre (PCRC): includes minutes and correspondence with Australian Peace Liasion Committee, 1986

Z102/Box 640 - Peace – Australian Organisations - correspondence and papers, 1986

Z102/Box 646 - Peace – Metalworkers to Enforce Nuclear Disarmament (MENO): correspondence and papers, 1979-1984

Z102/Box 646 - Peace movement, 1983-1985

Z102/Box 723 - Peace, 1990-1991

Z102/Box 724 - People for Nuclear Disarmament, 1986-1987

Z102/Box 728 - People for Nuclear Disarmament, 1979-1980

Z102/Box 742 - Letter and poster issued by Metal Workers to enforce nuclear disarmament, Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union National Council, May 1989

Z102/Box 742 Disarmament Times, March 1989

Z102/Box 767 - Printed and Kindred Industries Union printed material - 'Give Peace a Chance: Australia's Guide to WWIII', no date

Z102/Box 857 - National Peace Council, 1994-1995

Z102/Box 1041 - Amalgamtated Society of Engineers / Amalgamated Engineering Union - Vietnam War: includes AMWU pamphlets, minutes of International Conference for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Vietnam (attended by Ron Arnold, NSW State Organiser) and information on the NSW Trades Union Peace Committee, 1971-1974

Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA)

N346/1388 - Ma'an peace process proposals, 1993-1996

N346/1496 - Middle East - AusAID correspondence: Ma'an Development Center Project (peace process), 1993-1995

N346/1911 - APHEDA-SIARTC HES project - component 3 - peace and leadership training, 2001-2003

N346/2330 - Campaigns - Middle East peace process funding campaign, February 1994

Australian Railways Union

Australian Railways Union National Office

N5/978-979 - Vietnam press cuttings, 1965-1967

N5/983 - War and peace, 1908-1951

N5/984 - Peace congresses, conferences and committees, 1959-1967

N5/985 - East of Suez, 1966-1970

N5/986 - Foreign Affairs and Defence, 1964-1966

N5/987 - War and Peace - General, 1964-1971

N5/988 - Nuclear weapons, bans, treaties, tests etc., 1964-1969

N5/989-991 - War and peace - Press cuttings, 1964-1970

N5/992 - Vietnam, 1964-1970

N5/993 - War Railway Committee, 1942-1943 

 

Australian Railways Union Tasmanian Branch

N11/143 - Peace Congress, 1965

N11/199 - Vietnam moratorium, 1967-1970

N11/205 - War and peace, 1966/1973

E231/484-485 - Peace Congress, 1956-1964

E231/575 - War and peace, 1962-1965

 

Australian Railways Union South Australian Branch

E197/8/3126 - Correspondence files - South Australian Peace Council, 1956-1959

Builders' Labourers' Federation

N130/1300 - Peace, 1985-1986

Building Workers' Industrial Union

Z392/Box 16 - Vietnam moratorium general papers, December 1970; Vietnam Moratorium National Anti-War Conference, Sydney, 1971; Vietnam moratorium newspaper cuttings; Draft of Trades & Labor Council anti-war paper; Cease fire declaration, 1970-1973

Z392/Box 21 - Assorted peace papers including People for Nuclear Disarmament Queensland, Hiroshima Day, Australian Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament, peace rallies etc., Vietnam peace and trade union delegations, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, c. 1970s-1980s

Z392/Box 87 - Vietnam moratorium press clippings, 8-10 May 1970

Z392/Box 88 - Vietnam moratorium papers, 8-10 May 1970

Community and Public Sector Union

Z603/Box 28 - APSA Policy on Nuclear Disarmament, August-November 1984

Z603/Box 81 - Matters dealing with nuclear disarmament, April-September 1985

Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union

N430/1045 - Peace issues subject file, 1986-1988

N430/1235 - Photographs of people, work sites, rallies and pickets, training and events (includes Peace Festival), c. 1990s

N430/1229 - Photographs (includes Protest for Peace), c. 1990s

Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association

Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association Federal Council

Z257/Box 56 - Correspondence with other unions - peace / disarmament / uranium, 1982-1984

Z257/Box 95 - Peace movements, 1986

 

Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association New South Wales Branch

N129/83 - Association for International Co-operation & Disarmament, 1982-1983

N129/84 - Association for International Co-operation & Disarmament, 1987-1988

N129/115 - Australian Coalition for Disarmament and Peace, 1983-1985

N129/145 - Australian Disarmament Conference, article 'Militarism & Imperialism', Chapter 7 Monopoly Capitalism by Baran & Sweezy in Is Disarmament Possible?, 1966

N129/146 - Australian Disarmament Times, 1983

N129/191 - Australian Peace Committee, 1981-1985

N129/214 - Australians for Nuclear Disarmament, 1984-1988

N129/390 - Coalition for a Nuclear Free Australia, 1983

N129/1087 - Film groups (including peace), 1983-1985

N129/1259 - International Peace Conference on the Asia and Pacific Regions, 1985

N129/1326 - Sam Lewis - Peace awards, 1985

N129/1493 - Nuclear Disarmament Co-ordinating Committee (includes minutes), 1982

N129/1494Nuclear Disarmament Co-ordinating Committee (includes minutes), 1983-1984

N129/1495 - Nuclear Disarmament Co-ordinating Committee (includes minutes), 1985-1986

N129/1496 - Nuclear Disarmament Party, 1986

N129/1497 - Nuclear discussion, films etc., 1983-1986

N129/1498 - Nuclear Free Australia Party, 1985-1986

N129/1499 - Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific, 1982-1984 

N129/1500 Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific, 1985-1987

N129/1705 - Pacific Peacemaker, 1983-1986

N129/1709 - PALOMA - Women Fight for Peace - Uruguayan Women's Association, 1983-1985 

N129/1717 - Peace, 1987-1988

N129/1718 - Peace and Anti-Nuclear Electoral Lobby, 1987-1988

N129/1719 - Peace Courier, 1981-1984

N129/1720 - Peace Courier, 1985-1987

N129/1721 - Peace marches, rallies etc., 1980-1986 

N129/1722 - Peace Studies Curriculum Group, 1983-1985

N129/1729 - People for Nuclear Disarmament; Peace Action, 1981-1985

N129/1730People for Nuclear Disarmament; Peace Action, 1985-1987

N129/1999 - Sydney Peace Squadron, 1986

N129/2040 - Trade Union Peace Conference, 1987

N129/2146 - Women's Film Unit 'Fighting for Peace', 1984

N129/2232 - ACTU - Disarmament, 1982

N129/2303 - Disarmament, 1983

N129/2388 - National Disarmament Coordinating Committee, 1982-1984

N129/2418 - Peace, 1981-1984

Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australia

P20/3/7 - The Economics of Peace by Alfred Davidson, Sydney, 1941 

P20/3/1 - Labour's aims in war and peace by CR Atlee, London, 1940

P20/3/10 - When Peace Comes by Herbert Gepp, Melbourne, 1943

P20/1/69 - Labour, the war and the peace, Labour Party of Great Britain, London, 1940

P20/1/102 - The transformation of war plant to peace needs, by JS Storey, Melbourne, 1944

Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union

Z370/Box 77 - Peace - Decisions - Congress - AICD Sydney, 1964; Peace - AICD ALP Proscription - Submissions and Exhibits, 1967; Peace - General - includes Cuban Crisis, 1959-66

Z370/Box 78 - World Congress of Peace Forces, 1973-1975; Peace - Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, 1971-1975; Peace - AICD, 1971-1972; Peace - ALP AICD Dispute, 1966-1967; Peace - AICD ALP Proscription, February-March 1967; Peace - General, 1967-1969; Peace - South East Asia & Australia - Queensland Conference, 1966; Peace - AICD Press Research August 1967-July 1969; Peace - AICD Correspondence 1965 to September 1971; AICD Press Research July 1965 -July 1968  

Flight Stewards' Association

N107/208 - Tripartite Industrial Peace Conference, 1973

Maritime Union of Australia

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N409/108 - Photographs - Vietnam War, 1972

N409/151 - Photographs - Peace rallies, Adelaide, South Australia, c. 2003

N409/128 - Photographs - Peace rallies, Sydney, New South Wales, 1980s

N409/570 - Photographs - War protest in Sydney, New South Wales, 1990s

Merchant Service Guild of Australia

N51/221 - Transcripts of proceedings heard before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission - Dispute between Australian National Line and the Seamen's Union of Australia, re manning of the vessel Boonaroo on voyage to Vietnam, 1966

New South Wales Teachers' Federation

N111/1510 - Peace - General, 1959-1975

N111/1511 - Peace - General, 1976-1977

N111/1512 - Abolition of nuclear tests, 1958-1964

N111/1513 - Abolition of nuclear tests, 1965-1966

N111/1514 - Vietnam, 1965-1971

N111/1515 - Australian Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament (NSW), 1964-1965

N111/1516 - Australian Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament correspondence with associations, 1965

N111/1517 - Australian Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament minutes book, 1965

N111/1518 - Australia and New Zealand Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament, 1959

N111/1519 - International Cooperation Year Convention, Canberra, 1965

N111/1520 - International Cooperation Year activities, 1964-1966

N111/1521 - Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament (NSW), 1963-1966

N111/1522 - Moratorium Campaign press cuttings, 1970

N111/1523 - Memorandum by Secretary of the Accra Assembly to the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations, Accra, Ghana, 1964

N111/1524 - The Story of Disarmament 1945-1963, Washington, USA, Disarmament Committee of the Washington DC Women Strike for Peace, 1963

N111/1525 - National Anti-War Conference attendees, 1971 

N111/2779 - Research Section files - Peace Congresses, 1959-1964

N111/3083 - World Federation of Teachers Unions: peace, anti-nuclear matters, 1953-1955

Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union

E190/11/9 - Federal Council papers (includes papers relating to Australian Peace Council), 1950 

E190 - Selected pamphlets and serials relating to peace, c. 1950s-1960s

Printing and Kindred Industries Union

N69/137 - Peace Committee etc., c. 1980s

N69/2889 - League of Nations: The transition from war to peace economy: report of the delegation on economic depressions, Geneva, 1943

N12/1-7 - Office files- affiliated organisations and others (includes Australian Peace Council), 1948-1966

N12/12-13 - Office files- affiliated organisations and others (includes Australian Peace Council), 1971-1972

Professional Radio and Electronics Institute of Australasia

E208/334 - Marine Section correspondence - Marine Award: re seamen's war pensions and questions re cargo and manning of Jeparit on voyage to Vietnam, 1966

E208/335 - Marine Section correspondence - Manning of Boonaroo on voyage to Vietnam. 1966

E208/338 - Marine Section correspondence - Letters from SUA and ACTU re supplies to Vietnam etc., 1966-1967

E208/340 - Marine Section correspondence - Letters from SUA and ACTU re Vietnam cargoes and Vietnam War, 1966-1967

Seamen's Union of Australia

Seamen's Union of Australia Federal Office

N38/1413-1436 - World Peace Council publications, 1972-1976

 

Seamen's Union of Australia Federal Office and Sydney Branch

E183/21 - Circulars relating to conferences and congresses (includes peace conferences), 1950s

E183/26 - Indonesia (includes resolutions of Australian Peace Congress), 1945-1946

E183/29 - Australian Peace Council papers (includes minutes of Combined Union Peace Committee and Maritime Union Peace Committee, 1950), 1949-1951; New South Wales Peace Council papers, 1955-1956 

E183/77 - Assorted peace pamphlets and publications (includes Korea, Germany, Victorian Peace Council, New South Wales Peace Council, Chinese People's Committee for World Peace), 1940s-1960s

 

Seamen's Union of Australia Sydney Branch

Z91/ Box 28 - Peace Committee correspondence, 1959-1960

Z91/Box 29 - Correspondence - Peace, Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament, 1964

Z91/Box 30 - Correspondence - Peace, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Committee Against Atomic Testing, Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament, 1965-1966

Z91/Box 50 - Vietnam, South Africa, Spain, Greece, 1963-1964

Z91/Box 69 - Ship files 'Jeparit', 1966-1967

Z91/Box 71 - Ships delegates’ correspondence on Moratorium and other COM proposals, 1970

Z91/Box 90 - Organisations: AICD, Trade Union Peace Committee, etc., 1971- 1973

Z91/Box 100 - Peace files, 1969-1979 

Z91/Box 101 - Peace files, 1968-1978

Z91/Box 119 - MV Boonaroo minute books and correspondence, 1958-1968 

Z91/Box 139 - Peace movement pamphlets, no date

Z91/Box 141 - Peace movement leaflets, no date

 

Seamen's Union of Australia Victorian Branch

Z263/42-47 - Peace files, 1954-1984

Z263/75 - Uranium files, 1977-1982

Z263/84 - Vietnam files, 1962-1972

 

Seamen's Union of Australia South Australian Branch 

E198/21/29 - Peace Action, New South Wales Peace Committee for International Co-operation and Disarmament, vol. 2, no. 8, 1961

Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement & Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia

E245/200 - The responsibilities of the unions and the workers towards the plan for total disarmament, the organisation of peace and the development of economic and social progress, by Louis Saillant, London, 1960

Union of Australian Women

Z236/Box 17 - Peace files (AICD, Vietnam, nuclear weapons, Save Our Sons), 1962-1975

Z236/Box 28 - Hiroshima Day; Peace file no 1 (AICD, Union of Australian Women and peace, Australian Peace Committee, Nuclear Disarmament Committee, Nuclear-Free Pacific, United Nations and peace etc), 1982-1985

Z236/Box 29 - Peace file no 2 (General, World Assembly for Peace and Life, AICD, APC, UNAA, NDCC, Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific, Pacific Peace Maker); Peace file no 3 (Miscellaneous); Peace correspondence and leaflets; Union of Australian Women and Australian Peace Committee, 1978-1986

Z236/Box 30 - Peace - United Nations associations and correspondence; Women's Peace Camp; 245-D and other toxic poisons, 1976-1984

N96/95 - Detente - Disarmament Development Seminar, July 1976

N96/113-118 - Peace, 1967-1982

Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia

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Waterside Workers' Federation Federal Office

E211/2 - Jim Healy's files - Korea: opposition to US and Australian involvement in the Korean War, 1950-1952

E211/3 - Jim Healy's files - Malaya: protests against the use of Australian armed forces in Malaya, 1948-1950

E211/36 - Jim Healy's files - Peace Council: Council activities and WWF response, 1949- 1952

E211/49 - Jim Healy's files - Compulsory military training and conscription: protests against conscription, 1950-1951

E211/62 - Jim Healy's files - World Peace Congress documents, 1950-1953

N114/994-1003 - Peace - Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament, nuclear tests, Vietnam War, 1964-1974

Z432/Box 45 - Peace, no date

Z432/Box 82 - Phil O’Brien (ex official of the Brisbane Branch), 'Towards Peace – A Worker’s Journey', 1992

Z432/Box 86 - Photographs - Peace rallies, Sydney, 1985-1986; May Day marches, 1950s-1980s

 

Waterside Workers' Federation Sydney Branch

Z248/Box 66A - Subject files - Jeparit, ban on US shipping (Vietnam), 1969-1973

Z248/Box 81 - Photographs - Marches, demonstrations and May Day, 1947-1960

 

Waterside Workers' Federation Port Adelaide Branch

N90/525 - Office files - South Australian Peace Committee/Council, 1953-1964

N90/421 - Office files - Jeparit dispute, 1969

 

Waterside Workers' Federation Cairns Branch

N140/50 - Press cuttings (includes disarmament), 1946-1966