New Zealand Seamen's Union. Auckland Branch

Scope and Contents Collection includes minutes, correspondence and membership records. Some of the minutes are copies relating to the stopwork meetings of other branches. There is considerable overlap with the earlier deposit at MSS & Archives D-8, so that the two collections need to be consulted together. This collection includes J.K. Kneen's manuscript History of the scab union: its formation and dissolution. This union was formed by shipowners during the 1913 waterfront...

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This collection contains both the records of the New Zealand Seamen's Union and the New Zealand Federated Cooks' and Stewards' Union from the 1970s to the amalgamation of the Unions in December 1989, as the records of these organisations were received together. The records include subject files, minutes and financial records.

Scope and Contents Records of the Auckland Branch of the Union. The collection includes correspondence, minutes, reports and memoranda. Also contained in the collection are minutes, 9 May 1914 - 14 February 1915, of the Auckland Seamen and Firemen's Industrial Union of Workers Executive. This scab union was formed during the 1913 waterfront strike, and ceased to exist when it was absorbed by the Auckland Local Federated Seamen's Industrial Union of workers, which was affiliated to the...