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New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union

 Organization

administrative history

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Auckland Waterside Workers' Union records.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-D-44
Scope and Contents

Collection includes General Meeting minutes 1951-1981; minutes of Executive Meetings 1951-1978; minutes of Port Conciliation Committee meetings 1951-1982 and Waterfront Industry Tribunal decisions 1952- 1982.

Dates: 1951 - 1982

G.S. Crowther papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-D-43
Scope and Contents Collection comprises of material collected by Mr G.S Crowther while a member of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union including (a) Auckland Watersiders official information bulletin", no. 10 (19 March 1951) - no.56 (15 Sept. 1951); (b) Application for membership of Union from G.S. Crowther, 1 June 1947; (c) Cyclostyled leaflets and pamphlets re Waterfront Strike 1951; (d) Waikato Miners Union information bulletin no. 5 (1951); (e) Copy of...
Dates: 1947 - 1951

Jock Barnes typescript of Never a white flag.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-Vault 101
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a photocopy of the typescript for Jock Barnes' autobiography which details Barnes' political beliefs and long involvement in Union activity including the 1951waterfront strike.

Dates: 1987

New Zealand Harbour Worker's Union, Auckland Branch records.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-95/4
Scope and Contents

Collection contains minutes, reports of annual conferences, correspondence, membership records, awards and agreements, disputes, logbooks and notes of union officers, newspaper clippings, Mainport, and photographs.

Dates: 1937 - 1992

New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union minutes and circulars.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-D-27
Scope and Contents

Circulars and minutes issued during and immediately after the 1951 waterfront dispute.

Dates: 1951

New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union records.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-Vault 131
Scope and Contents Records used by Dr Tom Bramble, in editing Barnes' autobiography, 'Never a white flag : the memoirs of Jock Barnes'. : Wellington [N.Z.] : Victoria University Press, 1998. Mostly records of the New Zealand waterside Workers' Union, with some material compiled by Barnes. Boxes 1-2: Records of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union, including conference proceedings, minutes of meetings, subject files, and union bulletins; newspaper clippings on Union matters and the Waterfront Strike,...
Dates: 1944 - 1953

Wilfred (Bill) McAra collection on industrial relations on the New Zealand waterfront.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-D-5
Scope and Contents The papers in this collection cover the period 1946 to 1953 and concern industrial relations on the waterfront in the years leading up to the 1951 waterfront dispute, the dispute itself, and the immediate aftermath. The collection includes minutes, correspondence, notes, reports, pamphlets and clippings. In 1946, the New Zealand Waterside Workers Industrial Union of Workers approached the Waterfront Industry Commission seeking better working conditions, including guaranteed minimum pay....
Dates: 1946 - 1953

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Waterfront Strike, N.Z., 1951 -- Sources 4
Stevedores -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland 3
Labor unions -- New Zealand -- Auckland 2
Stevedores -- New Zealand -- Auckland 2
Stevedores -- New Zealand -- History 2