Correspondence
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 dispute but lasted only briefly.
The material in this collection has been arranged using the system devised by Michael Coleman for MSS & Archives D-8. Conrad Bollinger has written in his note on sources in Against the wind : the story of the New Zealand Seamen's Union. Wellington, 1968: Throughout the book, extensive use has been made of the records held at the Wellington and Dunedin offices of the NZ Seamen's Union. These are an historian's dream with regard to their comprehensiveness, but a nightmare when it comes to arrangement.
This seems to hold good for the records of the Auckland office.
Dates
- 1897 - 1985
Creator
- From the Collection: Seamen's Union of Australasia (Organization)
- From the Collection: Haigh Charters & Co (Organization)
- From the Collection: Kneen, John K. (Person)
- From the Collection: Kneen, John K. (Title of a work--History of the scab union: its formation and dissolution.; ) (Person)
- From the Collection: Federated Seamen's Union of New Zealand. Auckland Branch (Organization)
- From the Collection: Wynyard, Skelton & Wilson (Firm) (Organization)
- From the Collection: Haigh Lyon & Co (Organization)
- From the Collection: Belcher, Bill (Person)
- From the Collection: Matthews, Lawrence (Person)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Seamen's Union. Auckland Branch (Organization)
- From the Collection: Donaldson, Noel (Title of a work--Personal message to my fellow unionists of the New Zealand Waterside Workers Union.; ) (Person)
- From the Collection: Anderson, Thomas Frederick (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Not restricted
Extent
From the Collection: 5.5 metres (9 cartons and 3 outsize items.)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, University of Auckland Repository
5 Alfred Street
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142 New Zealand
specialcollections@auckland.ac.nz