New Zealand Engine Drivers', Firemen's, Greasers' and Assistants' Union records.
Scope and Contents
The records in this collection are principally those of the Auckland Certificated Engine Drivers’ Industrial Union of Workers, subsequently the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Engine Drivers’, Firemen’s, Greasers’ and Assistants’ Union. The manner of acquisition of the records by the University of Auckland Library is not known, and they are by no means a complete set of papers for the years they span. They comprise, arbitrarily, minutes, financial records, correspondence, and miscellaneous items.
In addition to records of the Auckland Branch, the collection contains correspondence files, numbered and labelled, prepared in the office of the Wellington Branch of the Union. These have been listed separately from the Auckland Branch material, in Series 8.
A manuscript entitled The red and the gold
, by Michael Bland of Waihi, dated 1982, has been placed at Series 7. This is an unpublished account of the Waihi Miners’ Strike of 1912.
Dates
- 1908 - 1985
Creator
- Michael Bland (Title of a work--Red and the gold) (Person)
- New Zealand Federated Engine Drivers, River Engineers, Greasers and Firemen's Industrial Association of Workers (Organization)
- New Zealand Engine Drivers, Firemen, Greasers and Assistants Industrial Union of Workers (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Not restricted.
Biographical / Historical
The NZ Federated Engine Drivers, River Engineers, Greasers and Firemen Union was first registered in 1908. In 1938 the various regional engine drivers unions amalgamated to form the New Zealand Engine Drivers Firemen, Greasers and Assistants Industrial Union of Workers In December 1990 the Union became a division of the Northern Distribution Union; which is now part of the National Distribution Union.
Harbridge, Raymond. A sourcebook of New Zealand trade unions and
employee organisations. Wellington, 1994 (p.96).
Extent
2.7 metres (27 boxes.)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Unknown.
General
MSS & Archives Vault 17.
- Locomotive engineers -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources
- Locomotive engineers -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources
- River-steamer engineers -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources
- River-steamer engineers -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources
- Steam engineers -- Labor unions -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources
- Steam engineers -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources
- Waihi strike, 1912
- Title
- Inventory of the records of the New Zealand Engine Drivers', Firemen's, Greasers' and Assistants' Union, 1908-1985.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kay Stead
- Date
- 1997
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- 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