Industrial relations - New Zealand

Date: 1995-1996

From: Lusk, Peter, 1948: Papers and photographs

Reference: MS-Papers-12820-3

Description: Material related to Lusk’s attempts to publish his article “Share the dream”. Includes a printout entitled “More notes to “Share the dream””, dated 14/6/96. Correspondence with various unions and magazine editors, particularly ongoing correspondence with Tom Hyde at Metro including draft reworkings. Includes rejection letters from publishers, including from Robyn Langwell of North and South. Copies of magazines that published the article including ‘New Zealand monthly review’ dated Feb/March 1996 and ‘M&C workers news’ of June 1996. Ephemera from Lusk’s time working at Fisher and Paykel, such as a notice from the smoko room dated July 1995. Also includes some news clippings reporting on the Fisher and Paykel company from 1996. See the related article "Share the dream" at Library reference MS-Papers-6296. Title supplied by Library. Lusk wrote an article called "Share the dream" following his experiences at Fisher and Paykel and eventually it became the basis of a play for Montana Sunday Theatre in 1997 with the script written by Dean Parker. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: The other 3 folders from the original filebox are at Library reference MS-Papers-12820-1 to MS-Papers-12820-2, and MS-Papers-12820-4.. Processing information: This material was originally housed in a file box labelled "F&P" and "Share the dream hat + 4 bundles”. The four bundles were separated into four folders for conservation and storage reasons. The hat, a t-shirt, and printed material about Seddonville was returned to the donor.

Date: 3 December 1984

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1984/5778-F

Description: Members of the bargaining teams for the Engineers Union and the employers seated facing each other ready for negotiation. At the head of the table between the two sides is conciliator Mick Castelli. Next to him on the left is Rex Jones, national secretary of the Engineers Union and union advocate. Facing Rex Jones is Peter Carroll, the employers advocate. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid 3 December 1984. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1920-1993

By: New Zealand Retailers' Federation; Retail NZ

Reference: ATL-Group-00705

Description: Material detailing the workings and decisions of various industry organisations involved in the broad retail and manufacturing sectors, affiliated to and predating Retail NZ. The bulk of the minutes and photographs date from the 1940s to 1970s, but includes material dating back to the 1920s.Shows the working of business in the highly regulated post-war markets, including discussion of price control, import controls, trading hours, and industrial relations. Related organisations include the Hire Purchase Association, the New Zealand Automotive and Cycle Wholesalers Association, the New Zealand Bright Steel Bar Guild, the New Zealand Commercial Stationers' Guild, the New Zealand Drawing Materials and Reprographics Suppliers' Association, the New Zealand Engineers Merchants Association, New Zealand Drapers', Clothiers, Milliners' and Boot Retailers' Industrial Union of Employers, the New Zealand Federation of Drapers’ and Clothiers’, New Zealand Fish Retailers Federation, New Zealand Galvanised Sheet Guild, the New Zealand Office Equipment Importers' and Distributors' Federation, the New Zealand Office Equipment Trade Association, the New Zealand Retail Florists' Association, the New Zealand Wallboard Guild, Wellington Drapers', Clothiers', Mercers', and Boot Retailers' Association, the Wellington Drapers', Clothiers', Mercers', and Boot Retailers' Association, and the Wellington Office Machinery Importers' Association. Comprises bound volumes of meeting minutes, conference proceedings and reports, photographs of conferences and retail stores, and ephemera. Most of the minutes are typed, signed, and pasted into guard books. Several books also include pasted in newspaper clippings about the meetings and conferences, price lists, pieces of legislation, card invites to annual general meetings, and notices of special meetings. Some minutes are handwritten, or annotated and highlighted. Title supplied by Library. Wellington City Archives took possession of several boxes of material related to Wellington. Arrangement: This collection is a sample of the full Retail NZ archives. As such it came to the Library in no defined order. The archivist created series to reflect the structure of Retail NZ and subsidiaries, trade groups, and associated federations. Within that the arrangement is chronological. The New Zealand Retailers' Federation was set up in 1921. The Federation comprised of 15 nationwide district associations, some of which predated the Federation. They remained autonomous. The Federation was managed by a council appointed by the associations. Several national trade groups representing the various types of stores in the Federation were established. They were subordinate to the council in matters of national policy, but autonomous in matters affecting their own trading sphere. There were also national retail federations, guilds and associations that affiliated with the Federation, such as the New Zealand Commercial Stationers’ Guild. A national secretary and staff looked after general administration. The Federation established a subsidiary organisation (the New Zealand College of Retailing) for training and a limited liability company (Retailer Publishing Company) to publish one of its journals. In 1987 the Federation was wound up and reformed as the Retail and Wholesale Merchants Association, which included retail, distribution and wholesale merchants. It became incorporated at this time. In 2015 it rebranded as Retail NZ. Quantity: 73 b&w original photographic print(s) Mounted photographs, photographs, contact sheets and a panorama.. 42 volume(s) Guard volumes and minute books.. 9 folder(s) Insignia, booklets, correspondence, ephemera.. 6 colour original photographic print(s) One mounted photograph and four snapshots.. 2 cartoon(s). Physical Description: Volumes, photographs, cartoons, insignia. Processing information: Not all names associated with the collection have been indexed.

Date: 1971-1984, 1999-2007

By: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions

Reference: 2011-124

Description: Newspaper clippings and copies of clippings relating to the trade union movement. Organised both chronologically and by topic Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 27 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres.

Date: 28 February 1969

From: Skinner, Thomas Edward (Sir), 1909-1991: Cartoons collected by Sir Thomas Skinner

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: C-179-060

Description: Two politicians watch a television with no picture labelled "Labour's election prospects". On the other side of the wall someone labelled "Unions" is using a washing machine lavelled "Industrial relations washer". The washing machine is sparking and plugged into the same wall as television. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, and chinese white on paper, 385 x 485 mm.

Date: 14 March 1973

From: Skinner, Thomas Edward (Sir), 1909-1991: Cartoons collected by Sir Thomas Skinner

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: C-179-143

Description: The caption reads ""The industrial relations bill be an industrial magna carta" - Mr Watt". Skinner, Hugh Watt, Norman Kirk, and another man labelled "Employers", are dressed as medievil knights. The man representing employers says "Half-a-mo - where's King John? didn't he lose the elections?". A paper on the table reads "Industrial Magna Charta to make everyone live happily ever after. Signed.....". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, and blue pencil on paper, 385 x 500 mm.

Date: 1973

From: Skinner, Thomas Edward (Sir), 1909-1991: Cartoons collected by Sir Thomas Skinner

Reference: C-179-176

Description: Skinner representing Federation of Labour and another man representing the Employers' Federation both gesture for the other to walk through the door first. John Marshall holds up a "Plan for industrial relations" with a large rectangle cut out of the middle of the paper. The newspaper caption reads "The Employers' Federation and the Federation of Labour have been unable to agree on economic criteria for future wage and salary determination or legislation to cover strikes and lockouts". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, and newsprint on paper, 315 x 395 mm.

Date: 10 August 1978

From: Skinner, Thomas Edward (Sir), 1909-1991: Cartoons collected by Sir Thomas Skinner

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: C-179-196

Description: Rob Muldoon is seen playing a trumpet in front of a sign that reads ""The Union Voluntary" by Louis Strongarm". Behind him Skinner and others are behind a sign that reads by the Industrial Relations Council No Strings Ensemble", Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 390 x 480 mm.

Date: 2015-2017

By: Smith, Mike, active 1986-2019

Reference: OHColl-1208

Description: Collection of oral history interviews conducted by interviewer Mike Smith about New Zealand trade unionist Rex Jones, the Engineers Union and their response to the changes to the economy and industrial relations following the election of the Fourth Labour Government in 1984 and throughout the period of the National Government in the 1990s. Interviews were recorded as digital audio files, with accompanying digital abstract files. Also includes hard copies of the abstracts. Interviewees are: Bob Todd, Don Presland, Gordon William Pryde, Ken Douglas, Mike Sweeney, Rex Jones, Kenneth Barclay, Christopher John Eichbaum, Christine Meade, Paul Joseph Tolich, Hel Loader, Margaret Wilson, Max Ogden, Peter Chrisp, Peter Thomas Fenton, Ged O'Connell, William Edward Newson, Hazel Armstrong, Andrew Little, Ray Lind, Anne Goodman, Rosalie Webster, Scott McRae Wilson, Rob Campbell. The project was partly funded by a grant from the NZ Oral History Awards. Record titles are supplied by the Library. Quantity: 24 Interview(s). 24 digital sound recording(s). 16 Electronic document(s) digital abstracts. Physical Description: Printed typescript abstracts Search dates: 2015 - 2017

Date: 1970-1979

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: Eph-C-Roth-Labour-1970s

Description: Includes: 1970s: National Union of Railwaymen of N.Z. 'Your Accident Compensation Benefits and how to obtain them'. 1976: New Zealand Public Service Association. 'All public servants are urged to attend a combined CSSO meeting June 23 ... Protest the wage freeze'. [1976]. Group of Unions Opposing Weekend Trading. 'Why should Jill be made to leave her family and work on weekends?' [1976?]. Wellington and Manawatu Trades Council. 'Wages up 3%. The cost of living order that ignores the cost of living'. February 1976. Canterbury Trades Council and Affiliated Unions. 'Protest Stopwork Meeting...Cathedral Square 5th April 1976 at 10 a.m.' 'Labourers Stop Work Meeting Auckland Town Hall 8 am Tuesday 5th October for ALL Members of the Labourers' Union'. [1976]. New Zealand Public Service Association. 'All public servants are urged to attend a combined CSSO meeting June 23 1.30 pm Bunny Street'. [1976] 1977: Auckland Trades Council May Day Committee. 'May Day rally; International Workers' Day. Sunday May 1st' [1977] / Althea. 'All public servants are urged to attend a combined CSSO protest meeting Tues 20 Sept'. [1977]. 'Combined State Servants Protest Meeting Town Hall 12.15 pm Wednesday 12th October Against Government's proposed penal clauses'. [1977]. 1978: 'Your last pay cheque? Trades Council Advice Service For The Unemployed. [1978]. Auckland Trade Council; New Zealand Federation of Labour. 'Rally...support the rally to defeat the National Government... March 8th at 8.00 am'. [1978]. Auckland Trades Council. New Zealand Federation of Labour. Politics and unions... attend your local rally' [1978]. '151 Days. Official history of the Great Waterfront Lockout and Supporting Strikes February 15-July 15, 1951. By Dick Scott. Available now!' [1978]. 'Painters News-Sheet. This newsheet is being put out by a group of frustrated union members who have decided it's time some new blood and new ideas need to be injected, into the Northern Branch of the Painters Union'. [1978]. Unemployed Workers Movement. 'Unemployed Demonstration Thurs Nov 2nd K. Rd/Ponoisoby Rd corner at 7 pm' [1978]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Prints, mainly photolithographs, varying sizes.

Date: 1980-1989

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

By: Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre; Auckland Unemployed Workers Union

Reference: Eph-C-ROTH-Labour-1980s

Description: Includes: 1980s: New Zealand Federation of Labour. 'The men and women of Kinleith fight for us all'. Published by the New Zealand Federation of Labour. Prepared by Patricia Sarr and the Education Subcommittee of the Wellington Trades Council [1980s]. 'Demand Your Rights!...Support the campaign to defend living standards'. [1980s]. Clerical Workers Union. 'My Union My Insurance'. [1980s]. Auckland Trades Council. NZ Federation of Labour. 'New Zealand Federation of Labour campaign to defend living standards'. [1980s]. 'I'm the Manager. I don't need the Union! [1980s]. National Office New Zealand Labourers Unions. 'Master Builders Impression of a Builders Labourer of the future... We Demand a Wage Increase Now'. [1980s]. 'This job is a union job. And we are proud to be members of the N.Z. Engine Drivers, Firemen, Greasers, and Assistants Industrial Union of Workers'. [1980s]. 'The New Zealand Engineering, Coachbuilding, Aircraft, Motor and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers Union Fees'. [1980s]. Northern Hotel, Hospital, Restaurant & Related Trades Employees' Industrial Union of workers. 'Accident Compensation and You. Don't forget to report all accidents to your employer and your union. We are here to help'. [1980s] 'The I.W.W. Plan for Industrial Unionism'. Photocopy of IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) poster [1980s] 'One Big Union. Industrial Workers of the World'. Photocopy of IWW poster in two pieces (fomerly held together with adhesive tape) [1980s]. 'Caution'. Facsimile of British poster from 1834 threatening transportation for persons joining unions. [1980s]. 1980: Workers' Communist League. 'Fight For The Working Women's Charter'. [1980] 1981: Wellington Unemployed Workers Union. 'Out of work. Unemployed and temporary workers meeting Wednesday November 25th 7.30 pm'. [1981]. 1982: New Zealand Federation of Labour. 'Fight back against cuts in living standards. FOL-CSU public rally, Thursday 28 October. Assemble 12 noon at C.P.O. March to Aotea Sq. at 12.30 pm' [1982]. May Day Committee. 'May Day 1982. Internatonal Workers Day'. 1983: May Day Committee. 'May Day Rally. March up Queen St from Queen Elizabeth Square at 1 p.m. Sunday May 1, 1983.' Auckland Unemployed Workers' Union and Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre. 'March against unemployment. Mon Oct 17 12.30 pm QE II Square'. [1983]. Auckland Unemployed Workers' Union and Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre. 'March against unemployment. Tues Oct 18 12.15 pm meet outside Carter Holt Harvey Gt South Rd'. [1983]. 1984: Combined State Unions. 'An invitation from Sir Robert Muldoon... RSVP 14 July 1984. Use your judgement for a fair deal at work'. Canterbury Trade Unions. 'He Has Abused Us too Much. Let's stop the rot on 14 July 1984'. 'May Day Rally...1 pm Sunday 29 April' [1984] (2 copies). 'Bye Bye Rob'. Poster with close-up image of Sir Robert Muldoon's face. [1984]. Combined State Unions. 'Remember remember the 10th of November...Elecgtion issues 1984'. 'Don't let the $1,000 a week man tear up our living standards. Support the F.O.L. action'. [1984]. 2 copies; 1 copy with 'All out on the 20th rally and march from the Town Hall at 1.00 pm' printed across the top of the poster). Auckland District Workers' Communist League. 'Dump National... before it dumps you!' [1984]. Wellington Unemployed Workers Union. '1975: 1000 unemployed; 1981: 70000 Unemployed; 1984: ? Unemployed. National Thinks Big. Vote National - Lose your job! Vote Labour - put Rob on the dole'. 1986: 'XIth World Trade Union Congress. 'Solidarity for Equality, Development and Peace'. [1986]. 'XIth World Trade Union Congress. 'A New Economic Order Is Vital' [1986]. 'Peace, Jobs. Development. XIth World Trade Union Congress Berlin GDR 16th 22th [sic] September 1986'. New Zealand Federaton of Hotel, Hospital, Restaurant and Related Trades Unions. 'Award service to Union Members. N.Z. Licensed Hotel Workers Award 1986'. 'Support the Federation of Labour 1986 Wage Claim'. Bank officers Union. 'Do you work with machines like me? If so, read on... Do you suffer from Eyestrain Backaches Headaches Dizziness'. 1987: 'The CTU Makes Sense'. [1987]. 'The New Zealand Federation of Labour believes... we must encourage the Labour Government in four main areas...It will not be enough to get the Labour Government back again. We have to re-elect the Labour Government and keep them going in the right direction'. [1987]. 'Are We All Over The Place Or All Together? The CTU Makes Sense'. [1987]. 1988: 'May Day May 1st 1988 March Aotea Square 1pm'. (2 copies) Otago District Council of the NZCTU. 'No Turning Back! To the wages and conditions of the 1930s'. [1988]. 1989: Trade Unionists Against the Compact. 'Workers need strong democratic unions! Say No to the Compact'. [1989] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Prints, mainly photolithographs, varying sizes.

Date: 1990-1999

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: Eph-C-ROTH-Labour-1990s

Description: Includes: 1990s: 'Nissan Sux. 5% is not enough'. [1990s] 'May 1 International Workers Day. Assemble Queen Elizabeth Square 12.30 pm march up Queen St.' [1990s]. 1990: 'Strike Action. Private Hospital Nurses. Private Hospital Domestics. Support The Strike Action! 7am 7th February 1990'. New Zealand Council of Trade Unions.'Young Workers Work Can Be Dangerous! Beware & Take Care!' [1990]. Post Office Union Inc. 'Important Read This Now. Union Membership Meeting'. [1990]. Post Office Union Inc. '1990 Telecom Wage Talks. Stopwork meeting'. New Zealand Engineers Union. 'Engineers Union What YOUR union Has Achieved For You!' [1990]. 'May Day 100 Years. May Day 1990 Aotearoa'. 1991: New Zealand Journalists and Graphic Process Union. 'Embrace your union. "Darling, have you got any protection?" "Yes, honey ... AWARD protection" '. [1991]. Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre. 'Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre invites you to a march for change. Thursday 30th May 1991, 12.30 lunchtime, QEII Square, Downtown. Real jobs for real wages; throw out the Employment Contracts Bill; no Work for the Dole Scheme; National Government resign immediately'. [1991]. Distribution Workers Federation. 'Have you Got RSI?' [1991] (2 copies). May Day Committee/Auckland District Council CTU. '40th Anniversary Waterfront Lockout '51 Tuesday 16th July 1991'. Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre. 'March for a Change. Thursday 30th May 1991'. Post Office Investment Society Limited. 'Q: What do the shareholders of you Investment Society look like? A: Incredibly, the shareholders of the Post Office Investment Society look just like you and your fellow workers.' [1991]. 1992: 'Support the Pulp & Paper Workers' strike! Rock solid showdown against the Employment Contracts Act. ... Gluepot, Sunday 13 Sept, 2 pm - midnight'. [1992]. '1917 Legacy of the Russian Revolution. A day of debate and discussion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Sat 7 November 1992'. Reclaim May Day Committee. 'Reclaim May Day! Friday 1st May 1992 Victoria Square May Day Festival'. 'March & Rally Against the Employment Contracts Act. Glen Innes Town Centre. Saturday July 25 10 am.' [1992]. 1995: 'May Day May 1st. March: Q.E. 2. Square' [1995]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Prints, mainly photolithographs, varying sizes.

Date: 1970-1971

From: [Ephemera issued by the New Zealand Communist Party, and Communist candidates for elections; or relating to Communism]

Reference: Eph-B-COMMUNIST-1970/1971

Description: Includes: 1970s: Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. Why workers must have nothing to do with 30 July mobilisation [1970s] Workers' power will end inflation. Reprint from the People's Voice. Wilson Printery Ltd. [1970s] (2 copies) 1970: Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. Act now. Act now. Act now [1970?] Lenin 1870-1970. An exhibition of paintings, photographs, pamphlets, etc. New Zealand Display Centre, Cuba Street, 13-24 April [1970] Communist League; Wellington Branch of the Spartacist league. More participation - less politics ... the Communist alternative [ca 1970?]. 4 stapled pages Plunder in high places! [1970] Trotsky and the Chinese Revolution; a contribution to discussion. August 1970. 11 stapled pages 1971: Capitalist crisis hits the workers. ca 1971 Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. Errors in the forged leaflet. 1971 (2 copies) Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. General Motors workers: Why be good citizens when GM isn't? [1971] Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. Government ducks and dives; more pressure needed. 15 March 1971. Green flier Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. The lessons of Vietnam [30 July 1971] Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. Make war on the class enemy, not on peasants in South-East Asia. July 1971 Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. Oppose wage freeze [1971]. Green flier Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. Put the screws on G.M. [1970s]. Green flier Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. City Branch. Red alert; the system's cracking up - bosses on the attack. November 1971 Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. Total solidarity with the peoples of the world against American imperialism [1971] Militant Forum. Is Maoism a revolutionary force today? Debate between George Rosenberg, Terry Auld, George Fyson, Keith Locke. Central Library Lecture Hall, 3 December [1971] Militant Forum. On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party. Why did the Communist Party degenerate? Hear Keith Locke. University Womens Clubroom, 196 Lambton Quay, 16 April [1971] Real and bogus Communists in Wellington. 1971 Communist Party of New Zealand. Wellington District. Tradition and principle betrayed [1970s?] (2 copies) Workers' interests, not bosses' interests ... 20.9.1971. Flier (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1972-1974

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-228

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicts Hugh Watt, Minister of Labour in a dress as "Snow White" watching three workers and an employer, "the dwarves" happily marching along singing "Hey ho - hey ho - it's back to it we go". One man happily holds up a "Job protection guarantee". May refer to the Industrial Relations Act 1973. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, felt pen, white paint, within printed Ronken frame, 202 x 292mm.

Date: 1972-1974

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-229

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicts Norman Kirk, Prime Minister looking surprised as he holds a firework which is sending out a big shower of sparks with labels which include "Inflation", "Prices", Wages", "Power crisis" and "Labour unrest". The dog character runs away in fright. Title supplied by cartoonist Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, felt pen within printed Ronken frame, 202 x 292mm.

Date: [1974]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-239

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicts Norman Kirk, Prime Minister holding up a lighted match to the fuse of a large cannon labelled "Deregistration big gun". A worker carrying a placard which reads "Everybody out" stands by the mouth of the cannon. Caption at top reads " Would you believe..." and caption at bottom reads "They both vote Labour?". The dog character to one side thinks "I've had a gutsful". Refers to industrial unrest, strikes by workers, tensions between the government and unions, Kirk's frustration with the unions which he expressed publicly in July 1974 as "having had a gutsful", and the threat of union deregistration. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, felt pen, crayon, within printed Ronken frame, 202 x 292mm. Printing notes in blue biro.

Date: 1979-1984

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-134

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicting Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Robert Muldoon as "Tweedledum" and Jim Knox President of the FOL (Federation of Labour) as "Tweedledee". They stand side by side with their arms across their backs and look warily at each other. Muldoon wears a badge labelled "Govt" and Knox wears a badge labelled "FOL". On the ground between them is a piece of paper with the caption "$20 + wage claim". Printed number bottom left reads "GE 656". Refers to negotiations between the FOL and Muldoon on wage claim increases at a time when Muldoon was introducing wage controls including a wage freeze in 1982. "Tweedledum" and "Tweedledee" are brothers who look and act alike and feature as characters in Lewis Caroll's "Through the Looking Glass". Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and felt pen drawing within printed Ronken frame, 210 x 242mm.

Date: 1967-1984

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-267

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicts a container of perishable goods labelled "National interest" sitting on a wharf waiting to be loaded on to a ship. A shipping worker standing with his arms crossed, turned away from the container, and with his eyes closed is labelled "Self interest". In the background on the horizon is a ship loaded with containers. Signed "Ronken". Refers to a shipping workers dispute. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, felt pen, Letraset, within frame, 256 x 273mm. Printing notes in red biro.

Date: [1969-1971]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-265

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicts Robert Muldoon Minister of Finance and Tom Skinner, President of Federation of Labour (FOL) sitting side by side in the capsule of the Gemini XII spacecraft. Muldoon says angrily to Skinner "Step outside and say that Skinner". Title caption from a newspaper clipping reads "Skinner says Muldoon just making trouble". Newspaper clipping caption below reads "Actual Gemini XII spacecraft now on show in Hamilton". A Lions Club logo from a newspaper is glued to the end of the capsule. Signed "Lion Ronken". Refers to an argument between Muldoon and Skinner and to a Lions Clubs of New Zealand exhibition on show in Hamilton which featured the Gemini XII spacecraft and associated NASA items. Title supplied by cartoonist Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black felt pen, newspaper clippings, within frame, 247 x 272mm.

Date: [1972-1975]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-177

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicting Labour MP Bob Tizard in a dentist's chair being throttled by a dental nurse holding a large pair of pliers with a tag labelled "Pay claim" who says "Come - Mr Tizard, open wide". Refers to a pay claim by dental nurses when Bob Tizard was Minister of Health in the Kirk Labour government. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing, crayon, within printed Ronken frame, 202 x 292mm. Printing notes in blue biro.