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Date: [ca 1970s-1985]

From: New Zealand Council of Trade Unions :Photographs

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Kerr, Robert Edward, 1951-; Preston, Gaylene Mary, 1947-

Reference: PAColl-10045-3

Description: Photographs (single prints and contact sheets) relating to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, particularly the Cleaners' Union, ca 1975-1985. Identified photographers include Bob Kerr, Hazel Armstrong, Gaylene Preston, and the Evening Post newspaper. Identified figures include: Gavin Cummings, Alex Weir, Hilary Brown, Verna Sutherland, Joy Molnar, Jim Anderton, Pat Kelly, Peter Cranney, Don Swan, Danny Wikiera, Cliff Medland, Gaylene Preston, Hazel Armstrong, Victor Batista, Kathleen Kerr, Gwenda Jenkins, Bob Laycock, Des Clarke, Ian [Hoggets?], and Margaret Wilson. Events, disputes, campaigns, and protests covered include: British Petroleum and Crothalls and Company industrial action, Rutherford House dispute, Waiouru Military Camp picket, Kindergarten Cleaners' dispute, images relating to the dispute around the sacking of Spotswood College caretaker Doug Mumm, Wanganui Boys College equal pay protest, Central Institute of Technology Cleaners dispute (including 1979 march on Parliament), the `Reinstate Tina' protest, and cleaners stopwork meeting at Trades Hall (1978) as well as an Annual General Meeting and a conference in Auckland. Miscellaneous images include cleaners and caretakers in their workplaces, including employees at Dunlops Tyres, British Petroleum House, and a number of schools (Woodhalten School (Wainuiomata), and Porirua College). Also a cutting of Pat Kelly speaking to anti-Vietnam War protest at Parliament. Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 2008-119 : New Zealand Council of Trade Unions: Further records.

Date: 1975

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-718

Description: This cartoon features the Wellington bus depot. A bus driver who has a bandage on his chin is asking his friends to tell his wife that their intended strike is not against the rights of women cleaners Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 290 x 380 mm

Date: 1910, 1951

From: Scott, Richard George, 1923-2020: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9508-3

Description: Photographs relating to the 1951 waterfront dispute. Includes photographs of trade union meetings, trade union members, and working conditions of waterfront workers, used for the publication '151 days; history of the great waterfront lockout and supporting strikes, February 15-July 15, 1951'. Includes a group portrait of the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union, Womens Auxillary and the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation, Fourth Annual Conference, Lyttelton, August 16th, 1910. Quantity: 96 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1970 - 1975

Reference: Eph-B-LABOUR-1970/1975

Description: Includes various fliers protesting about the Stabilisation of Remuneration Act (1971), General Motors wages, equal pay, the price of meat, the US takeover of the Gear Meat Company,and the following: 1970s: People's Union Food Co-op. Information leaflet 1970: ASRS Otahuhu. Strike bulletin 2, 10 June 1970. "Support Otahuhu railwaymen [typescript flier] 1971: Society Against Repressive Legislation (SARL) re the Shipping and Seamen Bill 1971: Combined State Service Organisations. Facts about Wages Act [1971]. Green flier 1972: History of the [Borthwicks] Waingawa on the rail boning room lock out. 1972/1973 (Mimeographed sheets - 2 copies) 1972: Militant Forum. Trade Union opposition to Tory legislation in Britain. WEA Rooms Lambton Quay, 17 December [1972]. Flier 1974: New Zealand Public Service Association. The Flexible Working Hours Scheme 1974: The P.S.A. and the F.O.L.; supplementary report of the Subcommittee of the Executive Council on relations with other Unions and the New Zealand Federation of Labour. 1974: Flier about the jailing of Northern Drivers Union Secretary Bill Andersen 1974: New Zealand Printing and Related trades Industrial Union of workers. Printing trades Employers Award. Wage adjustment order 1975: Longburn lockout. [Flier issued 20 February 1975] (2 copies) 1975: Combined State Services Organisations. "Don't be hasty about your superannuation decision. From 1 April, every employee in New Zealand between the ages of 17 and 55 must be in some superannuation fund ... February 1975 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and letterpress, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: Oct-Nov 1913

From: New Zealand Shipowners' Federation: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-11367-191

Description: Minutes of a committee set up by Wellington members of the Shipowners' Association [sic] to counter the activities of the Waterside Workers Union during the strike of 1913. Includes records of meetings with Union representatives, farmers' representatives and with the government, the employers' manifesto, arrangements to counter strike action, discussions over the problem of coal supplies and railways, proposals to form a Wellington Citizens' Defence Committee and the organisation of mounted special police and their deployment Quantity: 1 folder(s).