MANUSCRIPT
New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
- Date
- [1884]-1979
- By
- New Zealand Seamen's Union
- Reference
- 80-307
- Description
The records cover the full range of activities of the Union. Includes National Council minutes, correspondence with branches, employers and other groups; records relating to industrial disputes and award negotiations, Records relating to the Union's involvement with broader issues of interest to seafarers; financial records and records relating to specific ships
Arrangement: Includes 80-307-B0760A-B0760U, a 1 shrink-wrapped volume
Quantity: 93 box(es) (1545 folders). 27 volume(s).
Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter
Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by N Z Seamen's Union, 1980
Transfers: To Serials Collection - Seamen's Journal, 5 Jan-7 Dec 1931 (Vol 1, Nos 1-12); 1931-1934 (31 issues), 1958-1959 (20 issues), and other material - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Two banners, 1966; 2 ship's plans - To Photographic Archive - Carton of photographs.
Processing information: All items described except shrink-wrapped register.
Access requirement for permission of the Chief Librarin removed 22 September 2022.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 93 box(es) (1545 folders), 27 volume(s), Manuscripts, Mss, typescripts and printed matter
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Gisborne Branch - Papers
Date: 1946-1948
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-34/06
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers re commercial fishing and fishermen
Date: 1937-1963
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-67/05
Description: Includes Agreement between Nelson Fisheries & Cool Storage Ltd and Nelson Branch of Seamen's Union, 1940; Fishermen's Agreement Southland District, 1938; `South Sea' trawler employees agreement, 1937; conference report, 1963; schedule of agreement made between NZ Fisheries and Seamen's Union in relation to New Zealand Fisheries fleet of trawlers, 1954; trawler employees agreement, 1937; Wellington trawlers dispute, 1938; circular re advice to fishermen, ca 1939 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Maritime workers' wages and war risk payments
Date: 1943, 1947
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-78/11
Description: Includes memo to Rt Hon Minister of Finance, 10 Oct 1947; copy of Seamen's Journal (Australia), Jun 1947; Otakou fisheries; minutes of stop-work meeting of Wellington Branch, 2 Dec 1947, and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers re Tauranga fishermen
Date: 1942-1954
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-34/01
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers re Walmata project
Date: 1946
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-57/15
Description: Includes two letters re Australian transfers The scheme originated owing to concern over the housing shortage in the Auckland area. The scheme planned to build houses in the new suburb of Tamaki for the rehabilitation of returned servicemen Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Scenes of the Auckland wharf area / D K Turner
Date: n d
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: AI-80-307-2
Description: Also plan of proposed alterations for second floor 34 Custom Street Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Waiheke Shipping Co Ltd
Date: 1937-1960
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-23/14
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Wellington Commercial Fishermen's Association - Minutes and related papers
Date: 1961-1964
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-67/03
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers re Meremere Steam Power Project dispute, and 40-Hour Week
Date: 1947-1971
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-78/12
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Miscellaneous papers
Date: 1958, 1970-1972
From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records
Reference: 80-307-38/18
Description: Includes Draft Industrial Relations Bill 1972; FOL National Executive minutes, 1970-1971; letter to FOL from NZ Engineering, Coachbuilding, Aircraft, Motor and Related Trades' Union re motor assembly plants, 1972; Report and recommendations of Executive Council on Conference with shipowners, 1958; pay rates, nd; Hard Lying Report, nd; National Union of Railwaymen of NZ report to FOL on I.L.O. Inland Transport Conference, Geneva, 24 Apr-3 May 1972; submissions of FOL to NZ Ports Authority concerning Wanganui Harbour Board and Port Of Wanganui, 1972 Quantity: 1 folder(s).