Employers' associations

Date: 1838, 1941

From: Westland Gold Dredge and Alluvial Gold Mines Employees Industrial Union of Workers : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1119-20

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1895-1992

By: Wellington Manufacturers' Association

Reference: MS-Group-0483

Description: Comprises minutes of the Association and associated manufacturing groups in the Wellington region. Also includes records of the Wellington Show Association, including a letter book for the 1896 Wellington Industrial Exhibition. Founded in 1895 as the Wellington Provincial Industrial Association Quantity: 9 box(es) (50 folders). 23 volume(s). 4.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs.

Date: [ca 1940-1952]

By: Moore & Thompson (Firm); Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Photo News Ltd; Webb, Steffano Francis Pavlovich, 1880-1967

Reference: PAColl-0501

Description: Photographs of the interior of the Master Printers' Association printing shop on Lambton Quay prior to demolition showing the presses (five duplicate prints); four photographs (two duplicate) of a window display for Children's Book Week; three photographs (two duplicate) of the interior of a book shop showing displays and stationery; group photograph of conference delegates of the New Zealand Master Printers' Federation in Christchurch and other delegate photographs, one in front of the Blue Bath, Rotorua, probably of the same organisation; and two photographs with a covering letter from B J Ball (NZ) Ltd of the Wellington Master Printers and Allied Trades stand at the Wellington Industrial Exhibition in 1952. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1908-1950

From: Kibblewhite, Maree Christine,1960- : Collection

Reference: PAColl-8689

Description: Photographs of the rugby and soccer clubs include the Kia Toa Football Club (1908-09), Palmerston North Rangers Association Football Club (1910), Manawatu Association Football Club (1910 and 1911), and Palmerston North Association Football Club in Wellington (1911). Master Builders Federation conference groups include: Palmerston North 1938, Hamilton 1939, Christchurch 1941, Palmerston North 1943, Auckland 1947, Dunedin 1948, Napier 1950. One photograph records a group of men preparing a house for moving in Palmerston North, July 1909. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1933-1945

By: Ebbett, Dudley Joseph, active 2009; Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Green & Hahn (Firm); Crown Studios (Auckland, N.Z.); Webster, James Jackson, -1947; C F Newham (Firm); Jauncey, Philip Henry, 1902-1982; Moore & Thompson (Firm); Crago, Eric William, 1904-1992; Te Manawa (Cultural centre)

Reference: PAColl-9637

Description: Group portraits of delegates to Master Butchers Industrial Association of Employers annual conferences 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945. All individuals are identified in each portrait, with the exception of 1933 Annual Conference. Souirce of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Te Manawa, Palmerston North, on behalf of Mr D J Ebbett, 2009.

Date: 7 Apr 1995 - 07 Apr 1995

From: Auckland Employers Association oral history project

By: Jones, Alan Bruce, 1940-

Reference: OHInt-0098-04

Description: Alan Jones was born in Wellington on 11 January 1940. Describes a working class background, attending school at Mangakino, attending Teachers College, leaving teaching and having a number of different jobs. Describes deciding to enter industry, working for Feltex Carpets, becoming an advocate for the New Zealand Employers Federation, then working for the Auckland Employers Association. Describes working for Peat Marwick Mitchell in London. Comments on Peter Luxford of the Employers Federation. Describes the pattern of wage setting, wage fixing and negotiation. Comments that it was highly politicised. Recalls amicable industrial relations with Tom Skinner in the Holyoake era. Talks about Bill Andersen and Ken Douglas. Gives details of the division between Russian and Chinese aligned Communism in New Zealand. Recalls a study of Communism by Tony Neary in 1972. Contends there was a connection between Communism and the anti-tour movement of the 1960s. Criticises compulsory unionism and comments on the New Zealand economy pre deregulation. Gives details of the review of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act following huge maritime strikes. Describes the characteristics of a good industrial relations negotiator and discusses the role of the President of the Federation of Labour. Talks about Jim Knox, Peter Carroll and Ron Richards. Comments on the role of alcohol. Describes becoming industrial relations manager of Fletcher Challenge. Outlines the development of the Employment Contracts Act. Describes the early days of the Business Roundtable and dialogue betwwen the Roundtable and politicians., Mentions Ruth Richardson, Roger Douglas, Maurice Williamson, Max Bradford and Bill Birch. Discusses economic equity. Explains why the work of the Employment Court should be taken over by civil courts. Talks about unions in the era of the Employment Contracts Act. Venue - Auckland : 1995 Interviewer(s) - David Young Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006154; OHC-006155; OHC-006156; OHC-006157 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.05 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1392. Search dates: 1940 - 1995

Date: [ca 1952-1990]

By: New Zealand Association of Waterfront Employers

Reference: 90-220

Description: Case files identified by a file number, minutes of the Association, local port minutes, monthly reports and files on conditions of employment, Bureau registers, safety files, black-lists, records of the National Port Safety Council, and its local branches, wage order files, local conditions and Bureau rules, training and levies. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 63 box(es). 21 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Index to numbered files in first box..

Date: 1898-1990

By: Employers' and Manufacturers' Association (Central) Inc

Reference: 2000-222

Description: General subject files on a wide range of topics of interest to employers, in particular industrial relations, training, health and safety issues, etc 1939-1990; award and dispute files relating to a wide range of occupational groups coming within the orbit of the Association's members, 1950-1990; files relating to superseded employers' organisations including those representing the building industry, engineering, metal trades, oil industry, plasterers, furniture and furnishing, coal dealers and private hotels, 1898-1988 and files relating to `Think big' projects undertaken in the 1980s, including the Clyde Dam, oil exploration, major gas and oil refinery projects, the Motinonui synthetic petrol plant, Tasman Pulp and paper mill, Kawerau and the Glenbrook Steel Mill, 1980-1989. The bulk of the records relate to the 1970s and 1980s. Arrangement: File numbers assigned to records by the Association have been incorporated into the title of each record where they are present. The index to this filing system was lost before the records were transferred to the Library. Employer organisation covering the lower North Island from Taranaki and Hawke's Bay south and the Nelson district of South Island Quantity: 501 folder(s) (includes file boxes). 40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1931-1993

By: Bus and Coach Association (New Zealand)

Reference: 94-202

Description: Collection consists of minutebooks and Bus and Coach Association and New Zealand School Transport Contractors Association subject files, 1934-1993, which contain correspondence, flyers, memos, circulars and other material relating to a wide range of issues and organisations. There are a number of sequences of minutebooks including Road Passenger Services Association/Bus and Coach Association, 1969-1973; Bus and Coach Association, 1973-1991; NZ Passenger Services Federation and the White Star Passenger Services of New Zealand, 1934-1964; NZ School Transport Contracters Assoc, 1960-1986, Local Authorities Passenger Transport Association and City Bus Association New Zealand, 1976-1991 and the New Zealand Omnibus Proprieters Assoc, 1931-1992. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 21 box(es). 7 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Preliminary listing contains note of original Bus and Coach Association file number for each item..

Date: 1912-1928

From: New Zealand Employers' Federation :Photographs of annual conferences

Reference: PAColl-6489-1

Description: Group photographs of New Zealand Employers Federation conferences for 1912, 1915, 1922, and 1923. One group photograph of delegates at the 1928 National Industrial Conference. All of the above took place in Wellington Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1978

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-135-448

Description: This cartoon features three scenes of employer, employee relations. The employer fires the workers who are abusing him and then they want to negotiate a redundancy payment Label on reverse dated 29/5/78 Extended Title - Is this the cause of the present industrial situation? Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 320 x 452 mm

Date: 1958-1999

By: Motor Vehicle Manufacturers' Association (N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-1672

Description: Collection includes minutes, correspondence, financial records and submissions and other papers relating to reviews of import traiffs and reviews and reports on the future of the motor vehicle industry in New Zealand Quantity: 6 box(es). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1972

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

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

Reference: B-134-299

Description: This cartoon borrows from Oliver Twist. The scene is a rundown kitchen. Prime Minister Jack Marshall stands next to a stove on which is a big pot. He has turned his back on pleading children who are holding out empty plates. They are labelled pensioner, employer, F.O.L., taxpayer, sheep farmer. A smiling Rob Muldoon, Minister of Finance, is looking out the window at a bountiful garden representing New Zealand's trade surplus. Photocopy. Other Titles - $114 millions overseas trade surplus: restraints bless our home. Extended Title - 'Externally New Zealand's position has never been better' - Mr Muldoon. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 295 x 420 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1966

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-457

Description: A large bucket (wages) receives a drop (2 1/2%) from a tap (Court of Arbitration). On one side stand the workers' representatives (Federation of Labour, Public Service Association, and unions) saying that it is not enough and is only a drop in the bucket. On the other stand employers, manufacturers and Chambers of Commerce, saying it wil cause a 25 million pound splash and is too much. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, black and yellow letratone and pencil, 294 x 385 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1977

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-135-290

Description: This cartoon is set at the 'Wages Auction Mart'. Present are a trade union secretary and an employer. Behind them is Muldoon as the reserves auctioneer with a large mallet Label on recto dated 1/8/77 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 300 x 380 mm

Date: 1973

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

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Sports post (Newspaper)

Reference: B-134-427

Description: This cartoon shows FOL head Tom Skinner, Labour Minister Hugh Watt and 'Wage Earner' throwing snowballs labelled General Wage Rise at 'Employer'. Published in the Sports Post Extended Title - General Wage Rise Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 392 x 356 mm

Date: 1909-1928

By: New Zealand Employers' Federation

Reference: PAColl-6489

Description: Photographs of annual conferences, one national industrial confence, and five portraits. These are part of a larger collection which include minutes and related papers of governing bodies and other committees of the Federation; minutes of member trade groups of the Federation; papers relating to organisations and committees with Employers' Federation representation, including New Zealand Business and Industry Advisory Council and Equal Employment Opportunities Trust as well as subject files relating to a variety of topics of interest to employers, including wage round negotiations, industrial relations and economic issues Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1930-ca 1955]

By: Mountjoy family

Reference: 80-017

Description: Comprises the papers of William Joseph Mountjoy, Secretary of Wellington Employers' Association (1933-1955), whose papers include correspondence, reports, commissions of enquiry, material relating to industrial negotiations, minutes during this period; also papers as representative of New Zealand employers at International Labour Organisation, Conference, Geneva (1939); papers of William Joseph Mountjoy Jnr (1907-1954), Acting Director, Adult Education for Victoria University College district, at the time of his death in Napier, which includes diary of his voyage to United Kingdom (1939) and work as teacher in London. Programmes for concerts for troops, production notes for reviews and plays, New Zealand in the 1940s and diary containing brief entries (1953) Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.33 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1959-1998

By: Milk Vendors Federation of New Zealand (Inc)

Reference: MSY-4760-4766

Description: Include minutes of Annual meetings, Executive Committee meetings, Special general meetings; also financial statements and annual reports Arrangement: The whereabouts of the Association's pre 1959 minute books is unknown The Federation was founded to promote the interests of milk vendors. It was wound up in 1998. Quantity: 7 volume(s). 0.55 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Federation in 1998