Australian Workers' Union - Photographs
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Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Photograph of delegates to AWU meeting (includes Andrew Fisher)Second row, 1st from right: F W Lundie (SA Branch); 2nd from right: T L Brown (WA Branch). Second back row, 1st from left: Francis Richardson (Victoria-Riverina Branch)Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Frank Lundie, Secretary, AWU, South Australian Branch, 1900-1933(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownFrank Lundie joined the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia (from 1894 Australian Workers' Union) in 1887 and two years later became president of its Adelaide branch. He was its paid, full-time organiser from 1892 until 1900 when he became secretary, a position he kept until his death in 1933. Lundie was also president of the South Australian branch of the United Labourers' Union, 1907-1912, and vice-president of the South Australian branch of the Labor Party, 1924-1925 and 1929-1930.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Macdonell House(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownConstruction of the eight-storey building in 1910 was financed by the Australian Workers' Union, largely from funds raised by launching Labor Papers Limited. From the premises the AWU published a chain of daily newspapers called The World. Macdonell House was named after shearer, trade unionist and politician Donald Macdonell (1862-1911). Occupying Macdonell House as its headquarters, the AWU also let out space to other unions.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Senator John Barnes, as Chairman, Board of Directors, Labor Papers Limited(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownBarnes, an early member of the Shearers' Union, (later named the Australian Workers' Union), became General Secretary in 1908, then President. He was Secretary of the Victoria-Riverina branch for a period, holding that position when he was elected a federal Senator for Victoria in 1913. He was defeated at the 1919 general election but was again elected in 1922 and in 1928.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia - Delegates to 17th annual conference(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownItem type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Australian Workers' Union - Delegates to annual convention(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownItem type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , L-R: Clarrie Fallon (Secretary, AWU, Queensland Branch, 1933-1941, later, General Secretary, AWU, 1941-1943), Charlie Sullivan (a foundation member of the AWU), and Ted Grayndler (General Secretary, AWU, 1912-1941)(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownIn 1933 Charlie Sullivan was declared, by the Australian Workers' Union, to be its oldest continuous living member, holding No 1 ticket, issued in 1886.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Donald Macdonnell as General Secretary, Australian Workers' Union(2014-12-23) Photographer: Newman's AtelierSecretary, Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia - Bourke Branch, 1893-1899; General Secretary, Australian Workers' Union, 1900-1911.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Australian Workers' Union - Delegates to annual convention(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownItem type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia - Delegates to 5th annual conferencePhotographer: Scott-BarryBack Row (L-R): J. Kemp, S.J. Treloar, J. M Toomey, J.J. McCarthy, T. White, W.H. Downey. Middle Row (L-R): A. Rae, W.W. Head, W. Craven, H. McDonald, W.D. Smith, G.F. Grill, J. Slattery, S.Potter, G.A. Andrew (Editor 'Record'). Front Row (L-R): J. Mooney, H. Langwell, G. Cartwright, J. Cumming, A. Murphy, A. Poynton (Treasurer), J.A.Cook (Vice-President), W.G. Spence (President), C. Poynton (Vice-President), D. Temple (Secretary), R. Stevenson, T. Williams, B.H. Stanley, J.R. McDonald, J. Nulty.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia - Delegates to 1st annual conference(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownSeated left to right: J McInerney, P Power, H Langwell, B H Stanley, C Poynton, W G Spence, J A Cook, D Temple, A Poynton, W W Head, W Percy, C Sharam. Apart from R Stevenson, fourth from left in second row, the others cannot be positively identified.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Francis Isiah Richardson, Australian Workers' Union, Victorian Branch(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownA foundation member of the Australian Workers' Union, Richardson became shearers' union organiser for the union in Victoria from 1903.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Ted Grayndler as Secretary, Australian Workers' Union, Victorian Branch(2014-12-23) Photographer: not knownIn 1886 Grayndler became a foundation member of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia (later part of the Australian Workers' Union). In 1895 he was appointed shearers' union organiser for the AWU in New South Wales and, in 1900, he became secretary of the Victoria-Riverina branch, Ballarat. Ted Grayndler was General Secretary, Australian Workers' Union, 1912-1941.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia - Delegates to 1st annual conference(2011-06-16) Photographer: not knownSeated left to right: J McInerney, P Power, H Langwell, B H Stanley, C Poynton, W G Spence, J A Cook, D Temple, A Poynton, W W Head, W Percy, C Sharam. Apart from R Stevenson, fourth from left in second row, the others cannot be positively identified.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Shearers’ strike camp(2011-06-16) Photographer: not known'United we stand, divided we fall. Mullewa shearers’ strike camp, 1921' [on placard]. A disastrous shearers' strike occurred in 1921 because the powerful Western Australian Pastoralists' and Graziers' Association refused to pay the AWU award - and they were still refusing in 1925.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Shearers’ strike camp(2011-06-16) Photographer: not known'United we stand, divided we fall. Mullewa shearers’ strike camp, 1921' [on placard]. A disastrous shearers' strike occurred in 1921 because the powerful Western Australian Pastoralists' and Graziers' Association refused to pay the AWU award - and they were still refusing in 1925.Item type: ANU Archive Item , Access status: Open Access , Union officials at the Australian Workers' Union buildings in Ballarat(2011-05-16) Photographer: Richards & CoSix men, including James Scullin, stand at the doorways and on the balcony of the AWU buildings, erected in 1908.