Guide to Records Relating to the Peace Movement in Australia

James Normington Rawling Collection The Rawling collection consists of internal documents and publications of many Australian radical organisations in the period to 1939. Rawling was a Communist Party of Australia functionary. He was also a strong peace campaigner, having served in the trenches in World War I, and was National Secretary of the Movement Against War and Fascism until 1939. The collection includes the following:
N57/432-456	Subject files	Peace and anti-conscription organisations, 1902-1939 Movement Against War and Fascism, 1932-1939
N57/1305-1352	Pamphlets	Pamphlets of peace movement including: Movement Against War and Fascism, 1933-1938; Conscription in Australia, 1912-1940; and International Peace Campaign, 1936.
N57/2035-2062	Serials	Serials, 1932-1940 Publishing organisations: Movement Against War and Fascism; International Peace Campaign; and other peace organisations.
N57/2246-2275	Posters, placards and broadsheets	1933-1939
N57/2349-2366	Photographs and other illustrations	Movement Against War and Fascism, 1916-1935
N57/2380-2396		Military atrocities, 1918-1925
N57/1906-1911	Leaflets and handbills	Leaflets and handbills published in Australia by various trade unions, political parties and other organisations, 1888-1962
Ian Turner Collection Member of the Australian Labor Party and the Communist Party of Australia. In 1955 he was an organiser of the Australasian Book Society. He was expelled from the Communist Party in 1958 with Stephen Murray-Smith for criticising the Stalinist leadership. He studied for his doctorate at the Australian National University and taught at Monash University.
P2/4/1-18	Subject files	Handbills, pamphlets, press cuttings, magazines, posters, etc, dealing with the world peace movement and related topics, c1947-1955. Including: atomic tests, Colombo Conference, Japanese rearmament, Australia and Malaya, conscription, Australia and China, foreign policy, USSR, Korea, international peace movement, Peace Congress 1950, youth and peace, Australian Peace Council, world peace movements.
Ray Marginson Papers Public servant. Joined the Commonwealth Public Service on 20 July 1948 as a research clerk in the Department of Transport. In 1950 he joined the Postmaster General's Department, holding numerous posts. He resigned from the Commonwealth Public Service in 1966 when he was appointed Vice Principal of the University of Melbourne. In 1968 he obtained an Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship to the USA.
P6/10/28		Appeal to the World Council for Peace, c1951
P6/10/40	Poster	Vote for Peace in the Australian Peace Ballot, undated
W J H Harris Papers Member of the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia and the author of First Steps, Labor in Queensland, issued by the Labour History Association in 1965.
P43/9/7	Published material re peace campaigns and other issues	Anti-conscription campaign leaflets and roneoed material, undated
P43/9/11	Published material re peace campaigns and other issues	Material issued by: Australian Peace Council, Peace Committee for International Co-operation and Disarmament, Australian Assembly for Peace, Queensland Women's Peace Movement, 1951-1964 Leaflets, 1952-1964 Roneoed material, 1951-1962
Ken Gott Papers Member of the Australian Journalists Association, committee member of the Victorian Branch of the Australia-China Society from 1953 and Secretary from 1956-1959. He was Managing Director of the Pacific Merchandise Agency (1953-1954), joint proprietor of the Australian Trade Research Service, and Manager of Wallaby Recordings (a non-profit organisation set up to issue records of people's songs and music) (1952-1954).
P36/12	Peace Congress material	Asian and Pacific Peace Conference, World Congress for Disarmament, Fourth World Congress against A and H Bombs, Australia-New Zealand Congress for Disarmament and International Cooperation, Science for Peace Committee (London), 1952-1959
John Playford Collection Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Monash University. Playford collected papers relating to student protest and related activities in the 1950s to 1960s including:
P14/4	Publications of the peace movement and peace conferences	Asian and Pacific Peace Conference, Australia-New Zealand Congress for Disarmament and International Cooperation, Australian Assembly for Peace, Australian Convention on Peace and War, Australian Labor Party, Australian Peace Council, Australian Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship, British Peace Committee, Committee of 100, etc, 1950-1964
P64/1	Publications (pamphlets, leaflets, etc) relating to the peace movement and peace conferences issued by various peace and other organisations [21 items]	Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament, Australian Commonwealth Directorate of Civil Defence, USSR-Australia Society, Australia-New Zealand Congress for Disarmament and International Cooperation, Australian Peace Council, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Medical Association for the Prevention of War, New South Wales Peace Council, Society for the Prevention of World War III, Victorian Peace Council, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Australia), 1953-1969
P64/8	Publications of various student organisations in Australian universities [16 items]	1948-1969
P128/1-13	Subject files	Conscription and Vietnam, 1969. Includes: circulars, pamphlets, letters, correspondence, leaflets, press cuttings, etc
P128/16	Subject files	Draft resistance and Vietnam, 1968. Includes: press cuttings, pamphlets, serials and correspondence
Geoff McDonald Collection Member of the Eureka Youth League and the Australian Communist Party. He was expelled from the Party in 1961 and joined the Australian Labor Party, becoming the Founding President of the Diamond Creek Branch. Organiser for the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia, Victorian Branch, and an official of various unions thereafter. Files include:
P39/53	Publications: leaflets, printed and roneoed material re Vietnam War, peace movement and other issues [6 folders]	1957-1967
P94/54/22	Leaflets, 1925-1972 [22 folders]	Conscription, World Wars I and II Vietnam War and National Service, 1968-1969
P122/25	Subject files, 1912-1976 [10 folders]	Australian Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament, 1961-1965. Including: circulars, papers delivered at Congress, reports
P122/43	Constitution	Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Victoria), 1962?
P122/46	Circulars	Committee for Peace in Vietnam, 1964
P122/55A		Fabian Society of Queensland re Vietnam, 1960s
P122/75	Circulars	International Trade Union Committee for Solidarity with Workers and People of South Vietnam, 1965
P122/121	Circular	Victorian Peace Council, 1950s
P122/126	Circulars	Vietnam Action Committee, 1965-1966
P122/572	Posters, 1965-1967	Vietnam War Conscription
N94/797	Publications, 1912-1984 [5 items]	Publications on uranium, 1980-1982
N94/1604	Minutes of the Disarmament Sub-committee (Australian Council of Trade Unions) [1 volume]	1964-1965
Joe Owens Collection (Builders Labourers Federation, New South Wales Branch) Senior union official and organiser of the Builders Labourers Federation, New South Wales Branch. Member of the Communist Party of Australia from the 1960s. Files include:
Z235/15	Subject files	Omega Base, 1973 Indo-China, 1973-1974
Z235/17		Anti-conscription, 1972
Z235/42		Moratorium, 1969-1970
Peter O'Dea (Builders Labourers Federation, Australian Capital Territory Branch) Union official of the Australian Capital Territory branch of the Builders Labourers Federation. Files include:
Z356/7-9	Files relating to radical organisations in Adelaide and Canberra, 1968-1978	Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1977 (leaflets) Conscription, 1968-1972 (circulars, leaflets and pamphlets) Omega (North West Cape), Campaign Against Foreign Military Bases in Australia, 1973-1976 (correspondence, leaflets, circulars) Vietnam: Vietnam Moratorium Committee, National Anti-war Conference, 1971 and others, 1971
Z356/10	Photographs[27 items]	Omega/North West Cape overland journey and demonstrations, 1974
Ron Arnold Collection (Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, New South Wales Branch) Ex-assistant New South Wales State Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. The collection reflects his involvement in peace and disarmament conferences, probably as AMWU or Australian Labor Party representative.
Z76/1-2	Files [19 files]	Australia-Vietnam Society files, 1975-1981
Z76/2-5	Files [23 files]	Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1966-1981
Z76/6-9	Files [31 files]	Peace and disarmament, 1950-1981
Z76/9	Files[8 files]	US bases, uranium and land rights, 1970-1980
Ernie Boatswain Collection (Building Workers Industrial Union, Federal Office) Records relating to his position as Secretary of the New South Wales Trade Union Peace Committee, and National Secretary and Co-chairperson of the Australian Peace Committee.
Z285/418-427	Peace files [72 files]	Files cover various committees, conferences, subjects and individuals including the Australian Peace Committee, Committee for World Peace, Disarmament and Development Working Group, International Peace Conference, social and economic effects of disarmament, Trade Union Peace Committee, World Congress against A and H Bombs, French nuclear tests, etc. 1964-1987
Trade Union Collections Building Workers Industrial Union, Federal Office Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association, NSW Branch Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Instrument and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, National Office Seamen's Union of Australia, Federal Office Seamen's Union of Australia, Sydney Branch Seamen's Union of Australia, Victorian Branch Waterside Workers Federation, Federal Office Waterside Workers Federation, Sydney Office Waterside Workers Federation, Adelaide Branch Merchant Service Guild Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers Professional Radio Employees Institute of Australasia NSW Teachers Federation Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Tasmanian Branch Australian Railways Union, South Australian Branch Union of Australian Women, NSW Branch Australian Coal and Shale Employees Federation, Central Council Australian Council of Trade Unions Building Workers Industrial Union, Federal Office
Z285/47	Subject files[1 file]	Peace, 1970-1976
Z285/45-46	[3 files]	Uranium, 1976-1979
Z285/383-385	[4 files]	Peace, 1980-1985
Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association, NSW Branch Files include:
N81/199	Subject files of State Secretary [1 file]	International correspondence: Vietnam File 1, 1964-1966
N72/1267	Subject files (general)	Peace: Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament/Trade Union Peace Committee: correspondence and circulars, 1978-1982
N72/1268		Peace: Australian People's Disarmament Conference, 1978
N72/1269		Peace: Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament, Australians for Nuclear Disarmament, and others: correspondence and circulars, 1978-1982
N72/1270		Peace: United Nations Association of Australia: correspondence and circulars, 1982-1983
N72/1299-1302	[4 files]	Uranium mining and nuclear energy, 1974-1982
Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Instrument and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch Note that Tom Wright, New South Wales Branch Secretary, holds many peace movement publications among his personal papers (also held at the Archives Centre). Files include:
E206/2	Subject files of Secretary and Federal President (Tom Wright)	Committee Against Atomic Testing: circular letter to T Wright, 1967
E206/ 26		Organisation concerned with Vietnam: correspondence, circulars, pamphlets to and from T Wright. Includes documents from the Junior Eureka League, 1965-1971
P120/ 958	Union files of Tom Wright	Anti-Vietnam War, 1965-1966
E196/3/16-17	Correspondence files	Peace and Peace Congresses, 1955-1964
E196/3/14		Organisations, A-Z, 1941-1966
Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, National Office Files include:
N24/562-563	National Secretary's files re peace movements	Australian peace activities, 1959-1964
N24/563		World peace movements, 1970
N24/464-475	Assistant National Secretary's Vietnam/Anti-conscription files (L. Carmichael) [12 files]	AICD and CICD files (see finding-aid for full description of file titles and items)
Z102/94	Subject files	Peace: Australian organisations and Sister Bertell's press kit, undated
Z102/21	National Office general filing system	Uranium: Dr Helen Caldicott's visit, 1982-1984 Uranium, 1980-1984
Z102/24		Disarmament, 1976-1982 ACTU Uranium Policy, 1982
Z102/25		Disarmament Times, 1982-1983 UN Special Session on Disarmament, 1982-1983
Z102/55	National Office subject filing system	Uranium, 1975-1979 Uranium: Rosalie Bertell visit. Includes AMWU statement, 1978-1980
Z102/59		Peace: Australian organisations, 1980-1984
Z102/61		Peace: Metalworkers to Enforce Nuclear Disarmament, 1983-1985 Peace movement, 1981-1982
Z102/62		Nuclear tests (opposition): French Gambia Island, New Zealand Federation of Labor and ACTU Conference, December 1985
Seamen's Union of Australia, Federal Office Files include:
E183/21/33	Correspondence - Federal Office	Australian unions and organisations. Re: Malaya, 1947-1949
E183/17/11		Victorian Branch re Malaya, 1945-1951
N38/490-493	Subject files	Peace: conscription, N-W Base, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Africa, Korea, Aden, World Peace Council, 1965-1977
N38/704-706	[3 files]	Uranium, 1975-1978
N38/721-731	[11 files]	Vietnam, 1966-1978 Includes: ships for Vietnam, moratoria, conferences, National Anti-war Conference, boycott of USA shipping, medical aid etc (see finding-aid for full description of file titles and items)
Z129/116	[3 files]	Uranium, 1979-1981
Z129/168		Peace, 1980
Z129/61-62	[2 files]	Peace, 1981-1982
Z129/124		Peace, 1983
Seamen's Union of Australia, Sydney Branch Files include:
E183/29/6	Sydney Branch correspondence	Australian Peace Council, 1949-1951 Includes: minutes of Combined Union Peace Committee and Maritime Union Peace Committee
E183/29/7		New South Wales Peace Council, 1955-1956
N38/1413-1436	Printed material	World Peace Council publications, 1972-1976
Z91/28-30	Bound correspondence and subject files	Organisation’s correspondence, 1959-1966 Includes: Peace Committee, AICD, Vietnam, Hiroshima, peace, Committee Against Atomic Testing, etc
Z91/50	Subject files	Vietnam, South Africa, Spain, Greece, 1963-1964
Z91/69	Ship files	Jeparit, 1966-1967
Z91/71		Ships delegates’ correspondence on Moratorium and other COM proposals, 1970
Z91/119	Minute books	Boonaroo Shipboard Committee: minutes and correspondence, 1958-1968
Z91/90	Correspondence	Organisations: AICD, Trade Union Peace Committee, etc, 1971-1973
Z91/100-101	Peace files [22 files]	Includes AICD, Australian Peace Committee, Hiroshima Day, Moratorium, peace conferences and committees, World Congress of Peace Forces, World Peace Council etc, 1966-1972 (see finding-aid for full description of file titles and items)
Z91/134	Miscellany	Badges: "No Neutron Bomb"
Z91/139	Pamphlets	Includes peace movement.
Z91/141	Leaflets Published by SUA [2 folders]	Includes peace movement
Seamen's Union of Australia, Victorian Branch Files include:
Z263/42-47	Subject files [14 files]	Peace files, 1954-1984
Z263/75	[2 files]	Uranium files, 1977-1982
Z263/84	[3 files]	Vietnam files, 1962-1972 Includes: Vietnam (general), ban against US shipping and Moratorium campaign
Waterside Workers Federation, Federal Office Files include:
E221/2	J Healy's correspondence files	Korea: opposition to US and Australian involvement in the Korean War, 1950-1952
E221/3		Malaya: protests against the use of Australian armed forces in Malaya, 1948-1950
E221/36		Peace Council: Council activities and WWFA response, 1949-1952
E221/49		Compulsory military training and conscription: protests against conscription, 1950-1951
E221/62		World Peace Congress, 1950-1953
N114/994-1003	Subject files[13 files]	Peace files, 1962-1974 Includes: AICD, conferences and congresses, nuclear testing (France), Vietnam War, war shipments (Jeparit and Boonaroo), Moratorium and Marseilles Conference (Japanese Transport Unions, 1968) (see finding-aid for full description of file titles and items)
Waterside Workers Federation, Sydney Office Files include:
Z248/66A	Subject files	Jeparit, ban on US Shipping (Vietnam), 1969-1973
Z248/81	Photographs	Marches, demonstrations and May Day marches, 1947-1960
Waterside Workers Federation, Adelaide Branch Files include:
N90/525	Office files	South Australian Peace Committee/Council, 1953-1964
N90/421		Jeparit dispute, 1969
Merchant Service Guild Files include:
N51/221	Transcripts of proceedings heard before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission	Dispute between Australian National Line and the Seamen's Union of Australia, re manning of the vessel Boonaroo on voyage to Vietnam, 1966
Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers Files include:
Z123/31	Subject files	Vietnam Charters (Boonaroo, Jeparit), 1967
Professional Radio Employees Institute of Australasia Files include:
E208/334	Marine Section correspondence	Marine Award: re seamen's war pensions and questions re cargo and manning of Jeparit on voyage to Vietnam, 196
E208/335		Manning of Boonaroo on voyage to Vietnam, 1966
E208/338		Letters from SUA and ACTU re supplies to Vietnam etc, 1966-1967
E208/340		Letters from ACTU and SUA re Vietnam cargoes and Vietnam war, 1966-1967
NSW Teachers Federation Files include:
N111/1510-1525	General Secretary's correspondence files [15 files]	Peace files Includes: abolition of nuclear tests, Vietnam, peace (general), conferences, Moratorium campaign and disarmament, 1958-1977 (see finding-aid for full description of file titles and items)
N111/2779	Research Section files	Peace Congresses, 1959-1964
N111/3083	Printed material	World Federation of Teachers Unions: peace, anti-nuclear matters, 1953-1955
Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Files include:
N5/978-979	Subject files [2 files]	Vietnam, 1965-1967
N5/983-993	[11 files]	War and peace, 1908-1971 Includes: War and peace (general), peace congresses and conferences, Suez, foreign affairs and defence, nuclear weapons, Vietnam and War Railway Committee (1942-1943) (see finding-aid for full description of file titles and items)
Australian Railways Union, Tasmanian Branch Files include:
E231/484-485	Subject files [2 files]	Peace Congress, 1956-1964
E231/575		War and peace, 1962-1965 Re: defence, disarmament, Cuba, South Vietnam
N11/143		Peace Congress, 1965
N11/199		Vietnam Moratorium, 1967-1970
N11/205		War and peace, 1966-1973
Australian Railways Union, South Australian Branch Files include:
E197/8/3126	Correspondence files	South Australian Peace Council, 1956-1959
Union of Australian Women, National Office Files include:
Z236/17	Subject files [4 files]	Peace files, 1962-1975 Includes: AICD, Vietnam, nuclear weapons, Save our Sons, W White etc (see finding-aid for full description of file titles and items)
Z236/ 28-30	[6 files]	Peace files, 1977-1986 Includes: peace (general), Hiroshima Day, AICD, Australian Peace Committee, nuclear disarmament, United National Associations, Women's Peace Camp, toxic poisons (see finding-aid for full description of file titles and items)
Z236/ 38	International correspondence	United Nations Special Session on Disarmament, 1982-1988
Z236/ 46-49	Subject files	Peace files, 1978-1987 Includes: peace conferences and congresses, UAW peace school and women's peace organisations
Union of Australian Women, NSW Branch Files include:
N96/113-120	Subject files [8 files]	Peace files, 1964-1982 Includes: peace (general), Australian Peace Conference and UN Committee of Support for UN Special Sessions on Disarmament
Australian Coal and Shale Employees Federation, Central Council Files include:
N144/336	General Secretary's files	Vietnam, 1973 Re: joint delegation (provisional revolutionary government - Vietnam Peace Committee) visit to Australia and special minute re levy for ploughing machines for Vietnam
Australian Council of Trade Unions Files include:
N21/824	Secretary's subject files	Nuclear tests, 1956-1957
N21/514		Omega Base, 1977
N21/1751		Uranium, 1977
N21/1758		Vietnam, 1965-1970