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The collection was received in the Library in 1972 and remained unsorted until 1976 owing to accommodation problems and the pressure of other work on available staff. The listing is almost entirely the work of Mrs N.M. Taylor, working on a part-time basis, and the size of the collection (there are nearly 1400 items) and its initial disorder meant that preparation of the original draft required nearly two years. In its unfinished state it has been useful to several researchers, and it is hoped that this published version may be equally useful to a wider group. The various removals undergone by the papers before they were deposited in the Library meant that when we came to sort them no system could be discerned, and the work of preparing this list has, of necessity, included imposing a system. We hope that the resulting arrangement is reasonably logical, and not too far removed from any system Roberts himself (or his office staff) might have established.
The papers are chiefly the working records - minute books, correspondence files, financial records, clipping files - of the Waterside Workers' Federation (1891-1945), the Transport Workers' Advisory Board (1916-1922), and the Alliance of Labour (1919-1938), all with gaps. There are also isolated portions of the records of some other unions affiliated to the Alliance of Labour, some City Council papers of 1957, and some personal papers.
The collection is housed as a single sequence, except that the physically awkward photographs and newspaper volumes are kept in separate (outsize) stacks. As received from Professor John Roberts (the son of Jim Roberts) the original order had been completely destroyed in multiple repacking and removals, and the arrangement was devised in the course of preparing the inventory.
The collection is divided into ten series (A-J), covering the two major and four minor organisations that Roberts dealt with, plus the Office Library of printed matter (including clipping files), a collection of photographs, Roberts’s personal papers on his activities in public affairs, and a few private papers.
N.B. For resource reasons, the brief descriptions of individual items have been incorporated into this online finding aid as subseries notes, rather than as separate item records. Also, there was an index to all except the printed matter and the photographs; this has not yet been incorporated into the online finding aid.
The Roberts papers were deposited in the University Library in 1972 by Professor John Roberts, Jim Roberts's son, to form the nucleus of the Labour Archives Trust material, when the Trust was finally established in 1973. We understand from Professor Roberts that the papers were stored in a garage at his father's property after being cleared out of the office in Manners Street, presumably on Roberts's retirement from the Waterside Workers' Union. Because of the circumstances of the collapse of the Alliance of Labour the files of that organisation remained virtually intact, and the destruction of the Waterside Workers' Union in 1951 meant that no organisation laid claim to the records of its predecessor Federation which Roberts had taken with him, perhaps inadvertently, when he left in 1940.
Access to the Roberts papers themselves is restricted, in accordance with the provisions of the Labour Archives Trust, but experience in practice has suggested that the listing alone may be helpful to students of labour history.
Anyone wishing to make use of the papers should write to the Library indicating the nature of their research interest; students are normally granted access on the explicit recommendation of their supervisors. The address for such initial contact is: University Librarian, Victoria University of Wellington Library, P O Box 3438, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.
The collection originated from the office files of the Alliance of Labour and the Waterside Workers' Federation, and as such it contains no Labour Party material and only a handful of personal papers, which seem to have been preserved by accident.
The bulk of the collection is provided by the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation and the New Zealand Alliance of Labour. The New Zealand Miners' Federation (Section A), active in the founding of the Alliance of Labour, is represented by a few records covering 1915-1926, though their presence is not explained. The New Zealand Transport Workers' Advisory Board (Section C) is another small group of records, but Roberts's position as secretary makes their presence much more understandable. The handful of records for the North Wellington Timber. Workers' Union (Section E) are present because the books had been sent to Roberts for audit and, apparently, never returned.
The Waterside Workers' Federation records include a complete set of conference reports from 1917 to 1941, and a not quite complete set of the secretary's reports. Minutes of executive meetings begin in 1909, to cover roughly the same years, but with gaps. After 1932, this cyclostyled or printed material is supplemented by court decisions and before that by, in addition, correspondence with branch and affiliated' unions for selected years (chiefly 1921, 1928-9, and 1932), compensation cases (1928-9 mainly) and some financial records. Background papers for the negotiation of awards and agreements are distributed more evenly, in the years up to 1930, and there is a group of fragments dating from 1889 to the time Roberts became secretary in 1915.
The records of the Alliance of Labour are much more nearly complete. All the records continue to the formal demise of the Alliance in July 1937, although the chief records after the split of 7 and 8 April 1936 are the correspondence, circulars, and related documents in which Roberts disputed the claims of A.W. Croskery, L. Glover and P.P. Walsh to take over the Alliance. Roberts was, however, acting as negotiator for several unions other than the Waterside Workers in late 1936 and early 1937. The records of the rival Alliance (after April 1936) were presumably handed by Croskery and the Walsh faction to the new Federation of Labour, just as the funds were finally transferred in 1942.
The section (G) identified as 'Office Library' and the collection of photographs (Section H) both provide general material applicable to Roberts's position as secretary of the Alliance but also relevant to the Waterside Workers. The Office Library has been arranged essentially in alphabetical order; it includes a number of publications which must have come to Roberts as a member of the Waterfront Control Commission, and one or two which may be of personal rather than occupational interest.
The publications in this section have not been included in the Index, since they are already listed in alphabetical order by standard library catalogue entry; publications in other parts of the collection, because they are part of a file, are listed in the Index. All publications, wherever they are in the collection, which are recorded in the New Zealand national bibliography to 1960, compiled by A.G. Bagnall (Wellington: Government Printer, 1970-1980) have their reference number in that bibliography included in the description, in the form 'Bagnall R693'.
The press clippings, an extensive and useful collection, have been arranged in chronological sequence with the miscellaneous (possibly personal) assemblages added at the end. The photographs (Section H) have been listed in the sequence they were found in, having been parcelled up in undisturbed packages. No attempt has been made to index the photographs.
The short sequence called 'Personal correspondence on public life' (Section I) provides the main insight into unofficial and personal responses to public events. This includes the only Labour Party material in the papers, and a small group of Wellington City Council documents for early 1957. The final sequence of 'Family and personal business affairs' (Section J) is, apart from documents relating to his house at 41 Durham Street, a random selection preserved by chance. One further addition to these personal papers has been received since, from the Belcher family in 2010.
'James Roberts, born at Cork, Ireland, in February 1878, came to New Zealand as a seaman in 1899, and settled two years later, working on the construction of the Main Trunk Railway, and then for the Wellington Gas Company and on the waterfront. In 1915 he became secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation and in 1916 helped to establish and became secretary of the Transport Workers' Advisory Board. When the New Zealand Alliance of Labour was established in 1919 he became its secretary, a position he held until 1936 and lost only as a result of the final 'split' with F.P. Walsh's group. The Transport Workers' Advisory Board was merged with the Alliance of Labour in 1922, and Roberts relinquished the Waterside Workers' Federation (it became a national Union in 1937) in 1940, having been appointed to the newly created Waterfront Control Commission. In 1947 he was appointed to the Legislative Council by the Labour Government, remaining until the abolition of the Council in 1950. In 1950 he was elected to the Wellington City Council, a position he retained to 1959.
Active in the Labour Party from his early years in New Zealand, he was Vice-President from 1934 to 1937, and President from 1937 to 1958. On several occasions, particularly in 1935, he was proposed as a Parliamentary candidate but he never in fact stood for any electorate. From 1925 he was chairman of the New Zealand Worker Publishing Company, and from 1942 to 1951, of New Zealand Labour Newspapers. In 1958 he was awarded the C.M.G. on his retirement from the Labour Party presidency.
A firm believer in negotiation rather than confrontation with employers, his work as secretary of both the Waterside Workers and the Alliance of Labour involved a great deal of correspondence, negotiation, and conciliation and arbitration advocacy. From the early 1930s he increasingly came into conflict with P.P. Walsh, the dominating leader of the Seamen's Union, and the break became explicit in April 1936 when the faction dominated by Walsh created a rival executive of the Alliance of Labour in a meeting 'rigged' by Walsh's party. Roberts refused to work with the incomers, and the Federation of Labour was established at a conference in 1937 to take over the work of the Alliance.
During the years of the first Labour Government (1935 to 1949) Roberts was termed 'the uncrowned king of New Zealand' for his dominance of the Labour Party, and, through the Party, of the Labour Government; the justice or otherwise of this title is not demonstrable from the material in the papers described here.'
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The Miners' Federation had several phases and names, beginning in April 1915 with the New Zealand Coal Mine Workers' Industrial Federation which in September 1915, became the New Zealand Federated Coal Mine Employees' Industrial Association of Workers. Gold miners entered in December 1917. (A2, p.78; 'Maoriland Worker' 19 Dec 1917, p.3). By July 1918 it was the New Zealand Coal, Gold, Shale, Quarry and Tunnel Workers' Federation (A3, executive meeting 15 July 1918). For minutes and financial records the same books were continued through these changes. Early in 1925 it became the more militant United Mine Workers of New Zealand (Dominion, 22 April 1925, in G101).
A1/1 Memorandum of an agreement [1910?] between the Northern Coal Company, the Kiripaka Coal Miners' Industrial Union of Workers and the N.Z. Federation of Labour, concerning the award of the Arbitration Court dated 26 July 1909.
A1/2 Industrial agreement between the manager and the workers at the Point Elizabeth Colliery, 1912-13.
A2 Miners' Federation minute book 1915-23, conferences and executive meetings. Begins with delegates from West Coast coal mines meeting on 13 April 1915 to form a federation, with proposed constitution. Ends with printed balance sheet of N.Z. Coal, Gold, Shale, Quarry and Tunnel Workers' Federation, May 1923. Pasted on back end-paper, N.Z. Federated Coal Mine Employees' Industrial Association of Workers, Rules and Constitution, 1915, Maoriland Worker Print, 20p.
A3 Miners' Federation minute book 1916-20, conferences (MS) and executive meetings (MS and typed). Conferences: Sept 1916, first page missing, remits 30-35 laid in; 3 Dec 1917, 2p only. Executive meetings: (MS) 18 Sept 1916 (6 lines); 1 Dec 1917; 1, 4 July 1918; 21 Sept 1920; (typed) 15 July, 19 Sept 1918.
A4 Folder containing filed correspondence 1917, between N.Z. Federated Coal Mine Employees' Industrial Association of Workers and Roberts, secretary of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, including criticism of watersiders' alleged duplicity.
A5 Miners' Federation executive minute book, 9 Jan 1919 to 11 Sept 1924.
A6 Report of proceedings of Coal Mining Conference held in Wellington 1-12 August 1919, between the Coal Mine Owners' Association and the Miners' Federation. Cyclostyled 148p. Bound copy.
A7 Coal mines dispute 1919. File of proposals, statements, newspaper clippings, August-Sept 1919.
A8 Coal-mines Conference. Report of conference between representatives of Coal-mine Owners' Association and Miners' Federation, Wellington, 11-23 February 1920. 110p, H-00 of Appendices to Journals of the House of Representatives. Govt Printer, Wellington.
A9 N.Z. Miners' Federation 1923. File includes letters to Roberts, of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation; Report of Executive of N.Z. Miners' Federation 31 May 1923 (printed); Manifesto to the mine workers from the annual conference (printed); minutes of conference at Westport 15 Sept 1923.
A 10/1 N.Z. Miners' Federation. Report and minutes of conference at ... Wellington from 4th to 14th July 1923. 93p cyclostyled.
A 10/2 MS report of N.Z. Miners' Federation conference July 1923, from 2nd to 7th day, written by Roberts, who by invitation was minutes secretary (in the unused pages of a 1922 office diary of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, B71).
A ll United Mine Workers of N.Z. Report of open conference convened by the United Mine Workers of N.Z. held in the Trades Hall, Wellington,commencing on 2nd August 1926. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1926] 31p. On industrial unity. Bagnall U63.
A l2 Mines Department statement by the Hon G.J. Anderson, Minister of Mines, for the year 1920. 61p. 0-2 of Appendices to Journals of the House of Representatives, 1921. Govt Printer, 1921.
A13 3 draft telegrams, not dated, about a dispute in the Te Akatea union, 2 signed O'Rourke [secretary of the Miners' Federation 1916-192577
A14 Miners' Federation, book of telegrams, sender's copies, not dated, signed O'Rourke.
Al5 Miners' Federation ledger 1915-18; affiliation fees, etc., from unions.
A16 Miners' Federation, cash book 1917-18; expenses, including money sent to Australia.
Al7 Miners' Federation, expenditure book Dec 1917 to May 1924.
A18 Miners' Federation, receipts book, Nov 1917 to May 1919; various contributions and levies from mine unions.
A19 Miners' Federation, receipts book, 10 June 1918 to 23 Feb 1921, carbon copies of receipts nos. 1-750.
A20 Miners' Federation receipts book, 10 June 1918 to 5 Sept 1924, carbon copies of receipts nos.751-1143; includes contributions for West Coast Lockout, Oct 1923 to Feb 1924. A21/1 Miners' Federation, ledger balance, 1920 to May 1921; dues and levies from unions.
Laid in A21/1:
A21/2 List of names of unions affiliated to the N.Z. Coal, Gold, Shale, Quarry and Tunnel Workers' Federation, marked 'Exhibit A, O'Rourke v. Arbuckle. W.G. Riddell (signature) Stipendiary Magistrate, Wellington, 8 March 1922'.
A21/3 N.Z. Coal, Gold, Shale, Tunnel and Quarry Workers' Federation, statement of receipts and payments period ended 2 July 1921 (MS).
A21/4 page headed 'Income from Unions'.
A22 Miners' Federation, office expenditure 23 July 1913 to 2 June 1919, fastened off with file spike. Receipts from mine unions, 11 June 1920 to 2 March 1922, copied from a bank book and stamped by Bank of New Zealand, Te Aro branch.
A23/1 Miners' Federation, analysis or balance book 1921-3; amounts paid by mines' unions and arrears.
Laid in A23/1:
A23/2 N.Z. Coal, Gold, Shale, Quarry and Tunnel Workers' Federation, financial statement for period ending 31 May 1922 (printed).
A23/3 N.Z. Coal, Gold, Shale, Quarry and Tunnel Workers' Federation statement of all monies received by Federation to 10 Feb 1923 (printed).
A23/4 Lawyer's bill, March 1923, to Rorowaro Miners' Union for minimum wage case, which was paid twice.
A24 Miners' Federation analysis or balance book 1923-4.
A25 'Copy of the Miners' Federation bank book 1922-4, Bank of New Zealand, Te Aro branch.
A26 Scrapbook of newspaper mining clippings, etc. some dated 1922-4, pasted into old accounts book 1915-16.
A27 Correspondence, minutes and agreements re Co-operative Mining Parties (1928).
B1 N.Z. Federated Wharf Labourers' Union. Lyttelton. Membership book, 11 Sept 1889 to 8 Jan 1891.
B2/1 Lyttelton Lumpers and Wharf Labourers' Association. List of Members and subscriptions paid, 1891.
B2/2 Minutes of general, committee and monthly meetings, 24 Feb 1891 to 3 Oct 1899.
B3/1 Lyttelton Lumpers and Wharf Labourers' Association, special committees' minutes and press clippings.
Includes: Minutes of Registration Committee March April 1895 Minutes of Investigation COmmittee into a money deficiency, Mardh-April 1895 Press clippings including Press 21 Feb 1891, report of first general meeting; Lyttelton. Times 11 June 1897, Private Benefit Societies' Commission on Lyttelton Lumpers and Wharf Labourers' Assodiation.
B3/2 MS report of questioning of J.G.T. Wood on his evidence given to the CommisSion about the Association voting for registration, 1897.
B3/3 Letters of 7 April, 28 May and 4 Sept 1896 from Pitcaithly, Wallace & Co and the General Manager of the Railways Department about a charge made and withdrawn against J.G.T. Wood for using filthy language.
B4/1 Lyttelton Casual Wharf Labourers' Union, minutes of meetings 13 May 1895 to 4 Oct 1899. Begins with the formation of the union.
B4/2 Correspondende between the Minister of RailWays and the Lyttelton Casual Wharf Labourers' Union March-May 1896, about using casual and permanent labour.
B5 Westport Waterside Workers'- Union: MS letterbook (Outward), 6 April 1914 to 10 August 1916.
B6/1-3 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Signatures of waterside workers (77) Withdrawing,mombership from N.Z. waterside Workers' Federation enclosed in F. Mackie, Wanganui, to D. McCarthy, president N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, 15 Sept 1915; and receipt.
B7/1-5 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Letters Sept-Oct 1915 between-D. McCarthy, president N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federatioh,and F. Mackie, treasurer, Wanganui Union, concerning Wanganui resigning from the Federation.
B8 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Signatures of wharf labourers willing to form Wellington Wharf Labourers' Industrial Union of Workers, 10 Dec 1913. 7p. MS.
B9 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. C.A.E. Purdey, secretary, Wellington Wharf Labourers' Union, to G.M. McKay, secretary, N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, 23 Dec 1913,complaining that ex-strikers are often given preference for employment over men who broke the strike; 'Red Fed& are trying to regain power on the waterfront. 3p. MS.
B10/1 J.G. Bruce, secretary, Wellington Waterside Workers' Union, to D. McCarthy, president N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, 4 Oct 1915. Proposes open conference of all waterside unions in New Zealand, including those not affiliated. B10/2 Mcdarthy to Bruce, 5 Oct 1915.
B10/3 Telegram, Bruce to McCarthy, 9 Nov 1915.
B10/4 Telegram, Bruce to McCarthy, 29 Nov 1915.
Minutes of conferences and executive meetings, B11-26
B11 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS notebook containing:
B11/1 Minutes of meetings of Executive of N.Z. Waterside workers' Federation Sept 1909 to Feb 1916.
B11/2 Minutes of a conference of the unions who have remained loyal to the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in the (Wanganui) Borough Council Chambers, 24-27 July 1912.
B11/3 Biennial conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Napier, 28-30 July 1914.
B11/4 Special general meeting in the form of a conference, 30 June 1915, to deal with resignations and the future of the Federation.
B12/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers Federation. Minutes (incomplete) for conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, 1-12 Dec 1916 (MS on loose sheets - a few missing).
B12/2 Minutes of Executive meeting in Central Hall, Cook Street, Auckland, Dec 13, 1916. 8 pages MS.
B13 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Minutes of annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers'Federation, Trades Hall, Dunedin, 5-13 Dec 1917. MS notebook.
B14 N. Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS notebook with printed remits pasted in.
B14/1 Minutes of conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Lyttelton, 7-17 January 1919.
B14/2 Minutes of National Executive meeting at Lyttelton, 22 Jan 1918 (i.e. 1919).
B15 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Minutes of conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Napier, 2-17 Dec 1919. MS notebook with printed remits pasted in.
B16 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Minutes of conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Wellington, 3-22 March 1920 (including conference with employers about agreement). MS notebook.
B17 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS and typescript in notebook.
B17/1 Minutes of 6th annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in Timaru, 1-15 Dec 1920.
B17/2 Minutes of conference with employers at Wellington, Dec 1920.
B17/3 Minutes of National Executive meeting at Wellington, 22 Dec 1920.
B18 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS and typescript in notebook.
B18/1 Minutes of the 7th annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at New Plymouth, 16 Nov - 1 Dec 1921.
B18/2 Minutes of National Executive meetings at Wellington, 1 Dec 1921, 30-31 Jan 1922, 16, 19 Sept 1922.
B18/3 Minutes of 8th annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, Auckland, 8-18 Jan 1923.
B18/4 Minutes of special Executive meeting at Auckland, 18 Jan 1923.
B19 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, MS, printed remits and typescript in notebook.
B19/1 Minutes of the 9th annual conference of the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Christchurch, 15-29 Nov 1923.
B19/2 Minutes of National Executive meetings, Christchurch, 29 Nov 1923; Wellington, 20-3 May 1924.
B19/3 Minutes of the 10th annual conference of the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, at Wanganui, 4-18 Dec 1924.
B19/4 Minutes of National Executive meeting at Wanganui, 18 Dec 1924.
B20 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS, printed remits and typescript in notebook.
B20/1 Minutes of the llth annual conference of the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Dunedin, 25 Nov-8 Dec 1925.
B20/2 Minutes of National Executive meetings at Dunedin, 25 Nov, 8 Dec 1925.
B20/3 Minutes of the 12th annual conference of the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Napier, 17 Nov-1 Dec 1926.
B21 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS and typescript in notebook.
B21/1 Reports of committees set up to deal with various questions, 12th conference N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, 1926.
B21/2 Minutes of National Executive meeting at Napier, 2 Dec 1926.
B22 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS, printed remits and typescript in notebook.
B22/1 Minutes of the 13th annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Timaru, 16-30 Nov 1927.
B22/2 Minutes of National Executive meeting at Timaru, 1 Dec 1927.
B22/3 Report (sic) of the 14th annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at New Plymouth, 21-5 Dec 1928.
B22/4 Minutes of National Executive meetings at New Plymouth, 5 Dec 1928; Wellington, 4 April 1929 (typed).
B22/5 Minutes of the 15th annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Greymouth, 13-18 Nov 1929, from 1st to 5th days. MS.
B23 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS, printed remits and typescript in notebook.
B23/1 Minutes of the 15th annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Greymouth, 19-27 Nov 1929, beginning at 6th day.
B23/2 Appointment of persons to operate the bank account of the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, JI Feb 1930.
B23/3 Minutes of the 16th annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation at Nelson, 26 Nov-9 Dec 1930.
B23/4 Minutes of National Executive meetings at Nelson, 10 Dec 1930; at Wellington, 7 April, 25-6 June 1931.
B24 N.Z. waterside Workers' Federation. M$, printed remits and typescript in notebook.
B24/1 Minutes of 17th annual conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Fedeiation, Auckland, 11-25 Nov 1931.
B24/2 Minutes of National Executive meetings, at Auckland, 25 Nov 1931; Wellington, 8 June, 26-7 July 1932.
B25 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS, printed remits and typeadript in notebook.
B25/1 Minutes of Executive meeting, at Wellington 16-22 Nov 1932.
B25/2 Minuted of 18th conference of N.Z. Wateraide Workers' Federation, Wellington, 15-24 Nov 1933.
B26 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. MS, printed remits and typescript in notebook.
B26/1 Minutes of 19th conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers'. Federation, Lyttelton, 9-23 Dec 1935, beginning at 4th day.
B26/2 Minutes of Executive meetings, at Lyttelton, 23 Dec 1935; Wellington, 11 May 1936.
B27 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, second annual conference, held at Auckland EbeginningI December 1, 1916. Maotiland Worker Printing and Publishing Co. [1916) 132p.
B28 N. Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, fourth annual conference, held in ... Lyttelton from January 7, 1919; till January 10, 1919 inclusive. Worker Printing and Publishing Co. £1919) 149p.
B29 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, fifth annual conference, held in ... 'Napier from December 2nd, 1919, to December 18th 1919, inclusive. Worker Printing and Publishing Co. £1920?) 203p.
B30 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, sixth annual conference, in ... Timaru, from the 1st to the 16th December, 1920, inclusive. Maoriland Worker CO. E19217] 80p.
B31 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, seventh annual conference, in ... New Plymouth, from the 16th Nov to 1st December [1921] inclusive. Maoriland Worker Co. C1922fl 118p.
B32 Report of the annual and special meeting of the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, Auckland, 8-18 Jan 1923. 44p cyclostyled.
B33 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of eleventh annual conference, Dunedin, 25 Nov-8 Dec 1925. 67p cyclostyled.
B34 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of fifteenth annual conference, Greymouth, 13-27 Nov 1929. 76p cyclostyled.
B35 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of sixteenth annual conference, Nelson, 26 Nov-10 Dec 1930. 130p cyclostyled.
B36 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of seventeenth annual conference, Auckland, 11-25 Nov 1931. 128p cyclostyled.
B37 N.Z. waterside Workers' Federation. Report of eighteenth annual conference, Wellington, 15-30 Nov 1933. 180p cyclostyled.
B38 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of nineteenth conference, Lyttelton, 5-23 Dec 1935. 187p cyclostyled.
B39 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report of twenty-first conference, Wanganui, 24 Nov-15 Dec 1937. 171p cyclostyled.
B40 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report of twenty-second conference, Wellington, 15-30 Nov 1939. 172p cyclostyled.
B41/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report of twenty-third conference, Christchurch, 2-15 Dec 1941. 159p cyclostyled.
B41/2 MS minutes of above conference up to Friday, 12 Dec 1941.
B42 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report of biennial conference, Wellington, 27 Nov-6 Dec 1945. 68p cyclostyled.
B43/1-21 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Secretary's annual reports, to conferences or to the National Executive, 1919 1922-41. Reports of 1919 (343/1) and 1922-31 (43/2-11) were addressed to annual conferences; 1933 (B43/13), 1935 (543/15), 1937 (343/17), 1939 (343/19) and 1941 (B43/21) were to biennial conferences; 1932 (B43/12), 1934 (B43/14), 1936 (B43/16), 1938 (B43/18), 1940 (B43/20) were to the National Executive. They regularly include reports on N.Z. Transport Worker, legal aid fund, industrial protection fund and members' transfer clearances. 2 copies of 1941, one lacking legal aid fund section.
B44 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report by J. Flood, Acting-Secretary, to special conference, 2 April 1941. 9p carbon typescript.
B45 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of special meeting of National Council, Wellington, 9-19 Sept 1936. 71, 7, 2p cyclostyled.
B46 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of secretary to special meeting of National Council, Wellington, 9 Sept 1936. 34p typescript.
B47/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report of special meeting of National Council, Wellington, 2-4 April 1941. Concerns Waterfront Control Commission. 39p cyclostyled.
B47/2 Typed version of B47/1, close but not identical. 6-50p.
B48 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Minutes of special meeting of National Council 23-31 August 1944. 44p cyclostyled.
Some notebooks already listed, which mainly record conferences, include minutes of National Executive meetings. B11/1 National Executive minutes Sept 1909-Feb 1916 National Executive meetings: B14/2, at Lyttelton, 22 Jan 1918 (i.e. 1919) B18/2, at Wellington, Dec 1921, Jan 1922, Sept 1922 B19/2, at Christchurch, Nov 1923; Wellington, May 1924; & 4, Wanganui, Dec 1924. B20/2, at Dunedin, Nov, Dec 1925. B21/2, at Napier, Dec 1926. B22/2, at Timaru, Dec 1927 & B22/4, New Plymouth, Dec 1928; Wellington, April 1929. B23/4, at Nelson, Dec 1930; Wellington, April-June 1931.
B49 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. National Executive meetings at Wellington, 25 Jan, 3 April 1917; Dunedin, 14 Dec 1917. MS.
B50 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. National Executive meeting at Wellington, 20-3 May 1924. 17p cyclostyled.
B51 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. National Executive meeting, Wanganui, 9 April 1926. 3p typescript and carbon.
B52 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Minutes of annual meeting of National Executive at Wellington, 16-22 Nov 1932. 37, 4, 6p cyclostyled. Includes 6p report on freezing works dispute.
B53 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. National Executive meeting at Wellington, 7-8 June 1934. 13p cyclostyled.
B54 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Secretary's report to National Executive, 7 June 1934. 14, 2p typescript.
B55 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of annual meeting of National Executive, at Wellington, 5-11 December 1934. 29, Sp cyclostyled.
B56 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of annual meeting of National Executive at Wellington 8-9 Dec 1936. 25p cyclostyled.
B57 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report of annual meeting of National Executive at Wellington, 8-9 Dec 1938. 13, 4p cyclostyled.
B58/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report of meeting of National Executive, Wellington, 15 March 1940, attended by rank and file members from Auckland and Wellington. 39p typed, carbon copy.
B58/2 Rough draft of above, 20p typescript. In folder.
B59 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report of annual meeting of National Executive, Wellington, 4-7 Dec 1940. 17p cyclostyled.
B60 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Report of special meeting of National Executive, Wellington, 17-20 April 1945. 6p.
B61 Wanganui Waterside Workers' Union, receipts and expenditure, Jan 1917-Oct 1918 (loose pages from cash book).
B62 Tokomaru Bay Waterside Workers' Union Cash book. Receipts and expenditure, Dec 1922-Jan 1926.
B63 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Cash book. Receipts and expenditure, Sept 1909-Sept 1916.
B64 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Cash book. Amounts due and received from branch unions for capitation fees, conference expenses, etc., 1915-16.
B65 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Cash book. Receipts and expenditure, 7 Jan 2916-17 Jan 1917.
B66 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Cash book. Receipts and expenditure, Nov 1917-Nov. 1927.
B67/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Balance sheet 28 July 1914-14 August 1915. MS audited.
B67/2 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Statement of receipts and payments 4 Nov 1921-15 Nov 1922, audited and printed.
B67/3 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Statement of receipts and payments 3 Nov 1923-17 Nov 1924, audited and printed.
B67/4 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Statement of receipts and payments 18 Nov 1924-12 Nov 1925, audited and printed.
B67/5 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Statement of receipts and payments 13 Nov 1925-3 Nov 1926, typed and audited.
B67/6/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Statement of receipts and payments 3 Nov 1926-3 Nov 1927, typed and audited.
B67/6/2 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Printed copy of 867/6/1.
B67/7 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Statement of receipts and payments 3 Nov 1935-2 Nov 1936, audited and cyclostyled.
B68 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Office diary and press clippings 1918.
B69 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Office diary and press clippings 1920. Includes arrangements for March conference with employers; also N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board matters.
B70 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Office diary and press clippings 1921 £3, 5, 7 March refer to co-operative stevedoring on 'Admiral Codrington'].
B71 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Office diary and press clippings to March 1922. (In the unused pages Roberts took minutes of the Miners' Federation Conference, July 1923, 2nd to 7th days, see A10/2).
B72 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Office diary 1943.
B73/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation cash book, receipts and payments 1935-7. Laid in B73/1: B73/2 Industrial Protection Fund, statement of receipts and payments June 1921 to Nov 1922. lp typed. B73/3 Industrial Protection Fund, statement of receipts and payments Nov 1923 to Nov 1924, Nov 1935 to Nov 1936. 2p cyclostyled.
B74 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, cash book.
B74/1 Wages, J. Roberts, Nov 1920; conference expenses, Timaru, 1920.
B74/2 Petone Gas Workers' Fund, receipts and payments July 1919 to Jan 1922.
B74/3 Petone Gas Workers' Lockout, statement of receipts and payments,3 typed sheets with auditor's signature, 26 Jan 1922. Laid in 1374/2.
B74/4 Russian Famine Relief Fund, receipts and payments Feb 1922 to June 1923.
B74/5 Russian Famine Relief Fund, statement of receipts and payments Feb 1922 to June 1923, 1 typed sheet, 1 cyclostyled copy; 3 'Maoriland Worker' receipts (totalling £102.11.0). Laid in 374/4.
B74/6 Dunedin Waterside Workers' Union Distress Fund, receipts and payments, June-July 1923.
B74/7 Dunedin Waterside Workers' Union Flood Distress Fund. Statement of receipts and payments, period ending 30 Oct 1923, audited. I typed sheet, 1 cyclostyled copy; 3 receipts CE211 15 7] Laid in 374/6.
B75 Agreement made 17 Jan 1912 between the New Zealand Federation of Labour, Auckland Waterside Workers' Union, Wellington Wharf Labourers' Union, Lyttelton Stevedores' Union, Dunedin Waterside Workers' Union, Timaru Waterside Workers' Union and the undersigned firms and companies, in respect to wages- and conditions of employment for wharf labour (from 1 Feb 1912 until 31 Jan 1914), 12p carbor typescript. 16 signatures, seal of Wellington Harbour Board.
B76 Agreement made 17 Jan 1922 between the New Zealand Federation of Labour, Westport Wharf Labourers' Union, Nelson Waterside and General Workers' Union, Patea Waterside Workers' Union ... and the undersigned firms and companies, in respect to wages and conditions of employment for wharf labour (from 1 Feb 1912 until 31 Jan 1914). 9p carbon typescript. 8 signatures.
B77/1 N.Z. Federation of Labor Esic]. Agreements of the Waterside Workers' Union at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Timaru, Dunedin, Westport, Nelson and Patea, with the shipping and other firms (from 1 Feb 1912 to 31 Jan 1914). Wellington, the Worker Printery (1912). 16p blue cover. Printed version of B75 and B76. Bagnall N2078.
B77/2 Another copy, pink cover, more closely guillotined. Inscribed 'L. Glover'.
B78 Gisborne Waterside Workers' Agreement (14 Sept 1912 to 12 March 1915). Gisborne, Herald Office E1912]. 11p.
B79 Agreement made 4 February 1913 between the N.Z. Federation of Labour and the Port Chalmers Marine Labourers Union, ... and the undersigned firms and companies ... in respect of wages and conditions of employment for wharf, dock and marine labour at the port of Port Chalmers (until 31 Jan 1914). 8p carbon typescript. Signed by D.A. Aiken, Assistant General Manager, Union Steam Ship Co. B80/1 Agreement made 19 Dec 1913 between the Wellington Wharf Labourers' Industrial Union of Workers and the Union Steam ship Co. of New Zealand [and 23 others] (until 18 Dec 1916). 12p typescript copy from Book of Awards, 1913, vol.14, p1019.
B80/2 Carbon copy.
B81 Auckland Waterside Workers Industrial Union of Workers. Agreement between the Auckland Waterside Workers' Industrial Union of Workers and Nearing & Co., Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd, and others. Made January 7th, 1914 to June 30th, 1916. (Cover title) Benson Wyman, LLB, Solicitor. Auckland, Phipps & Hall, 1914. 21p.Bagnall A1120. MS note '1913 Scab Union Agreement'.
B82 Dunedin Waterside Workers' Union. Industrial agreement from January 6, 1914, to January 4, 1917 (Cover title). Dunedin, Lister (1914). 20p.
B83 Auckland Waterside Workers' Industrial Union of Workers. Industrial Agreement from Feb 7, 1916 to Dec 31, 1916, as applied to the Port of Auckland. (Cover title) Wellington, Worker Print, 1916. 24p.
B84 Wellington Waterside Workers' Industrial Union of Workers. Amended Industrial Agreement from March 16, 1916 to December 31, 1916, (Cover title) Wellington, Worker Print, 1916. 24p.Bagnall W799. Amends B80/1.
B85 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation and Auckland, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Napier, Wellington, Picton, Westport, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers and Bluff Watersider Workers. Agreement with Anchor Shipping and Foundry Co. Ltd (and 26 others) from 16 March 1916 till 31 Dec 1916. Wellington, Govt Printer, 1916. 19p Extract from Book of Awards, etc., VOl.XV/I, Part 3.
B86 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Negotiations with employers of wharf labour 1916-18; correspondence and agreements.
B87 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Conference with employers, 1917.
B88 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation and Auckland, Onehunga, Kaipara, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Picton, Westport, Greymouth, Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Port Chalmers and Bluff Waterside Workers. Agreement made 6 August 1917 (until 31 Dec 1919) between the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation Industrial Association of Workers on its own behalf and also on behalf of its component unions [above] and Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company (& 75 others). Cover missing.
B89/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation and Wellington, Auckland, Whakatane, Opotiki, Onehunga, Tauranga, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Gisborne, Napier, Wairoa, Tokomaru Bay, New Plymouth, Patea, Timaru, Oamaru, Bluff, Greymouth, Westport, Nelson, Picton, Wanganui, Kaipara and Waitara Waterside Workers. Agreement made between the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation Industrial Association of Workers on its own behalf and also on behalf of its component unions [above] and Commonwealth and Dominion Line Land 10 others] Wellington,Govt Printer,' 1920. 39p Extract from Book of Awards, etc., Vol.XXI.
B89/2 Another copy, piece missing from p.23.
B90 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Conference of waterside workers and employers, Wellington, 3, 4, 5 and 14 April, 15 May 1919. Repoit of proceedings. (Cover title). Transcript from shorthand notes of H.E. Le Grove. 28p cyclostyled, bound. Another copy
B91 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with employers 1919.
B92 Waitara Agreement July 1919. (Cover title). Industrial agreement between the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation and the Wei:tare Branch of the New Plymouth Waterside Workers' Industrial Union of Workers and the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw Savill and Albion Company [to 31 Dec 1919 with. rates of pay retrospective to 13 March 1919]. 5p carbon typescript. 4 signatures. Annotated to produce agreement between the Golden Bay Cement Company's Employees' Union and the Golden Bay Cement Works Limited, pay retrospective to 1 Jan 1920.
B93 Waitara Agreement C1920-1 for lightermen], negotiations and proposals.
B94/1 Proposals for an industrial agreement between the Dominion Employers of Waterfront Labour and the N.Z. waterside Workers' Federation [from 1 Jan 1920 to 31 Dec 1920]. 39p cyclostyled.
B94/2 Proposals of a new agreement for the Port of Waitara. 3p typescript, undated, annotated.
B95 Conference of Waterside Workers and Employers, Wellington, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 17 March 1920. Report of proceedings. (Cover title). 'Mimeographed from transcript of shorthand notes taken by H.E. Le Grove.' 207p.
B96 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence re National Agreement 1920.
B97 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Agreement Conference (1920). Correspondence and documents; includes copies of
B94/1, B98-100, B107 and 8 copies of B102.
B98 [New Zealand Employers of Waterfront Labour] Chairman, Employers' Committee, to Chairman, N.Z. Watersiders' Representatives, Wellington, 11 March 1920, Con proposals for a neW agreement]. llp carbon transcript. Another copy on B97.
B99 [New Zealand Employers of Waterfront Labour] Chairman, Employers' Committee, to Chairman, N.Z. Watersiders' Representatives, Wellington, Is March 1920 [in reply to the counter-proposals submitted on 13 March 1920: cannot vary proposals made on 11 March (i.e. 898)]. 4p carbon typescript, signed. Another copy on 897.
B100 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Official report of the industrial Agreement Conference between representatives of the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation and representatives of the New Zealand Employers of Waterfront Labour [March 1920]. Another copy on 8106.
B101/1 Industrial agreements, miscellaneous, 1913-21. On cover: 'Industrial Awards & Agreements (Miscellaneous)'.
B101/2 Industrial agreements and regulations 1920-1922 [i.e. 1917 -22]. It includes an award for Sydney, 1919-20.
B102 [N.Z. Employers of Waterfront Labour] Co-operative scheme, New Zealand Co-operative Stevedoring Association. Labelled confidential, not for publication. 2p cyclostyled. Another copy on B106.
B103 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. The New Zealand Federated Waterside Workers' Co-operative Stevedoring Association. 3p cyclostyled.
B104 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Co-operative labour scheme 1920 (pink cover. Drafts, correspondence. Includes copies of 8103 and of 8102 noted 'Employers' proposals re Co-op'; also 'Co-operative Scheme as amended at a conference between the employers and the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, 18 Nov 1920'.
B105 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Co-operative scheme 1920 (blue cover). Includes report of conference between N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation and the Dominion Employers of Waterside Labour, 20-1 Nov 1920; also multiple copies of B103.
B106 Stapled together: B100 and B102.
B107 N.Z. Waterside Workers Federation. Clauses 1-40, accepted or amended, of a proposed agreement. Sp cyclostyled. Another copy on B97.
B108/1-3 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, 3 items pinned together:
B108/1 C.W. Bennett, Secretary, Wellington Co-operative Waterside Labour Employment Association, 10 Sept 1920, listing 15 disputes which the National Disputes Committee will consider on 14 Sept. 2p carbon typescript, signed, decorated with pencil portrait sketches.
B108/2 National Disputes Committee held 14 Sept 1920. 19 decisions. lp MS.
B108/3 Golden Bay Cement Conference 17 Sept 1920. MS notes in same hand as B108/2, and typed list, carbon copy, of 12 points at issue, annotated in same hand.
B108/4 Schedule of wages and working conditions for the workers employed at the Golden Bay Cement Works, Terakohe [from ... until 21 Dec 1919]. 5p carbon typescript.
B109 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with Wellington Co-operative Waterside Labour Employment Association. 1920-1.
B110 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. S.S.'Admirai Codrington', receipts and payments 1921.
B111 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with Union Steamship Company 1921.
B112 Wellington Harbour Board. Wages returns, half year ending 28 March 1923. [Apparently not a Waterside Workers' Union document.]
B113 Minutes of conference of representatives of the N.Z. Waterside Employers' Association and the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, held ... 7 September 1925 to discuss limitation of membership of waterside unions, and to set up a committee to report on the handling of basic slag cargoes. 2p cyclostyled.
B114 Agreement made 15 Dec 1925 between the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation Industrial Association of Workers and the N.Z. Waterside Employers' Industrial Association of Employers amending the Award of the Court of Arbitration, dated 1 Dec 1924 [i.e. B1553. 3p carbon typescript signed L. Glover, Jas Roberts, W.A. Kennedy. [This amendment included an increase of lhd an hour in the basic rate of pay] of B116.
B115 N.Z. Waterside Employers' Association Industrial Association of Employers. Statement dated 17 Feb 1926 on adjustments stemming from agreement with N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation from granting an additional 11/2d an hour on the rates fixed by the Award. Includes B114. 2p printed.
B116 Memorandum dated 16 April 1926 between the Employers' Association and N.2. Waterside Workers' Federation [referring to their agreement of 15 Dec 1925, B114, and concerning compensation payment rates for pre-ratification period, 1 Nov 1925 to 1 Feb 1926]. Signed C.G. White (Employers' Association), J.P. O'Regan (N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation). lp cyclostyled.
B117 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with employers 1928.
B118 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with employers 1929.
B119 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. The New Zealand Waterside Workers' Agreement 1932-1933. (Cover title) Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1933n. 108p.Bagnall N3581.
B120 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation and Onehunga, New Plymouth, Patea, Wanganui, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Greymouth and Lyttelton Dock Labourers, Industrial Agreement (from 6 July 1933 until 23 Nov 1933). Broadsheet. Folded, worn.
B121 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. General Harbour Regulations. Extracts from Order-in-Council, Jan 9, 1935, N.Z. Gazette No.2, Jan 17, 1935. Wellington, N.Z. Worker L19352. 48p.
B122 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Auckland Shipping Companies' Permanent Hands. Industrial Agreement between the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Industrial Union of Workers and the Northern Steamship Co. Ltd., and A. G. Frankham Ltd., Auckland (from 9 Sept 1937 until 30 Sept 1938). Wellington, N.Z. Department of Labour, 1937. Broadsheet.
B123, 124 Entries cancelled
B125 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Decisions of National Disputes Committee from 13 March 1918 to 15 June 1922. 99p typescript, brown cover. Carbon copy.
B126 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Local Disputes Committee [Wellington] July 1916 to March 1919. On cover 'Local Disputes Committee 1919'.
B127 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Local Disputes Committee [Wellington] Jan-August 1920. On cover: 'Local Disputes Committee 1920'. Includes National Disputes Committee meeting 8 Sept 1919.
B128 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Local Disputes Committee Sept-Nov 1920. On cover: ILocal Disputes Committee (Wellington)'.
B129 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Decision on 1 August 1920 of chairman appointed arbitrator by Auckland Disputes Committee in dispute re Clause 6 (k) of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Award 1 Oct 1929 (B162).
B130 In the Court of Arbitration between the Wellington Wharf Labourers' Industrial Union of Workers and the Union Steam Ship Company (and 19 others) award, from 21 November 1901 until 31 March 1903. 6p typescript. On top: 'Copy of W.H.B. 17268' Carbon Copy.
B131 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Decisions of Arbitration Court and Magistrates' Court 1909-1911.
B132 EN.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation] Decisions of Court of Arbitration and Magistrates' Court 1915-1917.
B133 Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment 1919 [i.e. 1917]. 1919 is typed on the file label, 1917 is in the text of the Bill. 51) cyclostyled.
B134 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Cover title: 'Meal Hours'. Concerns a dispute taken to the Court of Arbitration in 1921 about the application of ld an hour cost of living wage increase to payment for meal hours.
B135 [N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation] Arbitration Court decisions 1921 [includes decision on B134].
B136 EN.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation] Decisions of Arbitration Court, Supreme Court and Magistrates' Courts affecting waterside workers, 1922-28.
B137 [N.B. Waterside Workers' Federation] Cover title: 'Vol 5. Waterside-Workers Dispute Wanganui, 26th 27th & 28th July 1922. Report of proceedings': [in Court of Arbitration, before Mr Justice Fraser].
B138 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Roberts's statement to Court of Arbitration in 1922 dispute, evaluating evidence given by both Federation and employers on working conditions, etc. 67p typescript plus 1 page fragment headed 'Wages'.
B139 N.Z. Waterside Employers' Association. Employers statement to Court of Arbitration in 1922 waterside workers' dispute. 53p carbon typescript. B140 EN.Z. Waterside Employers' Association Employers' representative: W.G. Smith's closing address to Court of Arbitration in 1922 waterside workers' dispute. 61p carbon typescript.
B141 Entry cancelled.
B142 Newspaper clippings pinned and folded together: Evening Post, 17 Nov 1922; New Zealand Times, 23, 30 Nov 1922; N.Z. Transport Worker, 1 Dec 1922. Waterside Workers' dispute and opposition to Court of Arbitration.
B143 Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland Industrial Districts. Waterside Workers' Award, in the Court of Arbitration (dated 17 Nov 1922, in force from 30 Nov 1922 until 20 April 1924). Wellington, Govt Printer, 1922. 39p.
B144 Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury and Otago and Southland Industrial Districts Waterside Workers, Amendment in the Court of Arbitration, dated 20 March 1924, of award dated 17 Nov 1922, recorded in Book of Awards, Vol xxiii, p1002. Wellington, Dept of Labour, 1924. I page.
B145 In the Court of Arbitration, Otago and Southland Industrial District, an appeal from the judgment of the Magistrate at Oamaru (July 1923) in an action between C.H. Hoskin (Inspector of Awards) appellant, and C.A. Symon (waterside worker) respondent. 7p carbon typescript.
B146 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation Industrial Union of Workers v. Fraser and others, 1923, October 18, 24, November 8, Supreme Court, Wellington. [Appeal against a Court of Arbitration ruling on a section of the 1922 Waterside Workers' Award.J 39p carbon typescript. Recorded in Gazette Law Reports, 1924, pp 139-55.
B147 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. J. Roberts's address in Court of Arbitration, 1924, on wages and hours at various ports; cost of living, including house rents. No pagination, carbon typescript.
B148 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in Arbitration Court 1924. Statement re wages and wage returns 1924. [Mainly tabulated wage figures at four main ports; includes 'Value of El on groceries, dairy produce, meat and rent' 3p.3 No pagination, carbon typescript.
B149 N.Z. Waterside Employers' Industrial Association in Arbitration Court. Employers' statement, October 1924, in waterside workers' dispute. 9p carbon typescript.
B150 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in Arbitration Court 1924. Cover title: 'Waterside Worker's Dispute. 17th Oct 1924. Jas. Roberts address. LLB.' Eon working conditions such as special cargoes, basic slag, etc., slings, stopwork meetings, etc.] Carbon typescript, no pagination.
B151 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in Arbitration Court 1924. Cover title: 'Statements re dispute 1924'. [Includes special cargoes, the Court's prejudice, wages, overtime work.] No pagination, carbon typescript.
B152 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in Arbitration Court 1924. Cover title: 'Statements re freights, etc. 1924'. [Roberts's address on 21 Oct 1924 on freight and wages rates 1914-1924.3 No pagination, carbon typescript.
B153 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in Arbitration Court 1924. Cover title: 'Extract from address to Arbitration Court. Figures submitted to Court 1924'. No pagination, typescript and carbon typescript.
B154 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in Arbitration Court 1924. J. Roberts's address at Napier, 25 Sept 1924, Eon pay rates for work in lighters and long-distance tram fares].
B155 Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury and Otago and Southland Industrial Districts Waterside Workers' Award, in the Court of Arbitration [dated 1 Dec 1924, in force from 18 Dec 1924 until 31 Dec 1926]. Wellington, Dept of Labour, 1924. 42p 1 duplicate.
B156 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in the Court of Arbitration 1929. Cover title: 'Waterside Workers' Dispute 1928'. [i.e. 1929] J. Roberts for the Federation, mainly on wages. No pagination, typescript. B157 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. 'Wage Report' by J. Roberts [made to the Federation's Conference in November 1929; deals with the data and arguments presented to the Court of Arbitration, 19293.
B158 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in the Court of Arbitration 1929. J. Roberts, in reply to employers' case; mainly on wages. 39p transcript.
B159 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Employers Association, in Arbitration Court 1929. Cover title: 'Waterside Workers' Dispute 1929. Figures submitted by Employers'. No pagination, carbon typescript.
B160 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Employers' Association in Arbitration Court 1929. Employers' Statements (mainly on wages and cost of living). 32p plus tables, etc.,carbon typescript.
B161 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, in Arbitration Court 1929. J. Roberts's statement on cost of living. 10p carbon typescript.
B162 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Award, in the Court of Arbitration (dated 1 Oct 1929, in force from 25 Oct 1929 until 24 Oct 1931). Wellington, Dept of Labour 1929. 62p [Covers Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland Industrial Districts]. 2 copies.
B163 N.Z. Waterside Workers, amendment of award, dated 1 Nov 1929, to N.Z. Waterside Workers' Award dated 1 Oct 1929. Wellington, Dept of Labour 1929. lp. 8164 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Application for exclusion from General Order of the Court of Arbitration reducing wages. J. Roberts for the Federation, Auckland, 4 August 1931. No pagination, typescript.
B165 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Application for exclusion from General Order of the Arbitration Court reducing wages. J. Roberts for the Federation, Wellington 2 Oct 1931.
B166 Another copy of first 10 pages of 8165, dealing with clause 51 of award.
B167 [N.Z. Waterside Employers' Association] Application for exclusion from General Order of the Court of Arbitration reducing wages. Employers' statements, Wellington, 2 Oct 1931.
B168 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Decisions of Arbitration Court and Supreme Court 1930-31-32.
B169 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Arbitration Court decisions [1935-9J. Compensation Court decisions C19412. Interpretations 1934-35 award. Interpretations 1936-38 award. Applications for 40 hours week, waterside workers, ['ship] repair workers. Auxiliary workers case Auckland 1939 [Supreme Court].
B170 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Award, in the Court of Arbitration, (dated 14 March 1935, in force thence until 30 Sept 1936, with wages retrospective to 27 Sept 1934) Wellington, Dept of Labour, 1935. 75p.2 copies. [Covers Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland Industrial Districts.]
B171 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation and the Onehlinga, New Plymouth, Patea, Wanganui, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Greymouth, and Lyttelton Dock Labourers Award, in the Court of Arbitration (dated 2 April 1935, in force thence until 30 Sept 1936, with. wages retrospective to 31 Jan 1935). Wellington, Dept of Labour 1935, broadsheet.
B172 Judgment of Page, J., in the Court of Arbitration, 16 Nov 1935, refusing J. Roberts in appeal against the refusal of the Registrar of Unions to register the Auckland Dock and Wharf Workers' Society. 4p cyclostyled.
B173 N.Z. Waterside Employers' Association. Application for 40-hour week, in Court of Arbitration, 31 July 1936. Employers' statement and figures. 18p cyclostyled, plus tables, etc.
B174 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, application for 40-hour week, in Court of Arbitration, 31 July 1936. J. Roberts for the Federation. 23p typescript.
B175 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, application for 40-hour week, in Court of Arbitration, 10 August 1936, judgment by Page J., refusing application; Monteith, workers' representative, dissenting opinion. 5p typescript.
B176 entry cancelled.
B177 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Award in the Court of Arbitration (dated 30 Nov 1937, in force thence until 30 June 1938, with wages retrospective to 1 Oct 1936). Wellington, Dept of Labour, 1937. 80p 2 copies. [Covers Northern,Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury and Otago and Southland Industrial Districts.]
B178 Judge P.J. O'Regan in the Court of Arbitration, 25 Feb 1938, interpretation of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Award dated 30 Nov 1937 EB177] concerning employment of seamen in loading or discharging cargo. 7p cyclostyled.
B179 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Award dated 30 Nov 1937. Application to the Registrar of the Court of Arbitration, by National Disputes Committee, 1938, for interpretation of 3 clauses.
B180 In Court of Arbitration CAuckland, 18 August 19387. J. Roberts for N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, in application for interpretation of award, (Wellington), disputes 10 and 12. 3p carbon typescript. Enfolded in page inscribed 'withdrawn'. Included in 3182.
B181/1-28 In Court of Arbitration, Auckland, 18-19 August 1938, W. Bennett, Secretary of N.Z. Waterside Employers' Association. Case for the employers in Wellington disputes nos.1, 3-9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 25-31 (/1-22). Auckland disputes nos.32-3 (/23-4); Napier disputes nos.1-4 (/25-8). Carbon typescripts, signed NS slip attached: 'Court of Arbitration. Auckland 18 & 19th August. Submissions of Mr W. Bennett'.
B182 In Court of Arbitration, Auckland, 18-19 August 1938. J. Roberts for N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, in application for interpretation of award (opposing Bennett, see 3181) in Wellington disputes nos,1 -9 (as a group) 10 and 12 (duplicate of 3180), 11, 13-17, 20-33; and Napier disputes nos.1-4. Typescript, bound in blue paper.
B183/1-4 In Court of Arbitration, Auckland, 18 August 1938. J. Roberts for the N.Z. Waterside Workers applications for interpretations in Napier disputes nos 1-4 (duplicates in B182) Carbon typescript, pp 6, 3, 4, 3.
B184/1-4 In Court of Arbitration, Judge P.J. O'Regan, 23 Nov 1938, judgments on Napier disputes nos.1-4. Cyclostyled, 2p.
B185 In Court of Arbitration, Judge P.J. O'Regan, 23 Nov 1938, judgments in Wellington disputes nos 1-27; on Auckland dispute no.28.Cyclostyled, 8p.
B186/1-2 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union Award dated 30 Nov 1937. Application,undated, by National Disputes Committee, to the Registrar of the Court of Arbitration, for interpretation of award in Wellington disputes nos 1-27 (cf B180, B181), Auckland no. 28. Cyclostyled,8p.
B187 In the Court of Arbitration, case stated and judgment of P.J. O'Regan in appeal from Magistrates' Court of Gannaway and Co., plaintiff, and W. Anderson, waterside Worker,about working during tea-hour, May 1939. Carbon typescript, 13p.
B188 Cover title: 'Waterside Workers' Dispute 1940, Case for Employers'. In the Court of Arbitration, between the N.Z. Waterside Employers' Association and the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, W.H.G. Bennett for the employers. Cyclo - styled, 137p.
B179 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Award dated 30 Nov 1937. Application to the Registrar of the Court of Arbitration, by National Disputes Committee, 1938, for interpretation of 3 clauses.
B180 In Court of Arbitration CAuckland, 18 August 19387. J. Roberts for N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, in application for interpretation of award, (Wellington), disputes 10 and 12. 3p carbon typescript. Enfolded in page inscribed 'withdrawn'. Included in 3182.
B181/1-28 In Court of Arbitration, Auckland, 18-19 August 1938, W. Bennett, Secretary of N.Z. Waterside Employers' Association. Case for the employers in Wellington disputes nos.1, 3-9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 25-31 (/1-22). Auckland disputes nos.32-3 (/23-4); Napier disputes nos.1-4 (/25-8). Carbon typescripts, signed NS slip attached: 'Court of Arbitration. Auckland 18 & 19th August. Submissions of Mr W. Bennett'.
B182 In Court of Arbitration, Auckland, 18-19 August 1938. J. Roberts for N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, in application for interpretation of award (opposing Bennett, see 3181) in Wellington disputes nos,1 -9 (as a group) 10 and 12 (duplicate of 3180), 11, 13-17, 20-33; and Napier disputes nos.1-4. Typescript, bound in blue paper.
B183/1-4 In Court of Arbitration, Auckland, 18 August 1938. J. Roberts for the N.Z. Waterside Workers applications for interpretations in Napier disputes nos 1-4 (duplicates in B182) Carbon typescript, pp 6, 3, 4, 3.
B184/1-4 In Court of Arbitration, Judge P.J. O'Regan, 23 Nov 1938, judgments on Napier disputes nos.1-4. Cyclostyled, 2p.
B185 In Court of Arbitration, Judge P.J. O'Regan, 23 Nov 1938, judgments in Wellington disputes nos 1-27; on Auckland dispute no.28.Cyclostyled, 8p.
B186/1-2 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union Award dated 30 Nov 1937. Application,undated, by National Disputes Committee, to the Registrar of the Court of Arbitration, for interpretation of award in Wellington disputes nos 1-27 (cf B180, B181), Auckland no. 28. Cyclostyled,8p.
B187 In the Court of Arbitration, case stated and judgment of P.J. O'Regan in appeal from Magistrates' Court of Gannaway and Co., plaintiff, and W. Anderson, waterside Worker,about working during tea-hour, May 1939. Carbon typescript, 13p.
B188 Cover title: 'Waterside Workers' Dispute 1940, Case for Employers'. In the Court of Arbitration, between the N.Z. Waterside Employers' Association and the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, W.H.G. Bennett for the employers. Cyolo - styled, 137p.
B189 Entry cancelled.
B190 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. J.O'Brien, Wellington 1928-9. Papers, loose and scattered, about his compensation claim (See also 8193/7).
B191 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Compensation cases 1928. North Island: Auckland, Gisborne, Napier, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wellington.
B192 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Compensation cases 1928. South Island: Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Bluff, Greymouth & Westport, Nelson & Picton.
B193/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Compensation cases 1929. Auckland Union.
B193/2 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Compensation cases 1929. Dunedin & Port Chalmers.
B193/3 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Compensation cases 1929. Lyttelton Union.
B193/4 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Compensation cases 1929. Napier & Gisborne.
B193/5 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Compensation cases 1929. Waikokopu, Nelson & Picton, Timaru, Bluff.
B193/6 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Compensation cases 1929. Wanganui, Patea, New Plymouth.
B193/7 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Compensation cases 1929. Wellington [includes O'Brien, see also B190].
B194 Green and Meikle, case in Supreme Court 1921, against N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation for damages; legal correspondence and costs. B195 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Claims for admission to membership [of branch unions] 1922-23. In Supreme Court; R. Gould, Wellington; Walls & Hargreaves, Wellington; D. Mundy, Greymouth; E. Gillard, Lyttelton; L.A. Bailey, Bluff. In Magistrates Court, W.J. Unitt, Whangarei.
B196 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Claim for admission to membership [of branch union]. Blatch, Kyle, Mills v. Timaru Waterside Workers' Union, Supreme Court, 1933-34.
B197/1 N.Z. waterside Workers' Federation. Claim for admission as member [of branch unionsi Hargreaves, Wellington, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, 1934.
B197/2 Batt, Napier, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, 1934.
B198 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. 'Orari' case Prosecution of Wellington Waterside Workers' Union for alleged strike. Magistrates Court and appeal to Court of Arbitration 1934-5.
B199 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Ernest Logan appeal decision 1935. In Court of Appeal, Ernest Logan, appellant v. Waitaki Hospital Board, for compensation for loss of a leg.
B200 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union. Action by Auxiliary Workers' Section [for] admission to membership [of the Auckland Union], Supreme Court, Auckland, 20 June 1939.
B201 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, Auxiliary Workers' case, Auckland. Mr Sullivan's notes of evidence, etc. C1939].
B202 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Legal opinion 1919.
B203 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Legal advice 1921.
B204 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with solicitors 1928.
B205 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Legal opinions 1929. See also J.P. O'Regan, 3 letters to L. Glover & J.O. Johnson of Wellington Union, Oct-Nov 1935, on Union rules about Glover's election and absence from meetings while in Australia, B246/1-3.
B206 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. National Executive 1919. Telegrams Feb-May 1919 and correspondence 12-22 Oct 1919.
B207 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. National Executive 1919. Correspondence 11 Sept-9 Oct 1919.
B208 N. Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Executive 1921. Correspondence Jan-Aug 1921. Minutes of executive meeting 22 Feb 1921.
B209 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Executive correspondence 1928.
B210 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Executive correspondence 1929.
B211 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation correspondence 1919.
B212 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation [correspondence Dec 1919-Nov 1920].
B213 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation [correspondence Dec 1919 to Aug 1920].
B214 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation correspondence 1921 [March 1920 to Oct 1921].
B215/1 [N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation] Circulars to Unions 1917-18.
B215/2 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Circulars to Unions 1919.
B215/3 [N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation] Circulars to Unions 1920.
B215/4 [N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation] Circulars to Unions 1921.
B215/5 [N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation] Circulars to Unions 1928.
B215/6 [N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation] Circulars to Unions 1929.
B215/7 [N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation] Circulars to Unions 1932
B216 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with Gisborne Waterside Workers' Union 1919.
B217 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with Whakatane Waterside Workers' Union 1920.
B218 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Miscellaneous correspondence [Feb-March 1920. Includes material on- 1920 agreement with employers and proposed waterfront co-operative scheme].
B219-21 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with branch unions (arranged by the leading name on the file cover, which normally abbreviates 'Waterside Workers' to 'W.W.1).
B219/1-22 Correspondence with branch unions 1921. B219/1 Auckland. W.W. Union 1921 [Includes mention (15, 17 March) of co-operative stevedoring on 'Admiral Codrington']. B219/2 Bluff W.W. Union 1921. B219/3 Dunedin W.W. Union 1921. B219/4 Gisborne W.W. Union 1921. B219/5 Golden Bay Cement Works 1921. B219/6 Greymouth W.W. Union 1921. B219/7 Hokianga and Whangarei W.W. Unions 1921. B219/8 Kaipara W.W. Union 1921. B219/9 Lyttelton W.W. Union 1921. B219/10 Napier W.W. Union 1921. B219/11 New Plymouth W.W. Union ]921. B219/12 Oamaru W.W. Union 1921. B219/13 Opua, Bay of Islands, W.W. Union 1921. B219/14 Picton and Nelson W.W. Unions 1921. B219/15 Port Chalmers W.W. Union 1921. B219/16 Timaru W.W. Union 1921. B219/17 Tokomaru Bay W.W. Union 1921. B219/18 Waitara and Patea W.W. Unions 1921. B219/19 Wanganui W.W. Union 1921. B219/20 Wellington W.W. Union 1921 [includes material on co-operative scheme 19203. B219/21 Westport W.W. Union 1921. B219/22 Whakatane and Tauranga W.W. Unions 1921.
B220/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. General (correspondence) 1928. B220/2-18 Correspondence with Branch unions 1928. B220/2 Auckland W.W. Union 1928. B220/3 Dunedin and Port Chalmers W.W. Unions 1928. B220/4 Gisborne W.W. Union 1928. B220/5 Golden Bay Cement Workers' Union 1928. B220/6 Greymouth Dispute 1927-28. B220/7 Lyttelton W.W. Union 1928. B220/8 Napier W.W. Union 1928. B220/9 New Plymouth W.W. Union 1928. B220/10 Oamaru and Timaru W.W. Unions 1928. B220/11 Onehunga W.W. Union 1928. B220/12 Patea W.W. Union 1928. B220/13 Tokomaru Bay, Tauranga, Opotiki W.W. Unions 1928. B220/14 Wairoa & Waikokopu W.W. Unions 1928. B220/15 Wanganui W.W. Union 1928. B220/16 Wellington W.W. Union 1928. B220/17 Westport and Greymouth W.W. Unions 1928. B220/18 Whakatane, Whangarei, Kaipara W.W. Unions 1928.
B221/1-17 Correspondence with Branch Unions 1929. B221/1 Branch Unions 1929 [i.e. Opua, Opotiki, Patea, Tauranga, Tokomaru Bay, Waikokopu, Wairoa, Whakatane, Whangarei]. B221/2 Auckland W.W. Union 1929. B221/3 Bluff W.W. Union 1929. B221/4 'City of Bath' Dispute 1929 (Dunedin and Port Chalmers) B221/5 Dunedin W W Union 1929. B221/6 Gisborne W.W. Union 1929. B221/7 Golden Bay Cement Workers' Union 1929. B221/8 Greymouth W.W. Union 1929. B221/9 Lyttelton W.W. Union 1929. B221/10 Napier W.W. Union 1929. B221/11 New Plymouth W.W. Union 1929. B221/12 Picton & Nelson W.W. Union 1929. B221/13 Port Chalmers W.W. Union 1929. B221/14 Timaru and Oamaru W.W. Unions 1929. B221/15 Wanganui W.W. Union 1929. B221/16 Wellington W.W. Union 19.29. B221/17 Westport W.W. Union 1929..
B222 N.Z. waterside Workers' Federation correspondence, general 1929.
B223 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Lists of transfers of members 1929.
B224 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with Labour Department, rules etc., 1921.
B225 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with Marine and Labour Departments 1928.
B226 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with Marine and Labour Departments 1929.
B227 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with N.Z. Labour Party 1928.
B228 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence with N.Z. Labour Party 1929.
B229 [No cover] N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation, correspondence seeking closer relations between itself and similar bodies overseas, mainly Australian, 1920.
B230 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Secretary's report on Australian conditions, 1924.
B231 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Australian, British and international correspondence 1928.
B232 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Australian correspondence 1929.
B233 entry cancelled.
B234 Wellington Co-operative Waterside Labour Employment Association. Influenza epidemic November 1918. Statement of the means adopted by the Harbour Board, Shipowners and Waterside Workers' Union to clear the ships and Wellington waterfront of the epidemic.
B235/1 N.Z. Waterside workers' Federation. N.Z. Transport Worker (official organ of Federated Waterside Workers, Seamen, Tramway men and Drivers of New Zealand, 1919-22; official organ of Federated Waterside Workers, 1923- ). Cash book, receipts and payments, Jan 1919-Nov 1930. Audited annual statements 1919-29 pasted in.
B235/2 N.Z. Transport Worker, statement of receipts and payments 1935-6, signed by auditor. 2p cyclostyled.
B236 (Magistrate's) inquiry into disaster of S.S. 'Tainuil, 8 Oct 1919.
B237 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Election of secretary, Dec 1919-Feb 1920. Returning Officer's report.
B238 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Nominations for president and secretary, Oct 1920 to Jan 1921.
B239 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Election of president and secretary 1921.
B240/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Basic slag. Reports, etc., 1927.
B240/2 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Basic slag. Minutes [of conciliation meetings], correspondence, recommendations, etc., 1928.
B241 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Number of gangs allowed to be worked in holds of various colliers as agreed on by the committee at Wellington. No date, 2p cyclostyled.
B242/1 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Statements, MS and typed, of wages, fares, expenses for L. Glover and J. Roberts 1928-34.
B242/2 Typed lists of payments to L. Glover 1933-4, 1934-5.
B242/3 Typed lists, with. carbon copies, of wages, fares, expenses for L. Glover and J. Roberts. Pencilled '1935?'
B243 Decorated presentation address from Wellington Waterside Workers' Union to L. Glover, 1 Oct 1931. [He then became its vice-president, having been president most of the time since 1904.7
B244 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Report of committee set up to bring down a report on memebers divulging Union business and [news] paper reports arising out of the Walking Delegate's report. E19327 7p carbon typescript.
B245 Wellington Waterside Workers' Union. Telegram from C(?) Fraser to L. Glover in Sydney, 4 Oct 1935, advising his immediate return.
B246/1-3 Wellington Waterside Workers' Union. J.P. O'Regan, 3 letters Oct-Nov 1935, to L. Glover, vice-president, and J.O. Johnson, secretary, on union rules concerning Glover's election and absence from meetings while in Australia.
B247 Wellington Waterside Workers' Union. Notes in Glover's handwriting, defending himself against the absence charge [1935?] 5 sheets, MS.
B248/1-12 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Correspondence on Fred Balchin of Greymouth, in conflict with E. Hillman, union secretary, over property, wife and transfer; referred to J. Roberts, 1935.
B249 Complete amendment of rules of the Greymouth. Waterside Workers' Union. Annotation and newspaper clipping suggest it came from Ralchin.
B250/1-2 David Blanche, wharfinger, Mapua, to Roberts, 14 Jan 1936, suggesting he (Blanche) should be appointed J.P. at Mapua; Roberts's reply, 15 Jan 1936.
B250/3-5 Hon H.G.R. Mason to Roberts, 6 Feb 1936, on Blanche as J.P.; Roberts's reply, 13 Feb 1936; Roberts to Blanche 13 Feb 1936.
B250/6-7 J. Angus, Moutere, to Roberts, 9 Feb 1936; Roberts's reply 13 Feb 1936, mentioning that Blanche is likely to be appointed J.P.
B250/8 Roberts to Mason, 23 April 1936, withdrawing support from Blanche as J.P.
B251/1-3 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, Port Chalmers branch, secretary to Roberts, 10 May 1939, about wage returns; Roberts' reply, 12 May 19394 list of workers and wages; 15p.
B252 Melbourne Waterside Worker March 1943, 'Report on the actual working conditions of New Zealand waterSide workers', based on a letter from Roberts.
B253 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, Napier branch. Wages for year ending 31 March- 1944.
B254 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, Wanganui branch. Wages for year ending 31 March-1944. Waterfront Control Commission, 1325561
B255 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Industrial Union of Workers. Order of Waterfront Control Commission, June 6th, 1940. Wellington, Standard Press, [1940] 126p.
B256 Employers' submissions to Waterfront Control Commission, 23 Oct 1941 (Disputes 1-11). Carbon typescript.
B257 N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union, submissions to Waterfront Control Commission,23 Oct 1941 (Disputes 1-11). Carbon typescript.
B258 Waterfront Control Commission. Annual Holidays Act 1944. 4p carbon typescript.
B259 Waterfront Control Commission, New Zealand. Report on organisation and activities as at 31 March 1944. 4 July 1944. 6p tables cyclostyled. 'Not for Publication'. Includes statutory regulations: Cargo Control Emergency Regulations 1942, and its Amendment No. 1, 1943.
B260 Waterfront Control Commission. Statistical tables, etc., for inclusion in report 1940-1944. Cyclostyled.
B261 Waterfront Control Commission. Annual report and statement of accounts for year ended 31 March 1945. Appendices to Journals of the House of Representatives, 11-45, 1945. 89p. [Covers period 31 March 1941 to 31 March 1945.]
B262 Waterfront Industry Tribunal. General principal order and supplementary principal orders as to conditons of work on the New Zealand waterfront (other than at the ports of Patea and Picton and the Wellington Maritime Cargo Workers' (Permanent)Union). Issued by the South Island (N. Z.) Waterside Workers' Federation. Wellington, Standard Press, [1953] 152p.
Cl Report of Conference of transport workers' unions convened by the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union ... on June 26th, 1916. Wellington, Watkins, Tyer & Tolan, 1916. 20p. [ Includes origins of N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board and works out its constitution.]
C2 N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board, correspondence 1916-18. [No cover] Begins May 1916 with proposals for a conference to form a union of transport workers, including waterside workers, seamen and tramway men; ends with notice of the Board's annual meeting on 10 July 1918.
C3/1 Report of Transport Workers' Conference, 2, 4 July 1917. [Topics included: organisation; industrial assistance to any transport workers' organisations; proposed amendments to Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act.] Delegates also attended:
C3/2 United Federation of Labour's Open Conference, 3, 5 July 1917. [Topics included: I.C. and A. amendments; Asiatic labour; universal union ticket; deputation to Ministers for release of political prisoners.] 4p cyclostyled.
C4 N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board. Report of annual meeting 10 July 1918. 6p cyclostyled.
C5 N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board. Minutes of Board's meeting, 19 May 1919, and of meeting of Transport Workers' Advisory Board and Miners' Federation, 20 May 1919. [Having amended the constitution of the Alliance of Labour, both bodies agreed to affiliate to it.] 27p plus 'Constitution of Alliance of Labour', 2p cyclostyled. A duplicate of
D14/1/1, lacking first page. C6 N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board. Minutes, 31 Oct 1919 to 26 May 1921. [pp 4-5 outlines steps in formation of Alliance of Labour.]
C7/1 Transport Workers' Advisory Board 1919. [Correspondence Dec 1918 to June 1919, including letters by Peter Fraser, secretary Auckland Tramways Union.]
C7/2 Transport Workers' Advisory Board 1919. [Correspondence May to Oct 1919. Includes 5p demands of N.Z. Federated Tramway Employees for a national agreement,]
C8 N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board, Auckland tramway dispute 1919.
C9 N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board. Deputation 1919. [on behalf of tramwaymen to Hons W.H. Herries, Minister of Labour, and Sir William Fraser, Minister of Public Works], 12p cyclostyled.
C10 N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board. Drivers' interview 1919 (cover title). Deputation, with Drivers' Federation, to Hon W H Berries, Minister of Labour, January 28th, 1919 [seeking a national agreement].
Cl1 Tramways dispute (cover title). [Correspondence, negotiations, Dec 1919 to Feb 1920. The dispute was handed over to N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board.]
C12 T.W.A. Board, Auckland Branch 1920. Also Auckland Tramway strike [19203 (cover title).
C13/1 (No cover) Correspondence Feb-Oct 1920 on N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board (J Roberts secretary) and others sending money for relief of Broken Hill miners on strike.
C13/2 cashbook, Broken Hill Miners' Fund, receipts from unions, Dec 1919 to Nov 1920.
C13/3 Bundle of receipts, in pink cover, from Australian miners' union and from Bank of New Zealand, for money remitted overseas, Jan 1920 to Nov 1921 [laid in C13/2].
C13/4 N.Z. Transport Workers and Broken Hill (caption title). 'a statement of the sums contributed by the New Zealand Transport Workers and forwarded by the Secretary (Jas. Roberts) to Australia on behalf of the Miners of Broken Hill .... £4,894.16.9',certified by auditor, 15 March 1921. Wellington, Maoriland Worker [1921] 1 page [laid in C13/2].
C13/5 One page MS figures totalling £4,994.16.9. [laid in C13/2].
C14 Transport Workers' Advisory Board 1920 (cover title). Correspondence July 1919 to Nov 1920. Includes annual meeting 31 Oct 1915 and secretary's third annual report 1918-19.
C15 Transport Workers' Advisory Board and Jockeys' Dispute 1920.
C16 Transport Workers' Advisory Board 1921 (cover title). Correspondence, Nov 1919 to April 1921.
C17 [N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board, correspondence with] Marine Cooks & Stewards [Union] 1921-22.
C18 Transport Workers' Advisory Board 1922 (cover title). Includes 'Rules of the New. Zealand Transport Workers' Department of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour', 5p carbon typescript.
C19 New Zealand Federation of Drivers' Unions. Report of conference held at Wellington, 28 Sept to 1st Oct 1920. 31p carbon typescript. [Reference (2, 2-3) to'very material assistance of the Transport Workers' Advisory Board and its secretary Roberts in gaining improved pay and conditions in a national agreement; p20-1 Waterside Workers' Federation urges drivers to make more use of the newspaper Transport Worker.
C20 N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board. Cashbook, receipts and expenditure, Nov 1919 to Nov 1922.
C21 N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board. Statement on receipts and payments Nov 1919 to Nov 1922. 3 pages, typescript, signed by auditor.
C22 Advisory Board, N.Z. Transport Workers (cover title). Bank of New Zealand account book Jan 1920 to Nov 1930.
Pending the availability of further resources, the listing from 1985 has been reproduced here, and should be used to request items.
DI Constitution of National Industrial Alliance of Labour, January 1919. [Wellington] Christie and Co., Print. lp [Includes names of committee members].
D2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour 1919. Correspondence Aug-Nov 1919. [Includes 'Constitution of National Industrial Alliance of Labour' cyclostyled. This is second constitution, made in May-June 1919, amending Dl; same as in C5, D3, D14/1/1, D14/7/2. ]
D3 Constitution of National Industrial Alliance of Labour. Folded buff card 12.5 x 11.5 cm. [Wellington] Worker Print [1919] Same as in C5, D2, D14/1/1, D14/7/2.
D4 Alliance of Labour. What it is. What it aims at ... report of the discussion which took place (in Committee) on this subject, at the Conference of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association in October 1921 ... N.Z. Times Print [1921] 31p. [On p 31 is 'Constitution of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour', different from that of May-June 1919 (in C5, D2, D3, D14/1/1, D14/7/2) same as D5.]
D5 Constitution of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Mounted on linen-stiffened paper, 19 x 17 cm. Worker Print [1921] Same as in D4.
D6' Constitution and rules of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour. Maoriland Worker Print [before Feb 1924] 15p diagram 'One Big Union'. More extensive than D4, D5.
D7 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Trades and Labour Councils 1923. Correspondence; includes minutes of meetings of committees discussing terms of agreement by which the Trades and Labour Councils could affiliate with the Alliance of Labour and act as the Industrial District Councils of that body.
D8 Constitution and rules of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour. N.Z. Worker [1925] 15p followed by (tipped in) Amendment to Rules (17-23).[8]p and diagram 'One Big Union'. Another copy in D270 (1936). Differs from D6 at clauses 2(e,f) and 17-23, with substantial changes largely about Trades and Labour Councils.
D9 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Amendment to Rules 17-23.[8]p (as in D8). N.Z. Worker Print.
D10 N.Z. Alliance of Labour and N.Z. Trades and Labour Councils' Federation. Report of committee set up to bring down recommendation on the question of establishing Unity in the Industrial Labour Movement of New Zealand [1925-67 lp. 8 clauses as in D11. This printed page is tipped into D20 (1925) at p491 it is incorporated in All (August 1926) pp 6-7.
Dll Industrial Unity. Joint leaflet No.1 of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour and N.Z. Trades and Labour Councils' Federation [1925-67 4p. N.Z. Worker Print. Explains that at open conference of April 1925 (report, D20) delegates agreed on basis of unity by which all unionists could affiliate with one national industrial Labour organisation. During the past two months further discussions had produced a basis of unity agreed to by the joint executives of the Alliance of Labour and the Trades and Labour Councils' Federation; 8 clauses, as in D10, plus further explanation.
D12 N. Z. Industrial Labour Council, incorporating the N. Z. Trades and Labour Council and the N.Z. Alliance of Labour 4p No date. Standard Print [Printer's proofsfl
D13 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. The industrially organised one big union on the lines of class and industry. Supplement to Christmas number N.Z. Transport Worker 1921. Worker print. Semi-circular diagram, larger version of 'one big union' diagram in D6 and D8. Other copies, without 'Supplement' imprint.
D14/1/1-7 in one large note book.
D14/1/1 Minutes of the N.Z. Transport Workers' Advisory Board and Miners' Federation, 19-20 May 1919, working out the second constitution of the National Industrial Alliance of Labour 27p cyclostyled. A complete copy of C5.
D14/1/2 Minutes of meetings of the Executive of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour, July 1919 to March 1924. Typescript.
D14/1/3 Report of proceedings of the open conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour ... November 9, 10 and 11, 1920. A copy of D16.
D14/1/4 Report of conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour to discuss the questions of unemployment and immigration ... September 7th and 8th 1921. A copy of D18.
D14/1/5 Minutes of annual meeting of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour ... October 1921. 23p cyclostyled. Copies at D14/8/3, D15/1.
D14/1/6 Minutes of meetings of the National Council of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour, April-August 1924. Typescript.
D14/1/7 N.Z. Alliance of Labour, receipts and payments in connection with the West Coast Miners' Lock-out Fund, audited 26 June 1924 and printed. 1 page.
D14/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. National Council minutes, Sept 1924-May 1927. Typescript, 190p.
D14/3 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. National Council minutes, June 1927-June 1930. Typescript, 192p.
D14/4 N. Z. Alliance of Labour National Council minutes, July 1930-April 1934. Typescript, no pagination.
D14/5 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. National Council minutes, May 1934-March 1936. Typescript, no pagination.
D14/6 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. [Extracted] minutes of meetings Eon particular subjects] 1921-34.
D14/6/1 Executive meetings, 1921-3.
D14/6/2 National Council meetings, 1922-34.
D14/7/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Executive minutes, 11 Nov 1920, 19 Jan, 9 Feb, 21 April 1921.
D14/7/2 Constitution of National Industrial Alliance of Labour, carbon copy. Same as in C5, D2, D3, etc.
D14/7/3 Constitution of National Industrial Alliance of Labour carbon typescript. 2p, variant version.
D14/7/4 Carbon typescript drafts of Constitution of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour, same as 05, except that clause Cl) is pencilled in shorthand on one copy only, and clause 3 [i.e. 41 (h) is present as amendment slip.
D14/7/5 Secretary's report of South Island visit 17 March-11 April (1921) canvassing for the Alliance of Labour.
D14/8/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Executive minutes, 21 April 1921 (sane as in 014/7/1), 4, 14 July, 29 Nov 1921, carbon typescripts.
D14/8/2 Amendments to decisions arrived at by the Joint Committee of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour and the N.Z. Workers' Union C19213 3p carbon typescript.
D14/8/3 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Annual meeting, 25-8 Oct 1921. 23p cyclostyled.
D14/9 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Executive minutes, 20 Jan 1922. Cyclostyled, 7p.
D14/10 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of special meeting [of National Council] on 29-30 August 1933. 10p cyclostyled. c f minutes of Caine meeting in 1)14/4.
D14/11/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Committee ri.e. Executive?] minutes, Jan-Feb 1935.
D14/11/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. National Council minutes, March - July 1935.
D15/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of annual meeting, 25-28 Oct 1921. 23p cyclostyled. Other copies at D14/1/5, D14/8/3.
D15/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of annual meeting, 13 Nov 1922. 8p cyclostyled.
D15/3 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report and minutes of annual meeting 25-30 Jan 1923. 34p cyclostyled.
D15/4 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of annual meeting, 20 Jan 1925. 25p cyclostyled.
D15/5 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of annual meeting, 28-9 Jan 1926. 30p cyclostyled.
D15/6 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of annual meeting, 1-2 Feb 1927. 18p carbon typescript.
D15/7 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of annual meeting of National Council, 7-8 Feb 1928. 41p cyclostyled.
D15/8 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of annual meeting of National Council, 6, [-9] Feb 1929. 71p cyclostyled.
D15/9 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of annual meeting 5-8 Feb 1930. 87p cyclostyled.
D15/10 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of annual meeting ... 5-8 Feb 1930. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1930]. 35p, A summary of speeches, etc., recorded in D15/9.
D15/11 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of annual meeting 11-14 Feb 1931. 79p cyclostyled.
D15/12 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of annual meeting ... 22-4 March 1932. 82p cyclostyled.
D15/13 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of annual meeting ... 6-8 April 1933. 56p cyclostyled.
D15/14 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of annual meeting 28-31 March 1934. .82p cyclostyled.
D15/15/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of annual meeting ... 16-19 April 1935. 94p cyclostyled.
D15/15/2 MS draft minutes of annual meeting 16 E-19,3 April 1935.
D15/15/3 Remits to annual meeting ... commencing 16 April 1935. 5p cyclostyled. Laid in 015/15/1.
D15/15/4 Typescript copy of section headed 'Political action' in Secretary's report (D15/15/1, pp 22-3, debated pp 53-8), 5p typescript.
D15/16 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of annual meeting ... 1-9, 16 April 1936. 67p cyclostyled. D276/1 reports the anti-Roberts side of this split conference.
Reports of Conferences called by the Alliance 1920-37, 016-33
D16 Report of proceedings of the open conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour held in the Trades Hall, Wellington, November 9, 10 and 11, 1920. Wellington, Maoriland Worker E1920]. [9]p. At head of title: Not for publication. Bagnall N400. Mother copy at D14/1/3.
D17 Report of conference between N.Z. Workers' Union and the N.Z. Alliance of Labour, 20 June 1921. 38p typescript, pink file covers.
D18 Report of conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour to discuss the questions of unemployment and immigration, held in the Trades Hall, Wellington, September 7th and 8th, 1921. Wellington, Maoriland Worker, [1921] [7]p. Bagnall N395. Another copy at D14/1/4.
D19 Report of open conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour held in the Workers' Social Club rooms, Wellington, 8th to 10th January 1924. 35p cyclostyled.
D20 Report of open conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour held in the Accountants' Chambers, Wellington, on 7th, 8th, 9th and 11th of April 1925. For the use of members of trade unions only. Wellington, N.Z. Worker E19253. Not for publication. 74p. Bagnall N398.
D21 Report of open conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour held in the Trades Hall, Wellington, on 11th, 12th and 13th Apirl 1927. 'Workers unite'. Wellington, N.Z. Worker print [1927]. Not for publication. 54[17p. Bagnall N399.
D22 Minutes of open conference held in Trades Hall, Wellington, commencing April 11, 1927. Typescript 5, 5, 4pp for 11, 12, 13 April. Basis for printed report D2I above.
D23 National Industrial Conference; report of open conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour and report from labour delegation on the National Industrial Conference. Wellington, N.Z. Worker E1928]. Not for publication. 50p. Bagnall N392.
D24 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. National Industrial Conference 1928. Proposals re I.C. & A. Act. Data re cost of living,-value of £ etc.
D25 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. National Industrial Conference Expenses Fund. Statement of receipts and payments from 16 March 1928 to 28 January 1929. Wellington, N.Z. Worker E19293 [27p. Copy at 0293/4.
D26 N. Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of conference convened to discuss basic wage. Report of deputation to Minister of Labour re workers' compensation. Report of deputation to Prime Minister re basic wage, 6th, 7th and 8th August 1929. 29p cyclostyled. See also 042.
D27 Open conference of industrial unions convened by N.Z. Alliance of Labour and held in the Trades Hall, Wellington, from July 30, to August 4, 1930. Wellington, N.Z. Worker E1930]. 31p. Bagnall N393. On Unemployment Bill and Report of Royal Commission on Workers' Compensation for Accidents. See also 0183.
D28 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. MS minutes of open conference held in Trades Hall, 30 July [to 4 August 1930]. Basis of printed report, D27 above.
D29 Report of No Wages Reduction Conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour and held in the Trades Hall, Wellington, from the 10th to 13th March 1931. Wellington, N.Z. Worker, E1931]. 62p. Bagnall N397.
D30 MS minutes of conference N.Z. Alliance of Labour held in Town [i.e. Trades] Hall, Wellington, commencing at 10.30 a.m. on 10 March 1931 [to 13 March 19311 Basis of printed report D29 above.
D31 Open industrial conference convened by the N.Z. Alliance of Labour, N.Z. Trades and Labour Councils' Federation and Civil Service organisations, held in the Trades Hall, Wellington from March 31, to April 5, 1932. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [19321 86p. Bagnall N394. Concerned with wage cuts, unemployment and abolition of compulsory arbitration under I.C. and A. Act.
D32/1-3 Open Industrial Conference, Wellington, 1932.
D32/1 Provisional National Council. Report of special committee adopted by the Open Industrial Conference. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1932]. bp.
D32/2 Provisional National Council (appointed by Open Industrial Conference 1932). Correspondence and circulars 1932.
D32/3 Provisional National Council, 1932, Circulars and correspondence re conference with farmers. Correspondence from Relief Workers Unions re National Organisation.
D33 National Industrial Conference, April 14, 1937. File of proposals, circulars, meetings, etc., which preceded the conference begun on 14 April 1937 to set up the N.Z. Federation of Labour (1937-).
Disputes, Deputations, Arguments Presented on Wages, Cost of Living, Industrial Liberty, etc., D34-50
D34 Industrial Conscription. Deputation to ministers. Report of deputation from the Open Conference of Trade Unionists called by the United Federation of Labour to the Acting Prime Minister, 17 July 1918. 18p typescript. Roberts was spokesman; the 'national service' of the Finance Act 1918, clause 25, was seen as industrial conscription.
D35 Industrial Conscription Reports 1919 [i.e. 1918]. Official Report of Open Conference called by the United Federation of Labour to discuss industrial conscription. 6p cyclostyled. Mentions deputation to ministers, 17 July 1918 (see D34).
D36/1 Report of meeting of National Alliance of Labour with Prime Minister and Cabinet re miners' dispute, 16 August 1919. 25p carbon typescript.
D36/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence re Coal Miners' Dispute 1919. Letters between Roberts and Massey, 21 August 1919 to 26 January 1920.
D37 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of Freezing Workers' dispute 1922; Seaman's dispute 1922; Railwaymen's dispute 1924 (cover title). pp 5, 12, 3 typescript, 7p cyclostyled.
D38 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Shipping dispute. Deputation to the Prime Minister, Wellington, 10 January 1923. Report of proceedings. 20p typescript.
D39 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Report of deputation to members of the Parliamentary Labour Party re Labour legislation. Proposed legislation as placed before the Parliamentary Labour Party by deputation from the Alliance of Labour, 3 September 1923: Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, Harbours Act, Workers' Compensation Act, Court of Arbitration.
D40/1-3 Unity proposals & circular 1925 (cover title).
D40/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour and N.Z. Trades and Labour Councils' Federation. Report of committee set up to bring down recommendations on the question of establishing unity in the Industrial Labour Movement of New Zealand. 2p cyclostyled. Same as D10.
D40/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour, circular, 4 May 1925, explaining the 8 clauses of D40/1. 2p cyclostyled.
D40/3 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of the committee set up to bring down a report on the question of the basic wage, 9 April 1925. 2p cyclostyled.
D41/1-3 Deputation re basic wage, statements, etc., 1925 (cover title).
D41/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Deputation on the basic wage and the cost of living, to Prime Minister and Attorney General, 30 July 1925. 9p cyclostyled.
D41/2 F.V. Fraser, Judge Arbitration Court, to Prime Minister, 21 August 1925 Con report of above deputation]. 14p.
D41/3 J. Roberts to Prime Minister, 26 September 1925 [critical of Arbitration Court]. 30p carbon typescript:
D41/4 Another copy of D41/1-3, with undated copy of D41/3. Cover title: Deputation re basic wage.
D42 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Report of deputations to the Prime Minister re basic wage and to the Minister of Labour re Workers' Compensation Act, August 8, 1929. Wellington, N.Z. Worker 0.9291 15p. Pagnall N396. See also 026.
D43 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. A. Cook and J. Roberts, deputation to J. Ward, Prime Minister, 7 August 1929, on cost of living and basic wage. 12p cyclostyled.
D44 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. National Industrial Council, minutes of meetings, 10 April to 10 June 1931.
D45 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. New Zealand National Industrial Council, 1931. Correspondence, circulars, etc., April to July 1931.
D46 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Reports re disputes 1934. [List of disputes handled by the Alliance of Labour 1932-4; reports on disputes of coal mine (Northern Union), and gold mines (Waihi and Alexander) 1934.]
D47 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Statement by J. Roberts on deputation to Prime Minister, 25 October 1933. 22p cyclostyled. Wage cuts, purchasing power, National Recovery Act 1933, displacement of labour by machines; reduce hours to absorb unemployed.
D48 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Statement by J. Roberts on deputation to Prime Minister, 18 July 1934. 8p cyclostyled. Refers to previous year's deputation (047, above) having no results; repeats arguments by reviving purchasing power by restoring wage cuts, and again asks for a national conference on wage and employment matters.
D49 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Reply to N.Z. Employers' Federation which did not answer facts and figures presented to Prime Minister [in 048 above]. 6p cyclostyled. D50 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Circular, 3 August 1934. 3p cyclostyled. Report of deputation to the Prime Minister on 2 August 1934, headed by M.J. Savage and J Roberts, against proposed Police Offences Amendment Bill by which, an industry having been declared essential, strikes become seditious; and Harbours Amendment Bill, of similar effect but on maritime workers only.
Arbitration Act and Workers' Compensation, 051-61
D51 Court of Arbitration. Application for cost of living bonus, November 1920. Report of proceedings. Transcription from shorthand notes of H.E. Le Grove. 221p carbon typescript.
D52 Court of Arbitration. Cost of living reduction, Wellington, April 1922. Report of proceedings. Transcription from shorthand notes to H.B. Le Grove. 299p carbon typescript.
D53 Court of Arbitration. Wages reduction case, Wellington, 16 November 1922. Report of proceedings. Transcription from shorthand notes of J.T. Watkins. 101p carbon typescript.
D54 Correspondence re Arbitration Court 1926. Mainly on displacement of Hiram Hunter by A.L. Montheith, as workers' representative; also Metal Workers' case for increased wages.
D55 Hiram Hunter to 3. Roberts, undated copy, [19267 complaining at being replaced by Monteith as workers' representative on the Court of Arbitration. 2p carbon typescript.
D56 Court of Arbitration. Private Hotels dispute, Wellington, 7-8 April 1920. Report of proceedings. 167p carbon typescript.
D57 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence and reports re Workers' Compensation Commission 1930.
D58 Workers' Compensation Amendment Act 1935. 4p, plus one of 'additional amendments', cyclostyled.
D59/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Amendments to I.C. & A. Act proposed by, undated. 2p carbon typescript.
D59/2 Findings of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour and the N.Z. Trades and Labour Councils Federation in respect to proposed amendments to the I.C. & A. Act [1936]. 3p cyclostyled. Another copy in 0284, 1936.
D60/1 A. Campbell, watersider, Port Chalmers, to Roberts, 20 Oct 1935 asking him to write, for electioneering purposes, a small speech on the smashing of the Arbitration Court; tells of his election campaign and his own house-to-house canvas.
D60/2 Roberts in reply, 22 Oct 1935, promising statement, with his views on electioneering methods.
D60/3 Roberts to A. Campbell, Port Chalmers, 29 Oct 1935, enclosing 'How the Government wrecked the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act'. 6p carbon typescript. Government's control of wages in employers' interests since 1912; depressive actions from 1931- wage cuts, abolition of compulsory arbitration, unemployment; Labour's policy and pledge.
D61 N.Z. Court of Arbitration. General Order fixing basic rates of wages for adult workers, 2 November 1936. Judgment by E. Page, Judge, pp 1-5; dissenting opinion of A.L. Monteith, pp 5-7,cnrbon typescript.
Relations with other Labour Organizations, D62-90
D62 Annual conference N.Z. Labour Party April 1928. Minutes, reports, etc.
D63 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with N.Z. Labour Party 1930.
D64 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with N.Z. Labour Party 1931-2.
D65/1 'Labour has a plan', draft pamphlet by J.A. Lee. 14p typescript.
D65/2 J. Thorn, secretary N.Z. Labour Party, to Roberts, 19 March 1934, enclosing Lee's draft, D65/1.
D65/3 Roberts to Thorn, 22 March 1934, in reply.
D66 N.Z. Labour Party. Agenda. Twenty-seventh annual conference will be held in ... Wellington, commencing on Monday, April 26th, 1943. Wellington, Standard Press, [19437. 13p.
D67 J. Roberts, presidential address to N.Z. Labour Party Conference, 12 Nov 1945. 16p typescript.
D68 List of Labour Party candidates (1946?) 3p cyclostyled.
D69 [Labour Party election propaganda - 1946] 82p cyclostyled.
D70 Discussion series 36/1951. No hope for the home builder ... 10p cyclostyled. Annotated. Labour Party election propaganda, 1951.
D71 Discussion series 55/1951. Sky rocketing prices, typical increases under the Nationalists' Government. 3p cyclostyled. Annotated. Labour Party election propaganda, 1951.
D72 N.Z. Labour Party. Labour's progressive policy, 1951 elections. Auckland, A.D. Organ, printer, [1951]. (4)p annotated election leaflet.
Freezing Workers' Unions, D73-84
D73 Roberts, James. N.Z. Alliance of Labour to the membership of the N.Z. Freezing Workers and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers. Wellington, Maoriland Worker, [1921]. [3]p Pamphlet which preceded the freezing workers' ballot on affiliation with N.Z. Alliance of Labour.
D74 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. 'Reports, etc.' (Cover slip). Contains reports by Roberts and Glover on their organising trips mainly among freezing workers, 1921.
D75 Northern, Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough, Canterbury and Otago and Southland Freezing Workers' Award, in the Court of Arbitration (dated 28 November 1925, in force from 15 December 1924 until 30 June 1927). Wellington, N.Z. Worker Print [1924]. 20p.
D76 N.Z. Alliance of Labour and N.Z. Freezing Workers' Association 1925. Correspondence mainly about affiliation to Alliance of Labour and a dispute at Tokomaru Bay freezing works, May 1925, taken over by Alliance of Labour and settled, October 1925.
D77 N.Z. Freezing Workers and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers. Annual conference held in the Trades Hall, Wellington, from 27 July to 3 August 1926. Wellington, N.Z. Worker £1926]. 73p.
D78 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Freezing Workers' Dispute 1926. Minutes of meetings, secretary's report, circulars, etc. (Cover title)
D79 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Appeal to Freezing Workers for Industrial Unity. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1930]. 4p. Leaflet dated 24 January 1930, signed by A. Cook, President, and J. Roberts, secretary, appealing to freezing workers to rescind the decision of their National Executive to withdraw from the N.Z. Alliance of Labour.
D80 N. Z. Alliance of Labour. The truth about the freezing workers' dispute, by A. Cook and J. Roberts, 9 October 1933. 3p cyclostyled.
D81 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Policy for reorganising the workers engaged in the freezing industry. [1934] Report with related extract from minutes. 4p typescript. Statement on situation following 1932-3 strike and Alliance of Labour's unsuccessful attempt to obtain an agreement. Need for men in old freezing workers organisation to accept and co-operate with post-strike workers.
D82 Kilpatrick, H.G., Secretary, Canterbury Freezing Workers' to Roberts, 6 May 1936, re Bacon Workers' Award. Roberts's reply, 9 May 1936.
D83 South Island Freezing Workers' Association, call to conference. Typescript copy, 1 page. Invitation dated 20 May 1936, signed L. Glover, President-Organiser, and G.H. Kilpatrick, Secretary, to all South Island Freezing Workers, calling a conference 29-30 May, in Christchurch, to discuss future South Island organisation, and joining with North Island for a Dominion award.
D84/1-2 Otago and Southland Freezing Works and Related Trades, Secretary, J.A. Milburn, to A. McLeod, Trades Hall, Wellington, 11 May 1936, enclosing copy of a letter, D84/2 Glover to Kilpatrick, 5 May 1936, on organisation proposals which Glover has sent to local sheds. N.Z. Worker Printing and PubliShing Company, D85-88 The Company was proprietor of the N.Z. Worker newspaper and subsequently of the Standard. It printed the N.Z. Transport Worker for the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation and several other trade union periodicals, besides doing job printing. Control of the N.Z. Worker Company was vested in the Alliance of Labour, with Roberts chairman of the Board of Directors.
D85 Memorandum and Articles of Association of Worker Printing and Publishing Company Lim Wellington, The Worker Print [1923]. 38p title: 'The Companies' Act 1908. Company shares'.
D86 Prospectus of the N.Z. 'Worker' Printing and Publishing Company Ltd. The Labour weekly. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1927]. 16p illus.
D87/1-9 N.Z. Alliance of Labour and N.Z. Worker Company. Correspondence and reports:-
D87/1 N.Z. Worker 1926. D87/2 N.Z. Worker 1927. D87/3 N.Z. Worker 1928. D87/4 N.Z. Worker 1929. D87/5 N.Z. Worker 1930. D87/6 N.Z. Worker 1931-32. D87/7 N.Z. Worker 1932-33. D87/8 N.Z. Worker 1933. D87/9 N.Z. Worker 1934.
D88 Bill from N.Z. Worker Printing & Publishing Co to N.Z. Alliance of Labour, for stationery, totalling £5.19.9, dated 7 July 1937; account rendered, 1 March 1940, receipt, 5 August 1942. N.Z. Workers' Union, D89-90
D89/1-5 Reports of annual conferences:
D89/1 New Zealand Workers' Union. Report of proceedings of the sixth annual conference. Wellington, Maoriland Worker, [1921]. 57p.
D89/2 New Zealand Workers' Union. Eleventh annual conference held in ... Wellington, June 15, 1927. Wellington, N.Z. Worker C19273. 55p.
D89/3 New Zealand Workers' Union. Twelfth annual conference held in ... Wellington, on 19 June 1920. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1920]. 104p.
D89/4 New Zealand Workers' Union. Report of seventeenth annual meeting held in ... Wellington, on 27th and 28th July 1933. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1933]. 51p.
D89/5 New Zealand Workers' Union. Report of the eighteenth annual conference held ... in Wellington on 21st and 22nd June 1934. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1934]. 64p.
D90/1 New Zealand Workers' Union. Submissions to Sheep Farming Industry Commission, 21 August 1939. 49p cyclostyled. J. Roberts on behalf of N.Z. Workers' Union.
D90/2 Address to Farmers MS in Roberts's hand. 14p incomplete, green paper Speech to a branch of the Farmers' Union probably about 1945(?). Mainly on interdependence of farmers and wage and salary earners.
D90/3 MS in Roberts's hand, 16p, incomplete, white paper. About land tenure, post-war rehabilitation, trade uniOnism, industrial wrangles - 'a system which ... will continue until workers and employers will recognise that they have a social reponsibility to the community as well as to themselves and to the industry in which they are engaged.' (p10).
Circulars, Correspondence with District Councils, Affiliated Unions, etc., 091-181
D91/1-14 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Circulars to affiliations.
D91/1 Circulars to affiliations 1923.
D91/2 Circulars to affiliations 1924.
D91/3 Circulars to affiliations 1925.
D91/4 Circulars to affiliations 1926.
D91/5 Circulars 1927.
D91/6 Circulars 1928.
D91/7 Circulars 1929.
D91/8 Circulars 1930.
D91/9 Circulars 1931-32.
D91/10 Circulars March 1932-March 1933.
D91/11 Circulars 1933.
D91/12 Circulars 1934.
D91/13 Circulars 1935.
D91/14 Circulars and miscellaneous 1936-37.
D92/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. District Councils Minutes, 1934. Wellington, Canterbury, Dunedin (Otago).
D92/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. District Councils Minutes, 1935. Wellington, Canterbury, Dunedin.
D93/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1927. (1) Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Masterton, Wellington.
D93/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1927. (2) Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin, Invercargill.
D93/3 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1929. Wellington, Timaru, Otago, Southland.
D93/4 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1930. Canterbury, Timaru, Otago, Southland.
D93/5 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Wellington District Council 1930.
D93/6 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1931-32, Auckland, New Plymouth.
D93/7 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1931-32. Otago, Southland, Timaru, Canterbury.
D93/8 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils, March 1932-March 1933. Auckland, Whangarei, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Wellington.
D93/9 N. Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence with District Councils, March 1932-March 1933 Canterbury, Timaru, Otago, Southland.
D93/10 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1933. Auckland, Whangarei, Wanganui.
D93/11 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1933. Canterbury, Timaru, Otago, Southland.
D93/12 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence with District Councils 1933. Hawkes Bay, New Plymouth, Wellington.
D93/13 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence with District Councils 1934. Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wellington, Timaru.
D93/14 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Canterbury District Council 1934.
D93/15 N. Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Dunedin (Otago) District Council 1934.
D93/16 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1935. Waihi, Auckland, Wanganui, Wellington, Timaru.
D93/17 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1935-36. Canterbury, Otago.
D93/18 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with District Councils 1936-37. [Auckland, waihi, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago.]
D94, D95 Entries cancelled.
D96 [Correspondence with] N.Z. Workers' Union 1922.
D97 Entry cancelled.
D98 [Correspondence with] Federated Seamen's union 1922.
D99 [Correspondence with] Ngakawau Miners' Union, Miners' Federation, 1922.
D100 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour and] Post and Telegraph Association 1922. [Proposal to affiliate vetoed by Postmaster General]
D101 Correspondence re ballot 1923. [January ballot of unions on general strike over pay reductions]
D102 [Correspondence with] Federated Seamen's Union 1923.
D103 [Correspondence with] N.Z. Freezing Works and Related Trades 1923.
D104/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. General 1923.
D104/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. General 1924.
D105 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence with affiliations 1924. [i.e. ASRS, waterside workers, engineers, timber workers and freezing workers].
D106 [Correspondence with] Federated Seamen's Union, 1925.
D107 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. [Correspondence with] Freezing Workers ,1926.
D108 Report of meetings between the N.Z. Alliance of Labour and N.Z. Trades and Labour Councils Federation on the question of industrial unity [1926].
D109 [Correspondence with] N.Z. Trades and Labour Councils Federation, 1926.
D110 [Correspondence with] N.Z. Trades and Labour Councils Federation, 1927.
D111 N.Z. Alliance of Labour 1927 [General Correspondence].
D112 Correspondence with Federated Seamen's Union, 1927
D113 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Affiliations, 1927 (1). Miners, Goldminers, Tramwaymen, Flaxworkers, Waterside Workers, Railwaymen.
D114 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Affiliations, 1927 (2), Freezing Workers, Timber Workers, N.Z. Workers' Union.
D115 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour and] Basis of Shearers' Wages 1928.
D116 [Correspondence with] N.Z. Federated Seamen's Union 1928. 'Maui Pomare' dispute, 'Huanui' dispute. [No 'Huanui' material is included.]
D117 [Correspondence with] N.Z. Workers' Union 1928.
D118 N.Z. Alliance of Labour.. Correspondence with affiliations, 1929. Federated Seamen's Union, United Mine workers, N.Z. Gold Miners' Assn, Tramwaymen's Fed., Hotel Workers' Fed. [No material on_N.Z. Gold Miners.]
D119 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Affiliations, 1930. Seamen, United Mine Workers, Gold Miners' Assn. [Only seamen's union material on file.]
D120/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. General, 1928.
D120/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. General Correspondence, 1929.
D120/3. N.Z. Alliance of Labour. General, 1930.
D121 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Dairy factory Managers' Correspondence, 1930-31.
D122 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Replies it Proposed Cancellation of Registration 1931. [Response of unions to proposal by Alliance of Labour for cancellation of registration under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act.]
D123 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with N.Z. Trades and Labour Council, 1931-32.
D124 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence 1931-32, N.Z. Workers' Union.
D125 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence 1931-32, Gold Miners' Association.
D126 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence 1931-32, United Mine Workers.
D127 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence 1931-32, Seamen, Freezing Workers, Waterside Workers, Tramwaymen.
D128 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence 1931-32, Dairy Workers.
D129 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence 1931-32, miscellaneous.
D130 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence with N.Z. Woollen Mills Employeea' Association, 1932.
D131 N.Z. Allianbe of Labour. Correspondence with Dairy Workers, March 1932-March 1933:
D132 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence with Tramwaymen, Marth 1932-March 1933.
D133 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Waterside Workers, Seamen, United Mine Workers, March 1932-March 1933.
D134 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Freezing Workers' Dispute 1932- £3]. Reriotts, Correspohdence, Telegrams, Circulars etc.
D135 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Freezing Workers, March 1932-March 1933.
D136 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Trades & Labour Councils Federation, March 1932-March 1933.
D137 N.Z. A/liance Of Labour. Correspondence with Hotel Workers, March 1932-March 1933.
D138 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Gold Miners, Timber Workers, Wellington General Labourers, March 1932- March 1933.
D139 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Miscellaneous Correspondence, March 1932-March 1933 [lacks cover].
D140 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Miscellaneous Correspondence, March 1932-March 1933.
D141 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1933-[4].
D142 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. C6rrespondence with [Wellington] General Labourers' Union [including annual report 1933], Seamen's Union; 1933.
D143 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence with Gold Miners, Tramwaymen, Freezing Workers, 1933.
D144 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence with Dairy Workers, 1933.
NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE OF LABOUR
D145 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Hotel Workers, 1933.
D146 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Woollen Mill Employees, Wellington Butchers, 1933.
D147 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with N.Z. Workers' Union, 1933.
D148 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence re Inangahua Gold Miners' Appeal, 1934.
D149 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Drivers, Clothing Trades, 1934.
D150/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Freezing Workers, 1934, part 1.
D150/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Freezing Workers, 1934, part 2.
D151 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Hotel Workers, N.Z. Workers' Union, 1934:
D152 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with. Reefton Gold and Coal Miners, 1934.
D153 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Waihi Gold Miners, Waihi Engineers, 1934.
D154 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Seamen, Tramwaymen, Wgtn General Labourers, 1934. [Includes Wellington General Labourers' annual report 1934; pamphlet by Federated Seamen's Union of New Zealand, Report and Findings of the Executive Council ... August 1934 (other copies at G25); 15p typescript draft of the latter, not identical (another copy at D235); 3p pamphlet by Federated Seamen's Union of New Zealand, Final Report and recommendations of the Executive Council, dated 26 Sept 1934.]
D155 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence re Dairy Workers, 1934.
D156 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence, etc., re Alexander Mine Dispute 1934 [Inangahua].
D157 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence re Co-ordinating Committee, 1934 [mainly Labour Party].
NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE OF LABOUR
D158 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with New Zealand Labour Party, Trades and Labour Councils Federation, 1933.
D159 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1934.
D160 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence re Waihi Miners Dispute, 1935.
D161 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence, Inangahua Gold Miners, 1935.
D162 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence, Freezing Workers, 1935.
D163 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence, Coal Miners, Dairy Workers, Drivers, Tramwaymen, Waterside Workers, Seamen, 1935.
D164 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Engineers, Moulders, etc., 1935.
D165 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence, Tanners & Fellmongers; Reports re DiSputes, 1935.
D166 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence,N.Z. Workers' Union, [Wellington] General Labourers, Hotel Workers, N.Z. Labour Party, 1935.
D167 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence, Waihi Gold Miners, Waihi Engineers, Waihi Carpenters, 1935.
D168 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence with Engineering Unions, 1935 Clacks file cover].
D169 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Delegates' Credentials 1935 [to Alliance of Labour annual: meeting].
D170 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence Miscellaneous, 1935.
D171 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] N.Z. Stonemasons' Federation. Application for 40-hour week [and better pay rates], 1936.
D172 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Lime and Cement Workers. Application for 40-hour week; correspondence re the Dominion Award, 1936.
D173 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Gas Workers. Application for 40-hour week. Application for a National Union, 1936-7.
D174 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Cool Stores Employees, 1936-37.
D175 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Bacon Workers' Federation, 1936-37.
D176 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. West Coast Gold Miners, Waihi Engineers, Waihi Carpenters, 1936-37.
D177 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Freezing Workers, 'The Standard', 1936-37. [Includes N.Z. Worker Printing and Publishing material, 1934-6.]
D178 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Waterside Workers, General Labourers, Tramwaymen, N.Z. Workers' Union, Hotel Workers, Engineers, etc., 1936-37.
D179 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Waihi Miners, Engineers, etc., 1937.
D180 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Miscellaneous Correspondence, New Zealand and overseas, 1937.
D181 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Formation of Co-operative Dairy Producers' Freezing Company's Employees' Industrial Union of Workers, Jan-Sept 1936.
D181/1 B. Cameron, president of Co-operative Dairy Producers' Freezing Co.'s Employees' Union to Roberts, 28 Jan 1936.
D181/2 J. Tucker, secretary, Wellington Storemen, Packers and Warehouse Employees' Union, to Roberts, 30 Jan 1936.
D181/3 T. Parry, assistant secretary, Co-operative Dairy Producers Freezing Company Union (sic), to Roberts, 10 Feb 1936.
D181/4 Parry to H.T. Armstrong, Minister of Labour, 13 Feb 1936.
D181/5 Parry to A.L. Monteith., workers' representative, Court of Arbitration, 13 Feb 1936.
D181/6 Parry to J.A. Gilmour, Registrar, Court of Arbitration, 13 Feb 1936.
D181/7 Gilmour to Parry, 26 Feb 1936, enclosing D181/8
D181/8 Gilmour to T.O. Bishop, N.Z. Employers' Federation, 26 Feb 1936.
D181/9 Parry to Gilmour, 28 Feb 1936.
D181/10 Parry to Roberts, 18 Feb 1936, and Roberts's reply, 19 Feb 1936.
D181/11 Parry to Roberts, 25 Feb 1936.
D181/12 Parry to Roberts, 18 March 1936, and Roberts's reply, 21 March 1936.
D181/13 Roberts to L.A. Plackett, secretary Co-operative Dairy Producers' Freezing Company's Employees' Union, 24 March 1936, enclosing D181/14.
D181/14 Rules of the Co-operative Dairy Producers' Freezing Company's Employees' Industrial Union of Workers. D181/15 Plackett to Roberts, 22 Sept 1936.
The Alliance and Unemployment, 1929-35, D182-96
D182 Correspondence and minutes of Government Unemployment Committee 1929. [File contains only minutes.]
D183 Report of Committee set up by Open Conference called by the New Zealand Alliance of Labour to consider the Unemployment Insurance Bill and amendments to the Workers' Compensation Act, 16 October 1930, 2p typescript, 2 copies of pl. See also D27.
D184/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence re Unemployment Board 1930.
D184/2 Young, W.T. The Unemployment Board and the Alliance of Labour: read; study; digest; avoid dictatorship. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1931] [6]p. Bagnall Y63.
D184/3 3 letters; W. Bromley to J. Roberts, 7 Nov 1930, and two from Roberts to Bromley, 10 Nov 1930, concerning the election of the workers' representative on the Unemployment Board, and their bet on the matter. In private packet.
D185 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence 1931-32, Unemployment.
D186 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence re Proposed One-Day strike in Support of Relief Workers, 1932.
D187 Open Industrial Conference, Wellington, 1932. Provisional National Council. Unemployment; report of committee set up by the Open Industrial Conference; a policy for the industrial labour movement Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1932] 4p. Bagnall 0161. [text is pp.74 - 86 of D31]
D188 Open Industrial Conference, Wellington, 1932. Unemployment; the policy of trades unions. Recommendations of special committee. Wellington, N. Z. Worker [1932] 4p;(a shorter version of D187).
D189 Report of committee making recommendations on remits 8 and 9 and supplementary remits 1 and 2. 2p cyclostyled. [Undated, but later than 1932 Open Conference Concerns the affiliation of unemployed workers' organisations with the Alliance of Labour.]
D190 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. [Correspondence on] Unemployment, March 1932-March 1933.
D191 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. [Correspondence on] Unemployment 1933.
D192 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence re Unemployment, 1934.
D193 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence, Unemployment, 1935.
D194 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Unemployed Workers' Organisation Fund. Cash book. Receipts and payMents-May 1927 to Jan 1929.
D195 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Unemployed Workers' Organisation Fund. Cash book, listing receipts from unions 1927-8.
D196 Entry cancelled.
Overseas affairs 1921-37, D197-223
D197 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Australian correspondence, 1921. Includes Official Report of OBU [One Big Union] Conference held at Sydney, let to the 4th March, 1921. Maoriland Worker Print, 2p.
D198 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Cover title: Overseas seamen's credential letters 1925. [Certificates, dated 30 Oct 1925 to March 1926, of each man's loyalty during the British (or overseas) seamen' strike in ships on the New Zealand coast.]
D199 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Minutes of meetings of committees, Overseas Seamen's Fund, British Miners' Fund, 1925, 1926, 1927.
D200/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Statement of receipts and payments of the Overseas Seamen's Fund, from 1 September 1925 to 14 January 1926. N.Z. Worker Print [1926] aflp, Another copy at D293/6.
D200/2 F.C. Howell, of Overseas Seamen Organising and Control Committee, to Roberts, 23 Oct 1925, listing contributions from hotel keepers in Wellington and Hutt area, also Statement of sales of photos of the 'Arawa men marching to gaol at Wellington in Sept 1925, and Statement of sales of overseas seamen sympathy coupons.
D201/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence etc., on overseas seamen's strike 1925. [Lacks file cover; includes 32p typed 'Report of conference between overseas shipowners and representatives of men on strike ... October 5th, 1925'1
D201/2 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Overseas seamen's dispute 1925-26.
D202 File of the British Worker, official strike news bulletin, May 5th 1926 to May 17th 1926, inclusive. Inscribed: 'To James Roberts, Secretary, New Zealand Alliance of Labour, from Robert Williams, Gen. Manager of British Worker and Daily Herald. April 1927.'
D203/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Cash book, listing contributors to British Miners' Fund, 10 May to 24 Dec [1926], totalling E5,891.11.10.Audit dated 25 Jan 1927.
D203/2 British Miners' Fund. Statement of receipts and payments from May 11, 1925 to January 25, 1927. N.Z. Worker Print [1927] [Audited account, E5,891.11.10 forwarded] Another copy at D293/5.
D204 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Correspondence re Delegate to Geneva 1930.
D205 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Loose correspondence about J. Roberts attending: Fifth Ordinary International Trade Union Congress at Stockholm, July 1930. British Commonwealth Labour Conference, London, July 1930. International Labour Conference at Geneva, June 1930.
D206 Roberts, James. Report of the International Labour Conference held at Geneva June 10 to June 29, 1930. Jas. Roberts ... delegate representing the New Zealand Labour Movement. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1931] 31p. Cover-title verso has note dated March 12, 1931. Bagnall R767.
D207 Roberts, Janes, 'Report re Geneva' [also Stockholm7 1930, 14p carbon typescript.
D208/1 James Roberts, MS journal kept during trip to conferences in Geneva, Stockholm and London, 1930. Begins 15 April, ends 19 October - 'At Sea. Sighted N.Z. at ...'
D208/2 Laid in 208/1: British Commonwealth Labour Conference, London, 21-25 July 1930, agenda, 9p cyclostyled. MS notes on back of pp 7-9.
D208/3 Menu, in German, with MS travel notes dated 2 July 1930 on back.
D208/4 List of addresses, London, Dublin, Adelaide, Perth, Stockholm, San Francisco, Chicago, Wellington. lp typescript.
D209 Secretary, Department of Labour, to J. Roberts, 19 Nov 1930, on Cabinet's grant of £364 for travel expenses to the International Labour Conference. lp typescript.
D210 3 payment advice notes from the Department of Labour to J. Roberts for travel expenses to the International Labour Conference 10-28 June 1930, totalling £364.
D211 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence re Australian Miners' Fund, 1930.
D212 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Australian Miners' and Timber Workers' Fund. Statement of receipts and payments from 20 March 1929 to 7 February 1931, with Final Report. N.Z. Worker Print [1931] 4p. Amounts exceeding £40,000 subscribed by N.Z. Miners, etc. Another copy at D293/2.
D213 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence 1931-2, United Kingdom and International.
D214 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. International and Overseas Correspondence, March 1932-March 1933.
D215 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence, United Kingdom and International, 1933,
D216 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. United Kingdom and International Correspondence, 1934: Australasian Council of Trade Unions; International Labour Office; Trades Union Congress; International Federation of Trade Unions; International Transport Workers' Federation; Miscellaneous.
D217 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Correspondence 20 Nov 1934- 31 Jan 1936 between Roberts and W Schevenels, (International Federation of Trade Unions) on appointment of Joan Pearce as correspondent to the International Labour Office on questions concerning women's labour in New Zealand. 7 letters.
D218 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence overseas 1935; Australasian Council of Trades Unions; British Trades Union Congress; international Federation of Trade Unions; International Labour. Office; Miscellaneous overseas.
D219/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence re [choice of] delegate to Geneva Conference, 1935.
D219/2 7 letters between J. Roberts (N.Z. Alliance of Labour) and W. Schevenels (International Federation of Trade Unions, Paris) dated 28 Dec 1934, 13 Jan, 11 Feb, 17 May, 27 June, 8 Oct, 21 Nov 1935. [They include proposals (declined) that Roberts should attend the International Labour Conference at Geneva and/or a session of the Governing Body of the IFTU in 1935; the possibility of his attending in 1936; remarks on the Italian-Abyssinian war and desire for a shorter working week.]
D220 C. crofts (Australasian Council of Trade Unions), to J. Roberta, (N.Z. Alliance of Labour), 8 Dec 1936, enclosing copy of Crofts' letter to N.J. Savage, 7 Oct 1936, on the Union Steamship Company using non-union labour. Roberts'sreply, 16 Dec 1936.
D221 Boycott of German goods. 6-page statement on background and events of trade union efforts to boycott products of Hitler Germany as protest against destruction of German trade unionism and continued persecution of the Jews, (not dated).
D222 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Overseas Correspondence, 1936-37. See also D180.
D223 Economic Conference (Australian). Employees' representatives' statement. Official summing-up of the representatives of the organisations who participated in the recent Economic Conference called by Prime Minister Hughes.
Miscellaneous, D224-57
D224 N.Z. Federation of Labour [1910-137 6th weekly circular to unions, Wellington, 1 August 1912. Report of Executive meeting, July 26 and 27, 1912. 5p incomplete. Troubles at Kaitangata; Reefton lockout; Waihi; Timaru wharf railway. A 'Red Fed' newsletter.
D225 N.Z. Federation of Labour [1910-13]. Clearance certificate Timaru Waterside Union, Dec 1913, for H. Amas 'as clean through Timaru and general strike'. Typescript, torn half sheet.
D226 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Notebook with drafts of speeches, incomplete, in Roberts's writing on the aims and organisation of the Alliance of Labour [].921].
D227 EN.Z. Alliance of Labour] R. Semple, Organiser, 1925. [Letters and reports on meetings addressed in the South Island on industrial unity.]
D228 /1 L. Glover (N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation) to P. Fraser, M.P., 27 July 1925, carbon typescript, not signed, accusing Fraser of saying that Glover had betrayed the workers.
D228/2 L. Glover to J. Thorn (Labour Representation Committee) 27 July, enclosing D228/1.
D228/3 Fraser to Glover, 28 July 1925, refuting the charge.
D229 Receipts dated 6 Nov 1928 from W. Craig and Clyde Cars for £25, donation by J. Roberts to election expenses of Clyde Carr.
D230/1 S. Flood to J. Roberts, 21 July 1932, on Roberts's expenses in general election at New Plymouth.
D230/2 Roberts to S. Flood, 3 August 1932.
D231 A.P. Harper, secretary N.Z. Welfare League, to Barker, O'Donovan, solicitors, Wellington, 19 Jan 1932, enclosing annual report, and calling on subscribers to continue support. (In envelope inscribed 'Mr J. Roberts').
D232 Correspondence re [compensation for] Hawkes Bay earthquake cases and J. Turich, accident, 1932-3.
D233 2 promissory notes, 15 Nov 1933, signed R. Fulton, organiser Taranaki Creameries, Cheese, Butter Factories & Dairy Employees' Union, undertaking to pay to own order for value received on 15 Dec 1933 and 15 Jan 1934.
D234 Entry cancelled.
D235 Papers on seamen's strike at Greymouth, July-August 1934. Includes: newspaper cuttings (badly rat eaten); 2 circulars, dated 14 Aug, 4 Sept 1934, by the West Coast Workers Council of Action; typed copies of telegrams received by Greymouth Strike Committee; 16p carbon typescript 'Report of Executive Council of the Federated Seamen's Union of N.Z.', dated 16 August 1934, of which there is another copy at D154, a draft of but not identical to pamphlet G25.
D236 J. Roberts to W. Craig, Timaru, 29 June 1934, enclosing printed 'Social Notes from Timaru'. [This was an ironical sketch about receiving scabs into the union, omitted from the Transport Worker lest it excite Court action.]
D237 V.G. Nugent, Auckland Waterside Workers' Union, to Lou [Glover], 1 Apr 1935, asking how he should put industrial matters to politicians at the approaching [Labour Party] conference.
D238 Facts and opinions relied on by plaintiff in support of paragraph 4 of statement of claim [concerning Ernest Davis, - Sayegh, and Mason, M.P., as mayor of Auckland, c 1935].
D239 Lawrence David Taylor. Seamen's licence No. 2074, dated 17 Dec 1935.
D240 Correspondence [of J. Roberts] with W. Watson, Timaru, 11 July 1935 to 20 Jan 1936 concerning a minor quarrel within the Alliance of Labour and privacy of correspondence. First letter labelled 'Strictly private and confidential'.
D241 Entry cancelled.
D242/1 R.D. Brooks, of Canterbury Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union, to J. Flood, Lyttelton Waterside Union, 11 Jan 1936, about the rude response of a porter at the British Hotel when asked to join the hotel workers' union. 3p carbon typescript copy.
D242/2 F.P. Walsh, Federated Seamen's Union, to D. McDonald, British Hotel, Lyttelton, 11 Jan 1936, about the above, leaning heavily on the porter's employer to induce him to join the union. 2p carbon typescript copy.
D243 N.Z. Federated Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Industrial Association of Workers. Minutes of annual conference, 31 August-4 Sept 1936. Cyclostyled, 103p.
D244/1 Ongley, O'Donovan and Arndt, to J. Roberts, 11 Dec 1936, 're A. Cook' forwarding Roberts's share of repayment.
D244/2 The same, to J. Flood.
D244/3 Roberts to F. Ongley, 15 Dec 1936, thanks from J. Flood and himself for cheques.
D245/1 Rules of Ngahauranga Bacon Workers' Industrial Union of Workers. Recorded 16 Jan 1936. Typescript with printed pieces pasted in. 9p.
D245/2 Amendment No. 1 to Rules 1 and 4 of ED245/1], 30 Sept 1936, Ngahauranga becoming Wellington.
D246 Wellington Bacon Workers' Account Book with Bank of New Zealand, 30 Jan 1937 to 20 Oct 1939.
D247 Wellington Bacon Workers' Account Book 21 Jan 1939 to 29 Jan 1940, with a receipt and 2 audit items laid in.
D248 Freeman case. List (2p.) of 6 attached letters (copies) Dec 1937-Feb 1938, with notes of telephone calls, interviews, etc. Attached but not listed, undated letter from Margaret Rodina Freeman to Mr Silverstone.
D249/1 Statement made on behalf of Hawke's Bay General Labourers' Union by R.J. Reardon for presentation to the National Council of the New Zealand Federation of Labour. 15p cyclostyled. Concerns dispute between Hawke's Bay General Labourers' Union, Wellington General Labourers' Union and the General Labourers' Federation, 1937. an-private correspondence packet.]
D249/2 Differences existing between Hawke's Bay Builders' and General Labourers' Union and the New Zealand Federation of Local Bodies Labourers, Builders, Contractors & General Labourers'Industrial Association of Workers. Submissions to the National Council, Federation of Labour, by the N.Z. Federation of Local Bodies Labourers ... 7p cyclostyled.
D249/3 Treachery! Builders' and General Labourers betrayed. Scandalous agreement in Hawke's Bay. Confidential to members of Unions affiliated to Labourers' Federation. Wellington Standard Press, 1937, 4p.
D250/1 New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers' Union. Circular dated 18 Feb 1937, by J. Roberts, 'secretary pro ten'. 6p cyclostyled. Describes rival movements in 1936-7, under J. Roberts and J. Murray to form dairy factory
D251/1 Salient points in before the Native January 1944, re . Commissioner, and beneficiaries ... submissions made by Sydney Carroll Land Court on 25th, 26th and 27th .. the accounts of the East Coast other complaints lodged by the 2p carbon typescript.
D251/2 Salient points raised by Sydney Carroll. Deputation 11/10/45. Cnumbered 11-24] lp carbon typescript.
D252/1 Resolutions of Mangapoike A Block Committee and of Tahora 2F2 Block Committee on 1 October 1945 for a deputation to the Prime Minister Peter Fraser asking that the East Coast Commissioner, J.S. Jessep, be replaced. Signed. 2p carbon typescript.
D252/2 Submissions of Mafeking Pere in deputation to Prime Minister Peter Fraser, in the matter of the East Coast Commissioner, James Simon Jessep, and the future control of the East Coast Trust Lands, dated 9 October 1945. 8p carbon typescript (green paper).
D252/3 Petition by Mafeking Pere and others to the Prime Minister Peter Fraser, [that the current Minister of Native Affairs be replaced by a Maori]. No date. lp typescript.
D253 P.P. Walsh, 20 Feb 1946, fragment (p,11 only) urging to increase production of goods and services, listing legislation of last session aimed at their just distribution. lp cyclostyled.
D254 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Loose correspondence concerning South Island timber workers, June-August 1932.
D255 Recommendations for reform of Transport Act, pp 4-5 only [undated, but post-1937, from reference to Federation of Labour].
D256 'Alliance of Labour. Reports' [1936] 2p typescript, foolscap. Lists delegates and their union positions. Annotated.
D257/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour Telegrams, sender's copies, 19 April 1929 to 25 Feb 1931.
D257/2 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Telegrams, sender's copies, 12 Nov 1932 to 3 May 1935; laid in, one received 3 May 1935.
D257/3 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Telegrams, sender's copies, 9 May 1935 to 27 Feb 1937.
Split in the Alliance 1936, 0258-88
D258/1 J. Roberts to E.G. Young (of Hotel Workers' Federation) 27 May 1936 asking him to send any suggestions he might have concerning the Alliance of Labour to Roberts before the annual conference. Marked 'Private and Confidential'.
D258/2 Young to Roberts, 31 March 1936, proposing a pre-conference meeting. 'Private and confidential'.
D259/1 Roberts (with 6 others) to F.G. Young, 9 April 1936. Copy, 3p foolscap, typescript and carbon. Explains his view of the dispute at Conference on 8 April and declares his intention, with A Cook, C.E. Baldwin, E. Dye, V.P. Morel, J.0. Johnson and D. Copland, to continue working as the executive of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour.
D259/2 Cyclosty/ed copy of 0259/1, 3p,6 other copies in 0284.
D259/3 Carbon typescript of original letter, same as 0259/1, on green quarto paper, with space for signatures but no list of signatories.
D260/1 J. Roberts to M.J. Savage, P.M., 9 April 1936, explaining the split: Glover, Young and Walsh were 'ringing-in' delegates improperly; they do not represent the N.Z. Alliance of Labour but a break-away, rule-breaking section. Confidential. 2p carbon typescript.
D260/2 J. Roberts to H.T. Armstrong, Minister of Labour, 9 April 1936, similar to 0260/1, but with more details. Confidential 2p carbon typescript.
D261/1 A.W. Croskery, conference secretary, to J. Roberts, 16 April 1936, refuting the charges made in the letter to F.G. Young by Roberts and 6 others on 9 April (0259) and claiming that the real reason Roberts left the Conference was his objection to alterations in the minutes demanded by the majority of delegates: The Alliance of Labour has a new executive - L. Glover, president, F.P. Walsh, vice-president, A.W. Croskery, secretary. Roberts should hand over books, etc., to Glover. Signed A.W. Croskery. 4p typescript.
D261/2 2 carbon copies of D261/1.
D262 F.G. Young to Roberts, 16 April 1936. 4p cyclostyled. Copy of 0261 signed by Young. 6 other copies in 0284. D263/1 J. Roberts to A.W. Croskery, 23 April 1936, in reply to Croskery's of 16 April (0261), refusing to recognise him as secretary of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour and questioning his eligibility for that office. lp carbon typescript.
D263/2 Croskery to Roberts, 24 April 1936, refusing to enter into a controversy over 0263/1. lp typescript, signed.
D263/3 Roberts to Croskery, 1 May 1936, reiterating that Croskery was not eligible and asking under what rule he claimed eligibility. 2p carbon typescript.
D263/4 Croskery to Roberts, 2 May 1936, again refusing argument.
D263/5 Roberts to Croskery, 9 May 1936, stressing that he had cited no rule allowing him to stand. lp carbon typescript.
D263/6 Croskery to Roberts, 11 May 1936, presuming that as the Conference had elected him as secretary he was eligible. lp typescript, signed.
D264/1 Statement by J. Roberts. Begins: 'The first real trouble that occurred between Mr Glover and myself was in connection with the re-organisation of the freezing workers.' 4p typescript.
D264/2 Carbon copy of 0264/1.
D265 Circular letter to N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation by 3.0. Johnson and Jas. Roberts explaining press reports and giving their view of proceedings at the N.Z. Alliance of Labour conference. 7p cyclostyled.
D266 J. Madden, Chief Postmaster, to President, N.Z. Alliance of Labour, Room 30, Trades Hall, 18 April 1936, accepting instruction that Alliance mail should go to A.W. Croskery at Room 30 Trades Hall. lp typescript copy.
D267 Correspondence between Roberts and Chief Postmaster, Wellington, 20 April 1936 to 26 May 1936. 13 letters. Roberts states that he is secretary of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour, the postmaster tells of conflicting claims, the mail is held.
D268/1-8 Correspondence between Roberts and the Manager, Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, 9 April 1936 to 15 May 1936. 8 letters about who should operate the N.Z. Alliance of Labour account.
D269 Roberts to J. Cameron, Bluff, 16 April 1936, about Glover's misrepresentations, the freezing workers' issue, and the split in the Alliance of Labour. 2p carbon typescript. Private and Confidential.
D270 Alliance of Labour re 1936 election. Lawyer's file CF.W. Ongley] containing MS notes and: 1. Roberts to Accountant, Bank of New Zealand, 15 April 1936. 3p typescript (not in D268). 2. Manager, Bank of New Zealand to Roberts, 16 April 1936 (original of D268/3). 3. Roberts and 6 others to F.G. Young, 9 April 1936, copy of D259/2. 4. Constitution and rules of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour (same as D8).
D271 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Delegates' Credentials. Letters Jan-April 1936 from District Councils and union federations appointing representatives to the annual conference.
D272 [N.Z. Alliance of Labour] Applications for Affiliation. Correspondence Jan-April 1936 with individual unions seeking affiliation to the Alliance of Labour.
D273/1 F.W. Ongley, legal opinion dated 21 April 1936 on the constitution of the Alliance of Labour in relation to affiliation of unions and representation at conference. 8p typescript, signed.
D273/2 carbon copy of D273/1, signed.
D273/3 copy of D273/1, 9p carbon typescript.
D274/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. L. Glover to Miss B. Prince, 15 April 1936. A.W. Croskery is secretary of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour, at Room 30, Trades Hall, and she should report to him immediately. lp typescript, signed.
D274/2 Carbon copy of D274/1.
D275/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. F.G. Young, conference secretary, to Roberts, 27 April 1936, enclosing report and minutes of annual conference [3276/1] and asking Roberts for names and addresses of union secretaries so that copies can be sent to them.
D275/2 J. Roberts to F.G. Young, 4 May 1936, replies that the report is incomplete and inaccurate. Roberts will send 36 copies to waterside unions; other union addresses can be had from the Department of Labour.
D276/1 Minutes of the Alliance of Labour annual conference opened at the Trades Hall, Wellington, on 7 April 1936. 22p cyclostyled. The Croskery-Young-Walsh version, different from D15/16. 6 other copies in D284,
D276/2 F.G. Young to J. Roberts, 28 April 1936, regretting typist's error on p9 of Minutes (D276/1). lp cyclostyled.
D276/3 Roberts to Young, 4 May 1936, in reply. lp carbon typescript.
D277 Report 'in detail ... of the dispute which occurred at the Annual Meeting of the Alliance of Labour, which opened on 7 April 1936 ...' Signed by Glover, Walsh and 7 others. 9p cyclostyled. 6 other copies in D284.
D278/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour, circular letter addressed to D. Copeland, Secretary, Dunedin District Council, 21 April 1936, advising that minutes of the recent annual conference will goon be sent and that all communications should be to A.W. Croskery, Room 30, Trades Hall.
D278/2 3 copies, not addressed.
D279/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. F.G. Young, conference secretary, circular letter to D. Copeland, District Council, Dunedin, 22 April 1936. 2p carbon typescript. On recent negotiations for reforms in the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act.
D279/2 2 copies not addressed.
D280 D.M. Findlay & Foot, solicitors, to Roberts, 30 April 1936, to 20 May 1936, 6 letters and a registered envelope. On behalf of Glover, Walsh and Croskery, the solicitors require Roberts to hand over all books and documents belonging to the N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Roberts denies that their clients are properly officers of the Alliance.
D281/1 Wanganui District Council, Alliance of Labour, J. Robertson, secretary, to Roberts, 4 May 1936, urging quick settlement of the Alliance differences. D281/2 Roberts to Robertson, 7 May 1936.
D282/1 Report on the administration and representation of the Canterbury District Council of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Copy. 3p carbon typescript. Not dated but after 30 April 1936.
D282/2 Cyclostyled copy of pl of 0282/1.
D283 J. Glover to F.P. Walsh, 27 May 1936. Copy, lp typescript. The matter brought in by Walsh is not to be printed as Savage says the Standard should not be involved.
D284 Bundle of 5 documents folded together comprising: D276/1 D277, D259/2, D262, D59/2.
D285/1 F. Cornwell, secretary N.Z. Trades and Labour Councils Federation, to Roberts, 2 April 1936. Proposes co-operation between that body and the N.Z. Alliance of Labour, through a joint committee.
D285/2 Roberts to Cornwell, 4 April 1936. Personal approval of this proposal for industrial unity which will be considered at the Alliance's annual meeting.
D285/3 Roberts to Cornwell, 22 April 1936. Annual meeting at the Alliance approved and enlarged upon the proposal for national industrial organisation.
D285/4 Cornwell, to Roberts, 30 April 1936, in reply to Roberts of 24 (i.e. 22) April 1936.
D285/5 Roberts to Cornwell, 4 May 1936.
D285/6 Cornwell to Roberts, 18 June 1936, proposes that a conference of all unions be called by the Trades and Labour Councils Federation, to establish 'one National Industrial Organisation'.
D285/7 Roberts to Cornwell, 19 June 1936.
D285/8 Cornwell to Roberts, 7 Dec 1936, about pre-conference consultation.
D285/9 Roberts to Cornwell, 8 Dec 1936.
D285/10 Cornwell to Roberts, 18 Dec 1936, on conferring with both sections of the N.Z. Alliance of Labour.
D285/11 Roberts to Cornwell, 30 Dec 1936.
D286/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. D. Copland, secretary, Otago District Council, N.Z. Alliance of Labour, to Roberts, 25 June 1936, about his Council's resolution that P C Webb, Minister Mines, should assist in the affiliation of all industrial organisations into one national party.
D286/2 Roberts to Copland, 29 June 1936, in favour of proposal.
D287 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Correspondence about operation of its funds, 1937-8.
D287/1 Manager, Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, to Roberts, 10 July 1937 (original and copy).
D287/2 Roberts to A. Cook, 12 July 1937, about last accounts of Alliance.
D287/3 Cook to Roberts, 13 July 1937.
D287/4 N.Z. Alliance of Labour, MS statement of receipts and payments, 28 March 1936-7 July 1937.
D287/5 Roberts and Cook to Manager, Bank of New Zealand, 4 Jan 1938, about signatures needed to transfer N.Z. Alliance of Labour funds to N. Z. Federation of Labour; Roberts again, 28 June 1938. Both letters copies on one page.
D287/6 Roberts to F. Cornwell, secretary N.Z. Federation of Labour, 4 March 1938, about transfer to Alliance funds to Federation of Labour.
D287/7 A.W. Croskery, secretary-treasurer of N.Z. Alliance of Labour at Room 30, Trades Hall, 22 June 1938; together, Roberts and Walsh to operate N.Z. Alliance of Labour account.
D287/8 Croskery to Manager, Bank of New Zealand, undated copy for Roberts: Roberts and Walsh may operate account of N.Z. Alliance of Labour.
D287/9 Roberts to Croskery, 28 June 1938, reply to D287/7.
D287/10 Roberts to Manager, Bank of New Zealand, 28 June 1938, enclosing signed authorisation for Walsh and himself conjointly to operate the Alliance account.
D287/11 Manager, Bank of New Zealand, to Roberts, 29 June 1938.
D288/1 J. Roberts to Adams Bros, solicitors, Dunedin, 14 August 1942, paying long-outstanding account for £6.9.2.
D288/2 2 receipts dated 5 August 1942, N.Z. Alliance of Labour paid £23.4.4 to J. Roberts and £2.2 to H. Bolton, auditor.
D288/3 J. Roberts to F. Cornwall of N.Z. Federation of Labour, 4 August 1942, saying that N.Z. Alliance of Labour's account has been transferred to Unclaimed Moneys Account.
D288/4 F. Cornwell to Roberts, 8 July 1942, about transfer of funds of N.Z. Alliance of Labour.
D288/5 N.Z. Alliance of Labour, statement of cash in Bank of New Zealand on 25 June 1942, payments due, balance for New Zealand Federation of Labour.
Financial Records, D289-304
D289 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Cash book, office expenses, etc., August 1919 to Feb 1937.
D290 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Cash book, receipts from unions and expenditure, May 1920 to Jan 1926.
D291 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Cash book, receipts and payments June 1920 to Jan 1929.
D292 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Cash book, receipts and payments Sept [1925] to Jan 1927 [lacks cover].
D293 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Balance sheets (cover title). Contains-
D293/1 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Statements of receipts and payments Nov 1920 to March 1936.
D293/2 Australian Miners' and Timber Workers' Fund. Statements of receipts and payments, 20 March 1929 to 27 Jan 1930 with Interim Report (4p printed); 20 March 1929 to 7 Feb 1931, with Final Report (4p printed). Another copy of the latter at D212.
D293/3 Relief Workers' Organisation Fund, statement of receipts and payments from 23 July 1928 to 28 January 1929. 2p cyclostyled.
D293/4 National Industrial Conference Expenses Fund. Statement of receipts and payments from 16 March 1928 to 28 January 1929. lp printed.
D293/5 British Miners' Fund, statement of receipts and payments from 11 May 1925 to 25 January 1927. lp printed. Another copy at D203/2.
D293/6 Statement of receipts and payments of the Overseas Seamen's Fund, from 1 September 1925 to 14 January 1926. 8p printed. Another copy at D200/1.
D293/7 Statement of receipts and payments in connection with the West Coast Miners' Lock-out Fund, 26 June 1924. lp printed.
D294 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Fund for delegates' expenses to the National Industrial Conference (cover title on cash book), March 1928 to Jan 1930.
D295 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Cash book, receipts and expenditure Jan 1929 to July 1937, showing capitation fees, staff wages, organisers' expenses, funds for unemployment, conferences, Australian Timber Workers and Miners, etc.
D296 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Statement of receipts and payments 1932-3. 5 sheets. Includes Wellington Unemployed Workers' Sustenance Fund and Shearers' Organisation Fund. Another copy at D293/1.
D297 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Statement of receipts and payments 1935-6. 5 sheets. Includes Public Works Employees' Organisation Fund and Ernest Logan Appeal Fund, 1934-6. Another copy at D293/1.
D298 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Petty cash receipts, Feb-Oct 1936.
D299 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Cheque receipts, April-August 1936.
D300 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Small sums listed, 31 March 1935 to 18 Feb 1937, pasted onto cardboard.
D301 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Copy of Bank of New Zealand account book Jan 1932 to March 1936.
D302 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Receipt books:
D302/1 12 Feb 1935-21 June 1935.
D302/2 21 June 1935-7 Feb 1936.
D302/3 7 Feb 1936-10 July 1936
D303 N.Z. Alliance of Labour, staff wages receipt books:
D303/1 16 Nov 1934-17 June 1935.
D303/2 21 June 1935-3 April 1936.
D303/3 9 April 1936-1 May 1936.
D304 N.Z. Alliance of Labour. Cheque butts:
D304/1 18 Feb 1935-17 May 1935.
D304/2 24 May 1935-25 Oct 1935.
This body, sometimes recorded as the Marton, Taihape, Ohakune Timber Yards and Sawmills Industrial Union of Workers, was better known by its short title, North Wellington Timber Workers' Union.
In difficulties, it sent its books for 1925-7 to the N.Z. Alliance of Labour for audit.
El T Shout, present North Wellington Timber Workers' Union to Roberts, 10 August 1927, lp MS. Union directs that its books go to the N.Z. Alliance of Labour for audit. Encloses a receipt, previously mislaid, dated 17 August 1926, for £43 paid by the union to F. Turley, its secretary-treasurer, for expenses and wages.
E2 North Wellington Timber Workers' Union. Cash book showing entrance fees, contributions and 'sundries', 1925-6.
E3 [North Wellington Timber Workers' Union.] Loose pages numbered 112-27, 142-52, listing expenditure 1925-6.
E4 North Welington Timber Yards & Sawmills Industrial Union of Workers. Receipt book 8 Feb 1926 to 26 Feb 1927.
E5 [North Wellington Timber Workers' Union] Bundle of receipts for 1926. Contains letter from F. Turley to T. Shout, 17 Aug 1926 on union finances, an art union, and explanation of the cheque mentioned in El; also balance sheet for period ending 3 Feb 1926 (another copy at E6/2).
E6/1 North Wellington Timber Workers' Union. Expenses book Feb 1926 to Nov 1926.
E6/2 Balance Sheet of the North Wellington Timber Workers Industrial Union, statement of receipts and expenditure for period ending 3 Feb 1926 (laid in E6/1).
E7 North Wellington Timber Workers' Union. Cheque butts Feb 1925 to 26 Feb 1927.
E8 Marton, Taihape, Ohakune Timber Yards and Sawmills Industrial Union of Workers account book, Bank of New Zealand, Raetihi, 15 Dec 1924-31 March 1927.
Pending the availability of further resources, the listing from 1985 has been reproduced here, and should be used to request items.
F1/1 Wellington Labour Social Club. Minutes book, 3 Oct 1923 to 5 Nov 1928.
F1/2 Minutes of monthly meeting of the Wellington Labour Social Club, 8 Aug 1924, 2p typescript, laid in F1/1.
F2 Wellington Labour Social Club. Letterbook, 13 Feb 1925 to 30 Aug 1928.
F3 Wellington Labour Social Club. Cash book; 14 May 1927 to 27 Oct 1928.
F4 Wellington Labour Social Club, members' subscriptions, Jan 1924 to August 1927. [At back] social expenses and receipts, April 1924 to July 1927.
F5 Wellington Labour Social Club. Letter, dated 21 May 1929, signed by W. BromleY, P. Fraser, R. Semple; on proposal to resuscitate the club in the Trades Hall.
Newspapers, G1-6.
G1 The New Zealand Watersider: the industrial journal. May to December 1916. (Vol. 1, nos. 1-8) On cover: '1916 Watersider No. 1'.
G2 The New Zealand Watersider: the transport workers' journal and official organ of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation. Jan, Feb, Apr-Sept, Nov 1918. (Vol. 3, nos. 21-2, 24-9, 27 [i.e. 31] On cover: 'No. 2 1918 Watersider'.
G3 The New Zealand Transport Worker: the official organ of the Federated Waterside Workers, Seamen, Tramwaymen and Drivers of New Zealand.
G3/1 Jan, Mar-Dec 1919. (Vol. 4, nos. 29, 31-40). On cover: '1919 Transport Worker No. 1'. To March 1919 has title The New Zealand Worker.
G3/2 Jan, Feb 1920 (Vol. 5, nos. 41-2) March 1920 (Vol. 5, no. 13) Apr-Sept, Nov-Dec 1920 (Vol. 3, nos. 14-19, 21-2). On cover: '1920 Transport Worker No. 1'.
G3/3 Jan-Dec 1921 (Vol. 3, nos. 23-24) [issues torn and incomplete]. On cover: 'Transport Worker 1921'.
G3/4 Dec 1922 (Vol. 3, no. 45) 2 copies. Label: 'Dec 1922. Rest of 1922 missing. Filed copies loaned and not returned.'
G4 The New Zealand Transport Worker: the official organ of the Federated Waterside Workers.
G4/1 Dec 1923 (Vol. 3, no. 55).
G4/2 Dec 1926 (Vol. 6, no. 11): Jan-Nov. 1927 (Vol. 7, nos. 1-11). On cover: 'N.Z. Transport Worker 1927'.
G4/3 Dec 1927 (Vol. 7, no. 12) Jan-Nov 1928 (Vol. 8, nos. 1-11). On cover: 'N.Z. Transport Worker 1928'.
G5 New Zealand Worker: a New Zealand paper for New Zealand people.
G5/1 5 Jan-14 Dec 1927 (Vol. 17, nos. 1-50).
G5/2 4 Jan-15 Aug 1928 (Vol. 18, nos. 1-33).
G5/3 29 Aug-19 Dec 1928 (Vol. 18, nos. 35-51).
G5/4 2 Jan-24 Dec 1929 (Vol. 19, nos. 1-52).
G5/5 1 Jan-31 Dec 1930 (Vol. 20, nos. 1-52).
G5/6 7 Jan-23 Dec 1931 (Vol. 21, nos. 1-51).
G6 Standard, 8 Jan-24 Dec 1936 (Vol. 2, nos. 1-48).
G7 Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of N.Z. Biennial conference, February 1923. Minutes and summary of discussion. Wellington, Maoriland Worker [1923]. 68p. At top of cover: Confidential. For use of members only. Not to be published.
G8 Anderson, Tom. Proletarian song book. School edition. Glasgow, Proletarian Press, 1933. 64p. Inscribed '22.11.33. To Comrade Sedy S.P. N.Z. Tom Anderson'.
G9 Attlee, Clement R. Economic crisis in Great Britain: speech in the House of Commons, 6th August 1947. Wellington, Govt. Printer 1947. 15p.Bagnall A760+.
G10 Australian Trade Union Council. Central Committee. A survey of the Lukin Award, which represents capitalism's shock attack on the timber workers. Melbourne, Fraser & Jenkinson [1929?]. 11p.
G11 Barnes, H. Reply to Mr J. Roberts. Auckland, Emeny, 1933. 7p. At head of title: Confidential.
G12 Brierly, J.L English law. London, Oxford University Press £19437 41p (Oxford Pamphlets on Home Affairs, no. H.6).
G13 1926 (British) Seneral Strike Newspapers. Latest Strike Bulletin, 6 May 1926 (1p) Daily Mail 12 May 1926; British Gazette 12 May 1926; British Worker, 12, 17 May 1926; Morning Post, 15 May 1926; Daily Worker, 23 May 1926; cyclostyled: Daily Mirror News Bulletin No. 2, 6 May 1926, (4p); Trades Union Congress, Extracts from Official Bulletin No. 6, 9 May 1926.
G14 Campbelltown, the sea-port of Invercargill. (Double page illustrated feature from Weekly Press 14 June 1899, torn.)
G15 Conference of the International Labour Organisation'New York, October 1941. Wartime developments in governmentemployer- worker collaboration. Montreal, International Labour Office, 1941. 152p,New Zealand: p 62-74.
G16 Cook, Arthur. Your duty to the Labour movement, number two. Wellington, N.Z. Workers' Union [1938]. 24p. Bagnall C1414.
G17 Crofts, C. Melbourne's first stay-in strike. Melbourne, Gas Employees' Union, 1937, 16p illus.
G18 Davies, D.J. A review of coal question preceding and during lockout on northern coal fields, 1929. [Sydney] Labor Daily,,1929. 22p.
G19 Doldobanov, G.I. The Soviet trade unions advance the welfare of the working people.' [Moscow] Profizdat Publishing House [1960?] 63p illus.
G20 Dominion newspaper. 19-27, 29 March 1935 (Vol. 28, nos. 148-55, 57) Smaller size and unusual appearance, produced in emergency conditions during a printing trades strike; account of deadlocked negotiation, 25 March. Mouse bitten.
G21 East, E.G. [of Bluff]. Press clippings by E.G. East, in South Africa, 1901-1903. Mounted on large sheets of paper. Rat bitten.
G22 East, E.G. [of Bluff]. Press clippings 'South African notes' 1903-5 and articles on the Chinese question in New Zealand and other matters. Also articles by'Porkobidne' on farming, science, nature resources. Mounted in scrap book.
G23 Evening Post, 8 Feb 1935, 70th anniversary issue, 1865- 1935.
G24 Federated Seamen's Union of New Zealand. The report, findings and recommendations of the Commission of Enquiry set up for the purpose of investigating the internal dispute in the Union, January 1927. Wellington, O'Kane & McKenzie [1927]. 23p, At head of title: Confidential to members. Bagnall F190.
G25 Federated Seamen's Union of New Zealand. Report and Findings of the Executive Council on the events which have transpired within our organisation since the July session of the Council, August 1934. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1934]. 18p, At head of title: Confidential to members. Bagnall F180. [Union dissension regarding strikes at Greymouth and Westport.)
G26 Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard. Who said red ruin? Auckland. Auckland, Griffin Press, 1938. 16p.Bagnall F40.
G27 Fraser, Peter. In time of war: selections from the wartime addresses of the Rt.Hon. Peter Fraser. Wellington, Govt. Printer, 1946. 39p. Bagnall F777.
G28 Huxley, Julian S. Nutrition: the commentary spoken by Professor Julian Huxley, with Lord Aston, Mr Herbert Morrison ... and others in the Gas Light and Coke Company's production 'The Nutrition Film', the first screen analysis of a great social problem ... Published by Gas Light & Coke Company, printed by Wm. Clowes, Beccles, Suffold £19371 16p.
G29 International Federation of Trade Unions. Report on activities during the years 1927, 1928 and 1929, submitted to the Fifth Ordinary Congress, Stockholm, July 1930. Amsterdam, International Federation of Trade Unions, 1931. 395p.
G30 International Federation of Trade Unions. Report on activities of the International Federation of Trade Unions for 1930-1932, submitted to the Sixth Ordinary Congress, Brussels, 1933. Paris, International Federation of Trade Unions, 1933. 99p. At head of cover title: Third item of the Agenda.
G31 International Labour Conference, nineteenth session, Geneva, 1935. The recruiting of labour in colonies and in other territories with analogous labour conditions. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1935. 282p.
G32 International Labour Conference, Geneva, 1939. Provisional record, 25th session, 9-24 June 1939. (Text in French and English). Nos. 3-11, 16-22 (no. 20 incomplete)
G33 International Labour Office. Annual review 1930. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1931. 502p fold tables.
G34 International Labour Office. Compulsory sickness insurance; comparative analysis of national laws and statistics. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1927. 794p. (Studies and reports series M (social insurance) no. 6.)
G35 International Labour Office. Freedom of association, vols. II-IV Geneva, International Labour Office, 1927-28. 413p, 408p, 405p. (Studies and reports series A (industrial relations) nos. 29-31.)
G36 International Labour Office. Housing policy in Europe; cheap home building. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1930. 378p, (Studies and reports series G (housing and welfare) no. 3.)
G37 International Labour Office. An international inquiry into costs of living; a comparative study of workers' living costs in Detroit (USA) and fourteen European cities. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1931. 209p. (Studies and reports series N (statistics).no.17.)
G38/1 International Labour Office. The International Labour Organisation 1919-1929. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1930. 48p illus. Inscribed: 'To Mr James Roberts, hoping he will remember us [signature unidentified] Geneva 27/VI/30'.
G38/2 Laid in G38/1: photograph of delegates, Labour group (?) International Labour Conference, Geneva, 1930.
G38/3 Photograph of decorated carriage.
G39 International Labour Office. International survey of legal decisions on labour law, 1933. (Ninth year). Geneva, 1935. 322, 21p.
G40 International Labour Office. Methods of statistics of collective agreements. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1926. 36p(Studies and reports series N. (statistics), no.11.)
G41 International Labour Office. Migration laws and treaties, vol. II. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1928. 486p (Studies and reports series 0 (migration) no.3.)
G42/1 International Transport Workers' Federation. I.T.F.: official journal of the International Transport Workers' Federation. Amsterdam, International Transport Workers' Federation, vol. IX, 1931.
G42/2 Vol. XI, January-June 1933.
G43 Johnson, Jacob. 'The Crooks' exposed; damning evidence concerning Seamen's Union 'crooks'. Private and confidential for members of the Seaman's [sic] Union only. [Sydney], McCallum Ahern [1928] 16p.
G44 Labour: official organ of the Trades Union Congress, London. New series, vol.5, no.6 (February 1943).
G45 Lansley, A. Practical handling of ship's cargo lifting gear and a guide for use with Lansley's Stress Finder... a device with a practical and easy method for finding the loads on the various parts of cargo gear quickly and accurately. 2. ed. Dunedin, Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie, 1939. 43p illus.
G46 Lenin, N. "Left" Communism: the infantile sickness of 'Leftism' in Communism. First Australian ed. Sydney, Communist Party of Australia, 1921. 96p.
G47 Loyalty League. What is the red menace? The secret history of the forces behind socialism and communism; an exposure of the so-called 'Labour' Party. Wellington, Loyalty League (1925). 15p. Bagnall L694.
G48 Marinenkov, N. Social insurance at the Tryokhgornaya textile mill. Moscow, Profizdat Publishing, 1960. 39p illus.
G49 Morris, William. Useful work versus useless toil. Sydney, Judd Publishing, 1919. 21p.
G50 'The Nations Toast', drinking-song written on letterpaper of SS Orford, Orient Line, England-Australia.
G51 The New Leader. Vol.44, no.5 30 January, 1961.
G52 New Zealand Alliance of Labour. Democracy versus dictatorship: grave menace te people's rights. Wellington, N.Z. worker Printing and Publishing Co. [19347]. 10p. Attacks N.Z. Legion.
G53 New Zealand Alliance of Labour. What unity means to you. Wellington, N.Z. Worker [1925]. 3p.Leaflet no.3.
G54 N.Z. Census and Statistics Office. Government prize competition: £100 in prizes. Householder's diary account book. 'Household budget' prize competition. Wellington, Govt. Printer, 1929. 32p. [C. & S. Office wanted a comprehensive collection of household budgets, for use in compilation of statistics.]
G55 New Zealand Dairy Factories & Related Trades Employees' Union. Report of the annual meeting held at the Trades Hall, Wellington, commencing 28 July, 1938. Wellington, Standard Press, 1938. 24p.
G56 New Zealand. The Gazette Law Reports. Cases determined in the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Court of Arbitration, 1924.
G57/1 New Zealand. Handbook of emergency legislation, 1939. To 22nd November 1939. Wellington, Govt. Printer, 1939. 228p. Bagnall 142515.
G57/2 The Waterfront Control Commission Emergency Regulations 1940. Serial No. 1940/59. 6p annotated. [This was the regulation under which the Commission was set up.]
G57/3 The Waterfront Control Commission Emergency Regulations 1940, Amendment No.l. Serial no. 1940/109. 3p.
G57/4 Suspension order under the Waterfront Control Commission Emergency Regulations, 1940. Serial no. 1940/68. lp.
G57/5 Laid in G57/1: Noter-up to Handbook of emergency legislation, volume 1. 2 printed sheets with perforated sections. G58 New Zealand Handbook of emergency legislation. Vol.II. Cumulative with Handbook of emergency legislation, 1939, to 24th September 1940. Wellington, Govt. Printer, 1940. 229-561p. Bagnall N2516.
G59 New Zealand League for the Taxation of Land Values Inc. An open letter to the N.Z. Municipal Conference 1944. [Wellington] Printed for the author by Whitcombe & Tombs [1944]. 19p (Tracts for the times, no.1). Bagnall N2546.
G60 N. Z. Marine Department Safe-working loads Departmental tables governing the safe-working loads for chains and ropes. Wellington, Govt. Printer, 1935. 80p fold tables. Bagnall N2663.
G61 New Zealand National Party. Vote J.J. Maher for Otaki, £1951] 4p.
G62 New Zealand National Review (with which is included the official section of the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation) 15 May 1948. Vol. 31, no.5.
G63 N.Z. Parliament. Appendices to Journals of the House of Representatives 1947. 27 sections numbered:
G63/1-27 A-2C, B-1 (Pt ii), B-2, C-1, C-1A, C-3, C-4, C-5, C-6, C-8, C-10, C-11, D-5, G-9, H-5, 11-6, H-6A, 11-7, H-18, H-19, H-30B, H-31A, 11-32, H-33B, 11-37, 11-40, H-44A
G64 Chart handed in by Mr Bevin to illustrate the grouping of interests around and about the Cunard and Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Companies by J.T. Walton and Marjory Newbold. At head of sheet: The Dock Commission Report which contained this Chart was presented to the British House of Commons by the King. Appendix No.28. Supplement to Christmas number of N.Z. Transport Worker, 1921. Maoriland Worker Print.
G65 Newbold, J.T. Walton. Solidarity amongst the shipowners. With a foreword by Tom Mann. Glasgow, Reformers' Bookstall [1918] 16p (Reformers Series no.24).
G66 Nulty, Thomas, Bishop of Meath. Back to the land. Melbourne, Henry George Foundation, 1939, 64p.
G67 Oblath, Oscar. Colour vision lists. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1929. 47p (Studies and reports Series F (industrial hygiene) no.12.) At head of title: International Labour Office.
G68 Paul, John Thomas. Landmarks in the history of New Zealand Labour politics. Wellington, Standard, [1936] 23p.Bagnall P289.
G69 Roberts, James. An address ... before the Arbitration Court in the Waterside Workers' dispute, heard at Wellington, October 1922. Wellington, New Zealand Worker Printing and Publishing Co., [1922] 70p. Bagnall R763.
G70 Roberts, James. The conquest of depression: a trade union commentary on the malady and its remedy. Wellington, Labour Book Room [1934] 8p. Propaganda pamphlet no.2. Foreword by M.J. Savage. Bagnall R764.
G71 Roberts, James. Labour Party Rally, Auckland Domain, Sunday, 9 October 1938 [Speech] 17p typescript.
G72 Roberts, James Payment of £30,000 to the Labour Party alleged by Mr Barnes: reply by James Roberts. Wellington, Standard Press, [1944] 7p. At head of title: Confidential - not for publication. Bagnall R765.
G73 Roberts, James. That £30,000 paid to the Labour Party as told by Mr Barnes to the magistrate. Wellington, Standard Press, [1944] [8]p. At head of title: Confidential - not for publication. Bagnall R766.
G74 Salmond, Sir John William. "My son", said the philosopher. Being the meditations of the late Epaphroditus McTavish. Auckland, Christchurch, etc., Whitcombe & Tombs [1920]. 32p.Bagnall S109.
G75 Silicosis Conference, Johannesburg, 13-27 August 1930. Silicosis (supplement). Resolutions adopted by the International Conference held at Johannesburg, 13-27 August 1930. Geneva, International Labour Office, 1930. 24p. (Studies and reports series F (industrial hygiene) no.13.) At head of title: International Labour Office.
G76 Solway, Robert. A memory of the late Prime Minister, Rt Hon. Michael Joseph Savage, P.C. Wellington, Stewart, Lawrence, 1943. C87p. Bagnall 51177. Inscribed: 'To Mr J. Roberts with all good wishes. Robert Solway'.
G77 The story of the sea. 80p. (Cover and title page missing) Describes shipowners' powers and the life and abuses endured by seamen; proposes international marine transport union.
G78 Sutcliffe, Ernest Charles. Accidents to workers: problems of compensation. Wellington, N.Z. Worker Print [128] 18p. Pamphlet based on recommendations of National Industrial Conference, 1928. Bagnall $1941.
G79 Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd. 50th anniversary of the founding of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited. An account of the Company's history during the period 1875-1925, with a report of a dinner held at Wellington, on the 15th May 1925, to celebrate the Company's Jubilee. Wellington, Coulls, Somerville/ Wilkie, £1925] 68p illus. Bagnall U20.
G80 United Kingdom Trade Union Conference June 1917. [Report of proceedings] 120p, Lacks cover and title page.
G81 United Congress, Wellington, second. Report of proceedings of the Unity Congress, July 1st to 10th, 1913, establishing the United Federation of Labor and the Social Democratic party. Wellington, Worker Print [1913] 104p. Bagnall U121.
G82 V.C. [London, Ministry of Information] 1942. 38p illus.
G83 Wellington Harbour Board. Signals from ship's hatchmen to hydraulic crane drivers [diagram]
G84 Woll, Matthew. The real remedy, by Matthew Woll, vice - president, American Federation of Labour, March 3rd, 1938. Wellington, Tolan Printing [1938]. 7p.
Press Cuttings, G85-166
G85 Press cuttings 1922, re Seamen's Dispute.
G86 Press cuttings Wellington (Waterside) Union, Arbitration Court proceedings, March 27 to 30, 1922.
G87 Press cuttinge' 1922. Waterside Workers.
G88 Press cuttings 1922. Waterside Workers December [mounted on 6 sheets].
G89 Press cuttings. [Appointment of workers' representatives to Arbitration Court 1923. Includes N.Z. Alliance of Labour circular, 6 Feb 1923.] Lacks cover.
G90 Press cuttings 1923. Arbitration Court; Cost of Living Pronouncements; Wages Reductions; Appointment of Workers' Representatives on Court.
G91 Press cuttings 1923. N.Z. Miners Federation.
G92 Press cuttings 1923. Waterside Workers.
G93 Press cuttings 1924. Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.
G94 Press cuttings 1924. Arbitration Court.
G95 Press cuttings 1924. Federated Seamen's Unions of N.Z.
G96 Press cuttings 1924. General.
G97 Press cuttings 1924. N.Z. Miners' Federation; Freezing Workers' Assn; Amalgamated Engineering Union; N.Z. Tramwaymen's Federation; N.Z. Storemen's Federation; N.Z. Drivers' Federation N.Z. Timber Workers' Federation.
G98 Press cuttings 1924. N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation.
G99 Press cuttings 1925. Arbitration Court.
G100 Press cuttings 1925. General.
G101 Press cuttings 1925. Railwaymen and Miners.
G102 Press cuttings 1925. Seamen (Overseas Seamen's Dispute).
G103 Press cuttings 1925. Waterside Workers.
G104 Press cuttings 1926. Arbitration Court [Hunter-Roberts controversy].
G105 Press cuttings 1926. Drivers, Miners, ASRS, Seamen, Storemen, Tramwaymen, Timber Workers, N.Z. Workers' Union.
G106 Press cuttings 1926. General.
G107 Press cuttings 1926. Freezing Workers.
G108 Press cuttings 1926. Waterside Workers.
G109 Press cuttings 1927. Arbitration Court.
G110 Press cuttings 1927. General
G111 Press cuttings 1927. Press Correspondence.
G112 Press cuttings 1927. Unemployment.
G113 Press cuttings 1927. Waterside Workers, Freezing Workers, Timber Workers, Tramwaymen, Seamen, Railwaymen, Miners, N.Z. Workers' Union, Drivers.
G114 Press cuttings 1928 re Arbitration Court; National, Industrial Conference.
G115 Press cuttings 1928. General.
G116 Press cuttings 1928. Unemployment.
G117 Press cuttings 1928. Waterside Workers, Seamen, Miners, N.Z. Workers' Union, Freezing Workers.
G118 Press cuttings 1929. Arbitration Court; Unemployment; General.
G119 Press cuttings 1929. N.Z. Workers' Union; Freezing Workers; Miners; ASPS: Waterside Workers; Timber Workers; Tramwaymen.
G120 Press cuttings 1930. Arbitration Court.
G121 Press cuttings 1930. General
G122 Press cuttings (1930). N.Z. Workers' Union.
G123 Press cuttings (1930). Unemployment.
G124 Press cuttings 1930. Press Correspondence re Unemployment.
G125 Press cuttings 1931. General.
G126 Press cuttings 1931. Unemployment; Arbitration Court; Press Correspondence; Timber Workers; Waterside Workers; Tramwaymen; Dairy Workers; Seamen; Railwaymen; Miners; Freezing Workers; N.Z. Workers' Union.
G127 Press cuttings 1932-33. Arbitration Court.
G128 Press cuttings 1932-33. Freezing Workers.
G129 Press cuttings 1932-33. General
G130 Press cuttings 1932-33. Hotel Workers; Seamen; N.Z. Workers' Union.
G131 Press cuttings 1932-33. Labour Disputes; Miners.
G132 Press cuttings 1932-33. Unemployment.
G133 Press cuttings 1932. Waterside Workers' Dispute, August 20, 1932 to C5 October 19327.
G134 Press cuttings 1932-33. Waterside Workers; Timber Workers; Tramwaymen; Dairy Workers; Press Correspondence.
G135 Press cuttings 1933. General.
G136 Press cuttings 1933. Labour Disputes; Seamen; N.Z. Workers' Union; Freezing Workers; Miners; Dairy Workers.
G137 Press cuttings 1933. Waterside Workers; Arbitration Court; Unemployment; Press Correspondence.
G138 Press cuttings 1934. General.
G139 Press cuttings 1934. Native Affairs Inquiry.
G140 Press cuttings 1934. Seamen; Dairy Workers; Waterside Workers.
G141 Press cuttings 1934. Labour disputes; Arbitration Court; Tramwaymen; Miners; Freezing Workers; Hotel Workersi N.Z. Workers' Union.
G142 Press cuttings 1934. San Francisco strike.
G143 Press cuttings 1934. Trust Inquiry [Royal Commission, Sydney, into J.W.S. McArthur's and other companies.]
G144 Press cuttings 1934. Royal CoMmission Dairy Industry; Royal Commission Native Affairs.
G145 Press cuttings 1934. Unetploytent.
G146 Press cuttings 1935. Labour Disputes; General; Unemploy- Ment; Arbitration Court.
G147 Press cuttings 1935. Tramwaymen; Dairy Workers; Miners; Freezing Workers; N.Z. Workers' Union.
G148 Press cuttings 1935. Waterside Workers; Seamen.
G149/1 Press cuttings. [Evening Post 19-28 October 1936 on Arbitration Court enquiry into basic rates of wages.] Lacks cover.
G149/2 Press cuttings 1936. 40 hour week [assorted trades] and Arbitration Court [includes basic wage inquiry].
G150 Press cuttings 1936. Labour Disputes; General.
G151 Press cuttings 1936. N.Z. Workers' Union; Hotel Workers' Union; Freezing Workers' Unions; Miners' Unions; Seamen's Union; Dairy Workers; Timber Workers; Unemployment.
G152 Press cuttings 1936. Waterside workers.
G153 Press cuttings 1936-37. Arbitration Court; Unemployment; General.
G154 Press cuttings 1936-37. N.Z. Workers' Union; Hotel Workers; Freezing Workers; Miners; Labour Disputes; Seamen; Dairy Workers; Harbour Board Employees, Gas Workers.
G155 Press cuttings 1936-37. Arbitration Court; Unemployment; General.
G156 Press cuttings £1937. Lacks cover. Correspondence and articles Feb-April 1937 and split in Alliance of Labour, April 1936.]
G157 Press cuttings 1937-38. General; Gas Workers; Harbour Board Employees; Dairy Workers; Seamen; Labour Disputes.
G158 Press cuttings 1937-38. N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union.
G159 Press cuttings 1937-38-39. N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union (Waterside propaganda, etc.)
G160 Press cuttings 1938-39. N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union; Companies' Profits; Waterside propaganda, etc.
G161 Press cuttings 1939-40. Press correspondence, etc.; Waterfront Control Commission; Waterside Workers compensation; Waterside Workers propaganda; Waterside Workers miscellaneous.
G162 Press cuttings 1939-40. Press correspondence, etc.; N.Z. Harbour Boards' Employees; Miscellaneous Labour Disputes; N.Z. Federation of Labour; N.Z. Labour Party; Companies' Profits; Arbitration Court; Legislation; General.
G163 Folder containing newspaper clippings and cartoons, mainly of the 1938 election; includes A.S. Paterson cartoon, 21 Sep 1938, showing Savage as a ventriloquist's dummy on the knee of 'Labour Boss' Roberts. Also Dominion, 27 March 1940, on J.A. Lee's expulsion from the Labour Party, Otago Daily Times, 12 August 1940, on Court of Arbitration's order of 5 percent increase in wage rates.
G164 Newspaper clippings, miscellaneous. Includes: Chicago Industrial Worker, 15 Sep 1934, on Industrial Workers of the World and strikes; Press, 7 April 1933, on E.W. East of Bluff; 1921-22 clippings on Alliance of Labour constitution and would-be affiliation with the Post and Telegraph Department; A.N. Field, 'The Truth about the Slump'.
G165 Press clippings, some mounted in exercise book, some loose, mainly Invercargill-Bluff area, c.1877-80. Odds and ends, fun and fancy.
G166 Press clippings mounted in 1878 diary Includes jokes from 'The editor's armchair'; 'Bluff Harbour matters', c.1890-3;Canpbelltown Borough Council meetings, Oct 1881.
H1 Photograph 24 x 29 cm mounted on card (damaged) 35 x45 cm showing soldiers with hats turned up over left ears, bandoliers, flags, outside stately building. Keogh Bros., St Stephens Green, Dublin. On back: Citizen Army Parading in Croyden Park, Summer 1914
H2 Photograph 24 x 29 cm mounted on card (damaged) 36 x 45 cm showing soldiers (as in Hl) drawn up before Head Office, Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, which bears large placard: 'We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland'. Group of workers in cloth caps on left-hand side. Keogh Bros., St Stephens Green, Dublin. On back- Liberty Hall about November 1914.
H3 Photograph 24 x 29 cm mounted on card 35 x 40 cm (damaged) showing head office Irish Transport and General Works, with shattered corner and broken windows. On back: Liberty Hall after bombardment by British. Easter 1916.
H4 Photograph 30 x 38 cm mounted on card 39 x 45 cm (damaged) showing 17 men on steps of Parliament. [J. Roberts in front row].
H5 Photograph 15 x 20 cm on card 25 x 30 cm. 6 men in studio. Muir's Photographic Studio, King's Chambers, Wellington. On back: 'N.Z. Watersiders Workers' Conference July 1906. D. McLaren Sec.' Originally in wooden frame.
H6 Photograph 16 x 21 cm mounted on card 26 x 30 cm. Label - Model 2. This is a demonstration of the speed and drift Burtons used in New Zealand; also spreader for plank work. The masts and uprights are on hinges and can be forwarded to any part for demonstration purposes. Model by Mr J. Laurenson, Wellington.
H7 Photograph 15 x 20 cm, showing a frame with string and many pulleys.
H8 Photograph 21 x 15 cm, of model derrick?
H9 Photograph 15 x 20 cm of model crane? winch? with men figures, sacks and timber suspended.
H10 Photograph 15 x 19 cm model crane? winch? with men figures, and with bundles of sacks, timber suspended. Simiaar to 119.
Hll Photograph 14 x 20 cm mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation. Fourth annual conference, Lyttelton, August 16th, 1910. Names printed below. Taken in studio.
H12 Photograph 15 x 26 cm mounted on card 27 x 32 cm. Delegates to New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation Conference held at Auckland 1911. Names printed below. Taken outside hall.
H13 Photograph 15 x 19 cm mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. Delegates to the Waterside Workers' Annual Conference now sitting at the Town Hall, Wellington. Names printed below, but no date Cc. 191-? Roberts not there]
H14 Photograph 15 x 20 cm mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation. Annual Conference held at Napier, December 2nd, 1919. Names printed below. Taken in a garden, by P.C. Sorrell, photographer.
H15 Photograph 15 x 20 cm mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. Annual Conference of N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation held at Timaru, December 1st to December 17th, 1920. On steps of memorial to those 'who perished in the endeavour to save lives 11 May 1862'. Names printed below.
H16 Photograph 15 x 20 cm mounted on card 27 x 31 cm. New Zealand Waterside Workers' Annual Conference held at New Plymouth from 16th November to 1st December 1921. Names printed below. Taken in studio.
H17 Photograph 14 x 20 cm, mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. Delegates to the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation.... Auckland, January 1923. Names printed below.
H18 Photograph 15 x 21 cm, mounted on card 26 x 31 am. Delegates to the 22nd Watersiders' Conference held at Christchurch 1923. Names printed below.
H19 Photograph 15 x 20 cm, mounted on card 28 x 35 cm. New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation. Tenth annual conference, held at Wanganui, December 1924. Names printed below.
H20 Photograph 28 x 36 cm, in mount 41 x 50 cm (damaged). New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation. Twelfth annual conference held at Napier from November 17th,to December 2nd, 1926. P.C. Sorrell, photographer. Names printed below.
H21 Photograph 16 x 24 cm, mounted on soft card 27 x 33 cm. N.Z. Waterside Workers' Conference, Timaru, 1927. Names printed below.
H22 Photograph 14 x 20 cm mounted on card 28 x 35 cm. New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation. Fourteenth annual conference held at New Plymouth, November 1928. Names printed below.
H23 Photograph 14 x 20 cm mounted on card 28 x 35 am. Fifteenth annual conference, New Zealand Waterside WokkerS' Federation, Greymouth, from November 13th to 27th, 1929. Names printed below.
H24 Photograph 30 x 38 am in mount 41 x 50 am (damaged). New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation. Sixteenth annual conference held at Nelson, November 1930. Names printed below.
H25 Photograph 18 x 23 cm Mounted On card 28 x 35 cm. New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation. Sixteenth annual conference held at Nelson, November 1930. Names printed below.
H26 Photograph 15 x 20 cm mounted on card 28 x 35 cm. N.Z. Waterside Workers' Conference. Seventeenth annual conference, held at Auckland from November 11th to 25th, 1931. Names printed below.
H27 Photograph 15 x 20 cm (not mounted, no title or names). Another copy of H26, i.e. N.Z. Waterside Workers' Conference, seventeenth annual conference held at Auckland from November 11th to 25th, 1931.
H28 Photograph 15 x 20 cm, mounted on card 25 x 31 am. New Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation Conference held at Wellington, November 1933. Names printed below.
H29 Photograph 15 x 20 cm mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. National Council N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation. Names printed below. [not dated]
H30 Photograph 14 x 19 cm mounted on card 28 x 35 cm. Officers and executive, N.Z. Waterside Workers' Union 1936. Names printed below.
H31 Photograph 15 x 20 cm, mounted on card 28 x 33 cm. New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union. Twenty-first conference held at Wanganui, November 24 - December 13, 1937. Names printed below.
H32 Photograph 15 x 20 am, mounted on card 28 x 35 cm. New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union. Twenty-second conference held at Wellington, November 15-30, 1939. Names printed below.
H33 Photograph 15 x 21 cm, mounted on card 28 x 30 cm. South Island (N.Z.) Waterside Workers' Federation Biennial Conference, Westport, December 2-5, 1958. Names printed below.
H34 Photograph 15 x 20 cm, mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. Delegates to the Trades and Labour Councils' Conference, Wellington, N.Z. ZAK photo. Names printed below. No date but on back '1902' pencilled.
H35 Photograph 15 x 21 am, mounted on card 25 x 30 cm, shows two rows of men and one woman, with hat on, outside Wellington Town Hall. No names or date. On back in red ink 'The Big Sweede' (sic).
H36 Photograph, 13 x 31 cm mounted on card 18 x 37 cm. The N.Z. Federation of Labour Unity Conference, Wellington, April 1937. S.C. Smith photo.
H37 Photograph 14 x 20 cm mounted on card 25 x 30 am. Group including J. Roberts. Photograph C.P.S. Boyer, Wellington. Looks c. late 1930's. No title or names.
H38 Photograph 19 x24 cm mounted on card 27 x 32 cm. New Zealand Labour Party National Executive 1952-1953. No names.
H39 Photograph 14 x 19 cm mounted on card 28 x 35 cm. N.Z. Harbour Boards Employees' Union. Members of national council. First conference held in Wellington, January 26 - February 1, 1937. 3 insets. Names printed below.
H40 Photograph 18 x 28 cm, mounted on card 35 x 32 am. N.Z. Gas Works and Related Trades Employees' Union. Delegates attending Arbitration Court proceedings, 1938. Names printed below.
H41 Photograph 14 x 19 cm, mounted on card 28 x 35 cm. N.Z. Dairy Factories Employees' Union. Annual meeting National Council 1939. Names printed below.
H42 Photograph 19 x 14 cm mounted on card 30 x 25 cm. N.Z. Dairy Factories Employees' Union. First officers of National Union [1938]. Crown Studios, Wellington. Names below: J. Roberts, Hon. T. O'Byrne, J. Ross.
H43 Photograph 14 x 19 cm, mounted on card 28 x 35 am. N.Z. Dairy Factories Employees' Union. First Officers of National Union. Names below: J. Roberts, Hon. T. O'Byrne, J. Ross. Another grouping of H42.
H44 Photograph 16.x 11 cm, mounted on card 25 x 20 cm,of J. Roberts and unknown man, both in overcoats, in paddock. H45 Photograph 16 x 11 cm, not mounted, of J. Roberts and unknown man in paddock. Copy of 1144.
H46 Street photograph 17 x 22 cm, of Jas. Roberts and unknown man, taken outside old Wellington post office. Candid Camera Studios.
H47 Caricature of Mr Roberts [Waterside Workers' Federation] signed McNamara/36. 28 x 22 cm.
H48 Photograph 16 x 21 cm, not mounted, showing 9 men at conference table. On back pencilled 'Cr Barton Ginger', and stamped 'Copyright photograph, Wellington City Council Libraries Dept. N.Z.', with '1957' pencilled in.
H49 Collage, 3 photographs,Southland Sawmill Workers' Union, showing Tom O'Byrne in boxing gloves, 'The Boss wants to know why the men keep a big fat gutted Devil loafing around stirring up strife. We want to know why there are lots of fat gutted capitalists loafing around doing nothing.' Photographs etc. 23 x 18 cm, mounted on card 30 x 25 cm. Photo by Geo.T. Randell, Otautau (cracked).
H5O Photograph 11 x 16 cm mounted on card 20 x 25 cm. Social club on picnic, under trees, with bowler hats and ribbons on lapels; school girls in white dresses.
H51 Photograph 15 x 20 cm mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. Football team, boys and young men, knee-length shorts; one in the front row has bare feet. Photograph by A.J. Northwood.
H52 Photograph 11 x 16 cm, mounted on card 20 x 25 cm. Family group, parents, 5 girls, one lad (defaced).
H53 Photograph 8 x 10 cm on card 14 x 17 am. Vintage car, well - laden, with 3 men. On back: 'Picton 1913 strike. Outward bound for Christchurch'.
H54 Photograph 8 x 10 cm mounted on card 14 x 17 cm. Wharf at Picton, 8 men and vintage car. cf. H53.
H55 Photograph 15 x 20 cm, mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. Line of men, and two boys, outside G.M. Ryan's Lyttleton Hotel. C191-?] (cracked).
H56 Photograph 15 x 20 cm, mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. Wharf Cat Wanganui], 6 men loading coal, drawn out of ship in baskets, into horse-drawn dray. On back, label of photographer, F.J. Denton, Wanganui.
H57 Photograph 15 x 21 cm mounted on card 25 x 30 cm. Houhora, showing creek, bridge, jetty and shed, boats with masts etc. Houhora hotel in background, two men in foreground. Photographer A.J. Northwood, Kaitaia.
H58 Photograph 19 x 24 cm mounted on card 31 x 38 cm. Shows 6 flat drays, loaded with cases, each drawn by 2 horses, outside buildings 'State Canning Works' (on roof). Label below: 'First consignment to Canada of 1350 cases of grated pineapple loaded at State Cannery ready for shipment'. Photographer, Fegan Studio Brisbane.
H59 Photograph 15 x 20 cm, mounted on card 22 x 27 cm. 'Lambton Quay, Wellington, N.Z. 534 - Morris.' Shows Lambton Quay - Featherston Street corner, with Union Bank of Australia and tree-screened conveniences. Assorted horse-drawn vehicles and tram tracks. On reverse side, photograph 15 x 21 cm, 'Wellington; taken from slopes of Mt. Victoria, overlooking Te Aro Flat.
H60 Photograph 16 x 21 cm, close-up of memorial tablet inscribed: 'Remembrance. Andrews, Walter. Aplin, Robert Kintore. Boyd, Alexander Moncrieff. Cooper, Eddie. Johnson, Harold. Kitt, Thomas Ridley. Low, Norman Welles. Medcalf, Jethro Henry. Wilson, John Hopper. Woods, James. Erected by the N.Z. Waterside Workers' Federation in memory of their comrades who lost their lives in the harbour collision between the A.S. Tu Mu & launch Doris on the night of the 28th December 1932.
H61 Photograph 16 x 21 am, more distant view of memorial. See H60.
H62 Photograph 9 x 15 cm. Another view of memorial. See H60.
H63 Photograph, 9 x 15 am. Another view of memorial tablet. See H60.
H64 Photograph 15 x 21 cm, showing band and procession in street.
H65 Photograph 16 x 21 cm, flower-filled funeral cars and crowd.
H66 Photograph 15 x 21 cm, another view of funeral cars and crowd, as in H65.
H67 Photograph 15 x 21 cm, another view of band and crowd.
H68 Photograph 15 x 21 cm, similar to 1167.
H69 Photograph 15 x 21 cm, similar to H65-7, (from opposite side of street). A sign-board shows: Kircher's Newton Cabinet Works. Furniture ...' [i.e. H64-71 are in Newton, Auckland.]
H70 Photograph 15 x 21 cm, similar to H69.
H71 Photograph 15 x 21 cm, Similar to H69-70.
H72 Postcard 9 x 14 cm. 'Lyttelton N.Z. Panorama No.2' published by Tanner Bros., Wellington. On back: 'Dear Jim; these photographs are, no doubt, copyrighted but I see the publishers are in Wellington so perhaps you may get permission to reproduce. If not something appropriate will do. Later we may get something of unusual interest monthly. Sid'.
H73 Postcard 9 X 14 cm. Lyttelton WharveS and Harbour, by Tanner Broth Wellington. [Presumably relates to 1172.]
H74 Photograph 16 x 21 cm of Jas. Serbs (in overcoat), and 3 others. On back: 'W. Miller. The Press (Branch) Office, Lyttelton', and reproduction directions.
H75 Photograph 16 x 22, showing band and funeral procession. On back: 'Auckland Star copyright. Funeral of Mr N. Saunders Friday May 20th', [1927/1932/1938?].
H76 Photograph 16 x 21 am, Lambton Quay looking towards Midland Hotel; shows horse-drawn vehicles, 2 trams and one car. (damaged)
H77 Photograph 16 x 18 cm, [of Jas. Roberts, J. Flood, L. Glover and one other]. Overlaps with H78.
H78 Photograph 16 x 21 cm [of L. Glover and 4 other men]. Overlaps with 1-177. On back: '5 cols "Standard"'.
H79 Photograph 10 x 20 cm, large group standing or crouched. Jas. Roberts at extreme right. A few other familiar faces, e.g. J. Flood, J.O. JohnsOn. On back: printing directions.
H80 Postcard 14 x 9 cm, of Royal Avenue, Belfast. On back On back: Bert Stroak to 'Dear James', 7.9.51.
H81 Drawing 13 x 8 cm, on paper 17 x 13 cm [face not recognised]. Signed: Allen 36. On back: 'S/C line'.
H82 Caricature of M.J. Savage 21 x 11 cm. Signed: Allen 36. On back: 'S/C overall. Standard.'
H83 Photograph 16 x 23 cm, large group of men and a few women, Jas. Roberts in middle. Overseas conference?
H84 Photograph 16 x 21 cm. Large group of men, one woman, Jas. Roberts in front row. Overseas conference? H85 Photograph 17 x 23 cm, interior of conference hall.
H86 Printed photograph 12 x 20 cm on page 17 x 26 cm. International Anti-War Conference, 1921. Delegates' names printed below, identified by numbers.
H87 Photograph 14 x 16 cm, printed on paper 17 x 24 am. International Trade Union Conference, Amsterdam March - April 1921. Delegates names alongside, identified by numbers.
H88 Photograph 11 x 19 cm printed on paper 17 x 26 cm. international Peace Congress, The Hague, December 1922.
H89 Photograph 10 x 21 cm, printed on page 17 x 26 cm. Triptych in the Board Room of the International Federation of Trade Unions.
H90 Photograph 14 x 11 cm printed on paper 26 x 17 cm. Carl F. Moasin (?) [signature] President of Danish Federation of Trade Unions.
H91 Photograph 15.5 x 10.5 cm printed on paper 26 x 17 am. A.E. Cueles (?) [signature] Secretary-General Commission of German-Austrian Trade Unions.
H92 Photograph 15.5 x 10.5 cm, on paper 26 x 17 am. Otto Hue.
H93 Etching 9 x 16.5 cm on paper 24 x 29 cm. ' ? ? Genive.' T. Kranz-D8hm.
H94 Photograph 12 x 17 cm. Group of men on verandah and steps. Notice on building: 'Waiuta Branch, Inangahua Miners Industrial Union of Workers'. On back: 'Miners in front of the union office while secret ballot was in progress.' Jos. Divis, Photograph.
H95 Photograph 12 x 17 am. Crowd of men on bank, building in background 'Waiuta Miners Hall'. [Lettering largely obscured by figures]. On back: Jos. Divis, Photograph.
H96 Photograph 12 x 17 cm. Group of men, shabby, small buildings in background. Same size and photographer as H94-95; presumably Waiuta miners.
H97 Photograph 11 x 15 cm, new-looking wash basins, showers(?) wet floor. On back: 1P.fr. Nash Photograph, Auckland, Safe Deposit Bldgs, High St', and printing direction 'same size'.
H98 Photograph 11 x 15 cm. Workers canteen, pillared room, bare tables and forms, wet floor. On back: printing direction, 'same size'.
H99 Photograph 11 x 15 cm. Workers canteen, another view of H98, but including 3 wash-basins, wet floor. On back: P.F. Nash Photograph Auckland (cf. H97), printing direction, 'same size'.
H100 Photograph 9 x 15 cm. Post Office building, trees, butchers shop, cars. [Dave Philips advises: Cambridge, (N.Z.) mid to late '20s]
H101 Photograph 11 x 17 am. Two men, one in white jersey, panama hat, exchanging cash. On back: 'Wellington Transport Workers picnic. A serious financial transaction. 2 col. 6 1/8 overall.'
H102 Photograph 9 x 15 cm. Mass of people looking like very large picnic. On back: 'Leave same size'. Probably associated with H101.
H103 Photograph 8 x 21 cm. Girls' skipping race. On back: 'At play' and printing directions.
H104 Photograph 9 x 14 cm. Ferry loaded with picnicers at jetty; small bay edged with stones, rough grass with a seat; houses amid lots of trees. Looks like mid-'30s; could be Auckland area. On back:'Leave same sizes.
H105 Photograph 9 x 14 cm. Group of men, women, with children. A social club at a picnic. Some men have officials' ribbons. In building that could be railway shelters(?). On back: '8. Leave exactly same size'.
H106 Photograph 8 x 8 cm, 4-masted boat, (schooner? scow?) launch alongside,- at jetty; rocky coast. On back: stamp 'printed by Cash Stores'. 68. 1 Column size. 3" x 21/2".
H107 Photograph 6 x 8 cm, 5 men (one very young, in striped football jersey, one a Maori). House in background. On back: 'same size'.
H108 Photograph 13 x 8 cm. Man with moustache, panama hat, white shirt and trousers, leaning on rail: On back:'Leave same size'.
H109 Photograph 11 x 7 cm. Man, thickset, in white clothes and cap, beside a rather elegant woman in clothes of the '20s(?), corrugated iron fence covered with wire netting, and with sweet peas.
H110 Photograph 9 x 14 am. Jas. Roberts(?) and another man sitting in winged device. On back: 'Luna Park, St. Kilda,Electric Studio. M.D. True, Manager. Photos finished while you wait,day or night'. MS note: '5 rooms write 385, 4 rooms tel 26.334'.
H111 Postcard 'Springtime on the Desert of the Great Southwest'. Addressed to Mr. James Roberts, 80 Manners St. ... Message indecipherable, signed 'Bob'. Postmark 'El Paso, Texas, Mar 23, 1938'.
H112 Postcard 'Ranch house of the beloved Will Rogers in the Santa Monica Mountains, California.' Addressed to Mr James Roberts, 80 manners St. ... 'We flew from Warm Springs this morning and it was just great. I may remain here for the winter am having a good time and feeling O.K. Wish you were here with me. Love as ever Bob. Postmark: Los Angeles. Mar 27, 1938.
H113(1-30) Envelope containing 19 Cairo postcards and 11 Pompei postcards (coloured).
H114(1-13) Packet 7 x 9.5 cms. '20 photos TOULON' contains 13. [Originally inside envelope of H113, containing 30 Cairo and Pompei postcards].
H115 Minute book used as photograph album - holiday groups, views (some alpine), none labelled. Laid in: 15 assorted photographs
H116 Photograph 19 x 25 am on card. Jim Roberts in action, talking on the waterfront; [also copy negative and print].
I. Personal, mainly from packet labelled private and personal, I 1-28.
I1 L. Glover to Roberts asking if his brother might collect the goods and chattels left in Roberts's office. List receipted 18 May 1931.
I2/1 F.E. Hemingway of 'Patea and Waverley Press' to Roberts, 29 August 1932, MS and typed copy, private and confidential, enclosing:
I2/2 letter drafted by Hemingway and sent by Mayor of Patea to every director of West Coast Refrigeration Company, for the re-instatement of 5 men dismissed for refusing to 'scab'.
I2/3 Roberts to Hemingway, 31 August 1932, on steps that he and Walsh, of the Seamen's Union, were taking for re-instatement Of the men and settlement of the dispute. Private and confidential.
I3/1 J. Robinson, Metal Workers' Union, Dunedin, to Roberts, 7 Oct 1932, about Otago Metal workers' dispute and their acceptance of lowered pay; much union and industrial information.
I3/2 Roberts to Robinson, 14 Oct 1933, on dangers of craft organisation, and wage cutting; unions want Alliance of Labour to fight battles but are reluctant to pay organisers. Private and confidential.
I4/1 Roberts to J. Liddell,Auckland, 3 Nov 1932, about F.E. Martin attacking Roberts for being too moderate in tramways dispute.
I4/2 Liddell to Roberts, 7 Nov 1932, explains Communist influence, Martin's opportunism, tramways' federation problems and his own belief in Roberts.
I4/3 Roberts to Liddell, 11 Nov 1932, in reply and on freezing workers' dispute. All 3 letters private and confidential.
I5/1 F.E. Martin, Auckland Freezing Workers' Union and Labour Representation Committee, to Roberts, 7 Nov 1932. Claims to support Roberts and the Alliance but wants 'a real show-down'. 3p typescript.
I5/2 Roberts to Martin, 10 Nov 1932, calls Martin a lip-service friend and irresponsible, talking of strikes without knowledge of their reality. 7p carton typescript. Private and confidential.
I6/1 W. Wallace, gold miner, Nelson, to Roberts, 30 July 1933. Has received loan of £2, mentions Maori shearers
I6/2 Roberts to Wallace, 2 August 1933, thinks world on eve of social change. (In private packet).
I7/1 E.J. Tippett, president Taranaki Dairy Workers' Union, to Roberts, 2 Oct 1933, about Union's unpopular secretary, R. Fulton, and lack of money; asks advice. Confidential.
I7/2 Roberts to Tippett, 4 October 1933, on need to maintain unions and the Alliance of Labour's willingness to help with agreements and disputes. Confidential.
I8/1 J. Robertson, Wanganui Waterside Workers' Union to George [Thomas], Gisborne, 16 May 1983. Asks to borrow an Auckland conference report, his own copy being inadvertently destroyed. Personal. lp MS [Sent to Roberts by Thomas; enclosing letter not held.]
I8/2 Roberts to Thomas, 22 May 1933. Suspicious that Robertson is not telling the truth, as he had 3 copies of the report. Private. lp carbon typescript.
I9 Speech notes (?) MS, numbered headings, subject not clear but an 'Act of disloyalty to L. movt.'; mentions 'Friend S.G. Smith'. [Smith was successful National Party candidate for New Plymouth in 1935.]
I10 Roberts to W. Herbert, Dunedin, 25 Sept 1934, enclosing draft preface for Herbert's book on W. Lane and the New Australia Movement, a group which emigrated to Paraguay and which was mis -called Socialist.
I11/1 P. Butler, Wellington Builders' and General Labourers Union, to Roberts, 23 Jan 1935. Wants to nominate him for City Council.
I11/2 Roberts to Butler, 30 Jan 1935, declines nomination.
I12/1 F.G. Young, of N.Z. Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Industrial Association, to Roberts, 25 January 1935, warning that if Jordan is not disciplined by the [Labour Party] National Executive there will be 'a crackerjack rumpus'. Personal. CW.J. Jordan, M.P. stood for the Auckland Power Board despite Labour Party decision not to contest the position.;
I12/2 Roberts to Young, 28 Jan 1935. Personal.
I12/3 Young to Roberts, 6 Feb 1935. Private and Confidential.
I12/4 Young to Roberts, 11 Feb 1935. Auckland Labour Representation Committee severly censured Jordan, despite defence by six other M.Ps. Private and confidential.
I12/5 Roberts to Young, 14 Feb 1935. Jordan will have to toe the line and obey Labour Party decisions. Private and confidential.
I13/1 G.T. Thurston, Canterbury District Council, to Roberts, 10 pune 1935. Encloses 113/2 and mentions question of a candidate for Lyttelton. Private.
I13/2 E. Dye, Waihi Miners' Union, to Thurston, 5 June 1935. Complains he has been unjustly censured by Canterbury District Council.
I13/3 Roberts to Thurston, 17 June 1935. Says Dye has told the exact truth; he himself will not stand for Lyttelton; basis of selecting candidates is wrong. Private.
I14/1 Lew [Glover] to Roberts, 23 June [1935] from holiday in Australia, lp MS.
I14/2 Roberts to Glover,8 July 1935. 2p carbon typescript.
I14/3 Glover to Roberts, 6 Sept 1935, still on holiday, 2p MS.
I14/4 Roberts to Glover, 16 Sept 1935, with political and union news, 2p carbon typescript.
I15/1 F.G. Young, Auckland Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union, to Roberts, 12 Nov 1935, about letters to and from J. Thorn (not here) concerning trouble at the last annual [Labour Party] conference.
I15/2 Roberts in reply, 15 Nov 1935.
I16/1 Bill Clarke, of Dunedin Seamen's Union, to Roberts, 10 Jan 1936, asking advice in drafting a new set of rules for the shipwrights' union.
I16/2 Roberts in reply, 13 Jan 1936.
I17/1 Roberts to R. Fulton, New Plymouth, 10 Jan 1936, on possibility of organising the dairy workers in Taranaki. Private and confidential.
I17/2 Fulton to Roberts, 16 Jan 1936, wants to organise Taranaki dairy workers. Private.
I17/3 Roberts to Fulton, 21 Jan 1936. Private and confidential.
I17/4 Roberts to Fulton, 23 March 1936. Private and confidential.
I18 M.J. Savage, P.M., to Roberts, 29 Jan 1936, referring to his confidential letter (not held) of 21 Jan; will remember Roberts's recommendation of Sir Nesbitt William Armstrong for the Legislative Council. Private and confidential
I19/1 P. Butler, of General Labourers Union, to Roberts, 25 Feb 1936. Approves Roberts's presentation to the Minister of Labour the previous day, of the Alliance's attitude to proposed legislative amendments.
I19/2 Roberts to Butler, 26 Feb 1936.
I20/1 Roberts to C.H. Rudge, of Timaru Waterside Workers' Union, 23 March 1936, about Rudge saying that statements in Roberts's report to the Alliance of Labour were not true. Private.
I20/2 Rudge to Roberts, 26 March 1936. Refuses to make union business private.
I20/3 Roberts to Rudge, 27 March 1936. Denies that the matter was union business. Private.
I21/1 E.J. Tippett, of Normanby, to Roberts, 6 May 1936. Seeks support to get a job concerned with guaranteed diary prices, discourses on union affairs and encloses 121/2.
I21/2 Hawera Star, 6 May 1936, article on guaranteed prices,
I21/3 Tippett to Roberts, 12 May 1936, further union details.
I21/4 Roberts to Tippett, 19 May 1936.
I22/1 V. Nugent, Auckland, to Roberts, 26 March 1937, enclosing;
I22/2 'Case of H. Barnes' (2p cyclostyled) on how this Lands and Survey draftsman had been victimised out of his job for having written about the Auckland riots in 1932.
I22/3 Roberts in reply, 7 April 1937.
I23/1 J.G. Davidson, secretary N.Z. Federated Moulders, to Roberts, 23 August 1937, enclosing £20 from the Moulders in appreciation of splendid work during the past two years
I23/2 Roberts's reply, 31 Aug 1937; negotiations were a pleasure and payment unexpected.
I24 List of persons who held shares in the Wellington Publishing Company Ltd, on 2 Dec 1938 or the year immediately preceeding. 7p.
I25 Evening Post clipping, 5 March [1923] on local body elections: J. Roberts and Harbour Board; P.Fraser or J. Read, Labour candidate for mayor.
I26 Christchurch Sun clipping, 27 August 1932, 'Labour's Big Four': Glover, Cook, Walsh, Roberts.
I27/1 Invitation to Roberts to ceremony at Savage Memorial, Bastion Point, Auckland, 28 March 1943.
I27/2 Travel arrangements for official party at the ceremony.
I28 MS notes in Roberts's hand for speech in 1951 election. Refers to Holland and the waterfront strike.
Standing for Parliament, I 29-36
I29. Correspondence about New Plymouth seat, 3 Dec 1934, to 26 June 1935. (file)
I30. J. Thorn, national secretary N.Z. Labour Party, to Roberts, 24 Jan 1935, about his nomination for New Plymouth.
I31/1. J. Thorn to Roberts, 24 May 1935, enclosing copy of letter from W.G. Beckett, dated 20 May 1935, about Roberts visiting New Plymouth.
I31/2 Roberts in reply, 28 May 1935.
I32/1. W. O'Donnell, of Labour Representation Committee, New Plymouth, to Roberts, 7 June 1935, dis-associating the L.R.C. from a petition against him.
I32/2 Roberts to O'Donnell, 10 June 1935, denying knowledge of petition.
I32/3 O'Donnell to Roberts, 30 August 1935, about New Plymouth seat.
I32/4 Roberts to O'Donnell, 10 Sept 1935. He is too busy with industrial matters to stand for New Plymouth.
I33. V. George, New Plymouth, to Roberts, 15 July 1935, pressing him to withdraw decision not to stand for New Plymouth; further pressure, 30 August 1935. Roberts to George, 16 August, 10 Sept 1935; is too busy to fight election campaign. 4 letters.
I34 Roberts to F.G. Young, Auckland, 26 July 1934, suggesting he should stand for Hamilton. (Strictly private and confidential).
I35 Correspondence between Roberts and J. Robertson, on Robertson standing for Wanganui; 27, 31 July, 9 August 1934.
I36 Correspondence between Roberts and W.J. Rogers, Wanganui, about Rogers for Wanganui seat, 27 July, 4, 9 August, 15 16 Oct 1934.
ROBERTS, PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE ON PUBLIC LIFE Local Government, I37-44
I37 Local Government Commission. Report and provisional schemes of the Local Government Commission in respect of the areas and functions of local government in the Christchurch metropolitan area. At head of title: Christchurch Metropolitan Local Government. 94p appendices, maps C1949]. Bagnall N2584. Laid in: To Hon. Jas Roberts, M.L.C., for your information.
I38 N.Z. League for the Taxation of Land Values Inc. Evidence of the N.Z. League for the Taxation of Land Values to Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Body Government, by R. O'Regan and R.V. Varlow. 29p cyclostyled (stamped: Wellington, 20 Feb 1945) Stapled in: N.Z. League for the Taxation of Land Values. Ten good reasons why you should vote for rating on unimproved values. Wellington [1943?]
I39 Wellington City Council Engineer's Dept. Report on the housing survey of the city of Wellington, New Zealand, 1937. pp 17, 22, cyclostyled.
I40 Wellington City Council, Chief Health Inspector. Memorandum for City Engineer. Report on activities of the Sanitary Branch:
I40/1 for the period 1 Dec 1956 to 29 Jan 1957.
I40/2 for the period 30 Jan 1957 to 26 Feb 1957.
I41 Wellington City Council, Airport Committee. Minutes of meeting, 5 February 1957.
I42 Wellington City Council. Legislation, Leaseholds and Libraries Committee. Minutes of Meeting,5 February 1957.
I43 Wellington City Council. Public Health, Sanitation, Cemeteries, Abattoirs and Milk Committee. Minutes of meeting15 February 1957. (Councillor Roberts chairman).
FAMILY AND PERSONAL BUSINESS AFFAIRS - MISCELLANEOUS
Jl M. Fredericksen, ladies' tailor, from Mrs J. Roberts, 3 receipts, for overcoat, dated 20 June, 3, 15 July 1924. In 'Private' packet.
J2 Field and Luckie, Solicitors, to J. Roberts, 10 Dec 1923, for sale and purchase of section at Durham St, bill and receipt. Statement of balance due from J. Roberts to Felix 0. McCarthy, on subdivision 1 of Section 10 Polhill Gully.
J3 Receipt from Field and Luckie, dated 2 May 1925, for £82 from dames Roberts, balance of purchase money due on Lot 5, D.P. 6627, and balance interest to date due to F.O. McCarthy.
J4/1 Memorandum of mortgage, dated 25 March 1926, on land in Polhill Gully. Lewis Glover lent Roberts £300, to be repaid by 15 Nov 1930. Signed and stamped.
J4/2 Anbther copy signed but not stamped, folded with 34/1.
J5/1-2 State Advances Office, Statement of instalment due on mortgage dated 3 September 1926; 2 forms.
J6/1 Receipt, 16 Feb 1929, L. Glover from J. Roberts, £150 payment of half mortgage No. 167429; balance £150.
J6/2 Receipt, 22 May 1931, L Glover from J. Roberts, balance of mortgage £50 plus interest, etc., making £63.4.0.
J7 Treasury advice note of payment to J. Roberts of £54 for attendance at various committees, May to November 1929.
J8 Receipt, J. McKay, received from J. Roberts, £1.10s, 5 Jan 1931.
J9 Bill from N.Z. Worker & Publishing Co. to J. Roberts, 1 April 1931, for 500 copies Geneva Conference Report, £4.17.6, and receipt. In 'Private' packet.
J10 Wellington Hospital Board and J. Roberts, bill, receipts, letters, 19 Dec 1933 to 25 June 1934, concerning son John. 8 items.
J11 Specifications of labour and material required in erection of a residence, Polhill Gully, for. 3. Roberts, Esq: 6p carbon typescript.
J12 Specification of proposed concrete garage [for] J.Roberts, Polhill Gully. lp typescript and carbon copy.
J13 Correspondence between G. Hart, City Engineer, and Roberts, 3 Dec 1934 to 7 June 1935, 4 letters, about garage at 41 Durham Street, also Roberts and Manager, South British Insurance Company, 25, 28 Feb 1935, 2 letters about cover on labourers building that garage.
J14 Receipt, A.S. Binning, from J. Roberts, for rent of a house at Plimmerton, 4 weeks from 20 Nov 1937; and electricity bill.
J15 Bill [Laing], 13 Port Hills Road, Heathcote, Christchurch, to Roberts, undated, post mark not decipherable but with George VI stamp. Family inquiries, reference to Commission and over-weight wheat sacks; 6 dozen eggs sent on 'Rangitira'.
J16 Christmas card, photograph of Mt Egmont, from New Plymouth Branch of N.Z. Waterside Workers Union to Mr J. Roberts.
J17 Receipt, Cathie & Son, 11 Marion Street, Wellington, £12.12.0 for Dover Stone Overcoat, cash sale to Mr Roberts, 8.10.52.
J18 Bill from Wright Stephenson to Mr James Roberts for motor repairs, E25.3.7, dated 7.10.63.
J19 Social Security superannuation book Sept 1963-August 1964. Instalments March to August 1964 not cashed. Laid in: lodgement slip, Bank of New Zealand, dated 7 Jan 1964, for £19.19.0.
J20 'I don't know where the money goes'. The Finance Seer will help you. Domestic account book, first 2 pages only used.
J21 Folder with 4 letters:
J21/1 Bill Laing, Christchurch, to Roberts, undated. On Lyttelton wharf affairs; mentions [Waterfront] Commission.
J21/2 Mrs E.M.O. Meares to Roberts, 27 April 1943, on injustice over her divorce, etc.
J21/3 Arthur Day to Roberts, 29 April 1943.
J21/4 R. Snowden, of Labour Party, to M. Moohan, national secretary N.Z. Labour Party, 23 July 1943. Itinerary of 'Tour of Mr James Roberts' in Northland, 29 July-3 August.
J22 Exercise book with legal notes.
J23 'A slight misunderstanding'. One act play, concerning a photographer and an eager lady 3p typescript.
J24 The Book of Trinity College, Dublin, 1591-1891. Belfast, Marcus Ward, 1892. 316p illus. Inscribed: 'To Henry O'Connor, 9 Stanley Road, Gisborne, New Zealand, From his affectionate uncle Frank Sexton, 428 Pacific Mutual Bldgs, Los Angeles, California, Hoping he will be able to follow on the footsteps of the many illustrious Irishmen...'
These letters were sent in response to letters from Roberts' niece Joan, the daughter of his sister Elsie. Joan had married Leonard Belcher and the couple had emigrated to New Zealand in 1952, but returned to England in 1959.
The letters concern the award of C.M.G., family comments, and notes on travel to London.