Place: Mount Isa
Summary
No. 18 Collection of papers. Mount Isa Mines disputes, 1961-1967.
Envelope 1. Photocopy of broadsheet issued by 30 Victorian Trade Unions. 'The Mount Isa Story', n.d., ca.1965, pp.2, details of Mount Isa dispute 1964-1965. Leaflet, 'Lead Bonus Robbery', issued for and on behalf of the Mount Isa Trades and Labour Council, by C.F. Heilbronn, Boilershop, M.I.M. 19 November 1947, Union claims for lead bonus against company proposals photocopy, roneoed sheet, p.1 Booklet, Mount Isa Mines: Real Facts Associated with the Mount Isa Dispute, printed by The Worker Newspaper, Brisbane [ca.1965], details of negotiations by A.W.U. with legal bodies for wages claim, photocopy, pp.27. Booklet, Mount Isa Mines Award for the Information of Financial Members of the A.W.U., photocopy, pp.24.
Envelope 2. Pamphlets, issued by Mount Isa Trades and Labour Council and Council for membership control of the A.W.U. during industrial disputes with Mount Isa Mines 1961-1967, includes mention of Pat Mackie, relief payments, typescript and roneoed, photocopied, 12 pp., 2 items, including 4 issues of Isa Truths. Attachments: 2 leaflets, Secrets, Mount Isa Labour Council, 1 dated 12 March 1967, both photocopies of roneoed sheets.
Envelope 3. Leaflets by Mount Isa Trades and Labour Council and Disputes Committee. Titles include: 'Message to Mount Isa Workers', 'Modern Spacemen', 'A Call To Mount Isa Workers', 'About the Six Points', 'More Conspiracy', 'A.W.U. Members Mount Isa - Return to Work', 'Good News', 'The Secret Ballot - The Enemy of the Comrades', 'Defeat Mount Isa Mines brutal attempt to impose starvation on Mount Isa workers, their wives and children', 'From the Voice of a Mother of Six, Mount Isa', 'Congratulations Pat Mackie', 'The Big Double Cross', 'Mount Isa Mines Holding Australian People to Ransom', ca.20 items. Also, 1 letter, E. Williams, Branch Secretary A.W.U., Queensland Branch Executive, to V.R. Moffat & Co., solicitors, Mount Isa, 21 January 1965, regarding Pat Mackie and his appeal against union expulsion, photocopy.