Papers of Frederick J. Riley

Résumé du livre

MS 759 consists principally of correspondence, records, notes, reports, scrapbooks and photographs acquired by Riley whilst he was an executive of the Manufacturing Grocers' Employees' Federation of Australia, and an executive member of the Trades Hall Council, Australian Labor Party, Anti-Communist Labor Party and the Democratic Labor Party. Also included are smaller collections of papers relating to the Socialist Federation of Australia, 1910; the anti-conscription campaign and the Australian Peace Alliance, 1916-1917; the general election, 1919; Wharf Labourers Women and Children's Relief Committee, 1919; 44 hour wage case, 1926; Y Club, 1918-1941; Dr William Maloney's Memorial Fund, 1941; Commonwealth Prices Commission, 1942-1948; Fred Riley's wife, the former Alice Ann Warburton, and his father Frederick Riley (70 boxes, 6 fol. boxes, 2 elephant folios).