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The Barbara Curthoys Collections UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE ARCHIVES, RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS UNIT COMMUNIST PARTY OF AUSTRALIA ARCHIVAL MATERIAL BARBARA CURTHOYS COLLECTION Conduit: Dr Geoffrey Curthoys Date: September, 2000. A8441 (i) Union of Australian Women. Mrs. June Moore. – Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs (b/w) of Moscow visit. 1956-59. A8441 (ii) Queensland correspondence. 1994-95. A8441 (iii) ASIO Correspondence. 1994. A8441 (iv) W.E. Women’s Equality. 2 1972. A8441 (v) “Women in the workforce and the UAW (1950-1970)”, paper delivered by Barbara Curthoys at the 5th Women and Labour History Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney 29th September-1st October 1995, plus leaflets and other papers. A8441 (vi) Editors and office bearers’ names for Our Women ; list of officers of the National Body of Union of Australian Women. 1953-1960. A8441 (vii) Equal pay notes ; Are Women paid men’s rates? issued by the Council of Action for Equal Pay. 1943. 16pp. 1956. A8441 (viii) SEARCH Committee - application for funding. 1994. A8441 (ix) Memorandum of agreement between Barbara Curthoys (the Author) and The Union of Australian Women (the UAW) to publish A History of the Union of Australian Women (the work). Papers and notes. [1994]. A8441 (x) Union of Australian Women commenced. New Housewives Association disbanded. 1950. A8441 (xi) Union of Australian Women, – correspondence, leaflets, 1995-96 ; b/w photograph ‘Price control petition, 1964’ taken Union Street, Newcastle NSW. A8441 (xii) Union of Australian Women, - Executive, Management Committee, quarterly meeting minutes. 1953-1954. A8441 (xiii) Union of Australian Women, - Committee minutes. 1955. A8441 (xiv) Union of Australian Women, - Inaugural meeting 1950 ; First Annual conference 1951. A8441 (xv) Comments on the history of the Union of Australian Women, More than a hat and glove brigade. by Barbara Curthoys. 1997. A8441 (xvi) Sales, correspondence and distribution of the history of the Union of Australian Women, More than a hat and glove brigade. by Barbara Curthoys. 1996. A8441 (xvii) Copy of Chapter 5 of Women come rally :communism, socialism and gender. 1890- 1955. by Joy Damousi ; correspondence. 1994-1995. A8441 (xviii) Leaflets for International Women’s Day ; 3 b/w photographs of women [???] ; portraits from New Housewife, 1. Mrs. Ella Schroder, 2. Mrs. Lucie Barnes ; negative of photo of Vida Goldstein. 1949, 1964. A8441 (xix) Union of Australian Women news sheet. 5 issues, 1965-67. ; Copies of 1. Basic Wage Variations, Male and Female, Sydney NSW 1914-1964 ; 2. Leaflets “Equal pay for women”, NSW Government election advice to women (24.2.1968) ; 3. Fundraising to attend International Conference, “In defence of children”, in Vienna (9.4.1952) and 4. Report of an exhibition of Australian items on board a ship as well as a description of a visit to Bombay and a textile factory. [1950-1970]. A8441 (xx) Union of Australian Women – correspondence and research ; 1)Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the Australian National University ; 2) Australian archives ; 3) Pam Young. 1993-95. A8441 (xxi) - Interview with older women’s network. [UAW past members.] 1994. A8441 (xxii) – interview with Dulcie Flowers. 1994. A8441 (xxiii) – interview with Lurline Simpson. 1994. A8441 (xxiv) – interview session with members. 1994. A8441 (xxv) – interview with two members, Sylvia Harding and Audrey McDonald. 1995. 1 A8441 (xxvi) – interview with Debbie Knopman ; material from Eastern Suburbs UAW branch. 1995. A8441 (xxvii) – interview questionnaire, notes. [1990]. A8441 (xxviii) Biography of Henrietta Greville, 1861-1961 [?] woman pioneer of NSW. Typescript draft. 5 pp. [1970]. A8441 (xxix) – Jean Spencer, resume of her life, Newcastle and Warners Bay. 1994. A8441 (xxx) Union of Australian Women – speakers’ notes re Mother and Child Campaign 1959 ; list of dates and events, 1950-1969 ; interview questions. 1994. A8441 (xxxi) History of Union of Australian Women of interview – Betty Reilly. [1994]. A8441 (xxxii) History of Union of Australian Women – printed articles about Waterside Workers’ Women’s Committee and the BWIU ; notes, photocopies of newsclippings. [1990]. A8441 (xxxiii) History of Union of Australian Women. Articles from the Seamen’s Journal 1967, 1968. Seamen’s Union Women’s Committee ; letter from Jean Wurlod of Ashfield with printed articles. [1990]. A8441 (xxxiv) History of Union of Australian Women – interview with Freda Brown. 1995. A8441 (xxxv) History of Union of Australian Women. Questionnaires, interview with a group of former members. 1994. A8441 (xxxvi) History of Union of Australian Women. Copy of a list of records of the Union of Australian Women (W.A. Branch) deposited in the Battye Library in April 1970 ; Correspondence with State Archives of W.A. ; copies of articles about the Western Australia Group. 1995. A8442 (i) Newspaper clippings of various topics: family ; local persons ; peace rallies/ protest rallies ; letters to the editor ; bus strike ; soviet science. 1959-1988. A8442 (ii) Newspaper clippings: Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations and protests on the visit of the US President L.B.Johnson to Sydney. 1966. A8442 (iii) Coping with grief – papers by Beverley Raphael, Professor of Psychiatry ; C. Knight Aldritch, Professor of Psychiatry ; Erich Lindemann, M.D. ; W.R.Brion. 1944 – 1981. A8442 (iv) Report of Newcastle AICD meeting 9th June 1971. A8442 (v) NSUC minute book, August, 1971-February, 1972 ; Socialist Party of Australia minutes, March, 1972-August, 1976. A8442 (vi) How children learn to learn, seminar held at the Newcastle Teachers’ College, on 31st March, 1973. A8442 (vii) Exercise book – notes on the brain with typescript (7 pp.) at front. Notes on USSR and on education of children at back. 1976. A8442 (viii) Jack Kavanagh articles. Kavanagh Bolshevism: the early years of the communist movement in Vancouver (1920-1924), by David Akers [typescript] ; Jack Kavanagh, by David Akers ; “An episode in the class struggle”: Jack Kavanagh on the one-day Vancouver general strike of 1918, by David Akers. Letter from Hector Kavanagh of South Australia. 1992. A8442 (ix) Jack Kavanagh articles. Chap. 1 “Militarism, migration and militancy, the first thirty-five years, by David Akers. 1992. 80 pp. Draft copy.; Rebel or revolutionary? Jack Kavanagh and the early days of the communist movement in Vancouver (1920- 1925), by David Akers. (To be published in Labour/Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies.) [1992]. 76 pp. Letter from Hector Kavanagh. [1992]. A8442 (x) The Comintern, the CPA and the Non-Aggression Pact , by Barbara Curthoys. Published in Peoples Cause, Vol.1, no. 3. May 1992. 13 pp. A8442 (xi) Peoples Cause, journal of the Association for Communist Unity, Vol. 1, no. 3, May 1992. 31 pp. A8442 (xii) Newcastle Housewives’ Association: annual reports 1942-44, draft constitution, pamphlets, newspaper clippings ; Trade Union Unity Conference Agenda 1949. A8442 (xiii) Discussion with Professor Firsov (Firsoff) – 12th November, 1990. The period 1929- 34-39 of the Comintern in Russia. Handwritten. 5pp. A8442 (xiv) Recollections of Vic Bird.[1912- ]. 12pp. ; Ted Docker’s reminiscences, “(recorded early 1970s, ___ I think…)”. [1990]. A8442 (xv) The Newcastle Peace Committee. Minute Book, May, 1979 – December, 1987. Barbara Curthoys, secretary. 1979-1987. A8442 (xvi) Newcastle Peace Committee. Membership letter and Constitution of the Australian Peace Committee. 1980. A8442 (xvii) Newcastle Peace Committee correspondence. 1986-1988. 2 A8443 (i) Welcoming address, by Erich Honecker, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany to the world congress for International Women’s Year, Berlin, 20 October 1975. 12pp. A8443 (ii) 70 Jahre Internationaler Fauentag. 1980. A8443 (iii) Documents of the world congress for international women’s year held in Berlin 20- 24 October 1975. A8443 (iv) (a-d) Die Frau und der Sozialismus. von August Bebel. Erstausgabe, 1879. Internationale Konferenz des Zentralkomitees der sed aus Anlass des 100. Jaharestages des Erscheinens von August Bebels buch Die Frau und der Sozialismus. Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR 23-25. Februar 1979. Nos. 1 – 4. [Various languages used – German, English, Spanish, French, and Russian.] A8443 (v) Women in the GDR. An appraisal of progress in the implementation of the World Plan of Action of the United Nations – Decade for Women. Reporting period: 1976- 1980. Ed. by Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic, 1980. A8443 (vi) Women and Socialism: newspaper clippings Neues Deutschland ; The Socialist ; Berliner Zeitung . 1949. A8443 (vii) Women in Socialism, a magazine from the German Democratic Republic. 62pp. 1972. A8433 (viii) World Conference of the UN Decade for Women: Equality Development and Peace. Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-30 July, 1980. Documents. A8444 (i) Socialist Party of Australia and Women documents. 1980. A8444 (ii) “Bureaucracy embezzles sovereign rights”, by Les Kelton. [Typescript]. 8 pp. 1982. A8444 (iii) The Australian Marxist Review. Vol.1, no. 1; Feb. 1972. 35 pp. A8444 (iv) Socialist Party of Australia – split. Statements by T. Supple, W.J. Brown, Pat Clancy. 1983. A8444 (v) Socialist Party of Australia, documents, correspondence – splits in the party. 1980- 1983. A8444 (vi) Socialist Party of Australia, third congress, 29th September – 2nd October 1978. Folder. Delegate no. 49. Documents, correspondence. A8444 (vii) Socialist Party of Australia – expulsions. Correspondence and documents. 1982. A8444 (viii) Socialist Party of Australia. Correspondence,
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