LATTER, WILLIAM S. (BILL), 1925-2002 President of the Trades and Labor Council of Western Australia, Secretary Fire Brigade

LATTER, WILLIAM S. (BILL), 1925‐2002

President of the Trades and Labor Council of Western Australia, Secretary Fire Brigade and Fire Officers Union of WA, Collie Miners’ Union President, Member Coal Industry Tribunal, Member University of WA Senate (Governors Nominee), Advocate for State School Teachers Union, Founding Member Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (Perth Branch), Chairman Board of Management Fremantle Hospital, Activist Communist Party and Australian Labor Party, Deputy Mayor City of Fremantle Council, Author, Researcher, Historian.

PRIVATE ARCHIVES MANUSCRIPT NOTE (MN 279; ACC 1685A, 4375A, 5955A, 8122A ) SUMMARY OF CLASSES CORRESPONDENCE NEWSLETTERS CURRICULUM VITAE NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS FILES PHOTOGRAPHS MINUTES PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH NOTES

Acc. No. DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDENCE 1685A/5 1958 ‐ 1961 Coal dispute Collie 4375A/1 27 May1965 ‐ 21 January 1977 4375A/2 January 1977 ‐ 27 June 1978 4375A/3 26 April 1978 ‐ 26 November 1979 4375A/4 1980s, includes sections on ALP, ACTU, TLC and general correspondence 5955A/1 25 September ‐ 8 August 1991 File of Correspondence

CURRICULUM VITAE 4375A/8 1942 – 1993

FILES 1685A/1 1949 ‐ 1963 includes Collie Ratepayers association Newsletters Cribbo 1953 ‐ 1963. The Miners Light 1954, Communist State Party Conference 1965 decisions and supplementary resolutions and miscellaneous correspondence and duplicated material on Coal Mining and Collie Affairs [1959 ‐ 1963. 1685A/6 1953 ‐ 1961 Balance sheets and lists of major shareholders in many business companies. 1685A/2 September 1960 – Sep 1961 Coal dispute 1685A/7 1963 Collie Ratepayers Association and Collie Roads Board Affairs

MN Page 1 of 10 Copyright SLWA ©2010 1685A/8 1952 ‐ 1964 Press Cuttings and leaflets on Collie Coal Union struggle with management. 1685A/10 1959 ‐ 1962 Duplicated reports to Communist Party, Minutes of Combined Unions Council 22 June 1959 ‐ 13 September 1962 , 10 Photographs [some identified] , miscellaneous correspondence 1960 ‐ 1962. Correspondence of Union of Australian Women 1959 ‐ 1960 8122A/ 1 1899‐1996 Various Files: City of Fremantle and Fremantle City Council, Royal Fremantle Golf Club (Inc.), Short Street Precinct, Fremantle Hospital and Board of Management, Ian Hills, The Industrialist Newspaper, Adele Pankhurst Walsh, Industrial Disputes, Archival Material, Academic Papers and Historical Files.

City of Fremantle and Fremantle City Council 1988 Endowment Lands Trust Fund Paper: History of Fund, Fund Balance Sheet, Endowment Lands Trust – Reserve Fund, (Legal Opinions), Report to the Trust Fund Committee, Report to Finance Committee, Associated Papers. 1989 Corporate Planning Committee, Corporate Plan – Commercial Properties Discussion Paper: Current Status Information, Unencumbered/Encumbered Properties, Estimated Capital Value of Historic Properties, Properties for Resale, Portfolios, Heritage Properties, Property Income Projections. 1976 Royal Fremantle Golf Club (Inc.): History of Club, Annual Report, Oval, Parks, & Reserves Committee Minutes (22nd September, 1905). 1986 Report on Heritage Significance of the Short Street Precinct by Dr Bob Reece, Senior Lecturer in History at Murdoch University: Terms of Reference, Research Plan, Pre‐1829 Aboriginal Occupation, Periodisation, 1829‐1985 Residential/Industrial/ Commercial/ Residential/Industrial/Commercial/Entertainment/Transportation/ Cultural, Statement of Significance, Options for the Future, Recommendations, Maps, Plans, Copies of Prints and Photos. 1992‐1993 Fremantle Hospital Board of Management: Office of the Auditor General, Opinion on the Controls and Financial Statements and the Assessment of Performance Indicators of the Fremantle Hospital. Correspondence and Press Report Files. 1992‐93 Fremantle Hospital: Operating Theatre Utilisation Preliminary Report. Laboratory System Development Project Status Report No 3, Oracle Forms Version 4 Evaluation. 1991‐1996 Ian Hills: A Collection of Published Short Stories. Ian Hills was a Fire Brigades

MN Page 2 of 10 Copyright SLWA ©2010 Officer who was Involved in the Work of Establishing the Union of the Fire Brigade Officers Union with Bill Latter. 1976‐1992 Correspondence, Reports, Papers, Case Files, and Notes, Acts, Legal Opinions, Papers: The Fire Brigade Employees Union – Coverley and Hefron Opinion, A Monument to Murder: Celebrating the Conquest of Aboriginal Australia Paper, Bennetts v Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales and Others Case, Market Loading for Academic Staff, Review of Policy. 1917 The Industrialist – The Official Organ of the Industrial Vigilance Committee WA: Newpaper Edition March 1, 1917 Featuring Articles on Miss Adela Pankhurst the Noted Reformer, Cutting From West Australian Newspaper on Pankhurst Meeting on “Internationalism”, Correspondence and Telegram from Department of the Army Intelligence Section on the Visit Considering Prosecution for Sedition, Various Intelligence Reports, Australian Archives Material. 1919‐1991 Historical Papers: The Italian Aliens on the Kalgoorlie Goldfields from Director of Military Intelligence, Department of Defence Minute Paper Blue Shirt Organisation WA, Lumpers Dispute (1917), War and Aborigines a Textual Historiography, Throw Out the Socialists, A Labour History of the Pilbara Iron Ore Industry, Wiluna in the Thirties the Italian Presence, The Consensus Legacy the Burke Government and the Trade Union Movement, Labour Oral History Collection at Battye Library as at 1 October, 1997. 1991 Adela Pankhurst Walsh: The Unwritten History Paper by Anne Summers, Adela Pankhursts Sojourn in the West by Bill Latter, Australian Archives WA Division Papers, West Australian Military Files Reports and Correspondence. 1899‐1989 Historical Papers: Confrontation and Reconciliation on the Waterfront‐The Fremantle Lumpers Strike 1899, Women Clerks and industrial Action in WA 1913 and 1919, The Stay of the SS Papachristidis Vassilios in Fremantle, The Fimiston Riots, Western Australia’s Secret Army (Police Act 1892), William Patrick Leen (Mick McGovern), Autobiographical Novel Comment “Disturbing Element” by Xavier Herbert.

8122A/2 1860‐2001 Various Files including Papers, Archival Material, Photographs, Biographical Material, Newspaper Articles, Registers, Research Projects, Military Intelligence Files and Police Reports, Disputes, Research Material, Folders and Correspondence.

1860‐1990

MN Page 3 of 10 Copyright SLWA ©2010 Wallwork W. (Bill) J. (1903‐1971) Magistrate, Coal Commissioner, Chairman WA Coal Industry Tribunal, Public Service Commissioner, Public Service Head: Details his Uncle Tom Lowry Collie Miners’ Union Secretary, Biographical Material, Marriage Notice (Wallwork‐Mulcahy), Travel Permits “Order Unconstitutional”, Death Notice, Student File, Parents Register of Marriage, Fathers Birth Certificate, Family Recollections, Lowry Family History, ‘White Sails and Silver Scales’ Booklet Written by Albert Wallwork in Changi Prison. Newspaper Articles, Copies Photos and Correspondence. (Bill Latter Commenced Biography of W. J. Wallwork in 1989). 1918‐1981 Various Photos (Most no Information, Dates or Names): State School Teachers Union Conference Perth 4‐4‐1918; Portrait of Mary Baker Eddy by H. G. Smith; Three Thermoses and Two Pots; W. A. Murphy; M.V. Kybra (Fremantle); Bradshaw Limited/Wunderlich Ceilings Employees; S.S. Wemodecus Crew Fremantle 1925 (Chinese Crew Scabbed on by White Deckhands and Officers – Dispute Equal Pay); Demonstration Wharves (Inchcape). 1978‐2001 Various Papers: The Development of a Physical Fitness Test for Firemen; September 11th and its Aftermath; Where is the World Heading: ‐ Noam Chomsky; Events and Aftermath – Edward Said (Observer); Washington wants Afghanistan – Jared Israel; Trial of Khmer Rouge Leaders in Cambodia; Trades and Labor Council of WA, List of Historical Books Stored in TLC Library (1993). 1915‐1990 Sergeant O’Meara No 3970 – Received Victoria Cross Ribbon at Cardonelle January 1st, 1917: Research Project by Bill Latter Commenced 1967, Record of Service, Inmate at Claremont Mental Hospital, Royal Commission Inquiry into Claremont Hospital Administration. Correspondence, Copies of Photos. Various Papers: The Unexpected Strike – A Study of the Strike by WA Firefighters 14‐16 November, 1980; Definition of Pure WA Unions; Picketing of Fremantle Wharves 1956, Daily and Lock Out Union Bulletins by Publicity Organisation Committee; WA Labor Party Factionalism, Formation of Centre Left Faction (1984), Preselections for 1986 State Election. Newspaper Articles. 1945‐1981 Various Papers: Australia and Assisted Immigration from Britain, 1945‐1954; La Stampa Italiana, the Story of a Fascist Journalist in Perth; The 1960 Collie Coal Contract Dispute, Brian Pope;

MN Page 4 of 10 Copyright SLWA ©2010 Mechanisation at Collie, Brian Pope. 1948 S.S. Papachristidis Vassilios Stay in Fremantle: Folder of Material Including Photographs, Newspaper Articles, Conflict Between Officers and Crew, Conditions on Board, Desertions, Fremantle Unions Assisted Crews, Jailing of Crew Members, Police List of British Seamen Convicted, Intervention of British Consul, Chronological History of Events, Questionnaire. 1915‐1967 Folder of Copies of Archival Material: Labor’s Volunteer Army, The All British Newspaper 1916, Direct Action Newspaper 1916 (Wobblies) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Publication, Australian Labor Federation/Party Records, The Industrialist Newspaper 1917 (The Official Organ of the Industrial Vigilance Committee WA), The Death of the Russian Imperial Family Paper by Paul Nichols, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 1958, Building the Union Studies on the Growth of the Workers’ Movement Merseyside 1756‐ 1967, Commonwealth Archives Office Accession Records Extracts: Prisoner of War (Internees) 4th Military District, Commonwealth Police Force Registry, Property Statements Italian Internees, Alien Organisation Files. Department of the Army Intelligence Section Maltese Immigrants in Australia Suppression of Information/Censorship. Australian Military Forces Fifth Military District Censorship Office, Police and Military Correspondence and Reports on Suspected Individuals Unsympathetic to War Effort and being Members of The Industrial Workers’ of the World, Internments, Deportations, Naturalisation and Denaturalisation of Aliens. Italian Immigrants Papers/Newspaper Articles, Hostile Demonstrations in Kalgoorlie, Deportation of Italians 1919, The Italian Aliens on Kalgoorlie Goldfields. Anti‐Conscription Meetings, An Appeal to Women, Industrial Workers’ of the World Involvement, Fifty Points Against Conscription Leaflet. 1913‐1974 Workers Homes ‐ The Act In Operation: First Dwelling Under Lease Hold Provisions Paper, Fremantle East Ward Scheme Map (Demolished Houses), List Occupier of Homes, Certificate of Titles.

8122A/3 1966‐1994 Various Files including Papers, Newspaper Articles, Research and Biographical Material, Manuscripts, Thesis, Photographs, Archival Material, Maps and General Correspondence.

Files: Labour Relations in the Western Australian Coalmining Industry; The 1911 Strike at the Scottish Colliery – Project Paper W. S. Latter; No Winners – The British Seamen’s Strike of 1925 – Peter Gifford (2 Files); Various Papers Including History of Collie Mine;

1966 Labour Relations in the West Australian Coalmining Industry. A Thesis. Presented in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Economics at the University of Western Australia by A. N. J. Blain B.Ec (Hons). 1989‐1993 The 1911 Strike at the Scottish Colliery – Project Paper W. S. Latter. Project Paper, Research and Annotations, Various Drafts. (3 Files). Research Material Including Articles of Association, Newspaper Articles, Memorandum of Association, Hand Written Notes, Notice Union Secretary Summonsed for Breach of Agreement, Research Material Including Origins of the Early Miners in Collie – The British and Eastern States Connection, Coal Miners’ Industrial Union of Workers of WA Office Bearers 1900‐1922, Conviction of Miner James O’Grady and Biographical Details. 1991 No Winners – The British Seamen’s Strike of 1925 – Peter Gifford. Its Ramifications at Home and Abroad Chapters 1‐6. Thesis Presented as Part of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honors at Murdoch University (2 Files): Chaper 1 – The Australian Background; Chapter 2 – The British Background; Chapter 3 – Australasia and Defeat in South Africa; Chapter 4 – Western Australia and Total Defeat; Chapter 5 – The Strike’s Social and Economic After‐Effects; Chapter 6 – The Strike’s Short and Long Term Industrial and Political Effects. Conclusion, Bibliography and Appendix. 1994 Various Papers, Newspaper Articles, Photos (Shotts), Union Structure, Family, Union and General Correspondence. History of Collie and the Collie Mines; List of Migrant Workers – Predominantly Former Displaced Persons Working in Collie Mines up to 1964; 1985 North Tyneside Miners Support Group Calendar; Coal Mining Disasters in New South Wales and Queensland Between 1920‐1979 – A Technical Appraisal; Down the Pit: Work in the Great Northern and New South Wales Coalfields 1870‐1914; Historic Notices and Domestic History of the Parish of Shotts: Includes Papers, Maps, Poetry, Photos and History of Bard John Craig 1796‐1854. Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission ‐ Decision Collie District Deputies 1988. Why the Safety Lamp Increased Accidents‐Paper New Scientist 1983. 1989‐1991 University of Notre Dame – Exemption from Rating of Property. Statutory Declaration, Legal Opinion, Correspondence.

MN Page 6 of 10 Copyright SLWA ©2010 1982 30 Years of Labour History and Associated Papers. Paper by W. S. Latter; Labour History 290.411 WA Reading List; Check List of Somerville Papers; 1952 Metal Workers’ Strike Chronology of Events.

8122A/4 1981‐2003 Various Files including Papers, Manuscripts, Autobiographical Pieces, Historical Overviews, Interviews, Book Reviews, Labour History Research Material, Reports, Newspaper Articles, Research and Biographical Material and Correspondence.

1981‐1986 Autobiographical Pieces. 1960/1961 Coal Strike at Collie – Paper by W. S. Latter; A Historical Overview of the Fixation of Women’s Wages in Western Australia 1900‐1980 – Paper by W. S. Latter; Good Times and Bad in the Coal Town – Newspaper Article Anti‐ Communist Campaign in Collie; Launching of ‘Blacklegs’. 1911 Strike at the Scottish Colliery Notice; Newspaper Article on Latter Brothers Branded as Cowards. 1989‐1999 Correspondence and Paper Files (4). 1989‐1995 File (I) including Correspondence and Papers:‐ Easton Petition, 1918 Trial of Eight IWW Members for Seditious Conspiracy, Book Review The Wobblies at War, Review into the Role of Government in Publishing, Appointment to UWA Senate, WA Secret Army, Grants to Publish Works, Special Bureau Files, Passionist Deported, History of Communist Party in WA, Fremantle Hospital, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Rosa Townsend Biography, Appointment to Fremantle Hospital Board, Biographical and Historical Details, Military Intelligence Archives, Biographical Register of the Australian Labour Movement 1788‐1975, World War 1 Internees, The West Australian. 1989‐1992 File (2) including Correspondence and Papers:‐ University of WA, Royal Western Australian Historical Society (Inc), Australian Nursing Federation, WA Maritime Museum, Letters to Editors, Government of WA, Biographical, Trades and Labor Council Building Society, Fremantle Hospital Board, University of Notre Dame, Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Fremantle Devolution History of Lots (Paper and Map), City of Fremantle Council, Municipal Elections, Universities, The Fremantle Society Inc, Extracts from Police Records “The Collie Mines Bomber”, Australian Labor Party. 1997‐1999 File (3) including Correspondence and Papers:‐ University of WA Press, Government of WA, Labour History Journal, Research Institute for Cultural Heritage, WA Maritime Museum,

MN Page 7 of 10 Copyright SLWA ©2010 Minutes Maritime History Advisory Committee, Report on First Stage of Exhibition Brief (Related Museum Activities), City of Fremantle, Formation of Industrial Unions within the WA Fire Brigade ‐ Paper by Ron Harley AFSM, Fremantle City Library, Trades and Labor Council of WA, Hansard Excerpts, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Curtin University of Technology. 1995‐1997 File (4) Including Correspondence and Papers: Federal Government (Carmen Lawrence), Clough Engineering, City of Fremantle, May Day a History, Referee’s Report “The Secret Army”, Trades and Labor Council of WA, Fremantle History Society, WA Police, Government of WA, Premier’s Book Awards Short Listed Books (1996), History of Labor Movement in WA Project, Australian War Memorial, University of WA Press, Consumer Credit Legal Service WA, Book Reviews, Various Universities, Paper “Anne Teasdale Synopsis – Impact of Irish Immigrants, 2003 Manuscript: “Unity is Strength” ‐ A History of the Organised Labor Movement in WA 1899‐1999 by Bobbie Oliver. Includes Bibliographical References and History of: Australian Labor Party Western Australian Branch; Trades and Labor Council of Western Australia; Labor Women’s Organisation Western Australia; Labor Movement Western Australia; Labor Unions Western Australia; Women in Politics Western Australia. (Curriculum Vitae Bobbie Oliver).

8122A/5 1979‐1998 Various Files including Acts, Papers, Manuscripts, Newspaper Articles, Circulars, Bills, Acts, Hansard Excerpts, Regulations, Press Statements, Military Intelligence Files, Reports, Reviews, Biographical Material and Correspondence.

1979‐1980 Police Act Amendment Bill, 1979. Legal Opinion, Second Reading Speech Notes, Commissioner of Police Correspondence to Trades & Labor Council – Street Marches, ACTU Report National Day of Protest, Decision of ACTU Executive re Arrest of Union Officials in WA, Hansard Excerpts, Statement by Deputy Premier D. O’Neill on Review of Laws of Public Assembly in WA, Road Traffic Code Regulations, Correspondence between Trades and Labor Council and Premier, Press Statements re Fining of Unionists, Statement by Leader of the Opposition (Ron Davies), Findings on Complaint Concerning East Perth Lock‐Up, Council for Civil Liberties Conditions and Practices at the East Perth Lock‐Up, Arrest of Senator Ruth Coleman, Bill Latter and 37 Others at Forrest Place Rally. Hansard Excerpts, Bill, Acts, Prison Regulations, Government Gazette, Circulars, Reports, Newspaper Articles, Press Statements,

MN Page 8 of 10 Copyright SLWA ©2010 Correspondence. 1998 Report to Minister for Housing Yvonne Henderson MLA. Government Employees Housing Authority Rent Review Committee (Chaired by Bill Latter). Minutes of Meetings – List of Annexures: Letters from Treasury and GEHA; GEHA Standard Rent Table; Isolation Discount Table; GEHA Housing Stock; Government Rent Structure in Other States; Paper on Homeswest Rent Structures; Three Tables Showing GEHA Rentals and Vacancy Rates; Two Tables on GEHA Growth and Financial Position; GEHA Cost Rents by Region; Submission by Treasury on Options; GEHA Charts Showing Options; Comparable Homeswest Cost Rentals. 1992 Australian Archives. Military Intelligence Files Acc No PP14/1. Paper and Preface by W. S. Latter. Investigation of Alleged Enemy Aliens and Military Intelligence Activities During and Immediately After the First World War Covering an Eight Year Period. Preface: The Origin of this Study Resides in Research which was Undertaken at the Australian Archives in Western Australia. The Series Contains a Broad Range of Information. This Study Consists of Brief and not so Brief Notes on those Files which are likely to be of Interest to Historians. 1996 Paper by Felicity Mitchell: ‘A Flower that Refused to Bloom’ The Industrial Workers of the World in Western Australia 1914‐1918. A Dissertion Submitted in Part Fulfilment of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, with Honours in History. Department of History, University of Western Australia. 1981‐1987 Miscellaneous File Includes Papers, Minutes, Commission Hearings, Submissions, Reports, Reviews, Biographical Material, Circulars, Press Releases, Newspaper Articles, Correspondence, Papers Including: Equal or Unequal Rights Freedom of Contract, Professional Historians and Researchers Association, Employment and Unemployment Within the Community, C. Y. O’Connor Papers Listing, City of Fremantle Discussion Paper Economic Plan, Review of Coal Industry Tribunal Act, Retirement Speech to Trades and Labor Council, Planning for the Americas Cup, The Legend of Russian Jack, Women in Work Association Lecture Notes, The Future of Fremantle by Dr Geoffrey Gallop, The Burke Ambush Review, Constitution and Rules of Parliamentary Electorate Staff Association of WA, May Day, Tolpuddle Martyrs 150th Anniversary 1834‐1984, Trades and Labor

MN Page 9 of 10 Copyright SLWA ©2010 Council of WA 25th Anniversary – A Visual Record, Rules of Fremantle and Districts Trades’ Hall Industrial Association of Workers, Hearing Submissions, The Homeboat Strike of 1925, Beaconsfield Police Station Occurrence Book No 1197/13 (Xavier Herbert). Correspondence including: Trades and Labor Council, State School Teachers Union of WA, Coal Miners’ Industrial Union of Workers of WA ‐ Collie, State Government, Government Departments, University of WA, WA Museum, WA Police Access to Records, Fremantle City Council, Fremantle Hospital, Various Editors, Legal Opinions, Local Government Association, Trade Union Training Authority, Personal. 1985 Bill Hartley File. Sydney Morning Herald Magazine Article. “Bill Hartley Bingles On”.

MINUTES 1685A/10 22 June 1959 ‐ 13 September 1962 Combined Unions Council

NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS 1685A/3 1960 ‐ 1962 Coal Mining Industry and Coal Mining Companies 1685A/4 1947 ‐ 1960 Coal industry in Australia and overseas 1685A/9 1960 Clippings and recorded material on campaign against Crimes Act Amendment Bill 1685A/11 September 1960 ‐ February 1961 Collie Coal Dispute clippings , leaflets and duplicate material.

PHOTOGRAPHS 1685A/10 1960s some unidentified [photocopies only]

PUBLICATIONS 5955A/2 Publication entitled "Disturbing Element" by Xavier Herbert

RESEARCH NOTES 4375A/5 1960s Various awards L ‐ Z Research 4375A/6 Female Wage Research 4375A/7 1975 ‐ 1978 TLC Education 5955A/3 Research Notes relating to Publication by Xavier Herbert Holdings = 1.50cm.