Series 03 Part 03: John Grenville files relating to the National Civic Council and its front organisations, 1948-1985

MLMSS 9329/Boxes 26-29

series

1948-1985

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

1114904

0.60 metres of textual material (4 boxes), some folders include photographs

John Grenville joined the Melbourne University DLP [Democratic Labor Party] Society in 1957 and the NCC in 1958. He was the Research Officer/Advocate for the Victorian Trades Hall Council from 1966 to 1969; Assistant Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council from 1969 to 1971 and Federal Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union from 1973 to 1975. He resigned from the NCC and the FCU in 1975, and was an independent industrial advocate and advisor to small unions from 1976 through to his retirement.

Reference:
Mark Aarons

Series 03 contains papers relating to the National Civic Council, its influences and activities in trade unions and its operation of front organisations. The files were collected in the period 1977-1992 in a series of investigations for the ABC. They cover material originally held by former senior members of the NCC, the unions it controlled and includes documents from a number of NCC-controlled or influenced front organisations.

BOX 26
Folder 1
‘Grenville versus The Australian’, 1973-1976, being correspondence over legal action

Folder 2
‘NCC – Internal Correspondence, articles and union subversion’, 1972-1977


Folder 3
‘Federated Clerks’ Union correspondence from and to Grenville (not international)’, 1973-1975

Folder 4
‘John Maynes correspondence (not to Grenville)’, 1973-1977

Folder 5
‘John Forrester correspondence [to & from Central & Southern Queensland Branch], 1972-1976

Folder 6
‘Maynes Investigated’, ca. 1975, being photocopied documents, including company searches

Folder 7
‘Allegations about Grenville’s membership of the Federated Clerks’ Union’, 1971-1976

Folder 8
‘Grenville’s disqualification from membership of the Federated Clerks’ Union’, 1976

Folder 9
‘International’, 1973-1974, being photocopied correspondence of John Grenville and John P. Maynes mainly with, and relating to, overseas trade unions

BOX 27
Folder 1
‘Health Funds Exposure’, 1975

Folder 2
‘NCC membership records and miscellaneous papers’, 1977-1982

Folder 3
‘Appeals of Grenville and Forrester to B. A. Santamaria and related papers’, 1974-1975, 1985, including talk, ‘The NCC and the Federated Clerks Union’ by John Grenville, given at Clerks Reform Group Election Dinner, Collingwood, Vic., 21 Apr. 1985

Folder 4
‘I.A.F. [Industrial Action Fund]’, 1982-1983

Folder 5
‘NCC 40th Anniversary Dinner’, 1981

Folder 6
‘Review of Santamaria’s Against the Tide’, 1981, including corrected typescript review by John Grenville for ABC radio program, Doubletake

Folder 7
‘Pat Hallinan correspondence’, 1976-1977

Folder 8
‘Re-affiliation of NCC unions to the ALP’, 1983-1984

Folder 9
‘Court proceedings between Santamaria and dissident members of the NCC’, 1982-1983

Folder 10
‘Maynes on Equal Pay’, 1961

Folder 11
‘Company Records’, 1983-1984, including microfiche and relating, in part, to FEDSDA Co-operative Credit Society Limited and Shop Distributive and Allied Employee’s Association (Victorian Branch)

Folder 12
‘FCU Papers’, 1974-1979 mainly relating to Rules of the FCUA and related amendments

BOX 28
Folder 1
‘Miscellaneous Papers (Volume One)’, 1948-1985, including correspondence and printed material

Folder 2
‘Miscellaneous Papers (Volume Two)’, being photocopied material relating to the Australian Defence Association (Victoria), probably compiled by Rosemary Gillespie and duplicating material in BOXES 21-22

Folder 3
‘Miscellaneous Papers (Volume Two)’, mainly relating to the FCUA, Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (Victorian Branch), NCC and the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council

BOX 29
Pamphlets and publications by and/or about the NCC, 1956-1979, 1990, including photocopies, including issues of Facts: Background, Information, Analysis, 1962-1970, published by the NCC; Programme [for] The Second Freedom Rally at the Royale Ballroom Melbourne on Saturday, 5th November 1960, at 5 p.m.; Fifteen Years of Peace Fronts [1964] by J. P. Forrester

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Box listings compiled by Mark Aarons and amplified by Library staff