Manufacturing Grocers' Employees Federation Of Australia
Description
Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsTrade UnionsHistoryEstd. c. Oct 1906 & registered March 1907; membership has remained small, concentrated in wide and disparate areas of grocers' sundries and non-edible groceries manufacture. Changed name to present title 1914, assuming federal character with Vic & SA branches. Attempt to form NSW branch in 1920s fell foul of AWU opposition. For many years both Vic and Federal secretary was F.J.Riley, a notable Victorian Labor figure.
Manufacturing Grocers' Employees Federation Of Australia. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 09/02/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/58032
![[1979.0100] Records of the Manufacturing Grocers' Employees Federation Of Australia](/img/placeholder.gif?1762303493 "[1979.0100] Records of the Manufacturing Grocers' Employees Federation Of Australia")