Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union Of Australia, Victorian Branch

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Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsTrade UnionsHistoryThis union comes from the nineteenth century lineage of the United Tinsmiths', Ironworkers' and Japanners Soc. of Vic. 1883-c.1900; amalgamated and federally registered as Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Metal Workers Cannister Makers Gas Meter Makers and Assistant Union 1911; Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Aust. 1913-45. The certificate was presented to Thomas H Elliott (c.1870-1934) who came to Australia as a St. Barnado's boy following the death of his parents in the English influenza pandemic. Elliott was apprenticed to Warringtons, North Melbourne as a sheet metal worker, becoming shop steward and representative on the Tinsmiths' Wages Board, as this certificate shows. In 1922, Elliott and one of his three sons (The donor's father) started their own sheet metal business, T H Elliott & Sons.

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[2002.0011] Records of the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union Of Australia, Victorian Branch

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Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union Of Australia, Victorian Branch