Ballarat Sustenance and Relief Workers' Union was a Trades Hall Council-sponsored organisation co-ordinating the self help activities of the Ballarat unemployed during the 1930s depression. (1935-1940) Central Unemployed Committee was established in Melbourne by Victorian Trades Hall Council in 1933. The Committee was known to actively lobby against work for the dole schemes.The file forms part of the history of "unemployed unions" during The Great Depression. It also highlights attempts by previous Australian governments to impose "work for the dole" on to unemployed persons in exchange for unemployment benefits. Paper in folder.unemployment, dole, central unemployed committee, victorian trades hall council, btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, work for the dole, ballarat sustenance and relief workers' union, the great depression

Copied for us by Tom Hills (Central Unemployed Committee president in the 1930s), from his originalPhotocopy of an invitation/ticket: bay trip to Portarlington per PS Weeroona, provided by the Central Unemployed Committee for 21 March 1932. 'Committee' ribbon attached by safety pin; this was probably Tom Hill's ticket, as President of the Committeesarah jane 'jennie' baines nee hunt, depression, societies clubs unions and other organisations, tom hills, p watkins, central unemployed committee

"Weevils in the Flour - an oral record of the 1930s depresion in Australia" by Wendy Lowenstein - hardcover 464 pages, dustcover, signed copy, first edition. Foreword by Manning Clark"Yours sincerely Wendy Lowenstein November 23, 1978 Melbournedepression, charities and appeals, fishermans bend, sustenance, lowenstein, katharin wendy, tom hills, clark manning, hills dot, port melbourne ladies benevolent society, central unemployed committee

Copied for us by Tom Hills (Central Unemployed Committee president in the 1930s), from either the original or a copy thereof which was in his possession.Photocopy of Town Clerk's list of sustenance labourers drafted for work at Fishermen's Bend. c1931 (undated)depression, fishermans bend, societies clubs unions and other organisations, tom hills, a l baird, g beaton, g w barfoot, h biggs, r j bailey, v w broad, f e brown, f cadden, j v w cann, j carter, f cassidy, l w casey, d christian, c m clarke, c a cormick, p cummins, m daley, r dagleish, t darcy, w j evans, j edwards, r fennessy, d forbes, l w fraser, f gath, w gundry, l harcourt, p helme, j c hess, i t irwin, j h jenkins, e r jensen, j w johnson, w h johnson, c e kelly, w kilpatrick, a lawrence, a w leo, a r miller, e j moffitt, a montague, w moody, p w mossenton ?, t moyle, w mckenzie, j c nicholls, c nuttall, a offord, j j owen, a r palmer, c rasmussen, w o seivers, s sleaton, j w smith, s snowden, t spratt, a c stubbs, f a voges