Badge, Amalgamated Carpenters & Joiners Australasia, Australia, 1922-1944
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1922-1944
Note: This object includes white superiority messaging. Horseshoe-shaped badge with chain ring issued by the Amalgamated Carpenters & Joiners Australasia, manufactured by G.A. Miller, Sydney.
The Australian District of Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners was first registered in 1911. By the end of 1922 the title of the union had been amended to become the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters & Joiners of Australia. Some carpenters had felt that the relationship between their Australian union and the British Amalgamated Society of Carpenter and Joiners (ASCJ) was too strong, and established an independent Australian union, the Progressive Society of Carpenters and Joiners in the 1870s.
This division in the Australian carpenters union was not healed until the 1920 when the Australian ASCJ broke off links with the parent union in Britain. In 1945 is name was changed to the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia. This badge provides an example of the popular promotion of the White Australia sentiment which dominated Australian immigration policy after Federation and which was particularly promoted by unions. Horseshoe-shaped badge with chain ring. Blue enamelling on horseshoe, over which is inscribed: 'Amalgamated Carpenters & Joiners Australasia'.
Set within the horseshoe is a white enamelled map of Australia, with the six states inscribed.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Blue enamelling
- Dimensions
- Overall Dimensions: 26 mm (Width), 34 mm (Height)
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- G.A. Miller
- Place recorded
- Australia
Design
- Marks and inscriptions
- Obverse, enamelled: 'Amalgamated Carpenters & Joiners Australasia'. Reverse imprint: 'G.A. Miller Sydney.'
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Museums Victoria, Melbourne collection record for this single object (sentences kept verbatim apart from removed sale or rarity wording); how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Candidate id
- mv-1459469
- Museum object name
- Badge - Amalgamated Carpenters & Joiners Australasia, G.A. Miller, Sydney,1922-1944
- Holding institution
- Museums Victoria, Melbourne
- Museum object number
- HT 22940
- Published references
- Australian Trade Union Archives: http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0270b.htm Australian Trade Union Archives: http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0061b.htm http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/objectsthroughtime/objects/banner/
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm the wider type, maker and dating against a specialist reference; this entry documents one recorded example.