Cumberland Ore Miners' Association

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National Union of Mineworkers

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Miners' Federation of Great Britain

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Miners' Federation of Great Britain

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Miners' Federation of Great Britain

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Coal mines and mining -- Wales, South

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Miners -- England -- Northumberland

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General Federation of Colliery Firemen's, Examiners' and Deputies Associations of Great Britain

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Miners' Federation of Great Britain

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Murton Colliery, Durham

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Labor union members

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Miners' Federation of Great Britain

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Miners -- Scotland

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Miners -- England -- Durham

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South Wales Miners Federation

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Penallta Colliery, Wales

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Labor union members -- Wales, South

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Miners -- Wales, South

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Miners' Federation of Great Britain

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Labor union members -- England -- Durham

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Miners -- England -- Durham

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Labor union members -- England -- Derbyshire

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Miners -- England -- Derbyshire

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Labor union members -- Wales, South

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Coal trade

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Wages

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Complaint by Electrical Trades Union in 1923 that Miners' Federation of Great Britain in South Wales were treating their members as non-unionists and stopping them working; and also by Miners' Federation of Great Britain, accusing Electrical Trades Union of poaching.

Report of conference between Electrical Trades Union and Miners' Federation of Great Britain, 23 March 1916.

Complaint by the General Federation of Firemen, Examiners and Deputies' Associations that their members were being forced into the Durham Miners Association.

The Deputies produced evidence from 1878 and 1917 that the Durham Miners Association had agreed to an arrangement of clearance transfers.

Complaint by Miners' Federation of Great Britain that the National Union of General Workers had been encroaching on their membership in South Wales as a result of the national lock-out in the coal industry, 1921.

Complaint by the Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen that the Operative Bleachers, Dyers and Finishers' Association were organising textile workpeople.

Complaint by the National Union of Corporation Workers that they had been refused an additional two seats on the West Midland Joint Industrial Council.

[In 1919 they'd been offered three but had accepted only one.]

Allegations that the Workers Union had used the unofficial dock strike at Hull to enroll Transport and General Workers Union members into their union and thus split the Transport and General Workers Union at Hull.

Allegations that stevedores had poached Transport and General Workers Union members.

Allegations of blacklegging, calling meetings of Amalgamated Marine Workers' members and officials and making agreements with the Ship owners contrary to trade union principles, made by the Amalgamated Marine Workers against the National Sailors and Firemen's Union.

Havelock Wilson's story of the conspiracy, 1923 leaflet; pamphlet against the PC5 system, 1923.

Correspondence regarding Joint Seamen's Conference to settle the differences between the trade unions by a proposed amalgamation.

Further correspondence regarding the amalgamation proposals.

British Seafarers' Union

An open letter to sailors and firemen regarding amalgamation, British Seafarers' Union leaflet, 1922.

Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union

Rules; statements of account 1923-4; The Marine Worker, no.11, volume 2, November 1923, and nos. 3-4, volume 3, March-April 1924.; various pamphlets.

National Sailors' and Firemen's Union

Correspondence between Southampton Branch and Head Office of National Sailors and Firemen's Union, 1911; balance sheet, 1924; minutes of proceedings of conference with Representative Cooks and Stewards, 1921; various leaflets.

National Union of Ship's Stewards, Cooks, Butchers and Bakers

Rules; various leaflets; judgement in National Union of Ship's Stewards, Cooks, Butchers and Bakers v. Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union, 25 February 1924.

Also copies of evidence supplied; transcript of speech of J. Havelock Wilson at a meeting of National Maritime Board, 22 April 1921; press-cuttings.

Memoranda on the above dispute and amalgamation negotiations.

Reports of Disputes Comittee meetings.

Correspondence with Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party regarding the above dispute.

Notices of meetings of Joint Seamen's Conference and Disputes Committee.

Allegations of poaching made by National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants and the National Union of General Workers against the National Drug and Chemical Union.

Complaint by Dundee Union of Jute and Flax Workers that the proposed amalgamation between Transport and General Workers Union and the Mill and Factory Operatives Union would hinder the prospective amalgamation of trade unions in the textile (other than cotton) industry. The latter was being fostered by the Trades Union Congress.

Allegations by Transport and General Workers Union of Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen poaching transport workers employed at the Swansea Harbour Trust.

Complaint by National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association that Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers would not allow their members to work on buildings.

Proposal of possibly amalgamating the French Polishers' Society and the Furnishing Trades Association.

Dispute between National Sailors and Firemen's Union and National Union of Railwaymen regarding organisation of employees on railway-owned vessels within the 3 mile limit.

Broadsheet advertising National Union of Railwaymen.

Allegations of poaching made by Amalgamated Society of Operative Lace Makers against Workers Union during a trade dispute at Messrs. Gregory, Nottingham.

Complaint by the Tailors and Garment Workers Union that the Amalgamated Society of Tailors had caused a breach of agreement between Transport and General Workers Union and Co-operative Wholesale Society.

Agreement between the Federation of Papermakers and the Papermakers' Unions.

Attempts by Trades Union Congress to resolve the differences between National Association of Theatrical Employees and Electrical Trades Union, 1922 regarding recognition of each others' cards in the entertainments industry; also a demarcation dispute regarding the fixing of a switchboard at the Admiralty Theatre, Wembley.

Allegations made by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Vehicle Builders of poaching by Miners' Federation of Great Britain in the South Wales Coalfield.

Complaint by the Musicians' Union that the Burnley and District Weavers' Association had formed the Burnley Dance Players' Association.

Allegations made by Amalgamated Engineering Union that the West of Scotland Brass Turners' Association had accepted six Amalgamated Engineering Union members who were heavily in arrears.

Dispute regarding demarcation and lines of agreement between the Actors' Association and the Variety Artistes' Federation.

The Performer, volume 38, no. 946, 14 May 1924; volume 40, no. 983, 28 January 1925.

Allegations made by National Union of Clerks regarding poaching at Newcastle by National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants of National Union of Clerks Members who were in arrears.

Complaint by the United Patternmakers' Association that 3-4 of their members had joined the National Union of Railwaymen rather than pay a 5s. fine for working excessive overtime at the LNER Works at Darlington.

Complaint by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers that the National Union of Co-operative Insurance Society Employees, whose application for affiliation to the Trades Union Congress had been rejected, had since become a member of the Insurance Workers' National Federation and thus affiliated to the Trades Union Congress.

National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers objected because most of National Union of Co-operative Insurance Society Employees' members had been originally poached from National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers.

Complaint by Workers Union about Transport and General Workers Union retaliatory poaching at Pontsmill.

Extract from The Workers' Union Record, no. 128, July 1924.

Complaint by the Tailors and Garment Workers' Union that one of their members had been stopped from working at Messrs. Cohens, Havelock Rd., Hackney by the United Ladies Tailors' Union.

Allegations by Miners' Federation of Great Britain of poaching by the General Federation of Firemen's, Examiners' and Deputies Association at Loan End Colliery, Lanarkshire.

Complaint by the Typographical Association that the London Society of Compositors were refusing to accept the cards of Typographical Association members who obtained work in London.

London Society of Compositors annual report, 1925.

Complaint by the Amalgamated Society of Boot and Shoe Makers of poaching and strikebreaking by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers.

Complaints by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers of intimidation and the issue of a defamatory circular, A Cloudy New Dawn, by National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants.

The New Dawn, official organ of National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, volume 2, no. 19, September 1922; A Cloudy New Dawn, 1922.

Allegations made by the Journeymen Butchers' Federation of poaching by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers at the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society

Allegations of blacklegging made by the Rossendale Boot, Shoe and Slipper Operatives' Union against National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives.

Day rates of Rossendale Boot, etc., Operatives.

Complaint by Workers Union of alleged strikebreaking by Iron and Steel Trades Confederation at Messrs. Hickmans, Bilston.

Complaint by National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives of poaching by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers at the Worcester Co-operative Society.

Complaint by Railway Clerks Association about Amalgamated Engineering Union's unwillingness to come to an arrangement concerning railway engineering draughtsmen and workshop supervisors.

Request by National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association for a working agreement with National Union of Vehicle Builders concerning recognition of the formers' membership card in railway coach-building shops.

Complaint by the Union of Saddlers and General Leather Workers of intimidation by Miners' Federation of Great Britain.

Complaint by the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, etc., Workers of poaching and encroaching by the Scottish Typographical Association.

Allegations of poaching made by National Union of Agricultural Workers against Workers Union.

Complaint by the Amalgamated National Union of Quarryworkers and Settmakers of alleged poaching by Workers Union at Coleford, Gloucestershire.

Complaint by National Association of Theatrical Employees of intimidation by Electrical Trades Union at Olympia, Liverpool.

Complaint by National Union of Clerks of intimidation and poaching by National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel at the Avenue Press, Drury Lane.

Complaints by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers and National Union of General and Municipal Workers of poaching by the Tobacco Workers' Union in London and at the firm of Messrs. Godfrey Phillips.

Tobacco Workers' Union rules, 1925; also scales of contributions and benefits.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers of poaching by the Bolton Amalgamated Operative Bleachers, Dyers and Finishers' Association at Messrs. Vernons Limited, near Preston; includes correspondence with Messrs. Vernons.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers as above.

Lists of National Union of General and Municipal Workers and Operative Bleachers and Dyers members at Messrs. Vernons; also a comparison of members on both lists.

Allegations by National Sailors and Firemen's Union that Workers Union had poached their members who worked on Trinity House Vessels and had fallen into arrears.

Report of a deputation of Trinity House employees to J. Havelock Wilson, 10 December 1920.

Discussion regarding men who had joined the United Patternmakers' Association after being excluded from the Amalgamated Engineering Union for excessive arrears.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union of poaching by the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses at Messrs. Bryce and Weston, Londonderry, 1925-7; also complaint by Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses of poaching by Transport and General Workers Union at the Kettering Clothing Co-operative Factory, Corby.

Journal of Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses, volume 26, no. 209, June 1926; various Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses ephemera.

Complaint by Electrical Trades Union that Post Office Engineering Union had recognised rates for electrical installation work below those agreed by the Electrical Trades Union and the National Federation Electrical Association

Allegations by the National Sailors and Firemen's Union that Transport and General Workers Union had been poaching their members working on Canadian Pacific and Orient vessels and at Liverpool, Tilbury, and Southampton.

Transport and General Workers Union membership cards and corresponding membership records of National Sailors and Firemen's Union for the same four men; bye-laws and regulations of the Hull Branch of National Sailors and Firemen's Union; other miscellaneous documents

Complaint by the National Union of Clerks that an award concerning the wages of clerical staff employed by National Association of Theatrical Employees had not been put into operation, the staff had ceased work and National Association of Theatrical Employees had then employed other labour.

National Association of Theatrical Employees rules, 1922; A Trade Union as employer and strikebreaker, National Union of Clerks broadsheet, 1926.

Complaint by the General Federation of Firemen's Examiners' and Deputies' Associations and Scottish Associations of intimidation and poaching by Miners' Federation of Great Britain and also misrepresenting the origin of the Loanend Dispute.

List of Miners' Federation of Great Britain members who had formerly joined the deputies; Ayrshire Miners' Union questionnaire for firemen and deputies in the mines, 1925; Colliery Firemen, etc., Association, circular, appeal to non-unionists; Miners' Federation and policy of absorbtion, General Federation of Colliery Firemen's, etc., Associations, pamphlet.

Demarcation dispute regarding a member of the Builders Labourers and Constructional Workers, who was working for Dorman, Long and Company Limited as a steel erector; the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation claimed he should transfer to the Constructional Engineering Union, one of their constituent bodies. Constructional Engineering Union bye-laws and working conditions, 1924; Constructional Engineering Union ticket stewards rules.

Demarcation dispute regarding the right to upholster railway carriages; National Union of Vehicle Builders complained about their men being stopped from working at the Waring and Gillow's factory, Hammersmith on a Metropolitan Railway Carriage Company contract by the Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers.

Demarcation dispute regarding the right to carry out hot water service installations within the area covered by the Birmingham water mains [jobs specified]. National Union of Operative Heating and Domestic Engineers claimed they were being prevented by United Operative Plumbers.

Demarcation dispute between the above two trade unions regarding the installation of hot water supplies at the new offices of the West Riding County Council, Wakefield; including correspondence with Ben Turner regarding the dispute; also a dispute at Higher Irlam Margarine Works.

Arbitration award of Trades Union Congress Disputes Committee regarding the Wakefield dispute, 12 June 1929; lists of hot water contracts executed by the two unions in Yorkshire.

Reports sent to the Trades Union Congress by the Ministry of Labour regarding the above dispute.

Awards regarding demarcation disputes between the above two trade unions; including New Masonic Hall, Leicester, 1909; Leicester Orthopaedic Hospital, 1920; Beackley and Gorton Housing Schemes, 1920-1; Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow, April 1926; New County Offices, Wakefield.

Correspondence regarding the demarcation dispute between the above trade unions; including regarding the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow.

Correspondence regarding the demarcation dispute between the above trade unions; including regarding proposed agreed demarcation lines.

Documents regarding the above demarcation dispute.

Complaint by National Association of Theatrical Employees about the removal by Electrical Trades Union of their member from work at the South London Palace. National Association of Theatrical Employees claimed the work was not construction, but preparation for effects.

National Association of Theatrical Employees rules, 1922.

Correspondence between the above trade unions and the Trades Union Congress regarding agreements concerning recognition of cards of qualified electricians on construction for places of entertainment.

Documents regarding the above dispute.

Various National Association of Theatrical Employees terms and conditions of employment, 1921, 1925; draft agreement between National Association of Theatrical Employees and Electrical Trades Union, 1927.

Complaint by National Association of Theatrical Employees about Electrical Trades Union forming a theatrical branch and poaching from National Association of Theatrical Employees.

Further correspondence concerning National Association of Theatrical Employees' complaint about Electrical Trades Union's theatrical branch.

Complaint regarding a circular issued by National Union of Clerks which was felt by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants and Transport and General Workers Union to be prejudiced against them.

Important to clerks in co-operative employment, National Union of Clerks circular, 1926.

Dispute between Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and National Union of Textile Workers concerning membership of four men at Messrs. Steiner and Company, Accrington.

Complaint by National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel that National Union of Clerks were distributing their leaflets amongst National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel members in the newspaper offices and were thus encouraging secession.

List of members who had seceded from National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel; Agreement between Newspaper Proprietors' Association and various trade unions.

National Union of Clerks' appeal for a re-hearing.

Further attempts to reach an agreement between the two unions.

Correspondence and documents regarding the attempts to reach a workable agreement in this dispute.

The Clerk, March 1929.

Complaint by United Patternmakers' Association that Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers were attempting to compel men at the Empire Stone Company, Narborough to leave United Patternmakers' Association and join Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers; also correspondence regarding applying the decision to other cases.

Demarcation dispute regarding the organisation of Weavers at Stubbins Vale Mill, Ramsbottom, between Amalgamated Weavers Association and Bleachers, etc. Association, Bolton Amalgamation.

Complaint by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers of poaching by United Road Transport Workers' Association at Hartlepool, and a countercharge by United Road Transport Workers' Association of poaching by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers at various Co-operative Societies.

National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers summary statements of minimum rates of wages and conditions.

Complaint by Electrical Trades Union about the National Union of Corporation Workers taking Mr Kraus into membership; this prevented a settlement of a dispute between Electrical Trades Union and Bermondsey Borough Council over the latter's employment of Kraus in the Electrical Installation Department.

Complaint by the Scottish Typographical Association that National Union of General and Municipal Workers had allowed two of their members (who were not printers) to take the place of members of Scottish Typographical Association at Bryant and May, Glasgow.

Dispute between the above trade unions; Amalgamated Society of Wood-cutting Machinists alleged that Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers were recognising the cards of a breakaway Wood-cutting Machinist Union in London; Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers stated that Amalgamated Society of Wood-cutting Machinists had been excluded from National Federation of Building Trade Operatives for preparing work for blackleg labour.

Dispute regarding the National Union of Seamen's political and financial support of the Miners - Non-Political Union to which Miners' Federation of Great Britain objected.

In 1928 National Union of Seamen was excluded from Congress because of its support for non-political unions.

Documents regarding the above dispute; including circulars, press-cuttings, reports.

Letters and extracts from letters by Mr. W.J. Davies to J. Havelock Wilson, 1925-7, also speeches delivered by W.J. Davies, 1926-7; minutes, of Disputes Committee hearing regarding the above, 11 October 1927; The Seaman, volume 6, no. 387, 5 November 1927; The Non-Political Miners' Journal, no. 6, volume 1, December 1927.

Documents regarding the above dispute, including press-cuttings.

The Industrial Peace Journal, no. 3, volume 1, July 1927; the Non-Political Miners' Journal, no.1, volume 1, June 1927; letters, etc. from W.J. Davies to J. Havelock Wilson, 1925-7, etc.

Complaint by Electrical Trades Union of poaching by National Union of Corporation Workers of B.M. Jewell and six others.

Allegations of poaching made by Tailors and Garment Workers against Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses at Messrs. Bryce and Westons, Londonderry; and the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses unwillingness to return the workers.

Rules of Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses and Tailors and Garment Workers; alleged declaration by workers of Messrs. Bryce who wished to stay with Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses; also a signed and attested repudiation of the above declaration. See also 85/54.

Charge of forgery made by Tailors and Garment Workers against Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses regarding the documents signed by 38 women at Messrs. Bryce and Weston, Londonderry who refused to rejoin the Garment Workers.

Complaint by Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses of poaching by Tailors and Garment Workers at the Kettering Co-operative Factory, Corby.

Agreement between Wholesale Mantle and Costume Manufacturers' Federation and Tailors and Garment Workers, 21 December 1927; agreement between Tailors and Garment Workers and the Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers' Federation, 24 July 1926; agreement between Tailors and Garment Workers and the Shirt Collar and Tie Manufacturers' Federation, 23 September 1927.See also 85/54.

Allegations by National Union of General and Municipal Workers of poaching in the Mansfield Electricity Department by Electrical Trades Union.

Complaint by National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers about National Union of Clerks approaching and taking into membership National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers members at the Bolton Co-operative Society.

Complaint by Workers Union of poaching and attempted poaching by Amalgamated Weavers Association at British Celanese, Spondon; Amalgamated Weavers Association claimed the right to organise all weavers, winders, reelers and beamers.

Amalgamated Weavers Association circular to all weavers, winders, warpers, reelers, etc., employed by British Celanese, Spondon, 1929.

Correspondence regarding arbitration to adjudicate between National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel, the Printing and Paper Workers and the Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society concerning the manning of a Stop Press printing machine to be used on motor vans distributing newspapers.

National Union of General and Municipal Workers charge of Iron and Steel Trades Confederation aiding the British Mannesmann Tube Company to victimise National Union of General and Municipal Workers members; Iron and Steel Trades Confederation countercharge of poaching, helping to form a breakaway of Iron and Steel Trades Confederation and interfering with wage agreements.

Complaint by National Union of Public Employees regarding representation on the trade union side of the East and West Midland Joint Industrial Councils.

Handbills advertising National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

Allegations of poaching made by the Workers Union Group of Transport and General Workers Union against Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers at Messrs. Armitage and Sons Limited, Lofthouse Quarries, Yorkshire.

Allegations of poaching made by the National Society of Pottery Workers against National Union of General and Municipal Workers at the Electrical Porcelain factory, Stourport.

National Society of Pottery Workers annual report and balance sheet, 1929.

Dispute between Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers, Confectioners, and Allied Workers and National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers regarding membership of certain employees at the Co-operative Wholesale Society Biscuit Factory, Crumpsall, Manchester.

Complaint by the Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders' Society regarding the claim of Constructional Engineering Union (London Area) that Boilermakers should take the card of Constructional Engineering Union when erecting and putting together on buildings ironwork they had prepared in constructional workshops.

Dispute regarding membership of certain men employed at the Western Welsh Omnibus Company, Bridgend.

Complaint by National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association concerning National Union of General and Municipal Workers taking as members women employed as french polishers at the Naval Yard, Walker-on-Tyne.

Complaint by National Association of Theatrical Employees of poaching by and propaganda sent out by Electrical Trades Union at the West End theatres and variety halls.

National Association of Theatrical Employees application forms and handbills; Electrical Trades Union rules for Cinema Operators and Assistants in the Metropolitan District.

Demarcation dispute regarding the fixing of Paramount Board between National Association of Operative Plasterers and Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers.

Literature advertising Paramount Board; constitution and national working rules of National Joint Council for the Building Industry, 1932.

Paramount Board, composed of plaster, its basis being gypsum and some sawdust, was used as a substitute for plaster on ceilings and wall partitions.

Complaint that Electrical Trades Union was taking as members colliery electricians who were members of the Durham Colliery Mechanics' Association.

Complaint by National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association that Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union had accepted three upholsterers into their Rainhill Branch, who had acquired jobs at the Rainhill Institution.

Dispute between Liverpool and District Carters and Motormen's Union and the United Road Transport Workers' Association regarding organisation at Liverpool Depot of United Co-operative Laundries' Association.

Liverpool and District Carters and Motormen's Union scale of wages and working conditions for senior carters and motormen in Liverpool and area, 1933.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union that a member, G.H. Rew, had been prevented by Electrical Trades Union members from being employed at the New Cinema, Golders' Green.

Dispute regarding organisation at Ffaldau Colliery, Garw Valley, South Wales; Miners' Federation of Great Britain claimed that Amalgamated Engineering Union were poaching and campaigning to secure new members.

Documents submitted as evidence; including Amalgamated Engineering Union application forms of members poached from Miners' Federation of Great Britain; Amalgamated Engineering Union National agreements, 1930; reports of meetings; copies of agreements; list of Miners' Federation of Great Britain members who joined Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Complaint by National Union of Textile Workers that National Union of General and Municipal Workers had poached ten members at the Co-operative Wholesale Society Woollen Mill, Buckfastleigh.

Demarcation dispute between National Society of Brass and Metal Mechanics and Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers concerning shopfitting industry.

Complaint by the Joint Committee of Light Metal Trade Unions that three firms had agreements with Transport and General Workers Union and paid them less than the agreed rates.

Rules; agreements of Joint Committee of Light Metal Trade Unions, 1930, 1937.

Complaint by National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association that certain of their members had joined Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers at the Co-operative Wholesale Society cabinet factory, Bristol.

Complaints by the Journeymen Butchers' Federation of Transport and General Workers Union taking their members who were in arrears at Smithfield Market.

Complaint by National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association, Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers and Amalgamated Society of Wood-Cutting Machinists concerning Transport and General Workers Union organising workers in the furnishing industry and declaring an unfair firm (Everest Upholstery Company) fair.

Dispute regarding organisation in the wagon repair shop of the Margam Steel Works, Port Talbot between British Iron and Steel and Kindred Trades Association and Amalgamated Society of Vehicle Builders.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union that the National Builders' Labourers', etc., Society had taken into membership the Aston branch of the former Altogether Builders' Labourers' and Constructional Workers' Society which had since merged with Transport and General Workers Union.

National Builders' Labourers' and Constructional Workers' Society contribution cards.

Complaint by Amalgamated Engineering Union about poaching and intimidation by Miners' Federation of Great Britain at Gilfoch Goch and Ffaldau Collieries.

Allegations of intimidation made by National Brass and Metal Mechanics against Birmingham and Midland Sheet Metal Workers' Society

Complaint by National Society of Coppersmiths, Braziers and Metalworkers that two sheet metal unions had prevented their members getting work in motor shops in the Coventry district.

Complaints by Operative House and Ship Painters, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, National Association of Operative Plasterers of poaching and encroachment by National Union of Public Employees.

Correspondence regarding attempts to reconcile the above two trade unions.

Complaint by Amalgamated Engineering Union that National Union of General and Municipal Workers had enrolled one of their men.

Complaint by the Constructional Engineering Union that a lapsed member had joined the Altogether Builders.

Allegations of poaching made by the Woolcombers against the Textile Workers.

Allegations of poaching by the Colliery Mechanics against National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers that Transport and General Workers Union would not unload carts and lorries driven by members of other trade unions at the Northern Ireland Ports.

Correspondence between the two trade unions regarding agreeing to a working arrangement especially where members of both worked together.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers about the Ashington Miners' definition of a non-unionist.

Correspondence regarding attempts to settle the dispute.

Organisation of Building Trade Workers: National Federation of Building Trade Operatives and National Union of Public Employees.

Complaint by National Society of Painters concerning poaching by National Union of Public Employees.

Allegations by National Society of Painters concerning poaching and issuing circulars directed at their members by National Union of Public Employees.

Summary of complaints against National Union of Public Employees by National Society of Painters, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers and Plumbers', Glaziers' and Domestic Engineers' Union, with copies of evidence and documents; Public Employees' Journal, June 1939; National Union of Public Employees report of Disputes Committee decision and an interpretation of the points.

Correspondence regarding Plumbers' complaint about National Union of Public Employees violating terms of the 1935 agreement, 1938; complaints from Enfield, Mitcham and Romford Trades Councils regarding National Union of Public Employees, 1937-8; correspondence with Wolverhampton Trades Council asking if they could settle differences between National Union of Public Employees and National Federation of Building Trade Operatives in their locality, 1938; reports of Disputes, 27 April and 18 July 1938; copies of complaints and evidence submitted to the Committee.

Trade union recognition and the fair wages clause: our fight, by Bryn Roberts, National Union of Public Employees pamphlet.

Further complaints from building trade unions (Operative Painters, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, National Federation of Building Trade Operatives) regarding National Union of Public Employees.

Copy of agreement between National Union of Public Employees and National Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators, 23 July 1940.

Complaint by the Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union that National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers had organised a firm (Messrs. Moxon and Company, Manchester) at less than the established rates.

The Waterproofer, organ of Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union, Volume 1, no.4, August 1935.

Evidence submitted by the trade unions; including copy of national agreement between Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers' Federation and National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, 21 February 1934; signed affadavits by former workers at Moxons.

Complaint by National Union of Foundry Workers that a former member now in National Brass and Metal Mechanics would not rejoin after being transferred from a brass to a steel foundry.

Demarcation dispute between Iron and Steel Trades Confederation and Amalgamated Engineering Union regarding certain specified work to be done by Iron and Steel Trades Confederation at British Mannesman Tube Company, Landore, on a re-conditioned machine which was never used, the work being transferred to the engineering work-shops.

Allegations by National Society of Woolcombers of poaching by National Union of Textile Workers, following Woolcombers' ballot decision not to join National Union of Textile Workers.

National Union of Blastfurnacemen, etc., allege encroachment by National Union of General and Municipal Workers at Stanton and Wellingborough Iron Works.

Data regarding occupations and rates at blast furnaces in question; Northamptonshire Blast Furnace Owners' Association: sliding scale documents, 1920, 1932.

Complaint by Waterproof Garment Workers Trade Union that National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers enrolled blacklegs at London Waterproof Company, Manchester.

Transport and General Workers Union complaint against National Union of General and Municipal Workers regarding recruitment and alleged supply of blackleg labour at Warren Cement Works, West Hartlepool.

Typescript list of names and addresses of workers.

Alleged poaching or intimidation of Amalgamated Engineering Union members by South Wales Miners Federation Trades Union Congress Disputes Committee report, 54 folios.

Case involving former National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel at Evening Standard, recruited by National Union of Clerks.

Complaint by Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers regarding description by General Union of Bedding Trade Workers of Messrs. H. Burgess, Manchester as a fair firm. Settlement of outstanding differences regarding working rules for bedding trade.

Disputed membership of one maintenance engineer at Tottenham Municipal Baths.

Dispute regarding alleged poaching of shotfirers.

Lancashire and Cheshire working arrangements, wages agreement, etc.

Dispute between Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers and Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers over laying of cork tile etc., floor covering.

Lists of contracts of Inlaid Ruboleum Tile Company Limited and St. Helens Cable and Rubber Company Limited.

National Union of Clerks complaint regarding alleged poaching by National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel.

Organisation in and around collieries: differences between Amalgamated Engineering Union and Miners' Federation of Great Britain.

Trades Union Congress Disputes Sub-committee: copies of some 1924 minutes; National Advisory Council for Organisation in and around Collieries: Agreement leaflet, 18 November 1938.

Continuation of preceding file, following failure of 1938 Agreement.

Continuation of preceding file.

Miners' Federation of Great Britain: Coal miners' holiday schemes, 1938; coal mining statistics summary for 1938; Report of Executive Committee to Annual Conference, 1941.

Electrical Trades Union: Memorandum on negotiations regarding Colliery electricians, 1942.

United Patternmakers Association complaint regarding Amalgamated Engineering Union accepting patternmakers into membership at British Chilled Roll Company, Middlesborough.

National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants complaint against Journeymen Butchers' Federation regarding recruitment of Cardiff Co-operative Society staff.

Amalgamated Engineering Union complaint against recruiting of seven members by South Wales Miners Federation, the dispute being caught up in the wider issue of `organisation in and around collieries'.

Complaint by National Society of Brushmakers that National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers had poached 7 members at Co-operative Wholesale Society Brush and Material Works, Hunslet.

National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association complaint of non-recognition by Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers where National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association members are employed under building trade conditions.

File including summaries of cases.

Alleged poaching of craftsmen's labourers at Gowerton Works.

Amalgamated Union of Asphalte Workers and Plumbers', etc., Union regarding correct union for roof sheeting workers and possible decision by National Federation of Building Trade Operatives.

National Union of General and Municipal Workers complaints against alleged poaching by Amalgamated Engineering Union in various engineering works.

Facsimiles of documentation regarding situation at: Dewrance and Company; De Havilland Aircraft Company; British Thomson-Huston Company Limited, Rugby; Rover Aero Workers.

Alleged intimidation by South Wales Miners Federation at Arrael Griffin Colliery.

National Union of Packing Case Makers, etc. complaints against Transport and General Workers Union recruitment, Messrs. Jewson, Lowestoft, Messrs. Englands and Carter Patersons, int. al.

Joint Committee of Light Metal Trades Unions regarding problem in press shop of Diamond Foundry Company, Luton.

Rossendale Union of Boot, etc., Operatives and National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives regarding problems of organisation at Fleet Shoe Company, Fleetwood.

Complaint by Power Loom Carpet Weavers and Textile Workers Association against National Union of General and Municipal Workers in respect of new factory of Messrs. Brintons Limited at Bridgwater.

Dispute over recruitment of instrument men and calibrators at ICI, Billingham.

Lists of those involved.

Dispute between National Union of General and Municipal Workers and Amalgamated Weavers' Association over workers assembling gas mask canisters at Acre Mill, Hebdon Bridge for Cape Asbestos Company Limited.

Complaints against Lancashire and Cheshire Colliery Tradesmen and Kindred Workers regarding maintenance at collieries near Atherton.

Alleged poaching of meter readers, Sheffield and clerical workers at Llanelly Electric Supply Company.

Electrical Trades Union complained of poaching by National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees at certain theatres.

Poaching of members of Coke, Oven and By-Product Workers' Union at Manvers Main Coke Plant.

Desire of Amalgamated Society of Leather Workers to be represented on Joint Wages Board Leather (Made-up Goods) Trade; relations between Amalgamated Society of Leather Workers and National Union of Leather Workers.

Repercussions of decision by Amalgamated Engineering Union to accept women into membership.

Complaint by Iron and Steel Trades Confederation that Chemical Workers Union was attempting to organise former members of Iron and Steel Trades Confederation at the Murex Works, Mossend, Lanarkshire.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union of poaching by Chemical Workers Union at the Normanby Tower Works, Scunthorpe.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union of poaching by Chemical Workers Union at British Industrial Solvents Limited, Hull.

Complaints by Transport and General Workers Union of alleged poaching and encroachment by Chemical Workers Union at various firms including ICI, Billingham.

The Chemical Worker, new series, volume 23, no.12, December 1943; volume 24, no.2, February 1944.

Dispute regarding the organisation of battery workers at the Ever Ready Factory, E.17.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union of alleged poaching by Co-operative Wholesale Society at the Cleveland Products Company, Middlesborough.

Dispute regarding organisation of tanning extract workers.

Complaint by Chemical Workers Union of National Union of General and Municipal Workers encroachment at the Homerton Rubber Works, Treforest.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers of Chemical Workers Union encroachment at the Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Company.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers of Chemical Workers Union encroachment at the British Aluminium Company, Milton.

Milton Workers Times, September edition, no.2.

Complaint by Chemical Workers Union of National Union of General and Municipal Workers encroachment at W.R. Smith and Company Limited, Tattenhall, Cheshire.

Press-cutting from Socialist Leader, 13 July 1946.

Allegations of attempted encroachment by Chemical Workers Union at William Freeman and Company Limited, Barnsley.

Dispute regarding organisation at Potter and Clarke Limited, London.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union of Chemical Workers Union encroachment at ICI, Prudhoe.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union concerning actions of Chemical Workers Union after having been re-affiliated to Congress, 1943; various other complaints, including by Dagenham Trades Council and the Shipbuilders.

Chemical Workers Union documents including schedules of wages and conditions, agreement with Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians and Engineering and Allied Employers National Federation; What sort of trade unionism is this?, pamphlet by Arthur Gillian; petition by workers at the Clayton Aniline Company Limited for the re-formation of the workers' council which had been disbanded as a result of Chemical Workers Union/Transport and General Workers Union dispute, 1944; memorandum of agreement between ICI and various trade unions regarding a negotiating procedure, 5 May 1947; rates of wages and conditions of employment of workers employed in a chemical works at Widnes; record of disputes between Chemical Workers Union and other trade unions, 1943-7.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union that their members at ICI Dowlais and the Lever Brothers Dowlais Oil Plant had resigned and joined Chemical Workers Union; National Union of General and Municipal Workers made a similar complaint regarding members at Messrs. High Speed Alloys Limited, Widnes, and the Park Insulating Company, Widnes.

The Chemical Worker, new series, volume 24, no. 7, July 1944; list of Transport and General Workers Union members who had resigned.

National Union of General and Municipal Workers sued Chemical Workers Union for alleged libel in a circular and articles published in an August issue of Chemical Worker regarding an Arbitration Tribunal Hearing, 14 July 1944, concerning workers' wages and conditions at Messrs. Bolton and Sons Limited, Widnes.

Press-cuttings on libel case, August, November 1945.

Repeated complaints by Chemical Workers Union that National Union of General and Municipal Workers and Transport and General Workers Union were preventing them from being represented on various Joint Industrial Councils (Heavy Chemicals, Drug and Fine Chemicals, Rayon and Rubber).

Constitution of Joint Industrial Council for Retail Pharmacy; Chemical Worker, new series volume 24, no. 3, March 1944.

Discussion between various trade unions regarding organisation in the Rayon industry; conferences were held 14 December 1944 and 18 January 1945; Chemical Workers Union, National Union of General and Municipal Workers and National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers forwarded membership details of workers in the Rayon industry, Transport and General Workers Union did not.

Reports of conferences; membership details.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union of poaching and disruptive tactics by Chemical Workers Union at British Industrial Solvents Limited, Margam.

Statement by Chemical Workers Union; also details of Transport and General Workers Union members who had joined Chemical Workers Union, 1944-5.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers of poaching by Chemical Workers Union at the British Aluminium Company, Burntisland; also attempts to bring National Union of General and Municipal Workers, Transport and General Workers Union and Chemical Workers Union together to settle their differences.

Chemical Workers Union statements.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union about the activities of Chemical Workers Union at the West Norfolk Farmers Manure and Chemical Co-operative Limited, Boston.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union concerning Chemical Workers Union activities at a Ministry of Supply Factory, Salwick.

Further complaint by Chemical Workers Union about National Union of General and Municipal Workers and Transport and General Workers Union regarding representation on Chemical Joint Industrial Councils.

Correspondence between Chemical Workers Union and other trade unions (National Union of General and Municipal Workers and Transport and General Workers Union) regarding the question of organisation at certain firms; including Pyrex Works, Widnes, 1943; Magnesium Electron Company, Clifton Junction, 1943; Hunts Chemical Works, Castleford, 1943; Smith and Walton, Haltwhistle, 1944-5; Yorkshire Dyeware and Chemical Company, Selby, 1944-5.

[End of Chemical Workers Union sequence]

Dispute regarding organisation in North East Shipyards between the above trade unions; Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians claimed the right to organise stocktakers and foremen, and Iron and Steel Trades Confederation the right to organise all people in the iron and steel industry.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers that National Union of Public Employees had taken over breakaway branches in Port Talbot, Maesteg, Ogmore and Neath.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union of Hospitals and Welfare Services' Union taking their members working for the Sheffield Voluntary Hospitals.

Complaint by Association of Building Technicians that their members were joining National Union of County Officers in the Architects Department of Co-operative Wholesale Society (London) Limited.

National Union of County Officers rules and application form.

Complaint by the Waterproof Garment Workers that National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers were not observing an agreement regarding rates and conditions.

National Arbitration Tribunal Award regarding price rates for rubberised waterproof garment workers, 1944.

Complaint by National Union of Packing Case Makers concerning unfair tactics by Transport and General Workers Union.

Discussion regarding organisation at Messrs. Pattrieoux, Manchester.

Complaint by National Union of Packing Case Makers that Messrs. John Newman Limited, Plaistow, where only their members worked, were going to apply the rules and rates of pay of the Amalgamated Society of Wood-Cutting Machinists.

The firm in question was a member of the London and District Sawmill Owners Association.

Demarcation dispute regarding an overseer's post in the Machine Department of the London Daily Express.

Complaint by Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians regarding their inability to gain represention on the British Sugar Industry National Trade Union Negotiating Committee.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers that their members who worked in the Wagon Department of Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited, Chesterfield, had joined the Amalgamated Society of Vehicle Builders.

Allegations of poaching made by Transport and General Workers Union concerning their members working at the Dry Dock, Ship Repair and Engineering Depot, Port Dinorwic.

Complaint by the British Roll Turners that their members at Messrs. Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Limited, Cwmbran Works, and at Messrs. Stewarts and Lloyds, Corby were covered by agreements between Amalgamated Engineering Union and the above firms.

Agreements between Iron and Steel Trades Employers' Association on behalf of Stewarts and Lloyds Limited, Corby and Amalgamated Engineering Union, December 1937.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union that United Road Transport Workers had negotiated agreements where they were not the representative union and that they had also concluded less favourable agreements than were usually obtained.

Wage rates of Yorkshire Coal Merchants Association, list of Transport and General Workers Union members employed by firms in the Association.

Complaint by National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives that although only their members worked for the Veltex Shoe Company Edinburgh (a subsidiary of North British Rubber Company), National Union of General and Municipal Workers held a covering agreement with the firm which would not recognise National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives.

Discussion regarding employment of an Amalgamated Engineering Union member as a welder at Thomas Ash and Company Limited.

Complaint by Constructional Engineering Union concerning their inability to participate in wage negotiations of their members, maintenance men, who worked for Dorman, Long and Company Limited, and Cargo Fleet Iron Company Limited, Middlesborough.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers of poaching by National Union of Public Employees at the Birmingham Corporation Public Works Department.

Dispute regarding organisation at P.J. Carroll and Company Limited, Liverpool.

Allegations made by Amalgamated Engineering Union concerning poaching by the Operative Spindle and Flyer Makers at Messrs. Hobsons, Oldham.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers concerning poaching by National Union of Blastfurnacemen.

Discussion regarding National Union of Mineworkers and National Federation of Colliery Officials and Staffs overlapping.

Dispute concerning organisation in the fabrication department of Dorman Long and Company.

Dispute regarding organisation in the Llanidloes Leather Mills.

Memorandum of agreement between National Union of Leather Workers and Amalgamated Society of Leather Workers, 5 October 1944.

Complaint by Constructional Engineering Union concerning poaching by the United Society of Boilermakers.

Correspondence and circulars from Central Committee for Group Listening regarding broadcasts for discussion groups (1945) [mis-filed].

Dispute regarding organisation.

Complaint by National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association that their members, cabinet makers on the `Queen Elizabeth', were being forced to join Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers.

Dispute regarding the right to organise, repair and despatch workers employed by film renting companies; also a complaint that National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees had published detrimental remarks and statements regarding Association of Cine Technicians and Electrical Trades Union.

One union for all classes of workers in the film industry, by Tom O'Brian, reprint from Kinematograph Weekly, 9 May 1946; The Studio, official organ of ACT, Bulletin no. 11, May-June 1946; ACT rules; National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees rules; Report by sub-committee of representatives of Association of Cine Technicians, Electrical Trades Union, and National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees, signed and accepted, 23 June 1947.

Complaint by National Society of Brass and Metal Mechanics that some of their members in Barrow had been compelled to join the National Union of Foundry Workers in order to gain employment on ferrous work.

Allegations by Transport and General Workers Union of poaching by National Union of Public Employees of Penzance Borough Council employees.

Complaint by National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees of poaching by Clerical and Administrative Workers Union of members of the Kinematograph Renters' Society.

Demarcation dispute regarding work on coaches at the Great Western Railway Swindon Works.

Statements by National Union of Railwaymen and National Union of Vehicle Builders.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers concerning their members being accepted into the Tobacco Workers' Union at Players, Nottingham.

Lists of National Union of General and Municipal Workers members who had joined Tobacco Workers' Union.

Dispute regarding members of the National Union of Packing Case Makers at Messrs. W. Lusty, Bromley-by-Bow who wished to join National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association.

Complaint by National Union of Public Employees that Electrical Trades Union was accepting their members.

Demarcation dispute regarding pipefitting work at Dunlop Rubber Company Limited, Speke.

Demarcation dispute regarding the fixing of transfers on vehicles between Sign and Display Trade Union and National Union of Vehicle Builders.

Complaint concerning poaching by National Union of Dyers, etc. of members of Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives at Rayon Crepes Limited, Bolton.

Complaints by Constructional Engineering Union concerning poaching by the United Society of Boilermakers.

Dispute regarding organisation of railway wood machinists.

Decision of Industrial Court regarding rates of pay and conditions of service of railway shopmen, 1922.

Membership dispute at Elba Steel Works, Gowerton.

Complaint by National Union of Mineworkers that an affiliated organisation, the South Wales and Monmouthshire Colliery Winding Enginemen's Association, had, with others, formed a breakaway union, the National Union of Winding Enginemen.

Dispute regarding organisation of firemen in theatres and cinemas.

Complaint by Scottish Horse and Motormen's Association concerning poaching by the British Funeral Workers' Association.

Complaint by National and Local Government Officers Organisation regarding the activities of Electrical Trades Union.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers regarding poaching by the United Rubber Workers at Messrs. David Moseley and Sons, Ardwick, Manchester.

List of National Union of General and Municipal Workers members who had transferred; statement by United Rubber Workers.

Complaint by National Union of Hosiery Workers that their members were being recruited into the National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers.

National Union of Vehicle Builders allegations that Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers members applied for work at Brockhouse Engineering Company, Southport even though they had been notified that National Union of Vehicle Builders were in dispute with the firm; also that Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers members were doing work formerly done by sacked National Union of Vehicle Builders members.

Demarcation dispute between the Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association and the Associated Blacksmiths, Forge and Smithy Workers' Society.

Suggested lines of demarcation drawn up by Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Dispute concerning organisation in the film distribution area.

Settlement of inter-union differences in the film industry, report of sub-committee of representatives of Association of Cine Technicians, Electrical Trades Union, National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees, 23 June 1947.

Demarcation dispute between Shipconstructors and Shipwrights Association and United Society of Boilermakers regarding manning of Cyc-Arc stud fusion machine at Cammell Laird and Company Limited, Birkenhead.

Pamphlet advertising Cyc-Arc stud welding.

Membership dispute between National Union of Mineworkers and Clerical and Administrative Workers Union.

Membership dispute concerning female routers.

Complaint by Plumbing Trades' Union regarding poaching by National Union of Operative Heating and Domestic Engineers at Messrs. R. Alger and Son Limited, Newport, Monmouthshire.

Complaint by Tobacco Workers' Union of poaching by the Cigarette Machine Operatives' Society; also attempts to re ach a demarcation agreement between the two trade unions.

When is a union not a union?, Tobacco Workers' Union pamphlet.

Complaint by National Union of Public Employees that they had not been recognised by the British Electricity Authority as an appropriate organisation to be represented on the National Joint Industrial Council.

National Union of Public Employees' claim for representation on electricity joint machinery, 1948.

Dispute over the laying of rubber flooring in the M.V. `Alcantara' at Messrs. Harland and Wolff.

Dispute regarding organisation at Barrowfield Leather Company Limited, of Bridgeton, Glasgow.

Complaint by Amalgamated Engineering Union regarding poaching and intimidation by British Iron and Steel and Kindred Trades Association at Taylor Brothers and Company, Limited, Trafford Park.

Dispute over the introduction of joint production committees in the Factory Department of the Post Office.

Demarcation dispute concerning Polish temporary clerks employed by the War Office at Witley.

Complaint of poaching by Preston and District Powerloom, Weavers, Winders and Warpers' Association, at Messrs. Morton Sundour Fabrics Limited, Carlisle.

Powerloom Weavers' literature; list of National Union of General and Municipal Workers members who had joined the Powerloom weavers; rates of pay for Scottish textile industry, February 1948.

Dispute regarding poaching by Confederation of Health Services Employees at Hellesdon Hospital, Ipswich.

Evidence presented by National Union of Public Employees regarding their association with hospital staffs.

Complaint by the Amalgamated Society of Farriers and Blacksmiths that National Union of Mineworkers refused to recognise their cards at Wearmouth Union National Coal Board.

Allegations by the Amalgamated Society of Wire Drawers of encroachment at Samuel Fox and Company Limited.

Demarcation dispute concerning plating work formerly done by the Shipconstructors and Shipwrights Association at Messrs. R.S. Hayes Limited yard, now given to the United Society of Boilermakers.

Complaint by United French Polishers' Society that National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives would not allow their members to work in UK shipyards.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union that their men had joined United Road Transport Workers Association at East Yorkshire Motor Services Limited.

List of Transport and General Workers Union members who had joined United Road Transport Workers Association; Transport and General Workers Union application form; United Road Transport Workers Association application form.

Complaint by London Society of Compositors that National Union of Railwaymen were organising compositors in railway establishments.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union and National Union of Enginemen, Firemen and Electrical Workers about Electrical Trades Union insistence that all electrical fitters' mates should be members of their union.

Complaint by National Society of Painters that Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers accepted as a member, a painter working for Compstall Co-operative Society.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers that the National Union of Heating and Domestic Workers were enrolling their members.

Complaint by Equity regarding their inability to gain representation on the National Joint Production Councils in the film industry; National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees opposed their application.

Complaint by the Plumbers concerning poaching by National Union of Public Employees at Horwich Council Works Department.

Complaint by Amalgamated Society of Wiredrawers about encroachment by National Union of General and Municipal Workers at the Waleswood Steel and Wire Works Limited, near Sheffield.

Complaint by Confederation of Health Services Employees regarding National Union of Public Employees circular; of National Union of Public Employees accepting dissident Confederation of Health Services Employees members; and also of poaching; also correspondence concerning National Union of Public Employees' non-implementation of Disputes Committee Awards; also regarding the case Andrew v. National Union of Public Employees, where the plaintiff had been expelled from National Union of Public Employees at the direction of the Disputes Committee.

National Union of Public Employees poster advertising a meeting.

Further complaints by Confederation of Health Services Employees about National Union of Public Employees' activities; also regarding the legal case Andrew v. National Union of Public Employees; also regarding attempts to bring the trade unions to an agreement.

National Union of Public Employees notices; list of Confederation of Health Services Employees members who had joined National Union of Public Employees at Mount Pleasant Hospital, Swansea.

Documents regarding the above dispute; including Public Employees Journal, November 1951-April 1952, September 1952-February 1953; National Union of Public Employees notices, posters, pamphlets, circulars, leaflets and application forms; National Union of Public Employees rules, 1951; National Union of Public Employees special report regarding a claim for the facilities to make representations to the Central Electricity Authority on behalf of members employed in Electricity, 1951; report regarding aspects of unofficial strike of employees in the cleansing and lighting departments of Edinburgh Corporation, 1952; report of national negotiations, 1952-3.

Complaint by Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers regarding members joining National Silk Workers' Association.

Dispute between British Roll Turners' Trade Society and Amalgamated Engineering Union regarding manning of a roll grinding machine at the Redcar Works.

Dispute regarding the organisation of masons in the funeral and cemetery trade.

Memorandum of agreement between Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers and National Union of Funeral and Cemetery Workers, 23 February 1950.

Dispute regarding organisation at Filton Airport.

Complaints concerning Transport and General Workers Union and National Union of General and Municipal Workers members joining the Shipconstructors and Shipwrights Association at H.M. Dockyard, Devonport.

Discussion regarding a member of Electrical Trades Union joining Transport and General Workers Union on becoming a bus conductor in the employ of the London Transport Executive.

Dispute regarding lines of demarcation between welders and platers in the United Society of Boilermakers, etc., at Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Belfast; the above dispute caused National Union of General and Municipal Workers members to be unemployed.

Dispute concerning workers employed at the Anaglypta and Lincrusta Branch of the Wall Paper Manufacturers Limited, Darwen.

Discussion regarding wage rates for packing case makers employed by BICC, Helsby, near Warrington.

Discussion regarding the organisation of non-manual workers employed in the road haulage sector of the transport industry.

Allegations by United Society of Boilermakers, etc., concerning poaching and strike action by Constructional Engineering Union at Barking Power Station.

Complaint by United Rubber Workers regarding their entitlement to be represented on workers' side of Cable National Joint Industrial Council.

Dispute regarding organisation at Bamber Engineering Company Limited factory, Llwynypia, Rhondda.

Complaint by Waterproof Garment Workers Trade Union that Transport and General Workers Union had made an agreement with an employer laying down minimum rates for rubber-proofed garment operatives which was inferior to those in a collective agreement between Waterproof Garment Workers Trade Union and the panel of employers of the Rubber Proofed Garment Manufacturers' Association.

Dispute regarding membership at the Alexandra Mill Company, Congleton, between National Union of Hosiery Workers and Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers.

Dispute concerning transfer of members.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union regarding their members joining Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers at London Transport Executive Charlton Repair Depot.

Complaint by National Society of Metal Mechanics that their members were being prevented from working for Wasso Contractors Limited, at Ellesmere Port.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union that United Society of Boilermakers had accepted three of their members working at Messrs. John Lysaghts Steel Constructional Works, Bristol.

Dispute regarding method of transferring members from Association of Scientific Workers to Union of Post-Office Workers at Cable and Wireless Limited.

Copies of relevant correspondence, 1949-51.

Dispute regarding the organisation of workers in the felt base process department at the Heapey Mill of Thomas Whitter and Company; the Paper Workers claimed the process was orthodox papermaking.

National agreement regarding wages and working conditions in the papermaking and board-making industry between Employers' Federation, Transport and General Workers Union, National Union of General and Municipal Workers and National Union of Printing, Book-binding and Paper Workers, 27 July 1948.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union and National Union of General and Municipal Workers concerning Electrical Trades Union's claim that it was the only appropriate trade union for those working in the electrical department of Messrs. Harland and Wolff Limited, Belfast.

Complaint by Clerical and Administrative Workers Union that Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers would not allow their members at Colchester Co-operative Society to transfer into Clerical and Administrative Workers Union.

Dispute regarding National and Local Government Officers Organisation members employed by the Scottish Dental Estimates Board.

Complaint by Iron, Steel and Metal Dressers' Trade Society concerning their members at Brighouse joining the Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers.

Transport and General Workers Union allegations of poaching by National Union of Public Employees at Bexley Borough Council.

List of former Transport and General Workers Union members who had joined National Union of Public Employees; Relationships between unions, Trades Union Congress pamphlet, 1952.

Complaint by Tobacco Workers' Union concerning their members joining Transport and General Workers Union at the British-American Tobacco Company, Liverpool.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union concerning organisational rights at Briggs Motor Bodies, Southampton; also regarding implementation of an understanding between the above trade unions concerning return of Transport and General Workers Union members who had been enrolled into National Union of Vehicle Builders.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers concerning poaching by the National Union of Basket, Cane, Wicker and Fibre Furniture Makers at Messrs. Daniel Johnson's, hamper makers, Warrington.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers concerning members who had been wrongly admitted into Amalgamated Engineering Union during action taken against the Engineering Wages Award of 28 November 1950.

Documents sent by National Union of General and Municipal Workers, stating their case.

Allegations of poaching made by National Union of Public Employees against National Union of General and Municipal Workers at Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex.

List of National Union of Public Employees members who had joined National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

Complaint by Amalgamated Engineering Union that one of their members, a welder blacksmith employed by Messrs. J. Lysaght, Bristol, had joined United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders.

Transport and General Workers Union complaint concerning their members being accepted into Amalgamated Engineering Union at London Transport Executive Charlton Repair Depot.

Complaint by Amalgamated Engineering Union that their members had been accepted into the Military and Orchestral Musical Instrument Makers' Trade Society.

Schedule of minimum rates and conditions in the military band instrument trade, from 1 January 1948.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers that their members in the Ambulance Depot, Warrington had been accepted into the National Union of Public Employees.

National Union of General and Municipal Workers statement regarding the dispute.

Amalgamated Engineering Union complaint that their members at the Colthrop Paper Mills, Thatcham were being encouraged to join National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers concerning the National Silk Workers' and Textile Trades' Association accepting their members employed at St. Mary's Mill, Norwich.

List of former National Union of General and Municipal Workers members who had joined the silk workers; National Union of General and Municipal Workers statement regarding the dispute; silk workers' statement; constitution and standing orders for the Silk Industry Joint Industrial Council.

Demarcation dispute regarding metal window fixers in Liverpool.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers about the Federation's resolution regarding National Union of General and Municipal Workers' agreement with Remploy Limited [The Federation did not consider it compatible with the agreement with the British Furniture Trade Joint Industrial Council.]

Amalgamated Engineering Union complaint concerning their members at Messrs. Sentinel Limited, Shrewsbury being accepted into the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers.

Dispute regarding the organisation of labourers waiting on skilled bricklayers employed on maintenance work, at Dalzell Street Works, Motherwell.

Amalgamated Engineering Union complaint concerning nine welders, employed at Metro-Vickers, Stockton-on-Tees, being accepted into United Boilermakers' Society.

Complaint by Electrical Trades Union that a member had joined National Union of Public Employees at Hounslow Hospital.

Complaint by Electrical Trades Union over two members who had joined National Union of Public Employees.

Dispute regarding closed shop at Bellamy's Wharf, Rotherhithe.

Complaint by the National Union of Packing Case Makers concerning members employed by Messrs. W. Lusty and Sons Limited, in the Lloyd Loom Department being accepted into National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives.

National working rule agreement for the cane, willow and woven fibre manufacturing trade.

Dispute regarding the organisation of operator-technicians in the Diplomatic Wireless Service.

Electrical Trades Union complaint concerning their members joining Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Complaint by the Shipconstructors and Shipwrights' Association concerning their members being forced to join the United Society of Boilermakers to carry out drilling work as part of ship repair in the Bristol area.

Complaint by Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers regarding Scottish Union of Bakers not observing a 1947 working agreement.

Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers statement; Scottish Bakers' statement. Working agreement between Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers and Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers, etc., 1956.

Dispute regarding the fixing of metal windows and alleged poaching by Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers.

Dispute regarding organisation in the electricity supply industry.

Complaint by the Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers regarding Amalgamated Moulders' Union members accepting employment at Eiffel Foundry and Brooks-Fletcher Limited where the former union was in dispute with the owners.

Complaint by the United Rubber Workers that dissatisfied members of National Union of General and Municipal Workers, employed at the Bryntex Works of the Dunlop Rubber Company, near Harrogate, were being prevented from transferring.

Dispute regarding heating installation work on the Longbenton Housing Scheme.

Various documents regarding the scheme.

Transport and General Workers Union complaint regarding their members employed at Messrs. Fisher and Ludlow Limited, Castle Bromwich joining Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Allegations by Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians of blacklegging by Amalgamated Engineering Union at Air Industrial Developments Limited.

Dispute regarding National Union of Public Employees organising two plumbers employed by London County Council's White Hart Lane Depot.

Complaint by National Union of Public Employees regarding their members employed by Lewisham Borough Council being accepted into Transport and General Workers Union.

Dispute regarding the right of Printing Machine Managers Trade Society members to transfer from one printing house to another.

[The dispute arose because the Daily Sketch could no longer be printed at Kemsley House and was therefore to be printed on presses leased from the News of the World, which was one of only two national newspapers in London where printing machine managers were members of National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel.]

Memorandum of agreement between Newspaper Proprietors' Association (London) and Printing Machine Managers Trade Society, 1947; amended to March 1954; Printing Machine Managers Trade Socirety annual report and balance sheet, 1953; report of court of enquiry into the dispute, August 1953; National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel and Printing Machine Managers Trade Society reports, of the Court of Inquiry proceedings, August 1953.

Complaint by Electrical Trades Union regarding Electrical Power Engineers' Association circularising their members.

Complaint by Electrical Trades Union regarding a member being accepted into National Union of Vehicle Builders.

Discussion regarding United Society of Engravers' proposal to negotiate wages for all those involved in the calico printing trade.

Complaint by Tobacco Workers Union regarding National Union of General and Municipal Workers recruitment efforts at Messrs. Churchmans, Ipswich.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union regarding a Chemical Workers Union organisational campaign at the Springfield Atomic Energy Works, Salwick.

Lists of members handed in by Transport and General Workers Union to prove their case; Chemical Workers Union record cards and membership forms.

Complaint by National Union of Vehicle Builders regarding their members employed at Leyland Motors Limited, being accepted into the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers regarding their members, employed at the United Glass Bottle Manufacturers, Charlton, being accepted into the National Union of Packing Case Makers.

Letter regarding the question of overlapping between the above trade unions.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers regarding their members at the Hackbridge Cable Company being accepted into National Union of Packing Case Makers.

Complaint by Clerical and Administrative Workers Union regarding members employed at the Alloa Area Branch of the National Coal Board Scottish Division being accepted into National Union of Mineworkers.

Clerical and Administrative Workers Union statement of case; National Union of Mineworkers (Colliery Officials and Staffs Area) leaflets, booklets etc; Clerical and Administrative Workers Union leaflet; Colliery Officials and Staffs Area news Bulletin, no. 41, March 1958; conciliation agreement for clerical and junior administrative staff between National Coal Board and various trade unions, 18 February 1957.

Complaint by the Plumbing Trade Union that National Union of General and Municipal Workers were being employed at the Blackburn Gas Undertaking where the former union was in dispute.

Dispute regarding fixing metal windows in the Bristol area.

Dispute regarding a lapsed member of the Shipconstructors joining Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers.

Dispute regarding the erection and fairing of ironwork on new ship construction at the Atlantic Shipbuilding Company, Newport (Monmouthshire) between Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association and United Society of Boilermakers.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union concerning their members, roadmen employed by Cambridgeshire County Council, being accepted into National Union of Public Employees.

Dispute regarding men employed at Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited.

Complaint by Sign and Display Trade Union that National Union of Vehicle Builders were preventing their members painting advertising panels on buses.

Demarcation dispute regarding drilling of metal sheets, at Cammell Laird and Company Limited, Birkenhead.

Discussion regarding employees of Hammersmith Hospital being wrongfully accepted into Confederation of Health Services Employees.

National Union of General and Municipal Workers allegations of poaching by National Union of Public Employees at Messrs. H. Williams Limited, Darlington.

Complaint by Tobacco Workers Union regarding their inability to gain recognition at Robert Sinclair Tobacco Company, Newcastle.

Dispute regarding National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers accepting Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers members, employed as Co-operative Insurance Society agents, in the Pontefract area.

Statement by National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers.

Allegations by the Fire Brigades Union regarding poaching by National Union of Public Employees in Margate.

Dispute regarding transfer of members.

Complaint by Transport Salaried Staffs Association regarding Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians' interference in a wage agreement reached between Transport Salaried Staffs Association and London Tranport Executive regarding technical staff.

Agreement between Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians and Transport Salaried Staffs Association regarding works production assistants at London Transport Executive, 9 October 1956.

Discussion regarding transfer of members.

Dispute regarding organisation of artistes in film productions.

Dispute regarding organisation at Hortham Mental Deficiency Hospital, near Bristol.

Dispute regarding organisation at Siddeley Motors Limited, Leicester.

Dispute regarding a method of moving slag from a new blastfurnace at Margam.

Various diagrams regarding method of moving slag.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers regarding their members employed at the Transparent Paper Company Limited, Bury being accepted into National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel.

Dispute regarding organisation in the boxmaking department of Messrs. Hugh Stevenson and Sons Limited, Summerstown.

National Union of General and Municipal Workers statement.

Dispute regarding organisation of boring machine crews in the Nottinghamshire ore field.

Dispute regarding organisation of radio mechanics employed by GCHQ.

Dispute regarding Packing Case Makers accepting a member of Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers.

Dispute regarding transfer of members.

Dispute regarding control of Sentinel locomotives servicing blastfurnaces of Messrs. Dorman Long (Steel) Limited, Middlesborough.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers regarding members, employed in the Quartz blowpipe shop of Messrs. Thermal Syndicate, Wallsend, joining Sign and Display Trade Union.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union regarding a member, employed at the Monsanto Chemical Company, being enrolled into the Heating and Domestic Engineers.

Allegations of intimidation by Iron and Steel Trades Confederation at Steel, Peech and Tozer.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers regarding a member in the Manchester Corporation Cleansing Department joining National Union of Vehicle Builders.

Complaint by Tobacco Workers Union regarding British Nicotine Company's refusal to recognise and negotiate with them.

Dispute regarding organisation at Law Hospital, Carluke.

Dispute regarding transfer of members, Brighouse.

Dispute regarding the fixing of steel frame partitioning, as part of the Tattersall contract, Knightsbridge, for Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons Limited.

Dispute regarding transfer of members, at William Tatton and Company, Mayfield, Derbyshire.

Complaint by National Union of General and Municipal Workers regarding members employed at Redpath, Brown and Company Limited, Manchester joining National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

Complaint by Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians regarding their treatment by Northern Ireland branches of Amalgamated Engineering Union and Sheet Metal Workers for not taking part in a recent strike.

It was a manual workers strike, non-manual workers had separate agreements with the employers.

Dispute regarding transfer of members at Messrs. A.H. Tytherleigh.

Dispute regarding the re-organisation of work in the yard of Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, following the introduction of large scale prefabrication.

Statement by the Boilermakers; statement by the Shipconstructors.

Dispute regarding organisation at Messrs. W. and R.K. Lee Limited, Lockheed Mills, Sowerby Bridge.

Complaint by Heating and Domestic Engineers regarding the Plumbers preventing their members working at the Hull and Selby Shipyards, at Hythe, near Southampton, and at Hull Royal Infirmary.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union regarding members employed at B.X. Plastics Limited, Brantham being accepted into Chemical Workers Union.

Dispute regarding control of new high pressure boilers at the Cargo Fleet Works of the South Durham Iron and Steel Company.

Allegations by Amalgamated Engineering Union regarding poaching by United Boilermakers' Society.

Dispute regarding negotiating rights of the Upholstery Department of the Williamstown Factory of Dare Inglis Products Limited.

National Labour Agreement for the furniture manufacturing trade, 1956; constitution of British Furniture Joint Industrial Council, 1953; pamphlet, plans and photographs regarding seat upholstery machines; Lotz, Abbott and Company Limited, price list, 1957.

Dispute regarding manning of a grinding machine at the Templeborough Rolling Mills, Rotherham.

Dispute regarding membership at GEC's North Wembley factory.

Copy of 1946 Agreement between Amalgamated Engineering Union, Electrical Trades Union, and National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

Demarcation dispute regarding welding at the Mersey Docks.

Dispute regarding organisation at Messrs. George Ellisons, Perry Barr.

Dispute regarding organisation in the Burton-on-Trent area.

Dispute regarding negotiating rights in the heavy laminated and coil spring departments of English Steel Corporation Limited, Sheffield.

Copy of a memorandum of agreement between the Laminated Railway Spring Manufacturers' Association and Laminated and Coil Spring Workers, 26 March 1958, regarding negotiating machinery.

Dispute regarding organisation of workers on a new extension of lime-burning operations at the Steel Company of Wales' works at Margam.

Complaint by National Union of Public Employees regarding poaching by National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

National Union of Public Employees statement.

Dispute regarding the right to organise employees of Cunard Eagle Limited at London Airport.

Various Amalgamated Engineering Union complaints regarding poaching, organisation of apprentices, at Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Company, Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft) Limited, Weybridge, Messrs. Worthington Simpson Limited, Newark, ICI Lime Division, Stockport.

Dispute regarding National Union of Vehicle Builders' wish to be a party to an agreement between Western National Omnibus Company Limited, National Union of Railwaymen and Amalgamated Engineering Union for workshop staffs.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union regarding their members in the Glasgow Corporation Transport Department being accepted into Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union regarding members at Roneo Factory, Romford being accepted into the National Society of Metal Mechanics.

Complaint by Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers regarding members employed at North British Steel Foundry, Bathgate being accepted into Associated Blacksmiths.

Dispute regarding a member of Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers joining National Union of Railwaymen.

Relationships between unions, Trades Union Congress pamphlet, 1957.

Dispute regarding transfer of members.

Dispute regarding red-leaders at Messrs. Bartrams Limited, Sunderland.

Dispute regarding the organisation of men employed on the manufacture of plug doors and hatches at Plastics Reinforced (Liverpool) Limited, Bootle.

Demarcation dispute at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead; also discussion regarding a proposed amalgamation.

Model rules.

Dispute regarding organisation at Messrs. May and Baker, Norwich.

Dispute regarding insulation in accommodation spaces on ships at Messrs. Smiths Docks Limited, Middlesborough.

Dispute regarding dual membership.

Dispute regarding an Amalgamated Engineering Union member, employed by Messrs. Marchon Products Limited, who had applied to be classed as a welder; also regarding five Amalgamated Engineering Union members joining the Boilermakers.

Complaint by Amalgamated Engineering Union regarding members employed at the Belverdere Power Station of Messrs. John Brown Land Boilers Limited joining the Boilermakers.

Dispute regarding membership in the Electrical Department at Newport Docks.

Dispute regarding signal and telegraph staff on British Rail Southern Region.

Dispute regarding organisation at Talbot Stead Tube Company, Walsall and Rubery Owen Limited, Darlaston.

Disputes regarding British Electricity Authority employees at London Airport.

Dispute regarding Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers' claim for representation on the Civil Engineering Board (Operations Side), opposed by Transport and General Workers Union and National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

Allegations by Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians of poaching by United Society of Boilermakers.

Complaint by the National Union of Funeral and Cemetery Workers regarding a member who wished to transfer to Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers.

Dispute regarding negotiating rights at Walker Works, Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Dispute regarding organisation at Claybury Hospital.

Complaint from the London Jewish Bakers' Union regarding poaching by Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers.

Dispute regarding Plumbing Trade Union's attempts to gain representation on the Gas Joint Industrial Council.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union regarding members at Messrs. Cadburys Limited, Bournville being accepted into the Sheet Metal Workers.

Dispute regarding organisation of ancillary grades at the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital.

Dispute regarding organising and negotiating rights at the Fatstock Marketing Corporation.

Dispute regarding the fixing of certain insulation linings and suspended ceilings.

Complaint by National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives regarding their members being prevented from laying thermoplastic tiles by Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers.

Dispute regarding pay of certain grades employed in the Ministry of Works.

Complaint by Transport and General Workers Union regarding members at John Summers Steelworks, Shotton being wrongfully accepted into the Boilermakers.

List of Transport and General Workers Union members accepted into the Boilermakers.

Complaint by National Union of Public Employees regarding members employed at Macclesfield Hospital joining National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

Dispute regarding the installation of frenger ceilings, on a contract for Pilkington Brothers.

Dispute regarding organisation at Messrs. James North and Sons Limited, Hyde.

Dispute regarding a member of Amalgamated Engineering Union at London Airport joining Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians.