Requests for information about trade unions and trade union history from schools, trade unions, businesses and trades councils.

Corres. with Bridlington Trades Council re encouraging school leavers to become trade union members.

Souvenir publication, Centenary commemoration of the Tolpuddle martyrs.

Copies of deeds relating to land at Tolpuddle.

Corres. with the British Records Association and Historical Manuscripts Commission re the compilation of a central register of trade union records.

Vol. of signed MS. minutes.

As above.

As above.

As above.

As above.

Vol. of signed MS. minutes.

Loose in above: resolutions; corres., incl. re Russian refugees, land values, cocaine restriction, Fabian Research Department and the Burston School strike; booklet by the Jewish Labour League, The national question in the Russian Duma; booklet by the Cttee. of Delegates of the Russian Socialist Groups in London, An appeal to public opinion. Should the Russian refugees be deported?; National Union of Clerks journal, The Clerk (May 1916).

Vol. of signed MS. minutes; incl. verbatim report of prosecution against the National League of the Blind for fund raising.

Vol. of signed MS. minutes.

As above.

As above.

As above.

As above.

As above.

As above.

Loose in above: British Workers' Sports Association pamphlet; resolutions to 1943 Congress from the FBU and ASLEF; newspaper, Labour's Northern Voice (Aug 1943).

Vol. of signed MS. minutes.

As above.

Mema. re procedures.

Misc. Congress minutes.

Corres. re official reports of Congress.

Obituaries and messages of sympathy re the deaths of TUC and trade union leaders.

As above.

Messages of sympathy and corres. re memorial service.

As above.

Corres. and mema. re procedures and arrangements at Congress.

Corres., incl. re arrangements for delegates during the Second World War.

Corres.

Resolutions; mema. and circulars; misc. corres.

Notes on resolutions.

As above.

General corres.

Resolutions passed.

As above.

General corres.

Mema. and circulars.

Resolutions and mema. re action taken.

Mema. and circulars.

Vol. of signed MS. minutes; loose at back: misc. papers, incl. Parliamentary Cttee.'s report to Congress (1894).

Vol. of signed MS. minutes. [N.B. Some damage to paper within vol.]

Vol. of signed MS. minutes. [N.B. Some damage to binding.]

Vol. of signed MS. minutes, incl. index.

Vol. of signed MS. and TS. minutes. [N.B. Some damage to binding.]

Vol. of signed MS. and TS. minutes.

Vol. of S. Woods, Secretary to the Parliamentary Cttee., incl. notes of meetings and copies of legislation relating to trade, industry and labour.

Bound vol. of unsigned TS. minutes. [N.B. Some damage to binding; see also MSS.292/20/8.]

Sheets relating to the microfilming of the General Council minutes.

Minutes; corres. and mema. re formation of the General Council; memo. by G.D.H. Cole on possible methods of grouping trade unions for the election of the General Council; resolutions on relationship between TUC and trades councils.

Corres., incl. re general elections, Daily Herald, British colonies, TUC Training College and publication of a history of IFTU; mema.; reports.

General corres.

As above; rule book.

Contribution and superannuation tables.

Circulars; mema.; reports; rule books.

File of signed TS. minutes.

File of signed TS. minutes.

Statements of accounts and balance sheets.

As above.

Corres. and valuations.

Corres.

Annual returns.

Corres.; valuation reports.

Corres. re amendment.

Corres.; rule books.

Corres.

Lists of investments.

Corres. re various TUC appeals; mema. re TUC grants.

Vol. of documents re various joint TUC/Labour party undertakings, incl. index. [Binding and paper are damaged.]

Vol. of minutes, incl. index. [Binding and paper are damaged.]

Vol. of minutes, incl. index. [Binding and paper are damaged.]

Memo. re NJC and Legal Advisory Cttee. mema.

Corres. and enquiries, mainly from trade unions, re registration.

Misc. documents, incl. re libel cases, legislation, Royal Commissions and Govt. cttees. of enquiry.

As above, incl. re training courses in industrial law, the Dutch legal system and legislation; TUC booklet, Industrial law. An introduction for trade union officers (1956).

Corres.

Corres., mema. and pamphlets re the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill.

Applications for passes to Govt. or other establishments, incl. photographs of applicants. [N.B. A sample only has been retained.]

Conference reports.

Conference agendas.

Reports of the National Women's Advisory Cttee. to the conference.

As above.

Corres. and related papers re the Trade Union Unification Conference (1922) and the National Conference of Trades Councils (1923) hosted by Birmingham Trades and Labour Council; press-cuttings.

Corres. and related papers re the Preliminary Conference of Representatives of Trades Councils and the TUC General Council.

Conference reports; incl. TUC statement of policy on problems of production (/23) and on prices, wages and exports (/26).

Conference agendas.

Reports of the Trades Councils' Joint Consultative Cttee. to the conference.

Minutes.

Annual report.

Minutes.

Memo. re number of affiliated branches.

Minutes.

Corres., incl. re formation.

Corres., incl. re formation; rules.

Corres., incl. re formation and visits by TUC officials.

Minutes.

Statement of accounts.

Annual report and directory (1960); TS. history of the trades council.

Corres.

Corres. re the proposed formation of Okehampton TC.

Minutes.

Minutes.

TCJCC minute re affiliation fees.

Annual returns; balance sheets; corres.; rule book.

Annual return.

Minutes.

Misc. corres.

Corres. re the proposed formation of Witham TC.

Memo. re demarcation dispute between AUBTW and the National Association of Operative Plasterers.

Corres. re disputes at Hull and Birkenhead, incl. re TGWU allegations of NASD interference and membership poaching and the suspension of the NASD from TUC affiliation. [N.B. See also MSS.292C/91/14.]

Corres., incl. re difficulties and legal challenges to the NASD's compliance with the TUC's Disputes Cttee.'s order to expel newly acquired members in Liverpool, Hull and Birkenhead from the NASD.

Corres., incl. re further suspension of the NASD from TUC affiliation.

Vol. of unsigned TS. minutes.

Misc. corres.

Misc. corres.

Balance sheets; rule book; Yorkshire Federation of Club Stewards rule book.

Rule book of the Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Felt Hatters and Allied Workers of Great Britain.

Rule book; misc. corres.

Terms of reference for the National Negotiating Cttee.; balance sheet; rule book of the Association Football Players' and Trainers' Union.

Rule book of the National Union of Funeral and Cemetery Workers.

Annual report.

Misc. corres.

Corres. re NALGO proposals to form a confederation of black-coated workers.

Rule book.

Memo. re affiliation to the TUC; rule book.

Rule book.

Corres., incl. re re-affiliation to the TUC of the NASD, dispute with the TGWU and suspension of TUC affiliation; rule book; rule book of the Amalgamated Stevedores, Lightermen, Watermen and Dockers. [N.B. See also MSS.292C/85/1-3.]

Letter re change of general secretary.

Balance sheets, incl. general secretary's reports.

Corres. re transfer of the unemployed from areas of high unemployment; Ministry of Labour pamphlets; report of the Industrial Transference Board.

Mema. of statistics on wage claims and rates.

Mema. of statistics on London differentials.

Mema. re indices of salaries for black-coated and professional workers.

Corres. and related papers.

Corres re proposals to stagger summer holidays.

General corres., incl. re agreements, wage rates and young people engaged in nightwork.

Corres., incl. re the Rees Report and the Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954.

Mema.; reports; orders.

Minutes and circulated papers re the Departmental Cttee. on the Employment of Women and Young Persons on the Two-Shift System.

Corres. and mema. re double day shift working in industry.

Mema.; Ministry of Labour reports.

Memo. re technical education for young women.

Corres. and mema., incl. re formation.

Minutes, agendas and circulated papers.

Misc. mema.; reports; press-cuttings; publications.

General corres. and mema.

As above.

As above.

Misc. mema. and circulars.

Corres., incl. re appointments.

Paper by S. Wyatt, A study of women on war work.

Corres., mainly re appointments.

Corres.; Ministry of Labour circulars; TUC pamphlet by J.L. Smith, Unemployment insurance. An analysis of the present position.

Mema.; reports of decisions; press-cuttings; press releases.

Mema.; Congress resolutions; press-cuttings.

Unemployment Fund accounts; press-cuttings.

Mema. re Section 17 of the Unemployment Insurance Act 1920; press-cuttings; report of Cttee. of Enquiry into Ministerial Reductions under Section 17(b) of the Unemployment Insurance Act 1920; agreements in the dyeing trade between employers and the Bradford Dyers' Association, the National Society of Dyers, Bleachers, Finishers and Kindred Trades, the Amalgamated Society of Dyers, Bleachers, Finishers and Kindred Trades and the National Union of General Workers (1913; 1920)

Corres., incl. staff life assurance schemes.

General press-cuttings.

Mema. re proposals on legislation to be submitted to the Govt. for consideration.

Mema., reports; press-cuttings; TUC pamphlet, Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance. The TUC scheme for state provision for unemployment benefit (1931); Tailors and Garment Workers' Union journal, The Garment Worker (Sep-Oct 1930); reports of 1939 Unemployment Insurance Bill.

Misc. papers, incl. Labour Party Research Department journal, Labour Bulletin (Jan 1930; Mar 1931).

Mema. re review of employment quotas for ex-servicemen.

Minutes and circulated papers; mema; reports; press-cuttings. [N.B. The paper has been seriously damaged by water and metal corrosion.]

General corres. and mema.; press-cuttings.

Cuttings from Hansard.

Mema.; press-cuttings; TUC booklets: The right to live. A TUC defence of the claims of the unemployed (1933); Fair play for the unemployed. The trade union case against the Royal Commission's report (1931); Workless. A social tragedy (1933); National Unemployed Workers' Movement booklet, The new unemployment bill. What it means [1933]. [N.B. The paper has been seriously damaged by water and metal corrosion.]

Press-cuttings.

Press-cuttings.

Misc. mema.; reports; minutes.

Mema.; press-cuttings.

Misc. papers, incl. re unemployment in Lancashire and on Merseyside, the Unemployment Assistance Board and winter adjustments.

Misc. mema. and papers, incl. re means testing and relief for the poor; NUGMW booklet, Summary on some aspects of the final report of the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance (1933); TUC booklets: Fair play for the unemployed (1931); Unemployment insurance. Principles of Labour policy; statement by the Durham Miners' Association re unemployment.

Misc. mema. and papers, incl. re meetings with the Govt. on social insurance and the Beveridge Report. [N.B. The paper has been seriously damaged by water and metal corrosion.]

Mema.; press-cuttings.

Misc. mema. and reports, incl. re Dale Cttee. report on industrial health services, workmen's compensation, factory legislation, occupational health schemes, industrial nurses and TUC cttees.

Social Welfare and Industrial Welfare Department report on industrial health services.

Misc. papers of Sir Thomas Legge, TUC medical adviser (1930-2), incl.: reports; articles; mema.; corres.

Mema., articles and reports of Sir Thomas Legge, re factory inspections.

Various reports and journals on industrial health collected by Sir Thomas Legge, incl. Welfare Work (Sep-Nov, 1929).

Mema. re deputations to Govt. ministers re industrial health and welfare.

Press-cuttings and mema. re industrial health and welfare.

Report by Russell Fraser, The incidence of neurosis amongst factory workers.

Minutes and circulated papers. [N.B. Some water damage to paper.]

Mema. re appointment of H.B. Morgan as a successor to Sir Thomas Legge as the TUC medical adviser.

General corres. of H.B. Morgan.

Notes for the book, incl. mema., reports and circulars.

Dr. Morgan's medical cases and reports of trade unionists. [CLOSURE PERIOD?] [N.B. Some metal corrosion to paper.]

As above. [CLOSURE PERIOD?]

Dr. Morgan's medical cases and reports of post office workers. [CLOSURE PERIOD?]

Misc. papers, incl. annual report (1933).

Minutes and circulated papers of the Industrial Health Research Board.

As above.

Corres., incl. re TUC representation; minutes and circulated papers. [N.B. Some metal corrosion to paper.]

Corres.; notes; circulated papers; mema.

Corres.

Corres. [Two items only.]

Corres.; minutes.

Minutes and circulated papers; corres.; mema.; presscuttings; MRC Industrial Health Research Board reports, A study of absenteeism among women (1943) and A study of certified sickness absence among women in industry (1944).

Circulars and mema.; GPO Deputy Treasury Medical Adviser's annual report with sick rates (1957); Socialist Medical Association booklet, Men at work. A plea for an occupational health service [c. 1958].

Minutes of the Workmen's Compensation and Factories Cttee.

Workmen's Compensation and Factories Cttee. circulars and mema. re deputations to the Home Secretary; presscuttings.

Misc. papers, incl. re Workmen's Compensations Acts 1906 and 1923; statistics of compensation; report of the Departmental Cttee. on Compensation for Industrial Diseases (1906); various related articles [in German]; posters.

Misc. papers, incl. re TUC/Labour Party revised new 1930 bill for workmen's compensation; TUC pamphlets, John Smith has an accident. A case for workmen's compensation (1933) and The trade unions and workmen's compensation. The case for reform [1939]

Mema. re elephantiasis.

Mema. re legislation on workmen's compensation, incl. re TUC/Labour Party proposals; notes of meetings of the Joint Cttee. on the Workmen's Compensation Bill; presscuttings; copies of legislation.

Corres. and mema.; articles; misc. pamphlets re legislation; press-cuttings.

Reports and pamphlets re legislation on workers' welfare; press-cuttings.

Rules and orders under the Workmen's Compensation Acts 1925 to 1930.

Misc. mema.; press-cuttings.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Mema. re various diseases, incl. anthrax, tetanus and arsenic poisoning.

Press-cuttings.

Misc. papers re legislation and dangers; conference paper, rztliche Merkbltter ber berufliche Vergiftungen [in German].

Mema. and papers re injuries from compressed air hand tools; article by Dr. Maria Seyring, Erkrankungen durch Arbeit mit Pressluftwerkzeugen [in German].

Misc. papers; article by L. Teleky and Erna Zitzke, Untersuchungen ber das Bckerekzem und seine Ursachen [in German].

Misc. corres. and papers; press-cuttings; TUC pamphlet, Dermatitis [1935].

Misc. papers and reports. [N.B. Mould and rust damage. Some reports are currently not available to the public due to damage.]

Misc. mema. and reports. [Partly in German.]

Mema. and reports of meetings re chrome plating regulations.

As above. [Partly in French.]

Misc. papers, reports and articles re health problems of dust in various industries.

Reports; articles; mema.

Corres.; notes of meetings; mema., incl. re legislation and deputations; press-cuttings; articles; reports.

Corres. and reports re deaths from pneumoconiosis.

Misc. papers and reports re silicosis and health problems of dust.

Corres. with the Silica Millers' Association. [N.B. Two items only.]

Papers, mainly re the Metal Grinding Industries (Silicosis) Scheme. [Partly in German.]

Rules and orders of the Sandstone Industry (Silicosis) Scheme.

Mema. re regulations; report of Departmental Cttee. on Compensation for Silicosis dealing with the Pottery Industry.

Papers, mainly re the Refractories Industries (Silicosis) Scheme.

Article; reports.

Mema.; reports; articles; photograph.

Misc. mema. and reports re health hazards of fumes and gases.

Corres. and mema. re carbon monoxide and coal gas poisoning.

Corres., articles and mema. re health hazards of coalmining, incl. coal-miner's lung

Corres., articles and mema., mainly re mine rescues; promotional material re apparatus.

Reports, mema. and promotional material re safer brass casting.

Mema.; questionnaire re health hazards to spray painters; promotional material, incl. paint colour scheme.

Corres. and mema.

Articles; reports. [Partly in French.]

Mema.; reports; TUC booklet, New factory legislation. An examination of the Government's Factory Bill.

Mema. re proposed Factories Bill.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Mema.; reports; press-cuttings.

Rules and regulations.

Mema.; press-cuttings; articles.

Corres.; mema.; reports; evidence of Joint TUC/BMA Cttee. to the Inter-departmental Cttee. on the Rehabilitation of Persons injured by Accidents.

Social Insurance and Industrial Welfare Department memo. no.4, Services for the disabled.

Memo. re deputation from Remploy Ltd. to the Social Insurance and Industrial Welfare Cttee.

List of regulations and orders governing protective clothing and welfare,

IWS circulars.

Mema. and report re survey of trade unions on the effect of welfare schemes on trade union organisation; IWS publications, incl. annual report (1923).

Corres. and reports re social insurance in the USA.

Mema., incl. re reciprocal agreement with the Irish Free State.

File of unsigned TS. minutes, incl. index.

As above.

Reports; articles; mema., incl. re means testing; press releases; TUC pamphlet, Unemployment and the cost of living.

AGM reports of the National Association of Trade Union Approved Societies (1926-7); memo. re Royal Liver Approved Society (1933); report by Leonard P. Lockhart, The wider issues of health legislation in industry (1937).

Press-cutting; references; Labour Party pamphlet, The people's health (1932).

Memo. and report on partial pooling of national health insurance and approved societies' funds; press-cuttings; address to the National Conference of Industrial Assurance Approved Societies.

Memo.; press-cuttings; Socialist Medical Association, A socialised medical service (1933).

Corres. and mema., incl. re deputation to the Minister of Health; press-cuttings.

Mema. re travelling expenses for those obtaining employment away from home on their own initiative.

Mema. and press-cuttings.

Corres. and mema.; press-cuttings; TUC booklets, Holidays with pay (1937) and Holidays for all (1937).

Corres. and mema., incl. re unemployment fund surplus and the 1937 Unemployment Insurance Bill; reports; press-cuttings. [N.B. Some water damage and metal corrosion.]

Corres. and circulars, incl. re Christian trade unions, wartime conditions and proposals for public control of the assurance industry.

Press releases and mema., incl. re the 1937 Unemployment Insurance Bill.

Misc. papers of J.L. Smyth, incl. re deputations to the Govt. re unemployment and march of unemployed men from London to the TUC Congress in Brighton.

Mema., incl. re unemployment assistance; reports; press-cuttings; various publications, incl. National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers booklet, Transitional payments. State unemployment insurance (1932). [N.B. Severe water damage and metal corrosion.]

Mema.; pamphlets; reports; notes of meetings of the Inter-departmental Cttee. on Remuneration of General Practitioners. [N.B. Severe mould, water and rust damage. Professional conservation needed. Only part of the file may currently be made available to researchers]

Papers, incl. re Unemployment Assistance Act 1934; TUC pamphlet, The Government evades its national responsibility. TUC criticism of the Unemployment Bill, 1933 (1933); TUC leaflets re the means test; press-cuttings; report of General Council to the Special Conference of Trade Union Executives (1939).

Corres. and mema.; pamphlets; press-cuttings. [N.B. Water damage and metal corrosion.]

As above. [N.B. Water damage and metal corrosion.]

Mema.

Mema. and reports, incl. re the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Insurance (Agriculture) Act 1936; NUAW evidence to the Statutory Cttee.; journal, The Land Worker (Jan 1936).

Mema. and corres. with the North Wales Quarrymen's Union re insurance for men working on slate waste tips.

Mema. re national insurance legislation.

Memo. re widowed basic pensioners.

Corres. with Halifax Trades Council.

National Insurance (Classification) Amendment Regulations 1960.

Corres.

Corres.

Memo.

Papers re claims for benefit after disqualification due to participation in industrial disputes.

Circulars and misc. papers, include. lists of cttees. and General Council nominees.

Mema. [Two items only.]

Mema., include. re deputation to the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.

Lists of decisions of Medical Appeal Tribunals.

Memo.

Memo. re availability of medical reports under the Industrial Injuries Scheme.

Review of issues for possible investigation by the Industrial Diseases Sub-cttee.

Mema.

Mema.

General corres.

Corres. with Board of Trade; USDAW report.

Ministry of Labour and National Service press notices.

Corres. and mema. re establishment of the TBAC as a co-ordinating for trade unions affiliated to the TUC and represented on trade boards; proposed statement of objects and rule; misc. papers re trade boards acts; mema. re TBAC membership; circulars; Executive Cttee. minutes and circulated papers.

Transcriptions of evidence submitted to the cttee. re the management and administration of the trade boards, incl. statement by the Secretary of the Trade Boards, F. Popplewell.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Minutes and circulated papers.

As above.

Note of TBAC sub-cttee. meeting.

Corres.

General corres.

As above.

Circulars.

Misc. papers.

Personal corres. of the TBAC Secretary [formerly Secretary of the National Anti-Sweating League].

Minutes and circulated papers; copies of letter from Minister of Labour to relevant trade boards.

Trade Board Quarterly Gazette.

Weekly reports.

Corres. re wages and conditions in the catering and lemonade manufacturing trades and proposals for a Catering Trade Board, incl. representations to the Minister of Labour for application of the Trade Board Acts to the catering trade.

As above.

General corres. of J.J. Mallon and J.V.C. Wray, TBAC Secretary and Assistant Secretary respectively.

As above, incl. re sixth annual meeting.

As above.

Corres. re proposals for trade boards and representations to the Minister of Labour.

Ministry of Labour report and related papers re wages and conditions in the catering trade.

Ministry of Labour report and related papers re wages and conditions in the drapery and allied trades.

Ministry of Labour report and related papers re wages and conditions in the meat distributive trade.

Corres and related papers, incl. re letter to The Times.

General corres. of J.J. Mallon and J.V.C. Wray, TBAC Secretary and Assistant Secretary respectively.

Notices, corres. and agendas.

Misc. corres. and papers re rates; TGWU Research Department lists of amendments to schedules of minimum time rates.

Summaries of current trade board rates.

As above.

As above.

As above.

Summaries of minimum remuneration fixed by wages councils.

As above.

Press-cuttings; misc. corres.; reports; TUC/Labour Party booklet, Trade boards and the Cave Report; misc. publications, incl. The Liberal magazine (Jan 1910), The women's industrial news (Apr 1914) and The women's trade union review. The quarterly report of the Women's Trade Union League (Jan 1913).

Press-cuttings.

Papers mainly re legislation to form wages councils.

Reports and mema. re enquiry into application of the Trade Board Acts, 1909 and 1918, to the catering trade.

As above.

Reports and statistics re investigations into rates of pay in the catering, drapery and wholesale retail meat distributive trades.

Lists of trade unions and the trade boards on which they have representation.

Corres. with J.J. Mallon, TBAC Secretary, re delays in setting up new trade boards.

Notes of meetings and circulated papers of misc. cttees., mainly the Co-ordinating Cttee. of the Flax Hemp, the Jute, the Made-up Textiles, the Rope, Twine Net and the Sack Bag Trade Boards.

Corres., mainly between J.J. Mallon, TBAC Secretary, and P. Ryan, Secretary of the Office of Trade Boards in Dublin.

Corres., mainly between J.J. Mallon, TBAC Secretary, and the Belfast Chamber of Commerce and the Advisory Cttee. on Trade Boards (Belfast).

Corres. with J.J. Mallon, TBAC Secretary, incl. re lace makers in Nottingham.

Corres. re dispute between the Amalgamated Tailors Garment Workers' Union and the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses.

Minutes of evidence. [See also MSS.292C/231/38.]

As above.

Corres. re Cave Cttee. of Enquiry into Trade Boards.

As above.

Corres. and related papers re the joint sub-cttee. with employers to consider the possibility of presenting joint evidence.

Corres. and circulars re special meeting of TBAC with secretaries of the workers' sides of boards.

Minutes and notes of special meeting of TBAC with secretaries of the workers' sides of boards.

Statement of TBAC policy before the Cave Cttee., incl. notes and recommendations of the sub-cttee.

Corres. re sanction of the General Council to suggest the establishment of industrial tribunals.

Circular re co-ordination of evidence.

Memo. re fixing of wage rates.

Corres. re informal discussion re arrangements for the presentation of evidence.

Notes of meeting of workers' witnesses giving evidence relating to the distributive trades.

Mema. of evidence from individuals.

Corres. and mema. of interviews of sub-cttees. with Labour representatives and suggested reservations to the report.

Press-cuttings.

Corres. re sub-cttee. to draft statement on Cave Report.

Criticisms of report.

First draft statement on the Cave Report.

As above with annotations.

As above with amendments for second draft.

Second draft statement on the Cave Report.

As above with revisions.

As above with amendments for third draft.

Third and final draft statement on the Cave Report.

Joint Research Department memo. on the Cave Report.

Misc. mema., incl. historical note on trade boards and list of trade boards with dates of establishment.

TUC/Labour Party published memo. on the Cave Report, Trade boards and the Cave Report.

Corres. re circulation of memo. on the Cave Report.

As above.

Memo. re the Govt. white paper on the administration of the Trade Board Acts, 1909 and 1918.

Resolutions of various societies on the Cave Report.

Misc. notes and summaries of evidence.

Notes of the evidence of certain employers.

Notes of the evidence of certain workers.

Notes of the evidence of certain appointed members.

Note of Mr Wolfe's evidence.

Minutes of evidence of the Cttee. of Enquiry into the Working and Effects of the Trade Board Acts. [See also MSS.292C/231/381-2.]

Articles on the Cave Report for The Labour Woman and The Labour Magazine.

Article, A case for industrial tribunals.

First report of the Enquiry Cttee.

Second report of the Enquiry Cttee.

Note on the constitution and working of trade boards.

Triennial reviews of trade boards by the unions concerned.

Schedule of orders relating to the Trade Boards Acts, 1909 and 1918.

Misc. mema. and notes re legislation on trade boards and wages councils.

Mema. re the 1923 Trade Boards Bill.

Law reports.

Notes on the part of unions in the enforcement of the acts.

Mema. in reference to the working of the Trade Boards Act, 1909; notes on principal rates fixed by trade boards; report re application of Trade Board Acts, 1909 and 1918, to the catering trade; report to the Minister of Labour re work of the trade boards and administration of the Trade Board Acts; law reports on relevant cases.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership and wage rates.

Minutes and recommendations of the district trade cttees.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections and apprenticeships.

Corres. and mema., incl. re scope of the TB; press releases.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers. [N.B. Severe water damage and evidence of mould growth.]

General corres., mema. and reports.

As above.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates and inspections.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Applications for permits of exemption.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership and wage rates.

Applications for permits of exemption.

Corres. re objections to minimum wages.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections, apprenticeships and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers of workers' side meetings.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, inspections, objections to minimum wages and scope; applications for permits of exemption.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, objections to minimum wages and scope.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates and objections to minimum wages; applications for permits of exemption.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections, apprenticeships and scope.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates and objections to minimum wages; applications for permits of exemption.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, objections to minimum wages, inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Agendas of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates and objections to minimum wages, permits of exemption, inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership and wage rates.

Corres. and mema., incl. re objections to minimum wages; applications for permits of exemption.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections, apprenticeships and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, permits of exemption, inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re formation, membership and wage rates.

Corres. and mema., incl. re wage rates, permits of exemption and objections to minimum wages.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re Permits Cttee., Institutions Cttee., workers' side meetings, inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, permits of exemption, objections to minimum wages, inspections and scope of the TB.

General corres.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, permits of exemption, objections to minimum wages, inspections, workers' side meetings and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers. [N.B. Severe water damage.]

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates and objections to minimum wages.

Summaries of permits of exemption granted.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections, workers' side meetings and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates and permits of exemption.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re objections to minimum wages, inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates and objections to minimum wages; applications for permits of exemption.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

General corres.

Corres. and mema. re membership.

Mema. re wage rates, incl. some corres.

Applications for permits of exemptions; minutes of the Permits Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. with the Ministry of Labour and re objections to minimum wages.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema. re learnerships.

Corres. and mema. re scope of minimum rates, incl. papers of the Scope Revision Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of workers' side meetings.

General corres. re district trade cttees.

Minutes and circulated papers of the London District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Bristol District Trade Cttee., incl. some corres.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Nottingham and Leicester District Trade Cttees.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Birmingham District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Scottish District Trade Cttee. [initially known in 1915 as the Glasgow District Trade Cttee.]

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

General corres., incl. re membership and administration.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, permits of exemption and objections to minimum wages.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections, apprentices and scope of the TB.

N.B. The forerunner of the various tailoring trade boards was the Tailoring TB which existed before and during the First World War. The records of this TB and the Ready Made and Wholesale Bespoke Tailoring TB are not always clearly separated and were grouped together by the TUC. They are consequently listed as one series.

Minutes and circulated papers. [2 files]

As above.

As above.

General corres.

Corres. and mema. re membership.

Corres. and mema., incl. re wage rates and meetings of workers' representatives. [2 files]

As above.

As above.

As above.

Corres. with the Ministry of Labour.

Applications for permits of exemption.

Corres. and mema. re objections to minimum wages.

As above. [N.B. Not available for production. Evidence of mould growth and severe water damage.]

As above.

Misc. corres., mema. and notes.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

As above.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee. sitting as a Trade Advisory Cttee. on the employment of disabled soldiers and sailors.

Reports and mema. re apprenticeships.

Minutes of the Special Cttee. to consider the future of the Tailoring TB.

Minutes of workers' side meetings.

General corres. re district trade cttees.

Minutes and circulated papers of the London District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the South Western District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Midland District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the North Eastern District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the North Western District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Eastern Counties District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Scottish District Trade Cttee.

Corres. and mema. re scope of the TB.

N.B. The Retail Bespoke Tailoring TB initially covered Great Britain. In 1925 it divided into one TB for England and Wales and one for Scotland. The records of the British TB are listed with those of the Retail Bespoke Tailoring (England and Wales) TB. There is also a separate TB for Ireland. See also records of the Tailoring TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Agendas and circulated papers.

General corres., incl. re membership.

Mema. and orders re wage rates

Corres. with the Ministry of Labour; log equation papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re objections to minimum wages.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections and apprenticeships.

Reports from district trade cttees.

Minutes and circulated papers of workers' side meetings.

Corres. and mema. re scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, permits of exemption [N.B. Sever water damage; evidence of mould growth.]

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re objections to minimum wages, inspections, apprenticeships and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wages rates and objections to minimum wages.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re permits of exemption, objections to minimum wages, inspections and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee., incl. minutes of the Grading Cttee. (1921).

Minutes of workers' side meetings.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, permits of exemption, objections to minimum wages, inspections, workers' side meetings (incl. minutes) and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers.

General corres.

As above.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership and wage rates.

Corres. with Ministry of Labour and re permits of exemption.

Corres. and mema., incl. re objections to minimum wages and an enquiry re women cutters.

Minutes and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

General corres. re district trade cttees.

Minutes and circulated papers of the London and South Eastern District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the South Western District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Northern District Trade Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Scottish District Trade Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections, learnerships, workers' side meetings and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re wage rates, permits of exemption and objections to minimum wages.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Agendas and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership and wage rates.

Corres. and mema., incl. with the Ministry of Labour, re permits of exemption, objections to minimum wages and inspections.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Special Rates Cttee.; misc. papers of workers' side meetings; minutes and circulated papers of the Special Scope Cttee.

Corres. and mema. re scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, permits of exemption, objections to minimum wages and scope of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes of various district trade cttees.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership and wage rates; list of firms.

Minutes and circulated papers.

General corres.

As above.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership and wage rates.

Corres. with the Ministry of Labour, incl. re deputation; agreements.

Corres. and mema., incl. re objections to minimum wages and inspections.

Corres. and mema., incl. re youth employment, conditions of employment and scope the TB; National Federation of Women Workers annual report (1914).

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Reports of the Administrative Cttee., incl. re permits of exemption.

Minutes and circulated papers of workers' side meetings; minutes and circulated papers of the Prevention of Accidents Sub-cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership and wage rates.

Summary report of an enquiry into the earnings of workers employed in the cigar making trade.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres. and mema., incl. re inspections, apprenticeships and scope of the TB; minutes of the Special Cttee. of the TB.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, Administrative Cttee., inspections and learnerships; applications for permits of exemption.

Corres. and mema. re wage rates.

Minutes and circulated papers of the Administrative Cttee.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Minutes and circulated papers; misc. mema.

General corres.

As above.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. and mema., incl. re membership, wage rates, workers' side meetings and scope of the TB.

Corres., mema. and minutes re decisions of the Scottish TB to propose to declare a week of 52 hours.

Minutes, circulated papers and reports of the Administrative Cttee.

Corres., mainly with trade unions, and mema. re unofficial disputes and delays in negotiations.

Corres. and papers re trade union opposition to legislative interference with the right to strike.

Corres. re dispute at the Tyseley Engineering Works and Cycle Factory in Birmingham.

Corres. re dispute over pay reduction for clerical staff.

Corres. re strike by the Canadian Seamen's Union and the Legget Report, Unofficial stoppages in the London docks (1951).

Corres. re docks strike, incl. re dispute between the TGWU and National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers over membership in northern British ports.

General corres., incl. re interest rates, inflation and economic policy.

Mema. and press statement re the 1960 Budget.

Corres. re the PAYE income tax system.

Transcripts of oral evidence on the basis of assessment.

Transcripts of oral evidence on depreciation and wasting assets.

Transcripts of oral evidence on admissible deductions.

Transcripts of oral evidence on foreign profits, stock valuation, groups, profits tax and misc. matters not previously dealt with.

Mema. from the Board of Inland Revenue to the Tucker Cttee. on the Taxation of Trading Profits.

George Woodcock's papers: documents 1-63, incl. FBI et al report, The tax treatment of retirement benefits (1948).

George Woodcock's papers: documents 64-92, incl. representations to the Tucker Cttee. from various organisations, incl. the Engineering Industries' Association and the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors.

George Woodcock's papers: documents 93-102, incl. representations to the Tucker Cttee. from various organisations, incl. the Petroleum Industry's Oil Industry Taxation Cttee.

George Woodcock's papers: documents 103-44, incl. representations to the Tucker Cttee. from various organisations, incl. the National Union of Manufacturers, the Joint Taxation Cttee. of the Chamber of Shipping and Liverpool Steam Ship Owners' Association, British Overseas Mining Association, Dry Dock Owners and Repairers' Central Council and the National Coal Board.

George Woodcock's papers: documents 146-244,, incl. representations to the Tucker Cttee. from various organisations, incl. the FBI, ABCC and Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association.

George Woodcock's papers: documents 260-81, incl. cttee. minutes.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Minutes of evidence taken before the Royal Commission.

Mema. from the Board of Inland Revenue to the Royal Commission, incl. index.

As above. [See above for index.]

As above. [See above for index.]

George Woodcock's papers: documents 1-39, incl. Liberal Party booklet, Reform of income tax and social security payments (1950) and various economic papers; table of contents and index of documents up to document 300.

George Woodcock's papers: documents 40-70, incl. mema. of evidence.

George Woodcock's papers: documents 71-125, incl. mema. of evidence and FBI booklet, The effects of inflation on industrial capital resources (1951).

George Woodcock's papers: documents 126-85, incl. mema. of evidence and FBI booklet, Computation of trading profits for taxation purposes. Comment on the report of the Millard Tucker Cttee. (1952).

George Woodcock's papers: documents 186-239, incl. mema. of evidence.

George Woodcock's papers: documents 240-89, incl. mema. of evidence.

George Woodcock's papers: documents 290-357, incl. mema. of evidence.

Misc. documents, incl. mema. and articles; FBI booklet, Taxation. Representations made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1948/49 (1949).

Minutes of the Administration Cttee.

Administration Cttee. documents.

Minutes and documents of the Business Taxation Cttee.

Economists' Sub-cttee. documents.

Corres., incl. re relief on travelling expenses, child allowances and personal allowances.

Notes on the Rating and Valuation Bill.

Papers re legislation; TUC/Labour Party National Joint Council booklet, The Blind Persons Act 1920 (1922).

Papers, incl. re the Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act 1929 and the Contributory Pensions (Voluntary Contributions) Act 1937; TUC pamphlet, Insurance for health. Pensions for age. An analysis and criticism on National Health Insurance and Contributory Pensions Act, 1932 (1933); Labour Party pamphlet, Pensions and you (1939).

Misc. mema. and papers, incl. re deputations to the Govt.; various publications by the National Association for Pensions at Sixty; National Industries Alliance booklet, Pensions for all (1932); pamphlet by Ernest Bevin, my plan for 2,000,000 workless (1933); National Council of Labour pamphlet, Labour's pension plan. Old age, widows and children (1937).

Notes, mema. and Govt. publications re legislation.

Mema. and papers.

Corres. re Scottish war pensions cttees., mainly re TUC nominations.

Membership lists.

NUGMW survey of occupational pension schemes.

Mema. re employers' pension schemes.

Corres. and mema., incl. re survey of trade union opinion on financial information available to trade unions.

Misc. corres., incl. re TUC nominations to the Court of the Bank of England.

Minutes of evidence.

Minutes and corres.

Notes of meetings.

As above.

Circulated papers, incl. mema. of evidence and pamphlets, nos. 1-50.

Circulated papers, incl. mema. of evidence and pamphlets, nos. 51-100.

Circulated papers, incl. mema. of evidence and pamphlets, nos. 101-50; incl. Lord Vansittart, The German octopus. Win the Peace pamphlet no.2.

Circulated papers, incl. mema. of evidence and pamphlets, nos. 151-65; index of circulated papers, nos. 1-156.

Circulated papers, incl. mema. of evidence and pamphlets, nos. 166-73.

Circulated papers, incl. mema. of evidence and pamphlets, nos. 200-2.

Misc. circulated papers.

Corres., press notices and promotional literature re various exhibitions, incl. the Business Computer Symposium (1958), the International Automatic Vending Exhibition (1959) and the British Exhibition in New York (1960).

Memo. and articles of association of British Industries Fair Ltd.; information and regulations for exhibitors.

Corres. and mema., incl. re reviews of GATT, admission of Japan to GATT and trade negotiations.

Memo. re tariff harmonisation in the EFTA.

Press-cuttings; Labour Party booklet, Central Scotland. Report of the Labour Party's Commission of Enquiry into the Distressed Areas (1937).

Executive Cttee. corres., agendas and circulated papers.

Corres., minutes and circulated papers of various BPC cttees. and sub-cttees.

Corres., agendas and circulated papers of the BPC Advisory Cttee. on Quality Control.

Minutes and circulated papers of Cttee. `C', dealing with local productivity cttees.

Minutes.

Memo. re grant-in-aid; balance sheet.

Corres. and mema. re joint trade union/employers' visit to the USA to study the teaching of management-labour relations.

Corres. and mema. re international trade union missions, incl. re vocational training and nuclear energy.

Corres. and mema. re international trade union seminar on nuclear energy.

Minutes; annual report.

Minutes.

Minutes; Executive Cttee. report.

Corres., incl. with the Central Office of Information re publicity for the Budget.

Agendas, circulated papers and corres., incl. with Herbert Morrison and Harold Wilson re membership of the cttee.

General corres., incl. re training, conferences and consultants.

Minutes and circulate papers of the Court of Governors [of which George Woodcock was a member]; misc. mema. and conference papers.

Memo. re production and management techniques; notes of meeting on relevant publications.

BIM Council minutes and circulated papers; annual report.

Report on human relations in industry: the Glasier and Dissemination of Information Projects.

Minutes, circulated papers and mema., incl. re international EPA conference in Zurich on fitting the job to the worker and the International Joint Cttee. for Applied Human Sciences and Employer/Worker Relations.

Survey of employment of women scientists and engineers; memo. re the supply of scientists and technologists.

Memo. re joint consultation in the electricity supply industry; TUC pamphlet, Survey of nationalisation (1953).

Corres., mema. and reports re the seventh session of the ILO Coal Mines Cttee.

Corres. and press notices.

Letters of protest from trades councils and trade unions re appointment of TUC officials to the Iron and Steel Board which would oversee the denationalised industry.

General corres., incl. re proposed public ownership, the Carlisle State Management Scheme trial of state ownership of public houses and licensed premises in new towns.

Draft Ministry of Labour report on the tobacco industry.

Memo. re Congress resolution in the furniture industry; press notices re Furniture Development Council.

Minutes of Group B; mema.; submissions by the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers; interim report of the Building Industry Council of Review.

Mema. re building controls and productivity; Ministry of Works press notices.

Corres. re membership nominations.

Mema. re Congress resolutions.

Transcript of proceedings at a public sitting of the Traffic Commissioners for the Northern Traffic Area (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) investigating the provision of non-smoking facilities on bus transport.

Press-cuttings.

Mema. and reports, incl. re the TUC Nursing Advisory Cttee.'s evidence to the Inter-departmental Cttee. on Nursing Conditions and Recruitment; papers of the TUC Working Party on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses; minutes of the Nurses Panel of the Nurses Salaries Cttee.

Circulars.

Publications, incl. National Society of Children's Nurseries pamphlet, A four year plan for children's nurseries (1943); Socialist Medical Association pamphlet, Nursing in the post-war world (1945); International Council of Nurses constitution and by-laws (1947); examination of proposals on the National Health Service by the Hospitals and Welfare Services Union (1944); third report of the Nuffield Foundation (1948).

Minutes.

List of complaints re Labour MPs or agents taking up trade union matters in respect of members of affiliated unions.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Agenda for the Co-operative Party annual conference 1954; Co-operative Party pamphlet, European defence and German arms.

Corres., incl. re formation; circulars; reports.

Corres., incl. re evidence to the Copyright Cttee., 1951, and the Copyright Bill 1956.

Legal papers, incl.: lease of premises in Eccleston Square to William Thorne, MP, and C.W. Bowerman, MP; agreement between Odhams Press Ltd. and Victoria House Printing Co. re formation of the Daily Herald (1929) Ltd. company; Memo. and Articles of Association of the Daily Herald (1929) Ltd.

Corres. re the TUC publications, The TUC in war-time and What the TUC is doing.

Misc. corres.

Corres. and circulars.

Corres., incl. re the relationship of the Roman Catholic Church to the Labour Party, the Catholic Social Guild and the Spanish Civil War.

Corres. re the TUC Medical Adviser, Dr. H.B. Morgan's membership of the Council.

Corres.; minutes and circulated papers of the BNCSW Central Studies Cttee.

Corres.; minutes and circulated papers of the National Citizens' Advice Bureaux Cttee.

Corres., incl. re scholarships and appeal fund; annual reports; prospectuses.

Corres. with TGWU re grant to the college.

Corres. re proposed endowment of a Chair at Oxford in memory of Ernest Bevin.

Corres. re the foundation of Churchill College; list of donors to the trust fund.

Corres. and mema., incl. re university development; resolutions; reports of meetings with the Govt.

Corres., incl. re shortage of science teachers, science teaching in girls' schools and supply of students for higher technological education; TUC Education Cttee. reports; TUC statement on higher education (1956).

Notes and circulars re trade union educational facilities.

Corres. re scholarships.

Corres. re TUC training course in social security and industrial welfare.

Signed TS. minutes of Meetings of Trustees.

Programmes of the TUC Summer School, normally held at Ruskin College, Oxford; papers re lecture on trade union administration by Arthur W. Petch at the 1929 and 1930 summer schools.

Minutes and circulated papers; reports.

Minutes; survey of rates paid for contract medical practice in England and Wales.

Corres. re influx of refugee doctors, mainly from Austria.

Corres. and mema. re dispute over the provision of medical services to workers in Llanelly.

Mema. and press releases; British Empire Society for the Blind annual report, 1953.

Corres.; minutes of annual meeting; misc. cttee. papers.

Minutes and circulated papers.

Corres. re courses in industrial hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; misc. LSH publications.

Abstracts, incl. re lead poisoning, industrial poisoning by sulphuretted hydrogen gas, toxicology and hygiene of motor traffic, silicosis, cancer and industrial eczema.

Misc. papers, incl. re the National Health Service; report on Health and Welfare Enquiry 1944; lecture notes.

Corres., incl. re declaration by the Labour Party and TUC on foreign policy and defence and Congress resolutions.

Visitors' books, mainly overseas trade union leaders.

Papers, incl. re emergency famine reserve.

Corres.; minutes and circulated papers; accounts.

Papers of the Emergency International Trade Union Council, incl. summaries of meetings and reports.

Misc. corres., incl. re German trade union movement, 1924 congress in Vienna, Russian Relief Fund, International Federation of Working Women; notes in shorthand.

Minutes, corres. and papers re the Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Cttee.; IFTU reports; papers re visit of Sir Walter Citrine to the USA re proposed extension of the Anglo-Soviet Cttee.

Corres. and papers re IFTU Cttee. I on the Post-war Reconstruction of the International Trade Union Movement and Cttee. II on Social and Economic Demands.

Corres., copies of speeches and papers re the World Trade Union Conference in London, 1945. [Partly in Russian, French and Spanish]

Misc. papers, incl. re Congress of the Executive Bureau of the WFTU and ITS (Paris, 1946); draft constitution of the WFTU; winding up of IFTU; corres. between Sir Walter Citrine and V. Kuznitzov, President of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. [Partly in Russian]

Minutes and agendas.

General corres.

Corres., resolutions and papers re EB meeting, Prague, June 1947.

Corres., resolutions and papers re EB meeting, Paris, November 1947.

Corres. and papers re EB meeting, Rome, April-May 1948.

Corres., resolutions and papers re EB meeting, Rome, April-May 1948.

Corres. and papers re EB meeting, Paris, September 1948.

Corres., resolutions and papers re EB meeting, Paris, September 1948.

Misc. corres. and papers, incl. re arrangements for the Second World Trade Union Congress, Greece, Palestine, the Marshall Plan and growing Anglo-American disenchantment with the WFTU.

Misc. corres. and papers, incl. re Anglo-American disenchantment and split with the WFTU, miners' strike in France and Soviet criticism of the TUC. [Two files]

Corres. and papers, incl. TUC proposal to suspend activities of WFTU, split from WFTU of the British, American and Dutch labour movements and an anti-communist drive by the TUC; TUC pamphlet, Defend democracy. Communist activities examined (1948). [Partly in French and Russian]

General corres. and papers, incl. with Louis Saillant, WFTU General Secretary, re WFTU representation at TUC Congress; also re administrative matters, meetings and resolutions; report by New Zealand delegate, James H. Collins, of WFTU General Council meeting at Prague, June 1947.

Misc. corres. and papers, incl. re Executive Bureau meetings, applications for WFTU affiliation, Cyprus, India, Spain, Indonesia and China.

TUC proposals on social charter for incorporation in the peace settlement.

Corres., reports and papers re creation of the international trade departments.

Corres., reports and papers, incl. re German trade union organisation, WFTU Commission to Germany and conference of trade unions in the British Zone; Vorstand des freien Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes Gro-Berlin publication, Die Schuldigen an der Spaltung (1947).

Corres., reports and papers, incl. re Second Commission of Enquiry of WFTU into the Situation in Germany, TUC delegations to Germany, interzonal conferences and the situation in Berlin.

Corres. and papers.

Corres. and papers, incl. re the Union General de Trabajadores de Espaa. [Partly in Spanish and French]

Corres., reports and papers.

ILO Report of the Mission to Greece, October-November 1947.

Corres. and papers, incl. re South Africa, Tunisia and WFTU Pan-African TU Conference in Dakar, Apr 1947.

Corres. and papers, incl. re the Chinese Association of Labour.

Corres. and papers, incl. re WFTU delegation.

Corres., reports and papers, mainly re WFTU delegation and enquiry in Japan.

Corres. and papers, incl. re WFTU proposal to be represented within UNESCO.

Corres.

ILO resolution and WFTU reports.

Corres. and papers, incl. re relations between the ILO and WFTU; ILO report of the Preparatory Asiatic Regional Conference of the ILO, The economic background of social policy including problems of industrialisation (1947) and report of the Director-General (1947); Director's Report of the Third Conference of American States Members of the ILO (1946).

Misc. papers.

Misc. papers re settlement of the Netherlands Police Action in Indonesia.

Corres., reports and papers re the status, pay and political rights of women; WFTU survey on the question of the retribution of female labour.

Corres. and papers, incl. re WFTU delegation to Iran and imprisonment of Reza Rousta, President of the United Trade Unions of Iran.

Corres. from the Confederation of the Workers of Cuba re industrial unrest in Havana.

Corres. [One item only]

Memo. by Philip Murray, President of the Congress of Industrial Organisations, on basic principles which must govern a foreign aid programme.

Corres. and papers, incl. re Mexican trade unionists, Fernando Amilpa and Lombardo Toledano, trade union movement in Mexico and other Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Corres. and papers, incl. re trade union situation in Portugal and CGT Force Ouvriere in France.

Report of session of the Executive Bureau of June 17-20 1946 in Moscow.

Report of session of the Executive Cttee. of June 22-7 1946 in Moscow.

Report on the imprisonment of comrade El Medarrek, member of the General Council of WFTU, and on the restrictions imposed on the exercise of trade union rights in Egypt [Moscow 1946].

Report on the help of WFTU to the trade unions in colonial countries or mandated territories [Moscow 1946].

Report on the relations between WFTU and the Inter-Allied Control Council in Berlin [Moscow 1946].

Report on the representation of WFTU within the UN [Moscow 1946].

Memo. on the creation, the activity and the admission to WFTU of the Greek General Confederation of Labour [Moscow 1946].

Report of the Commission of WFTU to investigate trade unions in Germany [Presented at Moscow 1946].

Report of the Commission of WFTU to investigate trade unions in Germany [Adopted at Moscow 1946].

Report of the position, the activity and the decisions of the world trade union movement with regard to the struggle against the dictatorship of General Franco in Spain [Moscow 1946].

Report of the internal organisation of departments of WFTU [Moscow 1946].

Report on the creation of the international trade departments [Moscow 1946].

Report of session of the Executive Bureau of September 20-24 1946 in Washington.

Report of the Commission of the World Federation of Trade Unions to investigate conditions in Germany [Washington 1946].

Report of the representation of the WFTU within the UNO [Washington 1946].

Report by Lon Jouhaux, Vice-President of WFTU, on his visit to Greece [Washington 1946].

Report on the strike of the South African miners [Washington 1946].

Report concerning the relations of the WFTU with the Allied Control Council in Berlin since the session of the Executive Cttee. of June 1946 [Washington 1946].

Report from Mr Verret concerning his delegation at the 5th session of the UNRRA Council in Geneva [Washington 1946].

Report concerning the representation of the WFTU at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation [Washington 1946].

Report of the General Secretary of the WFTU on his mission to Iran [Washington 1946].

Report of the Commission of Enquiry on Tunisia [Washington 1946].

Report on the meeting of the trade unions of Trieste.

Report on the representation of the WFTU within the UN.

Provisional report of the 2nd Enquiry Commission on the situation in Germany.

Report on the world situation of the coal industry [Conference on Coal, Paris 1947].

Draft preliminary report of the delegation to Japan and Korea [Washington 1946].

Preliminary report of the WFTU delegation to Japan [Washington 1946].

Preliminary report of the WFTU delegation to Korea [Washington 1946].

General Secretary's report on the WFTU enquiry in Japan.

As above, with annotations.

Report on the inquiry, conference and resolutions concerning the situation in Austria [Prague 1947].

Report and conclusions on the Pan-African Trade Union Information Conference [Prague 1947].

Report on the situation of the coal industry in the world [Prague 1947].

Report of the delegation of the WFTU to Iran [Prague 1947].

Reports on the trade union situation in Tunisia [Prague 1947].

Report on the trade union situation in Trieste [Prague 1947].

Report of activity of the WFTU [Prague 1947].

Report of the 5th session of the Economic and Social Council of the UN [Paris 1947].

Introductory report on the relations between the WFTU and the ILO [Paris 1947].

Report of session of the Executive Cttee. of May 5-10 1948 in Rome.

Report on the creation of the trade departments [Rome 1948].

Report on the relations between the WFTU with the Economic and Social Council of the UN [Rome 1948].

Report on the activities of the WFTU in connection with the guarantee of the exercise and extension of trade union rights [Rome 1948].

Report on the activity of the WFTU concerning the principles of equality of wages for equal work between male and female labour [Rome 1948].

Report on the negotiations between the ILO and the WFTU [Rome 1948].

Report on the trade union situation in Germany [Rome 1948].

Report on the trade union situation in Greece [Rome 1948].

Report concerning breaches of trade union rights submitted to UNESCO by the WFTU.

Report of session of the Executive Bureau of September 17-21 1948 in Paris.

Report of joint meeting of the WFTU Executive Bureau and representatives of the International Trade Secretariats [Paris 1948].

WFTU Information Bulletin.

Press-cuttings, mainly USSR propaganda, incl. re Berlin. [English, French and Russian]

Press-cuttings, mainly USSR propaganda. [English and Russian]

Press-cuttings, mainly USSR propaganda, incl. re TUC proposals to suspend the WFTU. [English and Russian]

Corres., mema. and reports re WFTU finances, budget and affiliation fees; balance sheets.

As above.

As above.

Corres., mema. and press releases re the ERP; international trade union conference report on the ERP (Mar 1948).

ERP conference papers, incl. copies of speeches by the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, the Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, Vincent Tewson and Lon Jouhaux. [English, French and German]

ERP conference papers. [English, French and German]

Mema. and documents for the ERP Trade Union Advisory Cttee. meeting of 22 January 1949 in Bern.

Corres., mema., reports and notes; report on the creation of international trade departments (Prague, 1947).

Mema. and notes, incl. re draft regulations.

As above.

Minutes and circ. papers of the Preparatory International Trade Union Cttee.; draft constitution for the Free World Labour Confederation [later ICFTU]; papers and report of the Preparatory International Trade Union Conference (Geneva, Jun 1949). [English, German, French Spanish]

Papers of the Credentials Cttee., incl. lists of national centres invited to the conference and delegates.

Press releases; draft constitution of the new Trade Union International [ICFTU]; copies of addresses, statements and speeches; misc. conference papers. [English, German, and Spanish]

Administrative arrangements; draft constitution and standing orders.

Papers re economic and social demands of the conference.

Corres., incl. re arrangements and TUC representatives; conference papers and proposals; press releases.

Reply to ILO questionnaire on minimum wage-fixing machinery, for the International Labour Conference of 1928 in Geneva.

Papers of the 1945 Paris and 1947 Geneva conferences.

Corres., incl. enquiries from affiliated bodies and MCF campaigns.

Questionnaire replies from colonial trade unions, giving name of union, secretary, membership and date of registration.

Notes of meetings with the OEF [formerly the Colonial Employers' Federation] and the Colonial Office; corres., incl. re industrial relations in the British West Indies, notably Jamaica; papers re the Malayan Mining Employers' Federation; report of the Commission of Inquiry re trade disputes in Aden Colony (1956); surveys of industrial relations in various colonies; OEF reviews.

Minutes of meetings with the OEF and the Colonial Office; OEF circulars and newsletters; corres.

Lists of employers' associations and trade unions in the colonies.

Corres. re fund, mainly replies to Circulars 82 and 110 (1946-7) requesting donations from affiliated trade unions.

Corres. and circulars, incl. re allocation of equipment to colonial trade union centres and appeals for aid.

Corres. and circulars re TUC, ICFTU and AFL-CIO assistance to trade union development in British dependent territories, mainly Africa; reports of meetings with ICFTU.

Corres. with ICFTU re TUC assistance to British dependent territories.

Corres., conference papers and reports re WFTU sponsored Pan-African Trade Union Information Conference of April 1947 in Dakar. [English and French]

Corres. re colonial legislation affecting industrial relations and strikes in essential services, particularly in Cyprus, Tanganyika and British Guiana; minutes and circulated papers of the Colonial Labour Advisory Cttee. and its Subcttee. on Essential Services Legislation.

Corres., incl. re formation and TUC representation; minutes and circulated papers.

Misc. corres. and papers, incl. re salary commissions in dependent territories, American Cttee. on Africa, Movement for Colonial Freedom, Association Euro-Africaine et Malgache des Ingnieurs, Cadres et Techniciens [in French], Colonial Labour Advisory Cttee. and ILO report on electrical accidents.

Letter from W. Schevenels, General Secretary of IFTU, to Walter Citrine re IFTU work in Nazi Germany; confidential reports on illegal socialist organisations in Germany and Austria.

Papers re the Group of Austrian Trade Unionists in Great Britain; minutes of meeting of Austrian Members of the AEU.

Papers re TUC delegation to Austria. [English and German]

General corres., incl. re the Austrian Labour Club and hours of work in Austria. [English and German]

Corres. and reports, incl. re the Communist Party, trade unions and industrial relations.

Minutes and circulated papers; corres.; press-cuttings.

Minutes and circulated papers. [English and French]

Minutes and circulated papers; corres.; press-cuttings; report of IFTU delegation to the Confdration Gnrale du Travail (1944); CGT publications re the post-war reconstruction of France. [English and French]

General corres., incl. re the Malta Trade Union Council, General Workers' Union, visits to Malta, affiliation to ICFTU, industrial relations and industrial dispute between GWU and the British Govt.

As above, incl. re the Air Ministry (Malta) Branch of the Civil Service Clerical Association, the Malta Civil Service Association and plans to integrate Malta into the UK.

As above, incl. re meetings with Dom Mintoff and the formation of the Confederation of Malta Trade Unions.

As above, incl. re GWU rejection of CMTU application for ICFTU affiliation.

Corres., incl. with Dom Mintoff.

Misc. circulars and reports; lists of refugee Spanish seamen in British ports.

Corres., incl. re SMAC, the Anti-Fascist Relief Cttee., the British Cttee. for Refugees from Spain, the Basque Children's Cttee., the International Emergency Conference for Spanish Refugees (Paris, July 1939), Spanish Exhibition Cttee. and various other aid cttees.; journal, The Bedford Transport Magazine (December 1937).

Minutes, reports and circulated papers; memo. submitted to the cttee. by Voluntary Industrial Aid for Spain.

Circulars, pamphlets and reports of the Labour and Russia Council of Action [formed to promote peace with Russia].

Translations of Soviet reports and press-cuttings.

Minutes and notes of meetings.

Corres., incl. enquiries from affiliated bodies re the bona fides of various organisations, particularly the British-Soviet Friendship Society [a Communist sponsored body].

Interview with Hugh Gaitskell; circular re Soviet invasion of Hungary; report of a Printing and Kindred Trades Federation delegation to USSR, The printing and bookbinding industry in the Soviet Union (1958).

Reports on the Swiss economy and labour shortage.

Corres. re visits of Victor Feather to India, Malaya, Singapore, Thailand, East West Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma.

Corres., incl. re Chinese Federation of Labour [Taiwan], admission of the People's Republic of China to the UN and visit of a Taiwanese trade union official.

Corres. re visit of Victor Feather to India, Pakistan and Ceylon; corres. re attendance of representatives of Hind Mazdoor Sabha and the Indian National Trade Union Congress at the TUC Centenary Congress.

Press-cuttings re visit of Victor Feather to Burma.

Corres. and circulars, incl. re the Tudeh Party, the Central Council of Trade Unions and visit of WFTU delegation.

Corres., incl. re Sierra Leone Council of Labour and 1955 strike in Freetown.

Mema. and reports re Tanganyika, Kenya and Mauritius, incl. re trade union situation.

Corres. between the International Federation of Plantation, Agricultural and Allied Workers and trade union organisations in Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Mauritius and Nyasaland.

As above.

Corres., incl. re the Kenya Federation of Labour, the Kenya Tea Growers' Association and Kenya Plantation Workers' Union.

Corres. between the ITF and East African transport unions re industrial relations of railway workers; agreement between the Tanganyika Planting Co. Ltd. and the Tanganyika Plantation Workers' Union.

Corres., incl. re Kenya, Mauritius, Tanganyika, Nyasaland, Uganda and IFPAAW work in East Africa.

Corres., mainly re dispute between the Tanganyika Sisal and Plantation Workers' Union and the Tanganyika Sisal Growers' Association; Tanganyika Govt, report on the state of industrial relations in the sisal industry.

As above.

Fact sheets and press releases.

Draft of letter from Sir Vincent Tewson, the General Secretary, to Alan Lennox-Boyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies, re the Tanganyika Trade Union Ordinance.

Corres. and mema. re trade unions and industrial relations in Mauritius.

Press-cuttings.

General corres., incl. re the Negro Welfare Association, Cuba, Caribbean Labour Congress, constitutional developments and TUC assistance to the trade union movement throughout the British West Indies.

As above, incl. re the University College of the West Indies.

As above, incl. re industrial relations course at the University College of the West Indies.

TUC circulars to the West Indies; corres.

Misc. papers and reports.

Corres. of Dr. H.B. Morgan, TUC Medical Adviser, re the West Indies.

Corres. re Parliamentary Cttee. for West Indian Affairs.

Misc. papers re visit of George Woodcock.

Corres. incl. re the Bermuda Industrial Union, industrial relations legislation and living conditions; BIU rule book.

Corres., incl. re the Bahamas Federation of Labour and industrial relations.

As above, incl. re industrial disputes and trade union legislation.

Papers re visit of Sir Vincent Tewson, TUC General Secretary, to the Bahamas.

Papers, incl. re British Guiana Constitutional Commission 1951, development plan, constitutional progress and initial statement re the 1954 Commission.

Mema., circulated papers and reports, incl. re industrial relations legislation, the Man-Power Citizens' Association and Guiana Industrial Workers' Union.

Drafts of section of Commission's report on the People's Progressive Party.

Notes and discarded drafts, incl. section of Commission's report on the development of the constitutional crisis.

Notes and drafts of various sections of the Commission's report.

N.B. The files at MSS.292C/972.8/6- consist of transcripts of evidence submitted to the Commission by individuals, organisations, Govt. officials, businessmen and trade unionists. A few mema. are missing; some have been annotated by George Woodcock.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 1-15.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 16-30.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 31-50.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 51-73.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 74-100.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 101-27.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 128-55.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 156-200.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 201-15.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 216-33.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 234-49.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 250-75.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 276-95.

Mema. of evidence, nos. 296-332.

Misc. papers, press-cuttings and pamphlets, incl. booklet by C.V. Alert on the Guianese trade unionist, The life and work of Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow (1949); booklet by John W. White on the Dominican Republic, The land Columbus loved (1945); account of the PPP term in office by Ashton Chase, 133 days towards freedom in Guiana [1954]; Cheddi Jagan, What happened in British Guiana [1954]; analysis of the 1953 general election; letters patent creating the 1953 constitution.

Hansard report of the proceedings of the first session of the British Guiana Legislature's First House of Assembly.

Colonial Office report of a Commission of Inquiry into the Sugar Industry of British Guiana.

R.R. Follett-Smith et al, Bookers Sugar. Bookers Sugar Estates Ltd., London 1954.

British Guiana Govt. report of the Rice Farmers (Security of Tenure) Cttee.

Report by A.H. Marshall on local govt. in British Guiana.

Interior Development Cttee. of British Guiana handbook of the natural resources of British Guiana.

British Guiana Govt. Information Services publication, Building confidence. The story of British Guiana in 1954.

Memo. for Constitution Commission 1954.

Memo. by W.M. Bissell, Commissioner of Labour, on trade unionism in British Guiana and wages and working conditions on sugar estates.

Corres. and papers re the English Speaking Union of the Commonwealth and the Commonwealth-American Current Affairs Unit.

Corres. and papers re visit and lecture tour.

Misc. documents, incl. press-cuttings and briefs.

Corres. re article by Frank C. Newman of the University of California, Money and party politics in Britain.