Requests for information, etc., from trade unions, trade unionists, academics, general public.

Correspondents include: Managing Director, India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company Limited, 1930; editor, Industrial Welfare, 1931; National Council of Labour Colleges regarding complaint about lecturer, 1934; G.D.H. Cole request for statistics, 1936; Arthur Henderson, prior to broadcast discussion, 1936.

Drafts on next 5 years of trade unionism, 1937. Research Department analysis of 1934.

As above file.

Correspondents include: J.W. Robertson Scott regarding County Council recognition of trade unions, 1937; John Lewis, Victor Gollancz Limited, 1937; G.D.H. Cole request for information, 1938; Horace L. Morgan regarding publishing work on Yorkshire glass bottle industry trade unions, 1939.

National Labour Memorial of Freedom and Peace circulars; Trades Union Congress memoranda regarding trade union organisation; T. Fallows (National Union of Public Employees) lecture on branch administration, 1938.

As above file.

Correspondents include: Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, shipbuilders, Govan, 1944; Hoover Limited, 1945; Clifton Reynolds, writer, 1945; Polish Air Force Association, 1945; Association of Drop Forgers and Stampers, 1945-6.

As above file.

Correspondents include: Rowntree committee on trade union attitudes in relation to productivity, 1948; W.E. Tate, British Broadcasting Corporation School Broadcasting Department, 1948; proposal for journal of trade union studies, Glasgow University, 1948; H.J. Laski, February 1949, on behalf of Prof. E. Dolleanes; numerous teacher training college students.

As above file.

Correspondents include: Rev. Arthur Peacock, 1951; Central Office of Information regarding draft on 'The trade unionist in Britain', 1952; Picture Post regarding trade union feature, February 1954.

As above file.

Correspondents include: Wyndham Deedes, 1955; Air Vice Marshall N.H. D'Aeth, 1955.

Gallup Poll survey on trade union affairs, September 1955.

Contents include: memoranda on various aspects of trade unionism, including W. Milne-Bailey draft on policy, 1927, Research Department on participation of trade unions in governmental functions, 1934, on industrial developments in past 25 years, 1935; Industrial Workers' Charter, 1924; membership returns, 1924-5; paper by H.V. Tewson for International Federation of Trade Unions Summer School, 1931; A.W. Petch, 'Making of a modern trade union' (National Council of Labour Colleges, 1932); lectures by W.M. Citrine to junior staff, 1932; Citrine, `Dictatorship - a threat to industrial democracy', 1933.

Correspondents include: `Britain in Pictures' series, 1941; correspondence and notes analysing union emblems; correspondence regarding Trades Union Congress badge collection; B. Stross MP regarding F. Klingender's proposal to record trade union banners, 1947.

Message from President of Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, July 1940; 68pp. illustrated booklet of George Tutill, banner manufacturer, ECl, circa 1930; illustrated prospectus of Co-operative Art Service Limited, 1951; brochures of Fattorini and Sons Limited, Birmingham.

Mainly correspondence critical of speeches by Emanuel Shinwell, 1929; also Trinity Congregational Church, Poplar, Discussion Group, 1937.

Correspondence with Educational Productions Limited, East Ardsley regarding production of wall charts and possible sponsorship by Trades Union Congress.

Correspondence with National Book Council regarding supporting revised book list on trade unionism.

Miscellaneous correspondence, including regarding presentation of memorabilia. Correspondents and subjects include: Julia Varley, Transport and General Workers Union, regarding nailers, January 1933; centenary of Derby Silk strike, 1934; correspondence with W.J.S. Bayless, 1933, 34, rejecting his collection of trade union records.

Subjects: mainly enquiries; also 50th anniversary of Cardiff, Penarth and Barry Coal Trimmers� & Tippers� Union, 1938. Correspondents include G.D.H. Cole, English branch of International Institute of Social History, 1940, regarding preserving trade union records.

London Information of Austrian Socialists in Great Britain, no. 10; British Broadcasting Corporation Schools Broadcasting script on Amalgamated Engineering Union history, 1949.

File as above.

Contents include: Walthamstow Guardian articles on death of Ben Buck, 1954; Julian Symons, author, regarding researching General Strike, 1955.

File regarding research for souvenir publication, The Martyrs of Tolpuddle: memoranda, notes of findings, etc.

File as above.

File of material prepared for printer.

File of material prepared for printer.

File of research results.

File of correspondence, etc., regarding research into transportation vessels, including with W. Branch Johnson, historian, with draft by him; also with H. Edwin Coles, who planned to bring back the convict hulk `Success' to UK.

File of correspondence regarding sources, illustrations, etc. Correspondents include: J.W. Robertson Scott, The Countryman; Gertrude Tuckwell; Lord Ponsonby; Sir George Edwards; various libraries and academics.

File of correspondence, as above.

Correspondents include: John Burns; Owen Rattenbury regarding fictional elements in his book [ Flame of freedom]; G.D.H. Cole; L. Barbara Hammond.

File of correspondence

Correspondents include: G.D.H. Cole; Owen Rattenbury.

Correspondents include: J. L. Hammond; Will Dyson, cartoonist; David Low, cartoonist; H.L. Beales; Harold Laski; G.D.H. Cole; J.F. Horrabin, illustrator; Sir Stafford Cripps; Beatrice Webb; Siegfried Sassoon; J.R. Clynes; Eleanor Farjeon.

Manuscripts by Beales, Cripps, Laski; amended typescript by Farjeon.

File of correspondence regarding distribution of souvenir publication.

Correspondents include: Retail Book, Stationery and Allied Trades Employees' Association; National Workers' Sports Association regarding description of football matches organised in connection with commemoration; Victoria House Printing Company Limited; Odhams Press Limited

Correspondents include: general secretaries of trade unions; David Low; Will Thorne; J.F. Horrabin; George Lansbury; C.W. Bowerman; J.S. Middleton; G.D.H. Cole; Arthur Greenwood; James Jarch�; Eleanor Farjeon; Miles Malleson; Arthur Henderson; Harold Laski; Sir Raymond Unwin.

Correspondence with: London Caledonian Press Limited; Pelican Press; Victoria House Printing Company

Internal memoranda; some correspondence

File of sales returns from Odhams Press Limited

Correspondents and subjects include: authenticity of alleged original of address presented to James Hammett. Harry Brooks, National Union of Railwaymen Poole branch, author of Six heroes in chains; D.J. Shackleton; William Loveless regarding relic from cottage in which James Hammett was arrested and sending Loveless family tree; Lord Parmoor, June 1934; Llewelyn Powys, writer, June 1934; George Lansbury, 31 August 1934; F.W. Pethick-Lawrence, September 1934; National Federation of Retail Newsagents, 1935; financial assistance to repair of Tolpuddle Methodist Chapel, 1937.

Circular regarding Rattenbury's Flame of freedom; National Council of Labour Colleges `broadcast' script; lecture by W. Maitland Walker, critical of Trades Union Congress version of events.

File regarding organisation of commemoration events: memoranda, reports, circulars, cuttings.

T.U.C. cottages, Tolpuddle booklet; 14pp. Trades Union Congress booklet on form of commemoration.

Research enquiries; commemoration overseas; publicity; sales of souvenir volume.

Correspondents include: Sir James O'Grady, Falkland Islands; Tom Moore (President) and J.W. Buckley, Trades and Labour Council of Canada; V.A. Olander, International Seamen's Union of America; William Green, President, American Federation of Labour; International Federation of Trade Unions; New Zealand Alliance of Labour; International Metalworkers' Federation

Memoranda by Citrine to Trades Union Congress General Council and committees.

Correspondence with Workers' Travel Association Limited regarding transport, catering and other arrangements; also with Messrs. A.J. Carpenter (London) Limited, caterers.

Workers Travel Association publicity and information material.

Correspondents include R.M. Dawes Wireless, Dorchester; GEC Limited

GEC amplifying equipment brochure.

Correspondence regarding donations.

Correspondents include: Lord Parmoor; Mrs G.P. Wells pp H.G. Wells; J.P. Hodges, Nottingham; George H. Pattinson, Windermere; Newport Labour Party; Rector of Dorchester All Saints.

Correspondence regarding use of blocks; correspondence with Daily Herald regarding publicity; correspondence with Tom Moore, President of Trades and Labour Council of Canada; National Workers' Sports Association; Pelican Press; list of trade union orders.

Brochure for booklet on the Commemoration; internal reports analysing events, etc.

Miscellaneous notes and correspondence, including with Daily Herald.

Correspondence regarding insurance cover, mainly with H.H. Elvin, Clerical Services Guild Limited

Correspondence with F.C. James, National Union of Agricultural Workers District Organiser, Dorchester, regarding aspects of the commemoration, James acting as an informal coordinator in the locality. File also includes Miss F.A.F. Livingstone to H.J. Laski regarding alleged penalisation of James because of his involvement in commemorations.

Correspondence with Town Clerk of Dorchester; Dorchester Trades Council secretary, et al.

Christmas card of George Chappell, prospective Liberal candidate for West Dorset, on Tolpuddle theme.

Correspondents include: H. Beresford Kemmis regarding Sir Edward Elgar; Dame Ethel Smyth (2 copy letters to); Frederick O. Roberts; A.V. Broadhurst, music publisher; Messrs. Kimble and Bradford, music publishers; William Smith, Musical Mail Band Journal.

Labour Party Song Book; Trades Union Congress, Songs to Sing; Adare and Smith, `We are the Law' (sheet music).

Mainly correspondence with W.H. Cumming, photographer, Weymouth and Dorchester; also Daily Herald; Messrs. C. and S. Kestin, photographers, Weymouth.

Mainly internal reports and memoranda

Landworker interview with Citrine regarding Memorial Cottages.

Correspondence with Automobile Association (Sir Stenson Cooke); Ed. J. Burrow and Company Limited; Royal Automobile Club.

Trades Union Congress internal memoranda

Correspondents include: Watford Printers Limited; Board Brothers, Weymouth; Eldorado Ice Cream Company Limited; Longmans of Dorchester; St. John Ambulance Brigade, Dorset; Charles H. Mears, band leader, Weymouth; Severn Chair Hiring Company.

Correspondents include J.J. Mallon, Toynbee Hall; H.W. Barter, School Journey Association

Correspondence with Mrs R. Dibben, owner of Tolpuddle Village Hall, and Wessex Electricity Company regarding electrical connection to permit film shows in the Hall.

Internal memoranda.

Trades Union Congress poster regarding contest; Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Band brochure; National Brass Band Club contest rules; programme of 28th Annual Band Contest, Crystal Palace, 1933.

Correspondence with judges: Dr. A.D. Lindsay, A. Pugh (Iron and Steel Trades Confederation), H.H. Elvin, Prof. R.H. Tawney, J.P.M. Millar; correspondence with winners: Louis A. Fenn, E.H. Haywood, S. Watson.

The three prizewinning essays.

Correspondents include: John Grierson, T. O'Brien (National Association of Theatrical Employees), Daisy and Raymond Postgate (Socialist Film Council), Sound City (Films) Limited, G.B. Equipments Limited, W.P. Lipscomb, Laurence Howard, H.H. Elvin, British Paramount News.

Synopsis [by R. Postgate]. [In the event a commercial film did not materialise; cf Comrades, directed by Bill Douglas, 1988.]

Correspondents include: W.G. Hedderly, who arranged for a film to be shot, those with claims against him; British Movietonews Limited; potential hirers of the film, including Charlie Cole, cycle agent, Dunstable; National Workers' Sports Association; National Clarion Cycling Club, Midlands Union; Socialist League, Brighton branch

Correspondents include: R.R. Tomlinson, senior inspector of art, London County Council; Eric Gill and Frank Dobson, sculptors; G.T. Friend, engraver; Alf G. Wright.

Winning design of E.J. Fey.

Internal memoranda and reports; National Workers' Sports Association

Provisional programme; R.B. Brown and Company, Dorchester, marquee hire leaflet.

Sales of publications, play tickets, etc.

Correspondents include: organising secretary, Pageant of Labour, Crystal Palace; G.A. Foan, perru quier; National Council of Labour Colleges; Town Clerk, Dorchester; Dorset Labour Women's Advisory Council; Weymouth Football Club Limited; Southampton Trades Council.

Report on Suffolk Labour Day pageant procession, June 1933

London Trades Council, Central Women's Organisation Committee: minutes, including some sub-committee, in relation to Pageant organisation, 1933-4; London Pageant of Labour Society Limited, accounts, 1935-6, agendas.

Correspondents include: Ed. P. Genn, pageant master; London Trades Council/organising secretary, Pageant of Labour/London Pageant of Labour Society Limited; Commander H.M. Daniel; Watson, Collin and Company regarding winding up.

Pageant of Labour leaflets, circulars, etc.; synopsis by Matthew Anderson; London Pageant of Labour Society rules, accounts October 1934; `Afterthoughts' by Anne Goodwin; article by London Central branch secretary, National Union of Tailors.

Trades Union Congress circulars; Plymouth and District Trade Council May-Day programme; Wood Green and Southgate Trade Council circular; Warrington Trade Council report on recruitment week; list of local demonstrations.

Correspondence with E.G. Yates, Home Counties and SE Group of Typographical Association; Trades Union Congress memoranda, etc.

Correspondents include: Town Clerk, Dorchester; Maiden Castle Excavation Committee; Melyn Works Glee Club, Neath; Sir William Jenkins MP and A. Pugh regarding same; Eldridge, Pope and Company Limited, brewers; Countess of Warwick.

Typographical Association commemorative luncheon programme.

File regarding provision by Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers of memorial stone to James Hammett, bricklayer, in Tolpuddle churchyard. Correspondents include: George Hicks, Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers; Vicar of Tolpuddle; W.A. Hoare (Sculptors) Limited, Bournemouth; Eric Gill.

Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers invitation card to unveiling.

File regarding arrangements for ceremony on 28 February 1935, when soil from the grave of George Loveless in Canada was sprinkled on that of James Hammett. Correspondents include: Vicar of Tolpuddle; Hampshire and Dorset Motor Services Limited; Southern Railway; Mrs M. Hammett.

Correspondence with Sir Ernest Debenham regarding `Martyrs' Tree', Tolpuddle and provision of shelter-seat in vicinity.

File regarding plaque for Standfield Cottage, Tolpuddle, in which union meetings were held. Correspondents include: Mrs E.M. Jephson, property owner; Arthur Henderson; Will Thorne; Frome Castings Company Limited

Correspondence mainly with Rev. Henry Carter, Methodist Church Social Welfare Department

Correspondence with F.C. Reeves regarding Centenary Hall and Labour Club project, Poole.

Programme of laying of foundation-memorial stone, September 1934; cuttings regarding opening of Woodlands Hall, March 1936.

Correspondence with Owen Rattenbury, publicity secretary of the Socialist Christian League and author of Flame of freedom, regarding possible participation of Socialist Christian League in Commemoration.

File regarding commemoration of Dr. Arthur S. Wade, Vicar of St. Nicholas, Warwick, who supported the Dorsetshire Labourers. Correspondents include: Leamington Spa Trade Council and Labour Party; Rt. Rev. Dr. E.W. Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham; A. Conley; Canon T. Guy Rogers; Rev. H.A. Hayden.

Balance sheet of Wade Commemoration; press-cutting.

File of miscellaneous correspondence.

Correspondents and subjects include: case of William Hammett; requests for copies of Martyrs of Tolpuddle; Vicar of Tolpuddle; Amabel Williams-Ellis regarding British Broadcasting Corporation talk, January 1939; D.R. Prosser, presenting manuscript volumes of Henry Broadhurst, May 1940; National Union of Agricultural Workers, 1946-7, regarding making more of the annual commemoration; alleged problem of Communist Party involvement in 1949 event; Musicians' Union, 1949-50, regarding employment of non-union band; Hugh Dalton, November 1948, with reminiscences of H.R. Northover, gunnery expert.

Programmes of Tolpuddle demonstrations, 1947, 1949; cuttings regarding descendants of the martyrs.

File of miscellaneous correspondence.

Correspondents and subjects include: contributions to local church repairs; opportunity to purchase `Martyrs' Cottages', 1955; arrangements for annual demonstrations; Barbican, Plymouth plaque ceremony, 1955-6.

Sale catalogue of `Martyrs' Cottages'.

File regarding play `Six Men of Dorset', adapted by Miles Malleson from script `1834' by H. Brooks of Poole.

Typescript of `Tolpuddle' with `Epilogue' regarding Huddersfield; cuttings regarding productions of `Six Men of Dorset' at Reading and Oakdale, with photos of latter; ephemera regarding drama schools, Citizen House, Bath and Everyman Theatre.

File regarding acquisition by Trades Union Congress of the Old Crown Court within the Old Shire Hall, Dorchester; organisation of opening ceremony. Correspondents include: Dorchester Rural District Council; Shaen, Roscoe and Company, solicitors; National Trust; George Cake, builder and decorator, Dorchester.

Photographs of interior and ceremony; programme of ceremony.

File regarding administration of Old Crown Court. Subjects include: liability to tax; roof repairs; booklet, The Story of the Dorchester Labourers [copy on file].

Plan of Old Crown Court.

First of a series of files on the choice of site, building, administration, etc. of the Memorial Cottages, Tolpuddle.

Correspondents include: Edward Unwin, architect (also letter from his father, Sir Raymond Unwin); George Hicks, Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers; James Lunnon [National Union of Agricultural Workers]; Charles E. Barrow, architect; B.J. Fry, dairy engineer, land-owner.

Lighting catalogue of Wholesale Fittings Company Limited; Sir William Ray, This wonderful age [promotional booklet for electric cooking]; plans and elevations of Memorial Cottages by E. Unwin [in separate oversize box].

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Correspondents include: Lord Marks, regarding purchase of visitors' book; F.C. James; G. Loveless; West Dorset Division Labour Party; New Homes for Old Exhibition, 1936; Lady Debenham regarding District Nursing provision; Forest and Orchard Nurseries Limited, Falfield.

Miscellaneous correspondence regarding administration of Memorial Cottages.

Correspondents include: George Loveless (caretaker); F.C. James; Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries Limited; Messrs. Moore and Samways, builders, Dorchester; Smeaton and Sons Limited, heating engineers; Lott and Walne Limited regarding supply of mower; W.H. Cumming regarding supply of picture postcards.

Puddletown and District Nursing Association Committee report 1936-7.

Miscellaneous correspondence regarding administration of Memorial Cottages.

Correspondents include: George Loveless; Amalgamated Anthracite; Born Electrical Engineering Company, Dorchester; Puddletown Nursing Association; F.C. James; Messrs. Moore and Samways, building contractors.

Miscellaneous documents regarding construction, allocation and administration of cottages, mainly internal memoranda and reports of visits.

List of members of Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, 1932-3; T.U.C. Cottages, Tolpuddle.

Completed application forms; correspondence regarding.

Draft for 4pp. illustrated leaflet [not proceded with?].

File regarding provision of books for library in the Hall at the Memorial Cottages. Correspondents include: Daily Herald; Pelican Press; W.G. Easton, designer of book plate; Constable and Company; Co-operative Union Limited.

Descriptive list of the first 900 volumes in Everyman's Library: W.H. Smith ex-library stock lists; book plate design.

Specification, reports and memoranda, including regarding negotiations with Ed. Unwin.

Correspondents include: Ed. Unwin; R. Coppock, National Federation of Building Trade Operatives; C.W. Wells, secretary, National Federation of Building Trade Operatives Bournemouth branch; Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited [whose building department carried out the work]; Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers Bournemouth branch

Subjects include problem of provision of sufficient trade union labour on site.

Quotation, 24 July 1934, of S.W. Bushby, motor hirer, Parkstone.

File regarding provision of folding, wooden chairs for Hall, supplied by Bennet Furnishing Company Limited, SE15. File includes letter from National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association London District Secretary, objecting to imported furniture.

Illustrated sheet issued by Bennets.

Correspondents include Lord Melchett, ICI, regarding best type of fuel; Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries Limited; G. Loveless; W.L. Legg, coal merchant and contractor, Puddletown; Southern Railway.

Advice notes of Weymouth and District Co-operative Society Limited coal office.

Estimates from and correspondence with: Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited, London branch; Heal and Son Limited; Maple and Company Limited; Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Limited

Correspondence and notes regarding arrangement of dedication ceremony.

Correspondence mainly with Messrs. Tuke and Bell Limited, sewage and hydraulic engineers, Lichfield, regarding improved arrangements for effluent from cottages' sewage system; also with J.H. Moore, builder and contractor, Dorchester.

Plan of proposed work.

File regarding supply of electricity to and installation of equipment in the Memorial Cottages.

Correspondents include: Sir Andrew Duncan, Central Electricity Board; Wessex Electricity Company; J. Rowan, General Secretary, Electrical Trades Union; J.T.H. Legge, Edmundsons Electricity Corporation Limited; Walter Barrett Limited, Bath; National Radiator Company Limited; R.A. Lister and Company Limited; Ed. Unwin; Caroline Haslett, Electrical Association for Women; Venner Time Switches Limited; Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited, Engineering Department, London Branch.

Correspondents include: A.F. Batty, electrician, SE25; C.G. Way, motor and cycle engineer, Tolpuddle; Walls Radio, Bournemouth; Radio Gramophone Development Company Limited; G. Loveless.

GEC domestic appliance brochures.

Correspondence with cottagers, mainly regarding excessive use of electrical appliances.

Correspondents include: Ed. Unwin; George Loveless; E. Lanning and Son, furnishers, Parkstone; Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers; Messrs. Thurman, ironmongers, Dorchester; Messrs. Tilleys, motor engineers, Dorchester; Weymouth and District Co-operative Society Limited; S. Davis and Sons, wattle fence makers, Milborne St. Andrew; Keith and Blackman Company Limited

Messrs. H.C. Slingsby, truck manufacturers, illustrated postcard; Decca radio gramophones leaflet, 1934.

Correspondence regarding work on grounds, provision of chicken runs, tools, etc.

Correspondents include: W. G. Rogers and Son, nurserymen, Dorchester; George Loveless; F.C. James; Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited

Correspondence regarding cottage homes in general.

Correspondents include: National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel; Northumberland Aged Mineworkers' Homes Association; George Hicks, Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers; National Union of Railwaymen, Newcastle and District Council.

Descriptive booklet regarding National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel Memorial Homes [before rebuilding]; Rules and Bye-laws, report of annual meeting 1933 of Northumberland Aged Mineworkers' Homes Association; memorandum of United Steel Companies Limited meeting regarding Jubilee commemoration, 1935.

Memoranda regarding arrangements for Silver Jubilee visit, related correspondence, write-up of visit.

Correspondence with H.O. Lock of Messrs. Lock, Reed and Lock, solicitors, Dorchester regarding purchase of site, layout, water supply, etc.; also with Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company, solicitors.

Other topics: Trust; tenancy agreements.

Correspondence regarding removal of some tenants' effects and items from Trades Union Congress offices. Correspondents include: London and North Eastern Railway; Southern Railway; Pickfords Limited; Messrs. Shepherd and Hedger, removers, Dorchester.

Correspondence regarding site notice, also approach signposts, notice at entrance.

Correspondents include: Ed. Unwin, Paul Mauger, architects; Franco-British Electrical Company Limited; Messrs. Moore and Samways; National Trust.

File regarding local sales of picture postcards and booklets. Correspondents: George Loveless; Mrs A. Everett, Tolpuddle Post Office.

Correspondents regarding socials, film shows, whist drives held in the Village Hall or at the Memorial Cottages. Correspondents include: George Loveless; F.C. James; J.R. Gregory, baker, Dorchester; Crown Hotel, Tolpuddle; local press.

Correspondence regarding provision of framed photos for Hall at Memorial Cottages and remedial work due to effects of dampness.

Correspondents include: Ed. Unwin; Paul Mauger; W.H. Cumming, photographer; Central Joinery Company (1927) Limited.

File regarding remedying of various defects at the Memorial Cottages, including heating system, woodwork, plaster work.

Correspondents include: Ed. Unwin; Mrs Jane Unwin during his terminal illness; Messrs. Mauger and May; Smeaton and Sons Limited; Co-operative Wholesale Society London branch Engineering Department; Messrs. Moore and Samways; National Association Operative Plasterers.

National Radiator Company Limited brochure.

Correspondence with George Hicks, Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers; R. Coppock, National Federation of Building Trade Operatives; Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers branches; Councillor W. Clark; West Dorset Labour Party.

Correspondence with Post Office Telephones regarding provision of service to Memorial Cottages.

Group Service leaflet.

Contents as per title. Subject matter includes practical details and question of disagreements between tenants.

Correspondence regarding sinking of well to provide water supply to Memorial Cottages. Correspondents include: Bladen Estate Office; F.C. James; Messrs. Moore and Samways.

File regarding water supply and drainage system, Memorial Cottages.

Correspondents include: Dorchester Rural District Council: Clerk and Senior Sanitary Inspector.

Well water analyses.

Correspondence regarding care of tenants; aspects of maintenance and servicing of Memorial Cottages

Correspondents include: George Loveless; F.C. James; Messrs. Moore and Samways; Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries; Smeaton and Sons Limited; Weymouth and District Co-operative Society; Fuel Overseer, Dorchester.

Puddletown and District Nursing Association Report, 1937-8.

File as above.

Correspondents include: George Loveless; F.C. James; Messrs. Moore and Samways; Weymouth and District Co-operative Society Limited; W. Holmes, General Secretary, National Union of Agricultural Workers; Wessex Electricity Company

File as above.

Correspondents include: George Loveless; F.C. James; Wessex Electricity Company; W. Holmes. National Union of Agricultural Workers; J.H. Moore, builder, Dorchester.

Details of applicants for vacancies; death of fellow tenant, following dispute with Loveless, 1943.

File as above.

Correspondents include: Alfred Dann, General Secretary, National Union of Agricultural Workers; various cottagers; F.C. James Memorial Fund; J.B. Broughton, car hire, Dorchester; H. Brooks; W. H. Cumming; J.H. Moore, builder; C.G. Way; Smeaton and Sons Limited

File as above.

Correspondents include: C.G. Way; J.H. Moore; J.B. Broughton; Weymouth and District Co-operative Society; Wilfrid Snook, radio engineers; A. Bell and Company Limited, Northampton; B.J. Wellstead [who succeeded to James' supervisory role]; Smeaton and Sons Limited; Southern Electricity Board.

Belco chlorinator booklet; cutting regarding Communist Party (of Great Britain) participation in 1949 ceremony.

File as above.

Correspondents include: J.H. Moore; J.B. Broughton; G. Shute, caretaker; Tuke and Bell Limited; Decca Record Company Limited; Wilfrid Snook; H.E. Butler, coach proprietor, Milborne St. Andrew; Southern Electricity Board; National Union of Agricultural Workers; Victor Gollancz Limited, regarding stocks of Six men of Dorset.

Revo Electric Company Limited: brochure for Peerless cookers.

File as above.

Correspondents include: G. Shute; National Union of Agricultural Workers; Southern Electricity Board; J. H. Moore; King's Arms Hotel, Dorchester; J. B. Broughton.

Topics include selection of new tenants.

Programme for visit of Standard Motor Company shop stewards to Dorset as National Union of Agricultural Workers guests, June 1958; drainage plan; 1953 demonstration programme; obituary of B. J. Wellstead, 1953; brochure for Baby Belling, Jackson and Revo electric cookers.

File as above.

Correspondents include: G. Shute; Smeaton and Sons Limited; Shell-Mex and BP Limited; Ross Brothers, heating engineers, Christchurch; cottagers; J. H. Moore; National Union of Agricultural Workers; Shepherd and Hedger (Dorchester) Limited; Tuke and Bell Limited; Southern Electricity Board.

Topics include selection of tenants.

This and preceding files include correspondence with Trustees.

Nu-way and Potterton oil burner brochures; 1959 demonstration leaflet.

Reference file of memoranda regarding cottages project, including field plan. [Transferred after main deposit; artwork for bookplate filed in oversize box.]

File of annual statements of account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs Memorial Trust, 1936-59.

Minutes of a few meetings only of the Trustees.

Mainly regarding proposal by Prof. J. Henry Richardson, Leeds University, 1951-3, and Nuffield College, Oxford interest in similar project.

Correspondence regarding acquisition of books, manuscripts and artefacts.

Correspondents and topics include: W.E. Tate, Schools Department British Broadcasting Corporation, regarding British Records Association enquiry into labour movement records, 1949; material kept by W. Milne-Bailey; Gertrude Tuckwell's papers; acquisition of manuscript of The ragged trousered philanthopists; British Records Association conference on trade union records, 1959.

Correspondents include: Cyril Stone regarding painting of Trades Union Congress Brighton Congress; Mrs Ruth Dalton and Arts Council regarding Josef Herman's `South Wales'; Tom Driberg regarding a painting of the departure of the Tolpuddle Martyrs by Kenelm Cox and letters from Cox; correspondence regarding presentation by Labour Party of painting of London Airport.

File regarding statistics and other aspects of membership of trade unions. Contents include: statistics; Research Department memoranda; enquiries from individuals and organisations; S. Presbury (S. Presbury and Company Limited, advertising films) regarding problem of entry into lithographic union, 1932; National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers regarding free membership, 1934; correspondence with Latvian Legation, 1937; Student Christian Movement, 1937-8, regarding ex-students and trade unions; Association of Cine-Technicians regarding war emergency membership; Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers regarding Air Ministry foremen and trade union membership; enquiry on behalf of Elders of the Churches of God, 1942; Works Committee, Messrs. J.W. and A. Upham, shipbuilders, Brixham, regarding recruitment, 1942; Cigarette Machine Operators' Society regarding associate members; breakdown of Electrical Trades Union membership by industry, 1954; Hugh Clegg, 1959, regarding possibility of academic study of turnover of trade union membership.

Survey of women's membership, 1931-8.

Enquiries from individuals, trade unions and branches regarding aspects of this question. A number of problems relate to the position of part-time firemen and musicians (correspondence with Fire Brigades Union and Musicians' Union).

Replies to Trades Union Congress circular letter of enquiry, including some detailed statements, e.g. from National Foremen's Association; Iron and Steel Trades Confederation.

Correspondence regarding convening conferences to discuss transfer agreements, National Union of Agricultural Workers-National Union of General and Municipal Workers, Transport and General Workers Union, and in boot, shoe and leather industries.

Rule books: Mental Hospital and Institute Workers Union, Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society, National Union of General and Municipal Workers; summaries of replies; minutes of National Union of Agricultural Workers and leather industry conferences

File regarding conference, 6 March 1935, and agreements reached.

Amalgamated Society of Boot and Shoe Makers and Repairers contributions card and form; Rossendale Union rules and contributions card; National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers working agreements booklet, 1934; National Union of Railwaymen rules, January 1933.

[Transferred after main deposit.]

Enquiries from trade unions, trade councils and individuals. Including Fire Brigades Union/National Union of Public Employees dispute, St. Helens, 1958.

Correspondence with trade unions, trade councils and individuals.

Topics include wartime pressure to make trade union membership obligatory.

Correspondents include: British Dental Association, 1946; Wolverhampton Trades Council, 1946; `Face the Facts' Association regarding National Passenger Workers Union, 1946; South London (Clapham) Christadelphian Ecclesia and other religious bodies.

Trades Union Congress pamphlet, The closed shop, 1947.

Correspondence with trade unions and other organisations, and individuals.

Correspondents include: Railwaymen's Syndicate of Macedonia, 1930; Leeds Central branch of Electrical Trades Union, March 1949; Amalgamated Society of Blacksmiths, 1954.

Rules: Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers, 1949, General Iron Fitters' Association, 1947, Birmingham and Midland Sheet Metal Workers' Society; report on unity talks, National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers with Prudential Staff Union and Liverpool Victoria Workers' Union.

Enquiries from various trade unions about aspects of rule-drafting, etc., and replies to requests for rule books [in most cases the rule books submitted have not been kept in this file].

Correspondents include: Society of Scale Beam and Weighing Machinists; Railway Clerks Association; British Sugar Corporation Supervisory Staff Association; Amalgamated Society Operative Lace Makers; National Association Operative Plasterers; Women Public Health Officers' Association; Cigarette Machine Operators' Society; National Union of Packing Case Makers; Iron, etc., Barge Builders' and Helpers' Association

Rules of: Military and Orchestral Instrument Makers' Trade Society; National Union of Co-operative Officials rates and conditions booklet, 1946; Waterproof Garment Workers Trade Union draft rules.

File similar to above.

Correspondents include: Prudential Staff Union; Amalgamated Society Operative Lace Makers; National Union Gold, etc., Trades.

Rules: Light Castings and Kindred Trades Federation; Royal London Staff Association; Civil Service Clerical Association: proposed, 1955; Laminated and Coil Spring Workers' Union

Typescript analysis of rules of various affiliated trade unions.

Corespondence regarding miscellaneous aspects of trade union finances.

Correspondents include: Mid and East Lothian Miners' Association; Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union, New York; C.H. Seaton regarding a scheme of trade union accounts; T. Watson Collin regarding scheme of trade union organisation; Irish Trades Union Congress regarding investment in the press.

Rules of Women Public Health Officers' Association.

Enquiries from trade unions, etc., and some individuals.

Correspondents include: Labour Association, Jamshedpur; Indian Trade Union Federation; National Union of Newsvendors, 1932; National Union of Sign, etc., Writers, 1933; Messrs. H.N. and R. Bloomfield, insurance brokers, Hackney, 1933; National Trade-Unions Corporation, Washington DC, 1933; International Labour Office/Organisation, Indian branch, 1934; John Tunaley, consulting engineer, Derby, 1934, aggrieved at deprivation of benefits [by Foundry Workers].

Benefits sheets: Durham Miners' Association, National Laundry Workers' Union, 1928; National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers benefit information, 1931; Rossendale Union of Boot etc., Operatives rules, 1931.

File as above.

Correspondents include: National Council of Women, 1946, regarding equal contributions; Laminated and Coil Spring Workers' Union; labour counsellor, Italian Embassy, December 1953; British Airline Pilots Association.

Amalgamated Union of Asphalt Workers constitution and balance sheet, 1956.

Mainly replies to Trades Union Congress questionnaire, 1932.

Correspondents include: Scottish Trades Union Congress; Clitheroe Unemployed Workers' Association, with accounts, January-June 1937.

Correspondence with trade unions, official bodies, regarding queries and proposals for amendment.

Correspondence in reply to Trades Union Congress circular enquiring whether trade unions wished to be covered by proposed legislation whereby Friendly Society benefit in the case of civilian war injuries would be reduced by amount paid under government scheme. Also queries.

Correspondents include secretary of Parliamentary Labour Party.

Correspondence in reply to TUC circular on trade union finances.

Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers financial reports, 1938, 1952, 1953; Transport Salaried Staffs Association, Where the shilling subscription goes; National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association annual report and accounts, 1939; National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives, 1953; Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen report on finances, 1955; Musicians' Union annual report, 1953.

Completed forms, with some additional items.

British Lace Operatives' Federation: statement and accounts, 1954-5; National Union of Packing Case Makers: annual report and balance sheet, 1954; Amalgamated Society Operative Lace Makers: half-yearly accounts, December 1954.

Correspondence from a wide range of trade unions, including small unions subsequently merged or defunct, with comments on aspects of their finances.

National Society of Street Masons: annual report and balance sheet, 1954; National Union of Lock and Metal Workers: balance sheet, 1939, annual report, 1954.

Completed circulars [with data for 1954 and 1958], and some covering letters [some with comments].

Scottish Typographical Association: 122nd Report, 1958.

File as above.

This file contains replies from trade unions not answering in specific terms the question on p.2 of the questionnaire regarding desirability or otherwise of increased expenditure.

National Society of Electrotypers and Sterotypers: balance sheet, 1958; Bedstead Workers' Association: accounts, 1954, 1958.

General file regarding Circulars 101 and 117 and trade union finances.

Presidential address by J.H. Binks to Irish Trades Union Congress, July 1956; Trades Union Congress publication Finances of trade unions, 1956, 1960; National Union of Shale Miners report and balance sheet, 1958.

Miscellaneous correspondence with organisations and individuals.

Topics include D.Mirror enquiry by Gerald Kaufman.

[Series of files regarding cases involving the organisation by the National Union of Clerks of clerical staff in trade union offices.]

Correspondence (usually single letters with reply) regarding a variety of breakaway unions or attempts, including: Circulation and Publishing Association, 1926; Co-op Employees' Union, 1926; Counties Agricultural and General Workers Trade Union, 1928; Asphalte Workers' Union, 1929; Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan Mineworkers' Association, 1929; National Operative Plumbers, 1930; Pattern Weavers' Society, 1931; Union of Railway Signalmen, 1938; report on National Passenger Workers Union, 1940; National Busworkers Association, 1950-2; Engineering Officers (Telecommunications) Association, 1950, with notes of meeting, Postmaster General-Post Office Engineering Union-Engineering Officers (Telecommunications) Association; Institution of Boiler Engineers, 1950; Aeronautical Engineers' Association, 1951; National Guild of Motor Engineers, 1952; National Association of Toolmakers, 1957; National News Guild, 1952, 1959; East Anglian Textile Workers Association, 1960.

Reports regarding National Union of County Officers dispute with P. O'Gorman, 1938; judgement in Typographical Association v. National News Guild, 1952.

Correspondents and topics include: W. Milne-Bailey regarding Messrs. Hart, Schaffner and Mark, Chicago, 1926; Association of Wireless and Cable Telegraphists regarding Imperial and International Communications Limited, 1930; Bank Officers' Guild, 1937; John Dickinson, stationery manufacturers, house union; United Friendly Insurance Company Limited staff union, 1946-8; Lloyds Bank Staff Association, 1948; Royal Liver Women Clerks' Union, 1952-4.

Analysis of results of Trades Union Congress circular, 1937; Redline-Glico Limited documents regarding company election; Alliance Assurance Guild constitution.

Contents include: Typographical Association Working conditions... booklet, 1925; circular to Manchester Guardianmembers, 23 June 1926; Rules of Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society; scheme; Printing and Kindred Trades Federation circular to Manchester Guardianemployees, 19 July 1926; report to Trades Union Congress General Council of interview with Manchester Guardiandirectors, 30 August 1926; press-cuttings.

Research enquiry, 1969.

File regarding house union of John Dickinson and Company Limited, stationery manufacturers, Hemel Hempstead. Contents include Charter and miscellaneous items regarding the Union; Typographical Association opposition leaflet; memoranda regarding 1937 interviews on question of alternative supplies.

For Dickinsons' history see J. Evans, The endless web (London, 1955).

Miscellaneous material regarding miners' unions, including Trades Union Congress leaflet, The truth about the `non-political' unions; South Wales Miners' Industrial Union recruiting sheet; Trades Union Congress memoranda; Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan Mineworkers' Association leaflets.

Miscellaneous contents include: National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association regarding danger of staff unions; Arthur Taylor MP regarding Stage Guild; enquiry regarding London General Omnibus Company's Officials' Federation; Paisley Labour Party and Industrial Committee regarding need for all-embracing mineworkers' union; Liverpool Railway Clerks Association branch regarding Railway Workers Joint Council movement; enquiry from Southampton Trades Council regarding National Trades Technical Societies: correspondence with National Union of Gold, Silver and Allied Trades, Sheffield Trades Technical Society, Industrial Management Research Association.

Correspondents and subjects include: National Foremen's Association of Engineering and Allied Trades regarding Foremen's Mutual Benefit Society; National Union of Clerks and Administrative Workers regarding application of fair wages claim to clerical workers; National Union of Clerks and Administrative Workers and Ministry of Labour regarding staff mutual benefit societies; organisation of colliery companies' clerical staff and effect of colliery officials' mutual benefit schemes on colliery deputies.

Loose in file: draft research paper on staff mutual benefit schemes.

Correspondents and subjects include: Foremen and Staff Mutual Benefit Society including correspondence with Trades Councils occasioned by Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians circular; National Production Advisory Council Foremen's Panels.

Foremen's Mutual Benefit Society rules, 1919; Foremen and Staff Mutual Benefit Society Prospectus, 1939, Outline of membership advantages, 1940; Staff Benefit Society rules, 1929; West Yorkshire Colliery Staffs' Mutual Benefit Society rules, 1929.

Mainly regarding Foremen and Staff Mutual Benefit Society; correspondence with Musicians' Union, Clerical and Administrative Workers Union, Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians, Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.

Foremen and Staff Mutual Benefit Society rules, 1939; Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians leaflet `Benefits for whom...and at what price?'.

Mainly enquiries or complaints about specific firms or organisations. Including:: attitude of British Legion towards employees joining t.rade union, 1939; West Ham Trades Council regarding anti-trade union attitude of West Ham Borough Council, 1940; alleged compulsory non-unionism at certain textile firms, 1940; building of some Young Men's Christian Association mobile canteens by non-union firms, 1940; attitude of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 1943; Cigarette Machine Operators' Society regarding Imperial Tobacco Company Industrial Committee, 1944; Paragon Glass Works (Hackney) Limited regarding inadequacy of craft union, 1947; Ashington, etc., Trades Council regarding recognition of Musicians' Union, 1947; Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers regarding policy of Woolworth's Limited, 1948.

Trade Union Extravagance, published by Morning Post, 1926; broadsheet regarding fight for trade union recognition at Desoutter's; statement on trade union recognition, joint meeting with employers' group, 4 April 1928.

File as above.

Contents include: Jarrow Trades Council recruitment campaign, 1951; Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers regarding National Camps Corporation Limited school camps, 1952; Musicians' Union and Scottish Ballroom Association, 1953-4; Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers and British Home Stores Limited, 1956.

Mainly correspondence in response to Trades Union Congress circular, October 1941, regarding firms scheduled as essential undertakings which withold trade union recognition. Some lists of firms are given, in some cases with comments on attitudes. Correspondents include E. Bevin, Minister of Labour, 9 December 1942; Bank Officers Guild, 1944-5; United Rubber Workers of Great Britain, 1948-9.

Association of Scientific Workers statement on recognition, 1944.

Trades Union Congress documents, including memorandum by Citrine, 25 September 1940; correspondence with Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians, Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Group of files regarding campaign for trade union recognition at D.C. Thomson and Company Limited, newspaper, periodical and comic publishers of Dundee.

Correspondence with Trades Councils in response to circular from Manchester and Salford Trades Council; Printing and Kindred Trades Federation; various trade unions, including in printing industry: Ministry of Labour; Shaen Roscoe and Company, solicitors

National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel and other leaflets regarding dispute; judgement in Court of Appeal, 26 June 1952; Report of Court of Inquiry (Cmd. 8607); Trades Union Congress internal documents, including report of deputation to Prime Minister, 8 September 1952.

File as above.

Subjects include: negotiations leading to firm ceasing to ban trade union membership; financial appeals, including on behalf of strikers, with list of some; Sir Walter Monckton, Minister of Labour, 23 February 1953, regarding inadvisability of further Parliamentary question, also 7 May 1953; Shaen Roscoe and Company, Solicitors, 21 July 1953, regarding circular.

Trades Union Congress circulated statements, 23 October 1952; Trades Union Congress statement regarding dispute, July 1953; Half yearly Report of Monotype Casters and Typefounders Society

File as above.

Contents include Trades Council, etc., response to boycott leaflet; Dundee Citizen appeal; victimisation of National Union of Journalists' member, K. Walmsley, 1956, with letters from Iain Macleod, Minister of Labour.

National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers booklet, The D.C. Thomson dispute, October 1953.

Correspondence with Printing and Kindred Trades Federation, National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives; subscription lists.

Correspondence mainly with National Union of Bank Employees. Topics include: dispute with Banque Belge pour l'Etranger (Overseas) Limited, 1950; Midland Bank Limited and recognition, 1951, 1953; TSB negotiating machinery; possibility of national banking negotiating machinery, 1955-6; question of breach of International Labour Office/Organisation convention 98, 1958; negotiating machinery for Scotland, 1958-9.

Copy correspondence with Ministry of Labour, 1951, regarding salary negotiation; NUBE and the TUC Booklet, 1957.

Correspondence mainly with Guild of Insurance Officials, also with National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers and Irish Trades Union Congress.

Following companies' policy features in this file: Northern Counties Life and General; Zurich General Accident; United Friendly Insurance Company; Eagle Star Insurance Company [including correspondence with Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Brian Mountain].

Other topics: deputation to Minister of Labour, 7 March 1952; International Labour Office/Organisation convention 98; approach to British Insurance Association

Correspondence with Guild of Insurance Officials regarding dispute with Municipal Mutual; also with trades councils, circularies by GIO.

GIO printed statements; letter from A. Creech Jones MP, 19 August 1958.

Correspondence with Amalgamated Engineering Union, Clerical and Administrative Workers Union.

Correspondence with trade unions regarding non-union labour.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding employment of non-union labour.

Correspondence with various Labour Parties and Trades Councils regarding union membership of local Labour Party officials, including local problems at Portsmouth.

Correspondence regarding inadvisability of Labour Party officials, local councillors and MPs giving advice more properly the responsibility of trade unions.

Correspondence with trade unions, Trades Councils, Labour Parties regarding possible encroachment by MPs, Labour Agents, etc., on trade union work.

Brecon and Radnor News, No.3, 1931.

Original material, 1895, issued by the Felt Hatters and Trimmers Unions on the Trade Union Label, including 7 years Hard Labour by T. Mallalieu.

Trades Union Congress documents regarding fair lists and labels, 1928, 1930s.

Correspondence with trade unions, Trades Councils and firms regarding fair lists and labels, especially printing.

Pamphlets and other documents from trade unions and Trades Union Congress regarding fair lists of firms (1926-40), including National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers and London Printing and Kindred Trades Federation.

Correspondence with various foreign organisations regarding fair lists and labels, and related pamphlets and documents, including American Federation of Labour (USA) and Belgian Cigarmakers and Tobacco Workers

Correspondence, documents, pamphlets, with various trade unions regarding the National Fair List, 1932.

Correspondence with trade unions and Trades Councils regarding the Black List.

Trades Union Congress General Council circulars and other documents regarding the Black List of anti-trade union firms.

Correspondence and documents regarding fair and unfair firms.

Trades Union Congress General Council circulars regarding fair firms.

Correspondence with trade unions, Trades Councils and others regarding fair and unfair firms.

List of fair firms in light castings industry, 1936.

Correspondence with various trade unions, Trades Councils regarding fair and unfair firms. Topics include: Littlewoods Limited; coach operators.

Batch of correspondence regarding Greenhalgh and Company Limited, dyers, Burnley, 1938.

Correspondence regarding a proposed Institute of Trade Union Administration; includes correspondence with J. Allen Skinner.

Correspondence with trade unions and Trades Councils regarding Labour clubs and institutes; including Trades Union Congress General Council circulars.

Minutes, 28 November 1929, of meeting regarding possible takover of British Commercial Travellers' Club.

Analysis of replies to questionnaire regarding local labour movement facilities, May 1946.

Correspondence with trade unions and Trades Councils regarding Labour clubs and institutes.

Trust deed (copy) 1949, regarding a Trades Hall, Hackney; Trust deed (copy) 1961, regarding a Trade Hall, Acton; National Association of Labour Halls, etc., minutes of 1st meeting, 18 December 1950; National Union of Labour and Socialists Clubs: rules.

Correspondence regarding the National Trade Union Club, 1930-50s, and correspondence regarding the proposed setting up of a new club in 1960.

Correspondence with British Commercial Travellers' Club regarding the setting up of the National Trade Union Club, plus prospectus.

Correspondence with National Union of Seamen and Trades Union Congress regarding New Fellowship Distribution.

Correspondence concerning the National Guild Council, Guild Housing Limited; the Co-operative Builders (London) Limited; the Furniture and Furnishing Guild; the London Furnishing Guild; the Stage Guild; the Piano Workers Guild Limited; the London Society of Music Engravers; National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers; the Portsmouth and District Builders Guild Limited; Trades Union Congress General Council circular on the Stage Guild; constitution of National Guild Council; manifesto and advertising of the Furniture and Furnishing Guild; Stage Guild contracts.

An industry cleared for action, preliminary prospectus of Guild of Builders (London) Limited; Guild Housing Limited: The new works at Acton Vale, also an application form for the Guild Housing Limited

Guilds and the trade unions, a statement by the National Building Guild and Furniture and Furnishing Guild; a catalogue of Furniture and Furnishing Guild, also advertising for Furniture and Furnishing Guild's showroom.

Miscellaneous correspondence, including enquiries from trade unions and other bodies and individuals, including researchers. Topics include: presentation of Peace bell by G.H. Stuart-Bunning, 1935; enquiry from British National Committee of Intellectual Co-operation, 1936; dispute with Civil Service Clerical Association, 1939.

John K. Ingram, Work and the workman, 1880, reprint 1928, with covering letter from his daughter.

London Rambling Society prospectus.

Correspondence and documents regarding Trades Union Congress standing orders.

Trades Union Congress Standing orders, revised 1925; Trades Union Congress Standing orders, revised 1926; Trades Union Congress General Council memorandum on standing orders by Walter Citrine; Trades Union Congress memorandum historical review; Trades Union Congress General Council: number of votes per member of the Trades Union Congress General Council, 19 June 1934; Trades Union Congress General Council list of chairmen of congress, 1921-37.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various other bodies including report by Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company, solicitors, regarding standing orders.

1938 draft rules of Trades Union Congress.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress, trade unions and other bodies, including Messrs. Shaen, Roscoe, regarding Trades Union Congress standing orders.

Trades Union Congress standing orders, 1936-59; also correspondence and other documents, including a memorandum on the appointment of trustees.

Trades Union Congress Standing orders, 1936, 1943, January, June, 1944, 1950, 1955.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and Iron and Steel Trades Confederation in 1928 regarding amendments to standing order 12; also between Trades Union Congress and National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers in 1939 regarding an amendment to standing order 12.

Trades Union Congress General Council documents, 1927-8, regarding new standing order 12.

Correspondence and documents between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions including Transport and General Workers Union, National Union of General and Municipal Workers, National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousmen and Clerks, Constructional Engineering Union.

Trades Union Congress General Council documents regarding composition and grouping of General Council, including representation of trade groups.

Trades Union Congress Standing orders, 1926.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions including Miners' Federation of Great Britain regarding vacancies on the mining group of the General Council, especially the refusal of a seat to Arthur Horner in 1939, allegedly for being a communist; also correspondence from other trade unions regarding other vacancies on the railway and other groups.

Correspondence concerning E. Bevin regarding his resignation from the General Council in 1940 to join the government as Minister of Labour and National Service.

Trades Union Congress General Council Minutes and documents, 1931-42 regarding absence from and election to congress.

Correspondence concerning nominations to and vacancies on the General Council; includes correspondence with National Union of Railwaymen; correspondence concerning the disqualifiaction of H. Eastwood from the General Council due to illegal canvassing; correspondence regarding the refusal of a seat to Arthur Horner on the mining group of the General Council in 1950; correspondence with Shaen Roscoe and Company in 1958, regarding amendments to Rule 6.

Trades Union Congress General Council minutes and documents regarding the above rules (1948-59).

Copies of counsel's opinion on interpretation of rules in August 1958.

Trades Union Congress rules and standing orders, 1959.

Trades Union Congress minutes and documents regarding the recommendation of a separate group for Civil Service Unions.

Trades Union Congress composition of General Council - representation of trade groups; also a statement of membership of affiliated unions and groups and representation of groups on the General Council.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding eligibility of congress delegates including 1942-3 correspondence with National Federation of Insurance Workers and National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers regarding representation; also Trades Union Congress circulars and documents; correspondence with the Post Office Engineering Union and Civil Service Union regarding Rule 18; correspondence with Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians regarding Ian Mikardo M.P.

Non-eligibility of James Callaghan MP to attend as a delegate for the Inland Revenue Staff Federation in 1946.

Trades Union Congress committees' minutes, 12 August 1947.

Trades Union Congress circulars and minutes, documents and correspondence with trade unions regarding fees, especially Electrical Trades Union's objection to an amendment to rule 3(b); also with the Amalgamated Society of Boot and Shoe Makers and Repairers.

Trades Union Congress documents and pamphlets regarding Trades Union Congress Memorial Building 1946 and affiliation fees in 1950.

Trades Union Congress Finances of the TUC statement by Sir Walter Citrine, 1945.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and others, including Sidney Webb, regarding a souvenir for the Jubilee Congress of 1928; letters of thanks from some recipients, including Sir David Shackleton.

Various notes and documents regarding the congress souvenir.

Data regarding trade unions, arranged by groups; comparative wage rates and hours of working, similarly arranged.

Group 3: Transport (other than railways).

Correspondence and documents with various trade unions regarding Congress' Seventy Years Souvenir: supply of information regarding history, wage rates, etc.

Memorandum of Agreement between the Engineering and Allied Employers' London and District Association and the Association of Wireless and Cable Telegraphists, 23 December 1937.

Group 4: Shipbuilders.

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 6: Iron and Steel and Minor Metal trades

Correspondence and documents as above.

Bedstead Workers' Association minimum day work rates.

Group 7: Building, Woodworking and Furnishing

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 8: Printing and Paper

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 9: Cotton

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 10: Textiles other than cotton.

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 11: Clothing

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 12: Leather and Boot and Shoe.

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 13: Glass, Pottery, Chemicals, Food, Drink, Tobacco, Brushmaking and Distribution.

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 14: Agriculture.

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 15: Public Employees

Correspondence and documents as above.

Group 16: non-manual workers.

Correspondence and documents as above.

Copy of a memorandum of Agreement of 10 December 1936 between Association of Cine-Technicians and Gaumont British Picture Corporation Limited.

Group 17: General Workers.

Correspondence and documents as above.

National Laundry Workers Union: The best for benefits the cheapest, pamphlet regarding National Laundry Workers Union.

Report of the Veterans' Causerie held on 13 June 1938; Report of Women Veterans' Causeries held on 4 July 1938.

Trades Union Congress General Council documents, memoranda and correspondence with various trade unions regarding procedure at Congress. Includes correspondence regarding revising the voting procedure in 1954; correspondence with Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians.

Trades Union Congress General Council paper on congress card votes; correspondence with British Tabulating Machine Company Limited.

Procedure at Congress: various internal comments.

Correspondence between the Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding delegates speaking at Congress; including correspondence with the Bank Officers Guild regarding fraternal delegates to congress.

Co-operative Union Limited Joint Committee of trade unionists and co-operators: minutes of meeting in August and December 1911, April and November 1912.

Includes index.

Correspondence and documents, statements of accounts regarding joint departments.

Statements of accounts of General Council and of National Joint Departments of the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party (1923-4, 1924-5); confidential document regarding discussion about joint departments.

Correspondence and documents regarding Trades Union Congress and Labour Party joint working; including statements, memoranda, receipts, minutes, accounts, etc.

Correspondence and documents regarding joint working; including correspondence with the Labour Party; various trade unions; reports of meetings etc.

Correspondence and documents regarding the Joint Press and Publicity Department; including memorandum on proposed Joint Press and Publicity Department (1921).

Religion and Labour by George Lansbury, MP; Every worker a trade unionist: There is a trade union for you; The rich man's budget: Mr Churchill's proposals exposed, by Phil ip Snowden; Labour and the Geneva protocol, by Arthur Henderson; Protocol or pact: the alternative to war, by J. Ramsay MacDonald; The land question: taxation and rating of land values and Labour and the farm worker, by Josiah C. Wedgwood; If we could live on rice and do without sleep altogether, by George Lansbury; various Labour Party leaflets.

Minutes of Joint Press and Publicity Committee, (unbound and with index).

Minutes of Joint Research and Information Department, (unbound and with index).

Correspondence and documents regarding the Joint Research Department

Reports of the Joint Research Department (1924-5).

Correspondence and documents regarding appointment of staff in joint departments.

Minutes of the Joint International Committee (unbound).

Correspondence regarding the Joint International Department

Minutes of the Joint Advisory Committee on International Questions (unbound).

Minutes of the Imperial Questions Sub-Committee (unbound).

Minutes of the Joint Finance Committee (unbound).

Minutes of the National Joint Council (unbound).

Minutes of the National Joint Council (bound and with index).

Minutes of the National Council of Labour (bound and with index).

Minutes as above.

The labour movement and National voluntary service, (National Council of Labour memorandum, 1939); National Council of Labour leaflet on Spain (1939).

Minutes as above.

Minutes as above.

Minutes as above.

Minutes as above (without index).

Correspondence and documents regarding the National Council of Labour and its predecessor, the National Joint Council.

Documents, memoranda and correspondence regarding the National Council of Labour and its predecessor, the National Joint Council.

Resolutions considered at the Cardiff Trades Union Congress, (September 1921).

with index

with index

with index

without index

without index

without index

without index

without index

without index

without index

Correspondence and documents regarding collaboration with the Co-operative Union

with index.

with index.

without index.

without index.

Correspondence and documents regarding the Trades Union Congress Library; including correspondence with researchers; reorganisation; including correspondence with Hugh Clegg (1959).

Correspondence and documents regarding trade unions and the law; including correspondence with Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company; Commission Syndicale de Belgique; correspondence with Prof. John Hilton regarding trade unions legislation in Alberta; juvenile organisation; acquisition of land by trade unions.

An Act respecting the organizations of employees and providing for the conciliation and arbitration of industrial disputes (1938 Canadian Act); Annual report and statement of accounts from the Seafarers' Education Service (1937-8); An outline of trade union law (prepared for the Trades Union Congress training courses, 1955); Trade unionism under attack by Walter M. Citrine.

Correspondence mainly with Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company, regarding joint publications.

Counsel's opinions regarding joint publications.

Correspondence and documents with various trade unions and Shaen, Roscoe and Company regarding legal position of trade union officers.

Counsel's opinion regarding the legal position of trade union officers.

Correspondence between the Legal Advisory Bureau and various bodies, including Leeds Labour Party, Northern Ireland Labour Party, etc., regarding the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927.

Correspondence and documents regarding the Bureau; including regarding its setting up in 1927; correspondence with Mr. Henderson of Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company; Sir H. Slessor; Prof. H. Laski.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding new political fund rules.

Booklets from various trade unions showing alterations or partial alterations of rules after the 1927 Act.

Memoranda and correspondence regarding the Legal Advisory Bureau.

Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act (1927); civil service regulations, 30 August 1927 regarding the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927; memorandum regarding the Trades Disputes and Trade Unions Act, Section 4, (1927).

Correspondence and documents regarding cases 1-35, including list of cases.

Correspondence regarding cases as above.

Correspondence with various trade unions, including National Union of Vehicle Builders; the Musicians' Union; the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation; Amalgamated Engineering Union regarding the 1927 Act.

Correspondence with Trades Councils, (in A-Z order) regarding the 1927 Act.

Correspondence with various trade unions and Trades Councils; including regarding hire purchase; libel and slander; legal aid, etc.

Correspondence with various trade unions, Trades Councils; including regarding liability; trustees; solicitors changes; legal assistance; libel, etc.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding legal advice; including regarding employers' associations; unemployment benefit and financing trade disputes; Trade Union Acts 1913-27; building fund; trade union membership; organisation of juveniles, etc.

Memorandum of Association of the United Commercial Travellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, 1932 (UKCTA).

Correspondence with various trade unions; including dismissal without notice; contracts of employment; correspondence with the Darwen Weavers, Winders and Warpers' Association regarding accidents to collectors; suspension from employment; Mr Greenham's dispute with the Associated Blacksmiths, Forge and Smithy Workers (1948); aspects of termination of employment.

Copy of opinion regarding recovery of sums on notice of discharge of domestic workers; National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives agreements, 1958.

Correspondence with various trade unions and Trades Councils regarding blacklisting of firms; including correspondence with the Newcastle Trades Council regarding their dispute with Messrs. Hindhaughs Limited, 1934; correspondence regarding boycotts; Bolton and District United Trades Council dispute with Youngs Limited, 1939; employment of trade union labour, etc.

Broadsheets regarding the Bear Brand dispute, 1939; Hackney Trades Council broadsheet regarding strike at Messrs. Morris, cabinetmakers.

Correspondence and documents regarding section 76 of the 1933 Local Government Act; including correspondence with Malcolm MacDonald, Minister of Health; rights of trade union officials as representatives of Local Authorities; council house tenants who are also councillors, etc.

Association of Municipal Corporations: printed case and opinion regarding Local Government Act 1933, section 76, trade union officials and blind persons; Report of a deputation to Aneurin Bevin, Minister of Health, in 1947.

Correspondence between the Trades Union Congress and the Medical Practitioners' Union regarding the latter's status as a union under the law; including various legal opinions.

Legal notes regarding trade unions.

Correspondence and documents between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding trade union litigation; including Merchant Seaman's War Memorial Society v.W.A. Robinson; libel action cases: F. Seymour Cocks, MP and Spencer Union, 1936, also Mosley v.Marchbank, 1936; the case of Alderman Goodrich, 1939; Tomlinsonv.LMS, 1943-4.

Press-cuttings on the Goodrich case, 1939. House of Lords judgement on London Passenger Transport Board v.Moscrop, 1942.

Have you ever been arrested? National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants pamphlet, 1931; Byelaws made by the Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners and relative provisions of Acts of Parliament, 1923; appeal on behalf of R.S. Young MP in his dispute with Stage Guild; Court of Session, Scotland: closed record, National Union of Bank Employees v.John Murrayet al.1948; National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers Legal Department quarterly report, 1933.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding the Legal Information Circular.

Copies of the circular, 1946-50.

Correspondence and legal opinions regarding Dodd v. Amalgamated Marine Workers Union; including correspondence between Trades Union Congress, Marine Workers and Shaen, Roscoe and Company

[Right of inspection of trade union books and accounts.]

Correspondence with Amalgamated Marine Workers Union and Messrs. White and Company, solicitors, regarding the above case; transcript of the evidence given on the 2nd day (29 March 1926) of the case.

[Challenge to amalgamation process.]

Correspondence between the Trades Union Congress, Tailors and Garment Workers' Union and Mr. Arthur Henderson Junior regarding the above case.

[Criticism of union in speech by J.R. Remer MP.]

Correspondence and documents between the Trades Union Congress, J. Forster, National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, the Registrar, Shaen, Roscoe and Massey, etc. regarding the above case; including correspondence regarding the Labour Party; correspondence regarding the Registrar's decision in 1925; regarding the preparations for a court case in November 1926/7; correspondence regarding bankruptcy proceedings, 1927-8.

[Objection to alleged political activity by Trades Union Congress.]

History of the case; Shaen, Roscoe and Massey's charges; Labour Party leaflets.

Documents and copies of correspondence regarding the above case; including interview with Sir Henry Slesser, May 1925; the Registrar's judgement on the case, July 1925; various statements by witnesses; memoranda of interviews, etc.

Various miscellaneous documents; including indexes of relevant minutes, notes on publications; copy of the Registrar's judgement; pr�cis of the case; copy of interview with Sir Henry Slesser; minutes of the 1st meeting of the special sub-committee of inquiry into the case of Forster v.Shop Assistants Union.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and United Operative Plumbers' Association regarding Langley v.Kelley and Langley v.Jones; including correspondence with W.H. Thompson, solicitor, on the case; press-cuttings regarding the case.

[Case regarding intimidation under the Trade Union Act of 1927].

Transcript of the proceedings at the Police Court at the Town Hall, Chester May 16 1928.

Correspondence regarding the above case; including correspondence with the Scottish Trades Union Congress; press-cuttings.

[Case regarding legality of a decision by the Scottish Trades Union Congress concerning union membership.]

Record of the above case; proceedings of the Scottish Court of Session on the case.

Correspondence regarding the above case: with Transport and General Workers Union; Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company etc; memoranda regarding the above case.

[Case regarding workman's compensation.]

Correspondence between the Trades Union Congress and the Shale Miners regarding the above case.

[Case regarding Industrial Assurance Act, 1923.]

Rules of the National Union of Shale Miners and Oil Workers, 1929.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and the Amalgamated Weavers Association regarding the above case; including also correspondence with Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company

[Legality of employers making deductions from wages for alleged spoiled work.]

Shaen, Roscoe, Massey's report on the above case, 5 January 1931.

Correspondence between the Trades Union Congress, the Bury Card Blowing, etc., Association and Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company regarding the above case; including correspondence with other trade unions on the subject.

[Funeral benefit and the Industrial Assurance Act, 1923.]

Copy of the case to Counsel to advise the Trades Union Congress on the Industrial Assurance Act, 1923 so far as it affects trade unions.

Correspondence between Abertillery and District Trades and Labor Council, the Trades Union Congress and other Trades Councils regarding the above case.

Dispute whether a labour councillor of an Urban District Council should also be an employee of the same Urban District Council.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and Musicians' Union regarding the above case; including a copy of the defendant's deposition.

[Intimidation under the 1927 Trade Union Act.]

Transcript of the proceedings, County of London Sessions, 11 April 1929.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress, Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company and Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers regarding the above case.

[Libel case brought by Printing Trades Alliance.]

Correspondence between the Trades Union Congress, the Typographical Association, and the Dorsetshire Trades Council regarding the above case.

[Threatened libel action.]

Two leaflets regarding Dorchester printers' strike which resulted in threatened action.

Correspondence between National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, the Trades Union Congress and Shaen, Roscoe, Massey and Company regarding the above case.

[Action under the Truck Act, 1831: provision of meals against deduction in wages.]

[Bond et al.brought charges against the National Union of Seamen for wrongful dismissal, wrongful expulsion from membership, and the right to examine union books.]

Correspondence regarding the above case; including correspondence with London Trades Council and other trade unions regarding supporting the dismissed seamen; correspondence with various solicitors; correspondence with J. Cotter regarding his case; transcripts of the 1st and 2nd (21 and 22 May 1928) days of the trial; memoranda and documents regarding J. Cotter's dealings with Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union and National Union of Seamen.

Leaflets stating the plaintiffs' case and their criticism of payments made from Seamen's Defence Fund; copy of evidence to be given by Walter Citrine; report of a deputation to the Finance and General Purposes committee from the dismissed seamen regarding the appeal on their behalf by the London Trades Council, 9 January 1928; report of an interview between Finance and General Purposes committee and the dismissed seamen, 12 August 1928; transcript of 1st day's chancery proceedings, Bond v.National Union of Seamen, 21 May 1928.

Shorthand notes of the trial Cotter v. National Union of Seamen before Mr. Justice Romer in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice (20-28 November 1928); also judgement given 21 December 1928.

Shorthand notes of the trial National Union of Seamen v.Flett before Mr Justice Romer in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, 28 November 1928.

[Right of trade union to use funds to promote non-political unionism.]

Shorthand notes of the trial Tanner v.National Union of Seamen before Mr. Justice Romer in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, 28-9 November and 21 December 1928.

[Action to restrain the expulsion of plaintiffs from the union.]

[E.R. Pountney, as proprietor of the D. Worker, was sued for publishing statements to the effect that British and French trade union leaders proposed that British unemployed should be transferred to work in France at military rates of pay.]

Correspondence, memoranda, regarding the above case; including correspondence with various trade unions; with Shaen, Roscoe, Massey regarding the libel action Citrine and Others v.Pountney; correspondence with International Federation of Trade Unions; press-cuttings and extracts of relevant minutes; press-cuttings of the alleged libels; index and list of relevant documents; correspondence and documents regarding the bankruptcy proceedings against Pountney.

Copy of the particulars of the defence in Citrine and Others v.Pountney.

Notes of the proceedings of Citrine and Others v.Pountney before Mr. Justice Stable in the Kings Bench Division of the High Court of Justice (29 April - 6 May 1940).

Various documents regarding the above case; including a draft proof of evidence of Sir Walter Citrine; copies of the bankruptcy examination, 5 November 1940, 21 January 1941; various statements of claims and associated correspondence.

Citrine and Others v. Pountney: the Daily Workers libel case, full summary with extracts from the verbatim evidence of the 6-day trial.

Union leaders vindicated, a full account of the hearing of the libel action brought by Sir Walter Citrine, KBE and Others against the proprietor of the Daily Worker.

Photostats of documents relevant to the above case.

Newspaper cuttings of the libel action against the Daily Worker.

Miscellaneous documents and papers regarding the above case; including list of documents to be produced; notes on the publication of the shorthand report, notes for the information of Counsel on the policy of the Communist Party.

Documents regarding the libel case; including minutes and various documents regarding the 1st meeting of the Anglo-French Trade Union Council (on 14-15 December 1939); copies of Industrial News (1939-40); various Trades Union Congress minutes; various French documents and press-cuttings.

Documents regarding the libel case, unbound and with index; including memorandum, correspondence, report, communiqu�s regarding the Anglo-French Trades Union Congress; standing orders; Ministry of Labour Advisory Committee; deputations to the Prime Minister; copies of the Daily Worker libels.

French booklet for the calculations to be made regarding deductions from gross weekly earned income. The TUC in war-time, pamphlet by Sir Walter Citrine (December 1939).

Booklets regarding the above case; including Trades Union Congress memoranda; minutes of the Anglo-French Trades Union Congress; translations of French decrees; miscellaneous notes.

Legal documents regarding the above case; including affidavits of the defendant; particulars of defence; pleadings; proof of evidence, etc.

Correspondence, memoranda, etc., regarding the above case; including correspondence with Shaen, Roscoe and Company; press-cuttings; letters of congratulation to Citrine on winning the case, including Sir John Forbes Watson; correspondence with Sir William Jowitt, Solicitor General, regarding D. Worker, June-July 1940; correspondence with Time magazine regarding misreporting.

Copy of Time magazine, 12 August 1940; The Week, 20 December 1939, 17 January 1940.

Press-cuttings regarding the above case.

General and financial documents, correspondence, and memoranda regarding D. Worker.

Miscellaneous documents and notes regarding Pountney's bankruptcy.

Miscellaneous documents regarding the evidence prepared for the above case.

Ministry of Supply regarding minutes of Area Advisory Committees [misfile?]; analysis of trade union replies regarding suspension of statutory meetings; copy of letter for B�la Menezer regarding fate of B�la Kun.

Documents returned from Shaen Roscoe regarding the above case; including photostats of the Daily Worker articles; photostats of other relevant documents; memorandum by Sir Walter Citrine regarding Communist Party in Britain; various interrogatories; the affidavits of the defendant, etc.

Documents regarding the above case; including copies of relevant correspondence; copies of Anglo-French Trades Union Congress communiqu�s; National Joint Advisory Council document etc.

Various copies of the Daily Worker, 1936-40; copy of Daily Telegraph, 15 December 1939; Sunday Chronicle, 17 December 1939; Daily Mail, 8 April 1940; also miscellaneous notes and correspondence.

Correspondence between Mr Chamberlain of the Hinckley and District Hosiery Union, the Trades Union Congress and Arthur H. Headley, solicitor, regarding the above case; also press-cuttings and a signed statement from a woman worker.

[Women workers wishing to transfer to war work.]

Correspondence and documents regarding Bolton and Others v.Durham Miners Association and Others; including correspondence between Durham Miners Association and Trades Union Congress; press-cuttings; copy of An appeal to the miners of Durham; copy of Durham Miners Association letter to the signatories of the above; copies of information needed for the above case.

[Bolton and Others contested dismissal from the union after questioning sending union funds to Finnish Relief Fund.]

Copy of the proceedings, Bolton and Others v.Durham Miners Association and Others, 31 March - 2 April 1942.

Correspondence regarding the above case and dispute; mainly between National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel and the Trades Union Congress.

[Ward v.Isaacs: regarding whether men should be dismissed from their union for refusing to strike, when it is illegal to strike. Daily Workerand National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel: whether a former employee should be re-employed at his old job.]

National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel and the Keable Press; booklet on the above dispute.

Correspondence and documents regarding the above case; mainly correspondence between the Northampton Trades Council, Shaen Roscoe, the Trades Union Congress regarding the above case; including copies of statements and correspondence to support Swann's case.

[Swann's statements at a private meeting considered slanderous by Weetabix Limited]

Correspondence between the National Union of Railwaymen, Trades Union Congress and Messrs. Pattinson and Brewer, solicitors, regarding the above case; including the statement of claim and defence.

[The plaintiff claimed that under his union rules he was eligible to be branch chairman, despite being exempted from paying the political fund.]

Judgement in the above case; correspondence with A.H. Telling, former general secretary of National Association of Operative Plasterers.

Correspondence regarding the above case; mainly between Mr J.S. Cook, the Trades Union Congress and the solicitors; including the judgement and various affidavits; also correspondence regarding Mr Cook paying back the costs.

[Cook's nomination having been declared invalid, he challenged the result of the election to the Trades Council Joint Consultative Committee]

Correspondence between the Trades Union Congress and Musicians' Union and the solicitors regarding the appeal to House of Lords in the above case; also correspondence with various trade unions and Trades Councils as to how the judgement affects them; various documents associated with the above case; including counsel's opinion and case for counsel to advise.

[The plaintiff sued his union over wrongful expulsion.]

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress, trade unions, (Medical Practitioners Union, National Union of Mineworkers) and other bodies and individuals, including Labour Party and J. McDonald, regarding trade unions and politics.

Trade unionism and political action, pamphlet by J. McDonald.

Correspondence regarding political action with various bodies; including Miss Susan Lawrence regarding her parliamentary candidature, 1926; correspondence and memoranda regarding non-political unions.

Trade unionism and political action (Trade Union and Labour Party leaflet); Trade unionism and politics, by W.E. Bowen, 1927; Joint Board Special Conference: Trade Unions and the Osborne Bill (1911); Trade unionists and politics, 1953, Labour Party pamphlet; Non-political Miners' Journal, volume 6, no.1.

Correspondence with various trade unions and individuals regarding political funds; including correspondence regarding the 1927 Trade Union Act; contracting in and out; rules of various trade unions regarding the political fund.

The unions and the political levy, by Herbert Tracey; Trade unionists and politics, You are in politics too, by Sir Walter Citrine, Hey! half a minute (Trades Union Congress leaflets); Model rules 1-III under Trade Union Act 1913; rule books of various trade unions.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding the political fund; including position after the 1927 Act.

Contracting in, Trades Union Congress and Labour Party broadsheet regarding the 1927 Act; Durham Miners Association: Miners' Federation and Durham Miners' political levies, November 1927; Association of Cine-Technicians: Our case in Parliament, 1944.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding the political fund; including position after the 1946 Act; the Birch Case.

Hey! half a minute, (Trades Union Congress leaflet regarding the political fund); Labour Party report regarding Party finance, 1943.

Correspondence from trade unions (A-Z) regarding how many members have contracted in; also correspondence from unions (A-Z) with no political fund; correspondence from unions (A-Z) whose returns were not yet available.

Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers branch return, 1928.

Correspondence with the Attorney-General's office in 1930 regarding the 1927 Act; also correspondence with the Union of Post Office Workers in 1946.

Trades Union Congress leaflet on political affiliation.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress, the Journeymen Butchers' Federation of Great Britain and the Treasury as to whether the badge of the Journeymen Butchers' Federation of Great Britain has to have duty paid on it as an armorial bearing.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding income tax; including balance sheets and reports, financial statements.

General Rules and Report and balance sheet of Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers, 1928; Rules of the Sheffield Wool Shear Workers, 1930; Lancashire Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Society report and balance sheet, May - November 1931, 1932.

Correspondence with various trade unions; including correspondence regarding trade unions' provident benefit funds; Medical Practioners' Union's liability to pay income tax.

Memorandum regarding position of Amalgamated Engineering Union for income tax purposes, 1946.

Correspondence with various trade unions; including correspondence and opinions regarding trade unions' provident benefits; covenants in favour of charities; Income Tax Act, 1952; trade unions' exemption from income tax; National Society of Brushmakers income tax claim.

Rules of the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union, 1945; Saddleworth and District Weavers' and Woollen Textile Workers' Association amended and revised rules, 1929; Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers accounts, 1949; circular regarding Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers London branch Benevolent Funds, 1949.

Correspondence with T. Mardy Jones MP, T. Watson Collin, accountant, and Shaen, Roscoe, regarding registered trade unions and property tax; including counsel's opinion on the subject.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress Joint Research and Information Department and various trade unions and Trades Councils regarding stamp duty.

Correspondence and documents regarding trade union Acts; including various regarding 1913 Trade Union Act; Trade Disputes Bill 1906 etc.

Summary of Acts affecting trade unions.

Correspondence regarding Section 12 of the above Act, mainly with Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, 1931-2, and correspondence with Shaen, Roscoe; Showmen's Guild regarding land ownership in Scotland, 1957.

[Section 12: if any member of a trade union registered under the Act wilfully withholds or fraudulently misapplies monies or securities he may be proceeded against in a court of summary jurisdiction.]

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding suspension of rules regarding statutory provisions for the duration of the war; also correspondence regarding the termination of the period of emergency.

Documents, memoranda, circulars, minutes, regarding the above correspondence

Societies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, 1940.

Correspondence with Shaen, Roscoe, the Treasury regarding regulations enabling the use of grants from trade union funds for charitable or national objects.

Emergency Powers (Defence): Bodies Corporate and Trade Unions, 1940.

Correspondence, documents, memoranda regarding the above Act; including correspondence with Sir W. Jowitt, Attorney General; correspondence with Labour Party; correspondence with various trade unions and Trades Councils; correspondence with A.L. Rowse; correspondence with National Labor Relations Board, Washington DC and other US correspondence.

Civil Service Regulations regarding the 1927 Act; The government's attack on trade union law, by Arthur Henderson, (introduction by W.M. Citrine); Journal of political economy, volume 36, No.3, The British Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927 (June 1928); A call to the workers, Trades Union Congress, General Election 1929; memorandum of interview with Lord Chancellor, 29 October 1929; memorandum of interview with Cabinet committee on the Bill, 3 April 1930.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding the above Act; including correspondence with the Prime Minister's office regarding deputations to the Prime Minister.

Note of interview with Chamberlain, 24 February 1939; letter from Churchill, 12 March 1941; verbatim report of joint Trades Union Congress, Labour Party, Parliamentary Labour Party meeting regarding the 1927 Act, 7 May 1941.

Correspondence, documents, memoranda regarding the above Act; including correspondence with the Prime Minister; Civil Service National Whitley Council, etc.: meetings with representatives of Conservative and Liberal Parties.

Correspondence with various trade unions, government ministers, the Prime Minister regarding amending the above Act and question of affiliation of Union of Post-Office Workers to Trades Union Congress; including correspondence with Clement Attlee; also minutes, memoranda and other documents; minutes and reports of special meetings, including deputation from Union of Post-Office Workers to Finance and General Purposes Committee, 24 May 1943; H. of Commons Trade Union Group, 1 June 1943; Trades Union Congress General Council; Union of Post-Office Workers Executive Committee and Finance and General Purposes Committee meeting, 13 August 1943.

Post-war reconstruction, 1927 Trade Disputes Act: 2 speeches by Sir Walter Citrine, 1943.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding amendment of the above Act, mainly the Post Office unions, the Inland Revenue Staff Federation and the Civil Service Clerical Association; correspondence with the Prime Minister and Clement Attlee; joint committee meeting reports.

A call to the workers from the Trades Union Congress General Council, Labour Party election broadsheet, 1945.

Correspondence with Sir Hartley Shawcross, Attorney General; correspondence with various trade unions, Trades Councils and the Labour Party; various memoranda regarding political funds; history of the case to repeal the 1927 Act.

Copy of 1927 Act; model rules for the political fund under the 1913 Trade Union Act, copy of Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1946.

Printed matter, including: copy of the Bill; Trade Union Defence Committee booklets TUDC Nos.1-3, Trade Union Defence Committee leaflets; Labour Research Department Labour White Paper No.35; leaflet by W.E. Bowen, President of Isle of Wight Division Labour Party; Independent Labour Party Notes for speakers No. 408; Labour Party/Trades Union Congress Notes for Speakers; The Trade Disputes Bill properly explained, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; Sir Charles Macara statement; Mansfield and District Trades and Labour Council: transcript of debate between E. Marklew and J.A. Seddon; speeches at Union of Post-Office Workers annual conference; National Union of General and Municipal Workers: Speech by J.R. Clynes; `Trade Union convenant' card, published by Trade Union Defence Committee.

Trade Union Defence Committee documents regarding the campaign against the above Bill; including typescript draft of An analysis of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill, 1927, by Arthur Henderson; collecting cards for Trade Union Defence Committee fund; memorandum by W.J. Brown, Civil Service Clerical Association; lists of speaking engagements; programme of Hyde Park demonstration, 26 June 1927.

Leaflet regarding the Hyde Park Demonstration, 26 June 1927.

Trades Union Congress and National Trade Union Defence Committee circulars regarding the campaign against the above Bill.

National Joint Council circulars and documents regarding the campaign against the above Bill, including organisation of speakers and conferences; proposed arrangements for contracting in.

TUDC circulars regarding finance and financial statements.

Trade Union Defence Bulletin, nos. 1-9; the British Worker, nos. 1-7, 9.

Correspondence, circulars, documents, etc., regarding the Conference of Executives on 29 April 1927; including tickets and lists of unions and representatives attending.

Reports of the morning and afternoon sessions of the above conference on 29 April 1927; also list of unions and representatives attending the conference.

Minutes of National Trade Union Defence Committee, some signed (unbound).

Correspondence with various trade unions including Amalgamated Weavers Association; also correspondence with U.H. Rothschild regarding his articles on British Trade Union law.

Copy of The Elector (National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations), December 1927; handbills regarding not contracting in to the political levy; 7 Amalgamated Weavers' Association leaflets regarding the fight against the 1927 Bill; Electrical Trades Union circular `Appeal to loyalty'.

Correspondence with the Home Office and the Amalgamated Industrial Union of Packing Case Workers regarding picketing at Messrs. W. Lusty and Sons, 1928-9; list of cases supplied by National Union of Textile Workers (1931); Trades Union Congress summary of `Harmful effects of 1927 Act'.

Mainly correspondence with National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, the Home Office and various trade unions, Trades Councils and Labour Parties regarding dispute at J. Fairdale Limited; including correspondence regarding the comments of the Marlborough Street Magistrate, Mr Mead.

Correspondence with Arthur Henderson regarding legal definition of a public authority; correspondence with Edmonton Borough Labour Party; correspondence with London Labour Party; also correspondence with various Labour Parties and Trades Councils; correspondence with the Fire Brigades Union, 1938, regarding allegation of intimidation by fire officers.

Memorandum for the guidance of metropolitan borough council labour parties and individual labour aldermen and councillors, circular issued by London Labour Party, November 1934.

Correspondence with various trade unions and Labour Parties regarding restrictions on civil servants joining unions.

Correspondence with various trade unions including Electrical Trades Union, Bristol Miners' Association regarding the legality of strikes under the 1927 Act.

Correspondence with various trade unions including Amalgamated Weavers' Association regarding intimidation under the above Act.

Copy of a petition to the Home Secretary regarding the case of Jonathan Ashworth, 1932.

Documents regarding the above Bill; including copies of the Bill; various memoranda of interviews.

Documents regarding the above bill; including press-cuttings; list of Liberal MPs who voted against the Bill's 2nd reading; Trades Union Congress Daily Intelligence Bulletins; memoranda of interviews; various documents regarding attitude of Liberal MPs regarding the Bill or the 1927 Act; copies of the 1930 Bill; timetable of the Bill; reports and minutes; history of the Bill.

Correspondence with MPs, trade unions, etc., regarding the above Bill; including correspondence with the Prime Minister's office; with Arthur Henderson; with Ernest Bevin; with Sir William Jowitt, Attorney General.

Replies from trade unions to a questionnaire about the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill, 1930; trade unions in their groups 1-16.

Some rule-books, agreements, etc., including record of Scottish Bakers' dispute at Dunbar's, Edinburgh [housed in separate sub-file].

Correspondence with various trade unions and Trades Councils regarding approaching Liberal and Conservative MPs on the Standing Committee. to discuss the above Bill.

Miscellaneous legal opinions, judgements and a report; including list of contents.

Legal opinions, etc., regarding trade unions; with list of cases.

Legal opinions and judgements regarding trade union funds; including list of cases.

Legal opinions, judgement under the above Act, including list of opinions etc.

Legal opinions, etc., regarding strikes; includes list of contents.

Legal opinions, etc., regarding wages and employment; with list of contents.

Legal opinions, etc., regarding workmen's compensation (accidents); with list of contents.

Legal opinions, etc., regarding workmen's compensation (diseases); includes list of contents.

Legal opinions, etc., regarding libel; includes list of contents.

Correspondence regarding organisation, with various trade unions and Trades Councils; including recruitment; organisation committees.; apprenticeship system.

Documents regarding organisation; recruitment; canvassing; publicity.

Reports; press-cuttings; correspondence; circulars; minutes; memoranda, etc, regarding trade union organisation.

Trade union recruitment by Walter M. Citrine (Trades Union Congress memorandum, 1935); draft of pamphlet on industrial unionism, by George Hicks; recruiting handbill for One Big Union; Trades Union Congress memorandum on organisation of artificial silk workers.

File regarding lack of work for Organisation Committee; including correspondence with Tom O'Brien MP.

Trades Union Congress circulars and correspondence regarding leaflets and posters; also correspondence with various trade unions and Trades Councils regarding the above; series of National Union of Agricultural Workers leaflets.

Trades Union Congress recruitment leaflets regarding women, the young, nurses, etc.

Correspondence with various Trades Councils regarding a poster campaign in 1939; correspondence with various trade unions regarding a poster campaign in 1941.

Correspondence with the British Broadcasting Corporation, Ernest Dudley and Syd Walker regarding proposed leaflet Mr Walker does know; also copies of the leaflet.

Trades Union Congress and Guild of Nurses leaflets encouraging nurses to join a union.

Drafts, proofs and a final copy of the leaflet Talks in the train.

Circulars, memoranda, minutes etc. regarding Congress Awards.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions and individuals regarding Congress Awards; including attempts to replace lost badges; inquiries about the old system; correspondence regarding widening the award scheme in 1958, including reports regarding awards made by individual trade unions.

Documents regarding the old scheme and introducing the new scheme.

Correspondence with various Trades Councils in 1956 regarding instituting a long service award for Trades Council delegates; also further correspondence in 1960 and 1964 regarding long service awards.

Correspondence with various Trades Councils regarding instituting a chairman's badge of office.

Correspondence and documents regarding the award of Men's Gold Badge.

Correspondence regarding the above award; including nominations from unions and biographical details of the nominees; list of winners, 1939-51; Trades Union Congress circulars.

Forty years. National Union of Scalemakers 1909-1949, ed. H. Bending.

Correspondence, etc., as above.

Correspondence, etc., as above.

Correspondence, etc., as above.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various Trades Councils regarding the Trades Council Officers' Silver Badge; including correspondence with G.T. Friend, engraver, November 1947, regarding the design of the badge.

Original art work of design.

Correspondence, etc., as above.

Correspondence, etc., as above; including some biographical details.

Correspondence, etc., as above.

Correspondence, etc., as above.

Correspondence regarding the West Ham trade union Clearing House.

Also Walthamstow Trades Council scheme.

[The object of the West Ham trade union Clearing House was to keep a register of unemployed trade unionists.]

Correspondence regarding ideas; including advertising, printing, duplicating, recordings, typewriters, etc.

Beer mats, 1937.

Correspondence regarding cinema advertising; including minutes and decisions of the Organisation Committee.

Correspondence with the Albert Hall, the London Labour Party and London Trades Council regarding the demonstration at the Albert Hall on 9 December 1934; including balance sheets; timetable of events.

Programme of the meeting [celebration of Labour Party's municipal election and by-election victories].

Some signed.

Minutes and documents regarding Organisation by Industry.

This series derives from the 1924 Congress instruction to the Trades Union Congress General Council to report on the problem of organising workers by industry, the aims being to reduce the number of unions, organise by industry and create a united front for improving workers' living standards.

Documents regarding organisation by industry: Joint Research and Information Department papers on Trade Union organisation in the coal mining industry; railways and the railway shops dispute.

Circulars and questionnaires regarding organisation by industry.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various building trade unions regarding organisation by industry.

Documents regarding the distributive workers' amalgamation; including annual reports of National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers and National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, 1925, and the rules of National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers.

Questionnaire and documents regarding organisation by industry; including a pr�cis of evidence submitted by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain before the Organisation Committee on the above subject.

Correspondence between the Trades Union Congress and various printing and paper unions regarding the above subject.

Report of Trades Union Congress/Labour Party enquiry into trade union organisation in printing and paper industries.

Correspondence and documents with various textile unions regarding the above subject.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various transport unions regarding the above subject.

Statements of evidence.

Mixed papers: answers to the questionnaire from various trade unions regarding the above subject.

National Conference Agreement between National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives and the Incorporated Federated Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers of Great Britain and Ireland; Grading scheme and casters' manual of the National Society of Brass and Metal Mechanics.

Letters and statements from major and minor trade unions on the question of trade union structure, closer unity and overlapping of trade unions. [In response to Trades Union Congress circular of 25 November 1943 regarding trade union structure and `closer unity', following Southport Congress resolution on overlapping and need for amalgamation.]

Joint Committee of Light Metal Trade Unions Rules (revised 1937); Printing and Kindred Trades Federation Annual Report 1942; Joint Industrial Council constitution and report of meeting, 20 October 1943; Monotype Casters' 54th Annual Report; National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers working agreements booklet, 1939; Tobacco Workers' recruiting handbill at Messrs. Wills' Limited

Letters regarding the questionnaire; extracts from relevant Trades Union Congress minutes; interview with J. Horner, Fire Brigades Union, 12 February 1946, regarding recognition of officers' section of Fire Brigades Union; correspondence with Amalgamated Society of Leather Workers, 1950-1.

Correspondence, press-cuttings, documents with various trade unions regarding structure and closer unity; including relations between National Union of Public Employees and National Union of Agricultural Workers; floor covering trade unions; insurance; the railway unions; chemical industry.

Trades Union Congress resolutions on closer working.

Joint Industrial Council of the Wire and Wire Rope Industries national agreements booklet; Trade union structure and closer unity, an examination by the Trades Union Congress of the present structure and function of trade unions.

Trades Union Congress general memoranda; replies to the questionnaire from various trade unions; reports of conferences with various industries, 1-30, with index.

Congress machinery for dealing with disputes between unions; interim report on trade union structure and closer unity, 1944; supplementary report on trade union structure and closer unity.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding structure and closer unity in agriculture; including report of the conference between representatives of trade unions in the agricultural industry with the Organisation Committee, 9 May 1944.

Correspondence as above; also including report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the mining industry, 10 May 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference of representatives of organisations concerned with glass production, 20 February 1946.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between representatives of unions in the chemical industry with the Organisation Committee, 5 September 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference of representatives of unions in the iron and steel industry, 16 March 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the founding industry, 2 March 1944.

Amalgamation proposals, National Union of Foundry Workers and four other trade unions, 1946.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and National Engineering Joint Trades Movement, 24 May 1944.

Minutes of the Electrical Trades Union Executive Council meeting, 18-19 December 1943.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference of representatives of unions in the shipbuilding industry, 15 March 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the cotton industry, 7 March 1944.

Trades Union Congress document on trade union structure in cotton industry.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the wool textile industry, 10 June 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes conference of union representatives with the Organisation Committee, 11 May 1944.

Suggested constitution for a national hosiery union; proposed constitution for the formation of a national hosiery union.

Correspondence as above; also including report of conference of representatives of unions in the boot and shoe industry with the Organisation Committee, 31 May 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference of representatives of unions in the boot and shoe repairing industry with the Organisation Committee, 6 July 1944.

Correspondence regarding differences of opinion over past amalgamation moves, Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union and National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.

Proposals for amalgamation, Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union and National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers; United Ladies' Tailors Trade Union and National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers; National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, United Ladies' Tailors Trade Union and Waterproof Garment Workers' Union.

Correspondence regarding trade union structure and closer unity; also includes report of the conference of representatives of unions catering for bakery workers, 20 February 1946.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference of representatives of unions catering for salt workers, 20 February 1946.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the tobacco industry, 2 March 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of the amalgamation conference, 18 May 1945.

Draft of suggested basis of Amalgamated, National Amalgamated Furniture Trades Association and Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers, 1941.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of the conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the printing industry, 10 May 1944.

Bulletin, the official journal of the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation, volume vi, no. 13, March-April 1944; Printing and Kindred Trades Federation report on post-war reconstruction, 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee on representatives of the building industry, 7 March 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the railway industry, 26 May 1944.

National Union of Railwaymen leaflets, One railway. One management. One union.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conferences between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the road transport industry, 9 May and 29 June 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of a conference of unions concerned with sea transport, 20 February 1946.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference of union representatives with the Organisation Committee, 7 June 1944.

National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers working agreements.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the insurance industry, 20 April 1944.

National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers: printed memorandum on trade union structure and closer unity, 1948.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of unions concerned with the organisation of clerical workers in industry and commerce, 29 June 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference of representatives of unions catering for local authority employees, 20 March 1946.

Correspondence as above; also includes report on conference of representatives of unions in the nursing services with the Organisation Committee, 11 May 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the entertainment industry, 8 May 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conferences between members of the Organisation Committee and representatives of the catering industry, 8 May and 20 June 1944.

Correspondence as above; also includes report of conference of representatives of unions catering for general workers, 20 March 1946.

Correspondence with major and minor trade unions regarding Trades Union Congress circular no. 85 on co-operation and closer working.

Rules and constitutions of various trade unions; report of 1958 National Federation Furniture Trade Unions conference.

Trades Union Congress documents regarding co-operation and closer working; includes documents sent in by the National Union of Mineworkers and Transport and General Workers Union; also constitutions, etc., of various Joint Industrial Councils and National Joint Councils.

Trades Union Congress documents regarding the `Back to the Unions' campaign, undertaken in 46 industrial centres.

Back to the unions, a communist message to workers and workless, Communist Party broadsheet.

Documents regarding organisation of actors; including Trades Union Congress circulars and reports of meetings with the Organisation Committee on 24 November 1925 and 19 April 1926.

Actors Association: leaflet on the Theatrical Employers' Registration Bill; contracts, etc., handbook.

Handbills and posters regarding the organising campaign of agricultural workers.

Correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda, etc., regarding the agricultural workers' campaign.

Workers Union as well as National Union of Agricultural Workers involved.

Minutes and reports of the Organisation Committee dealing with the agricultural workers' campaign.

Trades Union Congress circulars, press-cuttings, notes, documents, etc., regarding the recruitment campaign.

Circular regarding a conference of full-time London trade union officials regarding the recruitment campaign.

Correspondence and reports regarding various trade union recruitment conferences.

Correspondence with various Trades Councils regarding public recruitment.

Scottish Trades Union Congress circulars regarding Trade Union Committee Scheme.

Printed reports on organisation and structure of Trade Union movement in Scotland, 1925, etc.

Correspondence and documents regarding the autumn recruitment campaign.

Six Dorchester men, Typographical Association leaflet; Durham Miners Association leaflet regarding campaign against `contracting-in'.

Correspondence with Miners' Federation of Great Britain regarding miners' non-political union.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding trade union recruitment weeks.

Documents, leaflets, circulars regarding the trade union recruitment weeks.

Correspondence with various trade unions and Trades Councils regarding recruitment weeks.

Documents, circulars, leaflets regarding recruitment weeks.

Trades Union Congress circulars, documents, minutes, etc., regarding recruitment and propaganda campaigns, 1937-42.

Workers Film Association Limited leaflet.

Correspondence with various Trades Councils and trade unions regarding the Joint Trades Councils' propaganda campaign: West London.

Correspondence, documents, etc., regarding Trades Council propaganda weeks. Also correspondence and leaflets regarding Printing and Kindred Trades Federation's campaign against John Dickinson and Company Limited.

Correspondence, documents, etc., with various trade unions and Trades Councils regarding recruitment and organisation.

Correspondence, Trades Union Congress circulars, etc., with various Trades Councils regarding trade union publicity, recruitment, propaganda weeks.

Correspondence with various trade unions and Trades Councils regarding recruitment campaigns; includes posters, leaflets, handbills of the various campaigns.

Correspondence, etc., as above.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various Trades Councils and trade unions regarding National Council of Labour demonstrations; includes leaflets.

Correspondence with the various printing unions and individuals regarding individuals' membership of the unions.

Correspondence, memoranda, documents regarding organisation in special industries. Includes items regarding Kearley and Tonge Limited; Bata works, Tilbury; Simpsons Limited, N16; Mullard Valve Company Limited, Mitcham Junction.; fur trade.

Trades Union Congress internal memorandum on railway trade unions, 23pp., 1925; National Laundry Workers' Union leaflets.

Correspondence with various trade unions and Trades Councils regarding organisation in special industries, glove-making; saw doctors; cork lino workers; laundry workers, etc.; and districts, eg Killamarsh; Nuneaton; Bletchley brushmakers; Monmouth transport workers; Warley: Co-operative Wholesale Society shirt factory; East Anglia: tailors and garment workers recruitment campaign; Wembley: Messrs. Bratt, Colbran Limited

Hinckley and District Federation Hosiery Union Rules, 1934.

Correspondence, etc., as above, also includes correspondence regarding organisation of salesmen [also in 54/2], with recruiting sheet of National Union of Salesmen; Bexhill dairy workers; Gisela Markham regarding organisation of photographers' assistants; workers in oil industry; organisation of ministers of religion, 1940 (Rev. Robert Doble, Socialist Christian League); sugar beet factory workers.

League of Ex-Servicemen: booklet regarding objectives, with related correspondence.

Correspondence, etc., as above; including hosiery industry and Butlins holiday camps; enquiry from Chinese Embassy, 1946-7; technical authors, 1948; F.C. Hooper, managing director, Schweppes, regarding meeting Deakin, November 1948.

Pottery industry new wages structure, 1946.

Correspondence, etc., as above; also includes organisation at Butlin's Holiday Camp, Clacton and Vernons Pools Limited and football pools industry generally.

J. Lyons Group Joint Trade Union Consultative Committee documents.

Correspondence, etc., as above. Including Butlin's, Clacton and elsewhere; Beryl Hardman regarding organising artist-craftsmen; tobacco industry; proposed Beverage Dispensers Union.

Correspondence, etc., between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding organisation of mineworkers. Including Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades regarding differences with Miners' Federation of Great Britain, 1930; detailed report by National Union of General and Municipal Workers on situation in localities, 1931.

Joint Research and Information Department memorandum on trade union organisation in the coal mining industry, July 1923, Lancashire and Cheshire Colliery Workers Trade Unions working arrangements rules.

Correspondence regarding organisation of mineworkers; documents regarding the above; includes summary of meetings, Trades Union Congress circulars; various printed agreements and rules; leaflets regarding joining the mining unions.

Minutes and reports of the General Federation of Colliery Firemen's Examiners' and Deputies Associations of Great Britain, 1925-6; report on organisation of Miners' Federation of Great Britain; handbill advertising National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding organisation of mineworkers.

Circulars, reports, minutes, drafts, notes, posters, etc. regarding the above.

Questionnaire regarding organisation in the mining industry. Printed copy of agreement between the Amalgamated Engineering Union and Miners' Federation of Great Britain, 2 February 1921; National Union of General and Municipal Workers Sheffield Area agreement with South Yorkshire Coal Trades Association; report of Amalgamated Engineering Union conference, 12 July 1934, regarding organisation in and around collieries.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding organisation of mineworkers and the mineworkers committee; also minutes and reports of joint unions committee and Miners' Federation of Great Britain meetings; various documents; correspondence regarding organisation of gypsum miners, Battle, 1939.

Private session of Trades Union Congress, 4 September 1934.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress, Miners' Federation of Great Britain and the General Federation of Colliery Firemen's, Examiners' and Deputies' Associations of Great Britain regarding the conference on the Durham Deputies v.Durham Miners dispute finally held 8 April 1936.

Various documents: extracts of minutes, copies of letters, etc., regarding the above.

Report of above conference held 8 April 1936.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress, National Union of Scottish Mine Workers, Miners' Federation of Great Britain and various trade unions regarding conference in Glasgow in September/October 1932; also correspondence regarding the following organisation campaign; correspondence regarding the below agreement; correspondence regarding dispute between Scottish Miners and deputies and the resulting conference; various minutes, reports, documents, etc.

Agreement between the National Union of Scottish Mine Workers and the Scottish Colliery Enginemen, Boilermen and Tradesmen's Association, 23 August 1933; copy of the Scottish Miners' case; Scottish Miners' Officials false statements, leaflet issued by Scottish Colliery Deputies and Shot-Firers' Association; agreement between Coal Owners of Scotland and the Scottish Colliery Enginemen, Boilermen and Tradesmen's Association, 25 June 1934.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding a conference about organisation of coke and by-product workers held on 22 June, 22 August 1933; also various returns, reports, minutes.

Reports of the conference of unions interested in the coke and by-product industry, 22 June, 22 August 1933.

Correspondence with Cumberland Miners' Association and the Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association and other trade unions regarding conferences in Northumberland and Cumberland; correspondence regarding proposed agreement between National Union of General and Municipal Workers and Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association; also various reports.

Agenda and resolutions for the 22nd Annual Conference of the General Federation of Firemen's, Examiners' and Deputies Association of Great Britain, 21, 22 January 1932.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding a conference held in Durham, 30 June 1932, to consider the dispute between Electrical Trades Union and Durham Colliery Mechanics Association; also correspondence with Durham Miners Association regarding an organisation campaign; also correspondence regarding a further dispute between Electrical Trades Union and Durham Colliery Mechanics Association.

Summary of proceedings of sub-committee between representatives of Miners' Federation of Great Britain, Electrical Trades Union and Durham Colliery Mechanics Association, 23 February 1932; summary of proceedings of sub-committee between representatives of Trades Union Congress, Durham Colliery Mechanics Association and Electrical Trades Union, 30 June 1932.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding a dispute between Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation and National Union of General and Municipal Workers and a conference called for 23 September to settle the issue.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding a proposed craftmen's council in the coal mining industry.

Suggested constitution of a proposed craftsmen's council; comments of the unions concerned on the above scheme.

Correspondence regarding re-organisation of work on the New Chemical Trust and the National Union of Drug and Chemical Workers; organisation of non-unions at the Synthetic Ammonia and Nitrates Works, Billingham on Sea; organisation of pharmaceutical chemists; organisation at British Chemical Industry at Stowmarket.

Leaflet encouraging chemical workers to join National Union of General and Municipal Workers, 1929.

Correspondence with Medical Practitioners Union, National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers regarding organisation of employee pharmacists.

Correspondence with London Trades Council, Mr A.A. Belben and various trade unions regarding trade union organisation in the Greenwich and Woolwich area at Messrs. Siemens and other factories.

Journal of Siemens Shop Stewards Committee, no.3, December 1933.

Correspondence with Oxford Trades and Labour Council regarding organisation at Oxford; also organisation at Messrs. Trico Fulbert Limited.

Correspondence regarding British Nylon Spinners; organisation of weaving operatives at Messrs. Courtaulds Limited, Preston and Lansil Limited, Lancaster.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress, National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Northampton Trades Council and others regarding organisation of last makers at Northampton; also correspondence with National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives regarding proposals to change the rules to allow last makers into their union, 1936.

Correspondence with Printing and Kindred Trades Federation, Transport and General Workers Union, News Chronicle, National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants regarding organisation of newspaper canvassers; also correspondence with Odhams Press Limited; various draft proposals regarding newspaper canvassers.

Fascism or freedom? unity is strength, National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants leaflet, 1934; reports of interviews between representatives of unions concerned with the organisation of newspaper canvassers, 18 March, 17 July, 30 October 1935; leaflet advertising newspaper canvassers section of National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding union organisation at Kodak Limited, Harrow.

Minutes of the railway shopmen committee; report of conference of unions representing railway shopmen; memorandum regarding organisation of railway shopmen; various notes, drafts, etc.

Miscellaneous documents regarding railway shopmen, National Union of Railwaymen and other unions; employees superannuation, conditions of membership, etc; Trades Union Congress circulars regarding the railway shopmen; Joint Research and Information Department document regarding the railway shops dispute.

`Craft versus industrial organisation: proposed basis of settlement', by Fred Bramley, Socialist Review, April - June 1918.

Memorandum, minutes, proposals for the full railway shopmen's committee.

Minutes of the Railway Shopmen's conference (unbound).

Correspondence, memoranda, documents, press-cuttings, etc., regarding organisation of seamen; reports of conferences between Transport and General Workers Union, National Union of General and Municipal Workers and Workers Union, 8 and 16 October 1928.

J. Havelock Wilson's views on the position of the shipping industry, August 1928; The Transport and General Workers Union: a critical examination, by the Dockers' Reform Committee.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding organisation in the Atomic Energy Authority; including correspondence with Hugh Gaitskell and Atomic Power Constructions Limited.

Report of conference between unions about organisation of clerical employees of the Atomic Energy Authority, 12 September 1956.

Joint Research and Information Department enquiry into trade union organisation: the wool and allied industries, 4 + 41 folios.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding organisation at British Overseas Airways Corporation Limited; in civil aviation; British Overseas Airways Corporation Limited staff association; documents regarding National Joint Council for Civil Air Transport; minutes and reports of conference of unions regarding organisation in air transport.

Application form for joining air section of Navigators and Engineer Officers' Union; memorandum of agreement of National Joint Council for Civil Air Transport Engineering and Maintenance Panel and Radio Panel, 22 August 1948; copies of SAM, the British Airways Staff Association magazine, April and July 1946.

Extracts of minutes and correspondence regarding the organisation of non-manual workers; decisions and resolutions of the 1960 congress; report of activities and conclusions of the London Trade Union Week committee.

Correspondence between Trades Union Congress and Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers regarding organisation at F.W. Woolworth and Company Limited.

Correspondence with National Union of Commercial Travellers and others regarding organisation among commercial travellers.

Documents regarding National and Local Government Officers Organisation, including leaflets and rules, 1919-20; list of branches and secretaries, 1920; correspondence and documents regarding National Union of Scientific Workers and Electricity Supply Commercial Association, National Federation of Insurance Workers, and the Guild of Insurance Officials; correspondence with the Nineteen Thirty Six Fabian Group.

The Scientific Worker, volume 1, no.4, June 1920; 1st draft of memorandum to annual conference of Trades Councils; organisation of professional workers.

Correspondence with National Union of Clerks and regarding a recruitment campaign; correspondence with various trade unions regarding organisation of clerical workers; various documents, etc., regarding organisation of clerical workers.

Report of conference of unions regarding organisation of clerical workers in the NHS, 14 October 1948; report of conference of trade unions organising clerical workers generally, 19 January 1938.

Documents, minutes, leaflets, etc., regarding the clerical workers' campaign.

Correspondence, documents, minutes, etc., regarding the clerical workers' campaign.

Documents regarding above conference, 30 October 1926, including report of same.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding clerical staff organisation in the National Coal Board; various documents, including minutes, extracts, reports, drafts, agreements regarding rates of pay; letter from Lord Citrine, National Coal Board, 6 December 1948.

6,395,000 can't be wrong, booklet advertising benefits of clerical workers joining the National Union of Mineworkers; open letter to all scientists employed by the National Coal Board from the British Association of Colliery Management.

Correspondence with National Union of Mineworkers and Clerical and Administrative Workers Union regarding organisation of colliery clerks; including reports, minutes, documents, etc., regarding the above.

Correspondence and documents with various trade unions, mainly National and Local Government Officers Organisation and Transport and General Workers Union, regarding organisation of clerical workers in nationalised industries, including War Agricricultural Executive Committees.

National and Local Government Officers Organisation circular to County of London Electric Supply Company staff.

Correspondence and questionnaires by various trade unions regarding organisation of local government employees.

Manchester and Salford Trades Council `Municipal Circular', nos. 1-3.

Correspondence with various Trades Councils and trade unions regarding organisation of local government employees, including civic theatre staff, raised by the case of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 1959.

Correspondence with various trade unions, mainly the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union, regarding organisation of nurses; including correspondence with A. Fenner Brockway MP, regarding his nurses bill; documents regarding the conference of representatives of trade unions catering for nurses, 15 December 1931.

Draft constitution of Whitley Councils for Hospitals, 1933.

Trades Union Congress documents; extracts of minutes; circulars: draft constitution of Whitley Councils for London County Council Hospitals; memoranda.

The Health Services Federation of Great Britain recruiting leaflet; leaflets advertising nursing unions: A woman's calling (National and Local Government Officers Organisation); Off duty (Trades Union Congress).

Correspondence with various nursing and other trade unions regarding organisation of nurses.

Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union rule book, 1936.

Correspondence with various trade unions, Trades Councils and Labour Parties regarding organisation of nurses. Also notes from Lord Horder regarding trade unionism in nursing, and some correspondence with other individuals.

Constitution of the National Council of Nurses of Great Britain; Guild of Nurses leaflet; information sheets regarding Association of Nurses.

Correspondence with various trade unions, etc., regarding organisation of nurses, including leaflets of the Society of Registered Male Nurses and Male Nurses Journal, May 1952.

Memorandum presented to the Interdepartmental Committee on Dentistry on behalf of the Association Dental Mechanics' Sections of National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, 1944.

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding organisation of institutional staffs in Surrey, 1939-40; correspondence regarding hospital workers' organisation, 1949.

Conference of representatives of unions catering for hospital and institutional staffs in Surrey, 19 April 1939.

Correspondence, cuttings, reports of interviews regarding the organisation of dental mechanics as a section of the Society of Goldsmiths, Jewellers and Kindred Trades.

Union of Dental Mechanics of Great Britain: two circulars

Correspondence with various trade unions regarding organisation of dental mechanics.

British Dental Association: Report of committee of enquiry into training, wages, etc., of dental mechanics, 1940.

Correspondence with various trade unions and other bodies regarding organisation of actors, film developing industry, cinema employees, musicians - Margate.

Posters, reports, leaflets, rules, press-cuttings regarding the above.

Draft Constitution, London Theatre Council: British Actors Equity Association; What is Equity, leaflet; rules of Equity; 1st annual report (1931) of Equity and Presidential speech to Annual General Meeting, 1932; items of Entertainments and Kindred Industries Federation; handbills regarding dispute at Heeley and Amalgamated Cinemas Limited circuit, Sheffield.

Correspondence regarding organisation in the entertainment industry; including Variety Artistes Federation; cinema employees; Ulster Television Limited.

Studio standard agreement between the British Film Producers Association and the National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees, providing for clerical staffs, operating on and from 15 April 1946; London and Home Counties Conciliation Board of Cinematograph Industry: agreed wages booklet, 1935; Manchester and Salford Trades Council leaflet regarding organisation of cinema staff, 1955.

Correspondence with Mrs P. Porter, Miss H. Brassard, National Association of Theatrical Employees and others regarding the organisation of skating instructors.

Correspondence with National Council of Women of Great Britain, various trade unions, the Dominions regarding organisation of domestic workers, including situation of Hungarian domestic workers in UK, enquiry from Dutch Union of Domestics.

Rules and constitution of National Union of Domestic Workers.

Documents regarding formation of National Union of Domestic Workers; includes report of 1st general meeting, 29 June 1938, and Sir Walter Citrine's speech at the meeting; application form.

Something nice?, National Union of Domestic Workers leaflet [artwork by Pearl Binder].

Correspondence with various trade unions and individuals regarding organisation of domestic workers; including Margaret Bondfield, Julia Varley and the Dutch domestic workers union.

Topics include: National Association of Domestic Workers (C.L. Norman); Domestic Workers' Guild - Hampstead and Area; organisation of Austrian maidservants; Ruskin College domestic staff.

1st annual report of Domestic Workers Guild - Hampstead and Area, 1932-3.

Correspondence regarding organisation of domestic workers; including the Wayfarer Guild; National Council of Women of Great Britain; Domestic Services Exhibition; National Union of Hotel, etc., Workers; Restaurant and Hotel Employees' Union; Young Women's Christian Association; United Women's Insurance Society; employment bureaux; individuals.

Correspondence regarding National Union of Domestic Workers.

Documents regarding National Union of Domestic Workers; includes annual reports; trade union benefits; notes for interview with Ministry of Labour, 1938; newsletter, October 1938; suggestions for charter; documents regarding appointment of National Union of Domestic Workers Organiser; Organiser's reports; Steps, leaflet advertising National Union of Domestic Workers; rules and constitution of National Union of Domestic Workers.

Correspondence, documents, minutes, memoranda, etc., regarding National Union of Domestic Workers, including draft analysis of its history, circa 1947; memorandum on position of its former Organiser, Beatrice Bezzant.

Training for domestic work in hospitals and similar institutions, leaflet issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service.

Individual letters and documents retained after Trades Union Congress weeding of the files; includes female hostels in London; home safety; balance sheets, statements of accounts, etc.; controversy regarding Daily Express misquoting of G.D.H. Cole, 1939.

The Labour Woman, volume XXVI, No.7, July 1938 and volume XXVII, No.8, August 1939; 3 broadcast scripts (Violet Markham), 1945, 1946; Mistress and maid, Domestic Bureau of Central Office for Refugees, 1940; minute book of Wood Green, etc., branch, 1938-9; Household League of United Service: suggested basis of agreement with domestic staff.

Documents regarding National Union of Domestic Workers; includes hostels for domestic workers; extracts of workers' experiences; press-cuttings; reports and minutes of meetings; draft constitution; `Pamphlets on domestic service'; rules, etc., of unions already catering for domestic workers.

`Can you keep your servants?' by William H.Ward; What do you think? leaflet regarding formation of National Union of Domestic Workers; Government Gazette of Western Australia, 11 October 1928, 11 March, 18 March 1938; report of the committee on minimum rates of wages and conditions of employment in connection with special arrangements for domestic help, 1943; Report on post-war organisation of private domestic employment (Cmd.6650); The Wright Life-saver. Plated silver dishes and the evils thereof: the solution of the cattle plague, Allison Wright, 1913; rules of National Domestic Union and Domestic Workers' Union; Wayfarer Gazette, nos.32-4, with supplement on domestic service.

E.P. Harries' file of general documents regarding formation of National Union of Domestic Workers; includes 2nd annual report, 1933-4 of Domestic Workers' Guild - Hampstead and Area.

What do you think?, leaflet advertising National Union of Domestic Workers; also Are you sure you have a character?

Correspondence with Ministry of Labour regarding National Union of Domestic Workers Deputation, 21 November 1938, also notes for deputation and report of it; correspondence with George Hicks; notes and report regarding interview with Ministry of Labour and National Service, 4 January 1940.

Correspondence with Ministry of Labour and National Service regarding a deputation on 4 January 1940; also correspondence with Ernest Bevin as Minister of Labour and National Service.

Memoranda regarding various aspects of domestic service.

Correspondence regarding propaganda leaflets, including with Pearl Binder; drafts of new propaganda leaflet.

Steps, National Union of Domestic Workers leaflet; Common sense for women workers: things they ought to know, leaflet encouraging women to join a trade union; Something nice, National Union of Domestic Workers leaflet; rules and constitution of National Union of Domestic Workers.

Circular and leaflet regarding the above.

Lists of branch secretaries (London area) and branch meetings.

National Union of Domestic Workers newsletter, January 1952 - February 1953.

Greater London Area Newsletter: 3 issues, 1948, 1950, 1953.

National Union of Domestic Workers newsletter, 1938-42.

National Union of Domestic Workers newsletter; 5th annual report; 5th annual conference report.

National Union of Domestic Workers newsletter; report of 6th annual conference, and a copy of the 6th annual report

Newsletter; 7th annual report and conference report

National Union of Domestic Workers newsletters.

Newsletter; 8th annual report, and report of 8th annual conference

Newsletters and 9th annual report.

Newsletters and 10th annual report and report of 10th annual conference

Newsletters and 11th annual report of 11th annual conference

Newsletters and 12th annual report.

Newsletters and 13th annual report and report of 13th annual conference.

My visit to South Africa, by Alice Trickey, in 17 instalments.

Correspondence with Miss B. Bezzant regarding her appointment as organiser; also list of candidates.

Documents regarding the above; including suggested duties for the organiser; application form.

Correspondence regarding co-operation with other organisations; includes British Youth Peace Assembly; Council of Seven, including various leaflets and pamphlets; New Universal Encyclopedia, etc.

When will she take her place....as his partner?, Council of Seven, 1942.

Correspondence and extracts regarding a committee of enquiry into health, welfare and safety in non-industrial employment, 1947; also correspondence and extracts regarding Gowers' Committee; various questionnaires on health, safety and welfare in private employment.

Gowers' Committee report concerning hours of employment of juveniles in private domestic service. 31st day's evidence to the committee of enquiry by National Union of Domestic Workers representative; National Institute of Houseworkers note on domestic employment.

Documents and leaflets regarding proposed National Union of Domestic Workers charter; includes leaflet Steps.

Queries regarding the above Act; including employment of part-time domestic workers; unemployment insurance for domestic workers.

Domestic workers, Ministry of National Insurance leaflet, November 1948.

Correspondence, documents, press-cuttings, memoranda, regarding foreign workers and refugees; includes correspondence with and statements by the Home Office; correspondence with bodies dealing with refugees, including Council of Austrians in Great Britain.

Correspondence and various leaflets, forms and pamphlets from the Ministry of Labour and National Service; press-cuttings and nos. 3-5 of The Island, 1952-3; prospectus of Isobel Jay Limited, international employment office, Hove.

Workers from abroad, Ministry of Labour and National Service pamphlet, 1947.

Correspondence and documents regarding Co-ordinating Committee for Refugees.

Correspondence and documents regarding the above Domestic Bureau; includes some suggestions for employers and employees; minutes of the Domestic Bureau Executive Committee meeting, 15 March 1939; correspondence with Home Office.

Mistress and maid issued by the Domestic Bureau, April 1940; National Institute of Industrial Psychology: 2nd report of Investigation at the Domestic Bureau of the Central Office of Refugees, 1939.

Correspondence and documents regarding international enquiries; includes correspondence with Pippa Harris; various Dutch, African, Canadian, Australian, American, Indian and Italian organisations.

Documents regarding the above; includes list of articles containing information on domestic servants; ephemera of Domestic Employees' Union of New South Wales.

`Domestic workers organise in Denmark', by Pippa Harris in The Labour Woman, April 1937; agreement between employers in households and the Domestic Union in Stockholm; Household Employment: Lynchburg Study 1936-7,by Gladys Boone; brief on household employment in relation to Trade Union organisation by Jean Brown, 1938.

Various press-cuttings regarding National Union of Domestic Workers, domestic work, and women's work generally; also some correspondence and photographs.

NB: press-cuttings have been photocopied and the photocopies are normally produced for research use.

`Only the night is mine: the diary of a maid', by Toni Peters, 134pp. typescript; Eliza Cook's Journal, no.172, 14 August 1852, pp.241-4; Wayfarer Gazette, nos.140,146-7; T.U.C. Times, no.2; Hampstead Citizen, no.86.

Articles for use in press; including What's wrong with domestic service? and Revolution in the kitchen by Beatrice Bezzant; various drafts on why National Union of Domestic Workers formed.

Steps, leaflet advertising National Union of Domestic Workers.

Financial correspondence, statements of accounts of branches, reports, balance sheets, income tax schedules.

Financial statements, 1939-53; correspondence, 1955 and 1961.

Correspondence regarding bursaries; including with the National Institute of Houseworkers Limited; lists of donors.

Report of 13th annual conference of National Union of Domestic Workers, 31 October 1951.

Organiser's reports; also financial statements and tables of members.

Correspondence with Shaen, Roscoe, Massey regarding various legal claims on behalf of National Union of Domestic Workers members, eg in respect of notice, payment during illness, damages, etc.

Correspondence with Shaen, Roscoe, Massey regarding constitution of National Union of Domestic Workers and alteration of the rules.

Correspondence with Shaen, Roscoe and Company and individual National Union of Domestic Workers members, who were attempting to press legal claims in respect of dismissal, recovery of wages, etc. Letters from former employers including: Criterion Restaurants Limited, W1, with conditions of engagement form.

Correspondence as above regarding attempted legal claims by National Union of Domestic Workers members.

Correspondence and documents regarding additional benefits; includes National Union of Domestic Workers newsletter; various documents, leaflets, reports, etc.; financial statements of the United Women's Insurance Society; National Union of General and Municipal Workers, Lancashire District Friendly Benefit Section, 1937; rules of National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers and National Union of Dyers; information regarding Institutional Management Association

16th Annual Report of Hospital Saving Association; The HSA Contributor, no.8, June 1939.

Correspondence, reports, agendas, etc., submitted to General Council members of National Union of Domestic Workers's National Advisory Committee.

National Union of Domestic Workers Annual reports.