General correspondence regarding the above; including joint consultation; relations with employers; arbitration.

Documents including various papers and reports.

Problems of trade union strategy and policy: the place of the trade union movement within the state, report by E. Kupers, 1939; Philips Group Magazine, no. 1, December 1946; Industrial relations works committee charter, the policy of the Metal Box Company Limited.

Correspondence with Trades Councils and trade unions regarding the above; including case of Councillor D.H. Davis, 1933-4; organisation of Staveley Coal and Iron Company, 1934-5; with Leamington Trades Council regarding victimisation at Midland Red bus company, 1935; dockyard dismissals, 1937, etc.

Victimisation: an analysis showing its relation to spencerism and Mondism, Miners' Minority Movement pamphlet.

Correspondence as above; including enquiries regarding individual cases; victimisation of active trade unionists; dispute at Jaguar Cars Limited, Coventry, 1950.

Correspondence with Plymouth Trades Council and printing trade unions regarding victimisation of printers on the Western Morning News and Mercury following the General Strike.

Correspondence with National Union of General and Municipal Workers, National Union of Operative Heating and Domestic Engineers and Lever Brothers regarding alleged victimisation of men who had taken part in the General Strike.

Correspondence with trade unions, International Labour Office/Organisation, Government Departments regarding the above; including International Labour Office/Organisation convention, questionnaires, reports, conferences, etc.

Application of the principles of the right to organise and to bargain collectively, International Labour Office/Organisation report 1948; International Labour Office/Organisation labour-management relations series: nos. 1-2, 1957-8.

Correspondence as above.

Consultation and co-operation between public authorities and employers' and workers' organisations at the industrial and national levels, International Labour Office/Organisation report, 1960.

Correspondence with and regarding the above; including meetings; consultation at the workplace.

Documents including various committee papers of the International Joint Committee for applied human sciences and employer/worker relations, also consultation and co-operation between employers and workers at the level of the undertaking.

Correspondence regarding the above; including formation; Trades Union Congress involvement; meetings.

Draft rules, 1925.

Correspondence regarding the above; including regarding meetings; welfare schemes; commonwealth trade.

Aims and objects.

The above was an association of employers and employed for the improvement of industrial relations.

Correspondence regarding the above; including enquiries from International Labour Office/Organisation, Fabian Society regarding national and collective agreements; trade union agreements; wage agreements; general enquiries; negotiating machinery.

Transport and General Workers Union Passenger Service Group National Agreement: Tramways, 1922.

Correspondence as above; including replies to a circular enquiring about trade union agreements.

Various Radio Officers' Union memoranda of agreement, 1947; seafarers' conditions of employment adopted by National Maritime Board, 1947; Joint Industrial Council for the Lock, Latch and Key Industry schedule of working conditions, wages, regulations, etc., 1948; National Union of Lock and Metal Workers' wages agreement with the British Lock and Latch Manufacturers' Association, 14 May 1952.

Correspondence with Scottish Trades Union Congress regarding their proposals for statutory machinery for the promotion of collective agreements; including meetings with Trades Union Congress and Ministry of Labour (with reports); comparison with a Swedish scheme.

[The proposals failed because it was felt by the unions most concerned that it would not help in organising workers or in promoting collective agreements; nor would compulsory negotiating meetings prove successful.]

Scottish Trades Union Congress third report on methods of regulating wages and working conditions and proposed new statutory machinery for the promotion of collective agreements, 1930.

Replies to a Trades Union Congress circular asking for trade union opinions on the Scottish scheme (with summary of replies).

Correspondence with Ministry of Labour, National Union of Agricultural Workers, Transport and General Workers Union regarding a draft International Labour Office/Organisation report on collective agreements in agriculture.

Correspondence with National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives and Rossendale Union of Boot, Shoe and Slipper Operatives regarding national agreements; including copies of agreements.

Documents regarding Tailors and Garment Workers Union national agreement with Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers' Federation of Great Britain.

Correspondence with International Labour Office/Organisation, Transport and General Workers Union, National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives regarding a national agreement in the flour-milling industry.

National Joint Industrial Council for the flour milling industry agreement relating to wages and hours.

Correspondence with National Union of Packing Case Makers regarding proposed alterations in the agreement with the Metropolitan Box and Packing Case Manufacturers Federation.

Correspondence with Irish Trades Union Congress and various trade unions regarding agreements for paper workers.

Correspondence and documents regarding dispute between Newspaper Proprietors Association Limited and Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society leading to the appointment of W. Citrine as referee to settle the disupute.

Memoranda of agreement between Newspaper Proprietors Association and Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society, 1919, 1925.

Correspondence with Poor Law Officers' Union regarding the decision of the Poplar Board of Guardians not to recognise Poor Law Officers' Union.

Circularisation of trade unions regarding copies of rules and collective agreements.

Circularisation of trade unions regarding opinions on a Congress Resolution requiring all agreements to be forwarded to Congress who would notify other unions involved in that class of work, industry, or occupation if the agreement had been made by (a) union(s) not primarily concerned with that class of work, etc.

Correspondence with Association of Joint Industrial Councils, various trade unions and Ministry of Labour regarding the legal enforceability of voluntary national agreements entered into etc. with Joint Industrial Councils and attempts by Association of Joint Industrial Councils to get a Bill through Parliament.

Correspondence as above; including Association of Joint Industrial Councils Scheme; private members Bill to encourage the formation of industrial councils and to legalise voluntary agreements when so desired.

Documents regarding the above; including minutes, reports, memoranda regarding the meetings and discussions with Association of Joint Industrial Councils.

Miscellaneous documents regarding the above; including memoranda; legal opinions; Industrial Councils, Bill 1924, 1930; National Conference Agreements; resolutions; circulars.

Miscellaneous documents regarding the above; including press-cuttings; papers of a Trades Union Congress sub-committee; circulars, etc.

Correspondence with Association of Joint Industrial Councils and others regarding the above; including Industrial Councils Bill; Wages (Minimum Rates) Bill; Rates of Wages Bill; enquiries; resolutions; etc.

Correspondence regarding the above.

Correspondence including regarding discussion with Labour Party and cotton trade unions concerning legalisation of voluntary agreements in the cotton industry; implementation of agreed wages; Enabling Bill for Manufacturing Section of Cotton Industry.

Correspondence with trade unions, Trades Councils and others regarding the above; including enquiries; resolutions; trade union representation on the Air Ministry Whitley Council; constitution of the councils.

National Guilds League notes for trade unionists on the Whitley Report, 1918.

Correspondence with trade unions, Trades Councils, Association of Joint Industrial Councils regarding the above; including affiliation; enquiries; constitution and formation of Joint Industrial Councils.

Documents including reports, memoranda, etc.

National Joint Industrial Council for the Flour Milling Industry, report of the Factories Committee; National Union of Packing Case Makers, monthly report, no. 222, January 1944; Public Employees Journal, April 1947; National Joint Council for Local Authorities' Administration, Professioinal, Technical and Clerical Services, scheme of conditions of service; National Industrial Council of the Printing and Newspaper Industry, constitution and agreement; copies of the Industrial Councils Bill.

Correspondence and documents as above; including National Union of Public Employees representation on the Northern Provincial Council for Non-Trading Services; representation on Joint Industrial Councils.

Revised memorandum of agreement between salt manufacturers and trade unions, 1 August 1949.

Correspondence regarding a Congress Resolution by the Hospitals and Welfare Services Union complaining at their exclusion from membership of Joint Industrial Councils for Local Authorities.

Correspondence and documents regarding the above; including correspondence with various firms (including Rowntrees) concerning Works Councils; Works Councils (no. 2) Bill; Works Councils Act in Germany (including correspondence with Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftbund Bundesvorstand).

Robey's Board of Co-operation, constitution; Works Councils (no.2) Bill; Arbeitsrechts praxis, January 1931.

Correspondence with International Federation of Trade Unions and Cadbury Brothers Limited regarding International Conferences organised by the latter's Works Councils.

Correspondence regarding a dispute between Workers Union and the other trade unions on the trade union side of the Ship-building Trade Joint Council.

Correspondence with trade unions, etc., regarding the above; including recognition of shop stewards' works committees enquiries; complaints regarding Communist Party influence and infiltration; Engineering and Allied Trades Shop Stewards' National Council and other unofficial shop stewards organisations; functions.

Documents including reports, circulars, etc.

Shop stewards in the trade union movement, by Arthur W. Petch; The Willesden Democrat, no. 165, July 1942; These prisoners of war need your help, International Brigade leaflet; Engineering and Allied Trades Shop Stewards' National Council balance sheet, 1940-1; Associated Blacksmiths, Forge and Smithy Workers' Society, shop steward's credential card.

Correspondence as above; including training for shop stewards.

An address by Sir Charles Colston, chairman and managing director, to shop stewards and employee representatives at Hoover Limited, 13 June 1950; The shop stewards movement: a historical and contemporary study, paper by A.E. Lewis, Ruskin College, Oxford, 1956.

Correspondence with Trades Councils and trade unions, etc. regarding the above; including resolutions; enquiries; continuation and re-introduction of Joint Production Committees as part of the campaign to eliminate waste; representation of staff trade unions; formation.

Documents including reports, circulars, etc.

Winget Life, Spring 1946.

Correspondence and documents as above.

Correspondence regarding the above; including 1945 Congress Resolution and subsequent circularisation of affiliated organisations enquiring about experiences of workshop organisation. National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers shop steward's credential, 1941; National Council of the Pottery Industry constitution of works committees and minutes of organisation committee relating to the activities and achievements of works committees.

Correspondence with various trade unions and Chancellor of the Exchequer regarding the proposed formation of the above, following a resolution at the Non-Manual Workers Conference.

[National Union of Bank Employees wished to have an equal say in consultations to that of the internal association - Central Council of Bank Staff Associations.]

Central Council of Bank Staff Associations, Chairman's Report, 1952.

Correspondence regarding the above; including Ministry of Labour Conference, 15 September 1948; enquiries; Ministry of Labour literature.

Management matters, pamphlet, S.J. Noel-Brown and Company Limited; Positive employment policies, Ministry of Labour booklet, 1958, also This is a true story..... it's about joint consultation and it happened like this, 1950, and Another true story....... it is about works information and it happened like this, 1951; Joint Consultation leaflets, nos. 4, 9-10 reprinted from Institute of Personnel Management Journal, November-December 1949; Joint Consultation, issued by National Joint Advisory Council of Electricity Supply Industry, no. 1, February 1954; Joint consultation in the electricity supply industry, leaflet.

Correspondence regarding proposed formation of a National Joint Industrial Council for Ministry of Supply establishments; appointment of trade union nominees; meetings.

Constitution; minutes, 1944-5, 1947.

Documents regarding the establishment of the above; including minutes; draft statement of objects and rules; reports; circulars, statistics on minimum rates of pay, etc.

Minutes of the Executive Committee of the above (signed).

Minutes of the Executive Committee of the above (signed).

Correspondence with trade unions, Ministry of Labour regarding the above; including enquiries; Trade Board Inspectorate and inspections; resolutions; formation; complaints regarding conditions, low wages; trade unions concerned in Trade Boards, etc.

Correspondence as above; also including Trade Board procedure; National Arbitration Order; notices of Wages Councils.

Documents including Trade Board minimum rates, lists of Trade Boards on which trade unions were represented.

Correspondence as above; also including regarding independent members of Wages Councils.

Correspondence regarding the above to be supplied to trade unions; including circularisation of trade unions enquiring about amounts, 1934.

Correspondence with Scottish Trades Union Congress regarding their proposals on methods of regulating wages and working conditions and subsequent questionnaire on Trade Boards.

Scottish Trades Union Congress: three reports on methods of regulating wages and working conditions, 1928-30.

Correspondence with various trade unions following a suggestion by the Made-Up Textiles Board that legislation should be introduced, so as to give a Trade Board power to limit the proportion of juveniles to adults employed by any employer.

Correspondence and documents regarding the above; including lists of current rates; enquiries.

Correspondence and documents as above; also including regarding summaries of rates.

Correspondence with Ministry of Labour and trade unions regarding the above; including regarding the principles of White Paper on Personal Incomes, 1948; proposed wages regulation in the retail trades; refusal to confirm proposals of the Brush and Broom Wages Council and Paper Bag Wages Council; delays in confirming proposals, 1952.

Correspondence regarding Ministry of Labour proposals to extend voluntary machinery as an alternative to the statutory procedure, which would mean suspension of Wages Councils.

Correspondence with trade unions regarding Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers Resolution on procedure, also subsequent deputation to the Ministry of Labour, 27 June 1954 (with report).

Correspondence including with trade unions and Trades Councils regarding protests at the Ministry of Labour proposals to reduce the number of inspectors as part of plans to economise on expenditure; including meeting with the Ministry, 1 April 1955.

Correspondence and documents regarding the above; including circularisation of trade unions enquiring about differential rates for men and women.

Median and Quartile wage rates for males and females in the all other workers class.

Documents including reports, Orders, press-cuttings, circulars, memoranda, etc.

Holidays with Pay Act, 1938; Statement by His Majesty's Government on price stabilisation and industrial policyCmd. 6294, 1941.

Correspondence regarding trade union representation on Trade Boards; including circularisation of trade unions asking for opinions, 1928; enquiries., etc.

Correspondence and documents regarding the above; including claim forms, explanatory leaflets, etc.

Correspondence and documents regarding the above; including Ministry of Labour circular F.422 which defined employers' obligations to keep records.

Correspondence regarding the above; including Trade Board Advisory Council deputation to the Ministry of Labour on 23 February 1933 and 3 May 1934 (with reports).

Correspondence with Ministry of Labour and trade unions regarding the above.

Documents including various reports, statistical data.

Correspondence and documents regarding the above; including circulars; reports of reviews; minutes of trade union conferences held to review Trade Boards, etc.

Correspondence regarding a proposed survey of Trade Board trades.

Report of a survey of the brush and broom trade.

Correspondence regarding the above Trade Boards Advisory Council Sub-Committee of Enquiry appointed to ascertain views of affiliated trade unions on Trade Boards and to form a trade union policy; including meetings; reports; presentation of evidence, etc.

Minutes of the above.

Correspondence regarding the above; including circularisation of affiliated trade unions asking for statements of evidence.

Trade Boards Advisory Council Sub-Committee of Enquiry Committee papers, nos. 3-28; also including replies to Trade Board questionnaires; analyses and summaries of the statements of evidence.

Various drafts, etc., of 1st and 2nd reports of the above.

First report of the above, March 1931.

Second report of the above, March 1931.

Correspondence regarding formation of Trade Boards in the distributive trades.

Documents regarding the Distributive Trades Sub-Committee; including memoranda, reports, press-cuttings, etc.

Correspondence with National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, Co-operative Union Limited regarding the above; including proposed deputation to Minister of Labour.

Correspondence regarding the new Wages Councils for the retail trades.

Documents regarding the Central Co-ordinating Committee of the above; including reports, minutes, agendas, etc.

Correspondence with Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers regarding weekly minimum remuneration and commission payments.

Correspondence with trade unions, Ministry of Labour, etc. regarding applications and proposals for new Wages Councils.

Documents including papers regarding various commissions of inquiry to enquire into applications for new Wages Councils.

Report of a commission of enquiry on an application for the establishment of a Wages Council for the retail furnishing and allied trades, 1947; report of a commission of enquiry appointed in 1955 to consider an application for the establishment of a Wages Council for the rubber-proofed garment making industry, 1956.

Correspondence and documents regarding proposals concerning the formation of a Catering Trade Board; including circulars, reports, memoranda, minutes, etc.

Document regarding the above.

Correspondence regarding the above; including Trade Boards (Emergency Provisions) Bill, 1939 and subsequent regulations; amendment of the Acts, 1944.

Documents including regulations, circulars, minutes, memoranda.

Correspondence with Ministry of Labour, etc., regarding the above; including post-war wages regulation; circularisation of affiliated organisations asking for comments on a Trades Union Congress memorandum on the Bill.

Documents, minutes, memoranda, reports, etc.

Wages Councils Act, 1945; heads of a wages councils bill, 1944.

Correspondence regarding the above.

Correspondence with Transport and General Workers Union, National Union of General and Municipal Workers and others regarding appointed members of Wages Councils; reconstitution of Wages Councils.

Correspondence regarding the above.

Minutes of the annual meetings of the above.

Notices, agendas, ballot papers regarding the above.

Miscellaneous correspondence regarding the above; including abolition of various Councils.

Correspondence regarding the above; including meetings; calls for abolition of the Council; complaints by National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers about it being dominated by the employers.

Correspondence regarding the above; including meetings.

Correspondence with Ministry of Labour, British Furniture Trades Joint Committee, various trade unions regarding the above.

Documents including minutes, reports, memoranda, etc.

Report to British Furniture Trades Joint Committee into wages and working conditions prevailing in certain sections of the furniture manufacturing trade in London, 1938.

General correspondence regarding the above; including dockers' strike at Hays Wharf, 1934; enquiries concerning strikes; resolutions; blackleg labour; Essential Work Orders; Trades Councils and disputes.

Correspondence as above.

International Labour Review, vol. LX, no. 5, November 1949.

Correspondence with trade unions, Watson Collin and Company regarding proposals for a Central fund for disputes.

Documents, including various reports and memoranda.

Views expressed by trade unions on a Congress Resolution regarding raising funds in national disputes, sent in response to a Trades Union Congress circular.

Correspondence with trade unions and Trades Councils, Ministry of Labour regarding Defence Regulation 1AA.

The above regulation made it illegal to instigate or incite men to strike, which had not been covered by the National Arbitration Order.

Documents including reports, memoranda, minutes

Correspondence with trade unions regarding the Trades Union Congress investigation of disputes and workshop representation; including regarding the questionnaire sent out (with summary of replies).

National Conference (January 1958) Agreement between Incorporated Federation of Associations of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers and National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives.

Form A of the questionnaire (general information), filled in by trade unions which had been involved in disputes.

Form B of the questionnaire (details of official stoppages from 1 January 1958).

Form C of the questionnaire (details of unofficial stoppages from 1 January 1958).

Form D of the questionnaire (details of stoppages from 1 January 1958, which unions were affected by, though were not initially in, the disputes).

Form A sent in by trade unions which had not been involved in disputes (with some related correspondence).

General correspondence regarding the above; including lock-out in the Scottish wrought iron trade, 1929; National Union of General and Municipal Workers and Messrs. Gayners, 1929; National Union of Blastfurnacemen and Stanton Ironworks Company Limited, 1930; Leicester Amalgamated Hosiery Union and Wolsey Company regarding the Bedaux System; Boilermakers' strike at the Unigar Clothing Factory, 1934.

The lock-out of Scottish ironworkers, Iron and Steel Trades Confederation pamphlet, 1929.

Correspondence as above; including miners' strike in South Wales, 1935; Electrical Trades Union and Poplar Borough Council; National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers Belfast hotel dispute, 1936; dispute at Messrs. Hackbridge Electric Construction Company, 1939; National Union of General and Municipal Workers dispute with Messrs. Kays Company, 1938-9.

Correspondence as above; including circularisation of Trades Councils regarding unofficial disputes.

Correspondence as above.

Report of conference between Engineering Employers National Federation and Friendly Society of Ironfounders, regarding an application for 15s. a week extra, 18 August 1919.

Correspondence as above; including resolutions.

Pamphlets regarding Electrical Trades Union's dispute with the electrical contracting industry.

Correspondence as above; Birmingham and Midland Sheet Metal Workers dispute with Jensen Motor Company Limited.

Labor's Economic Review, vol. 3, no. 8-9, August-September 1958.

Replies from local co-operative societies to a Co-operative Union circular enquiring about aid given to the strikers.

National Transport Works' Federation report of the railway dispute, 1919; report of a deputation to the Prime Minister, 1 October 1919, regarding the railway strike.

Various documents regarding the engineering and foundry lock-out; including The present economic position of the engineering and allied industries, Engineering Employers National Federation pamphlet, 1921, and Amalgamated Engineering Union reply; Why we are locked out and The attempt to smash the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Amalgamated Engineering Union pamphlets; Trades Union Congress circular; report by a court of enquiry concerning the engineering trades dispute, 1922, Cmd. 1653, National Joint Council report of interview with Mr. Austen Chamberlain regarding the engineering trades dispute, 1922; report of a deputation to government, 16 March 1922.

Reports of a special conference between Engineering Employers National Federation, Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades, National Federation of General Workers and National Union Foundry Workers, 10 and 13 April 1922, regarding working conditions.

Documents and correspondence regarding the above; including reports, press-cuttings.

Correspondence and documents regarding various disputes; including trade union membership in Woolworths.

Documents regarding the dispute between Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and the railway companies concerning a National Wages Board decision to allow reductions in the latter's wages bill of approximately 500,000 per annum; including reports, press statements and cuttings, minutes, memoranda, etc.

Correspondence and documents regarding National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers dispute with Britannic Assurance Company over an agreement imposed on new members without union consent.

National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers and Britannic Assurance Company had concluded an agreement regarding new members, but the Company imposed on new members an agreement which had not been submitted to the union.

Assurance Agents' Chronicle, vol. XXXVI, no. 19, 10 May 1924.

Correspondence regarding Bristol Channel Ship Repairers lock-out of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

After negotiations over advances, the employers offered a 5s. advance in 2 instalments of 2s. 6d.

The Amalgamated Engineering Union rejected this and as a result were locked-out.

Correspondence regarding the building unions' dispute with National Allied Building Trade Employers regarding non-ratification of a negotiated settlement; including sum of 10,000 given to National Federation of Building Trade Operatives as funds.

Correspondence on dispute between Transport and General Workers Union and Port Authorities over wages.

The union wanted a restoration of the pre-September 1922 wages position.

Correspondence regarding various disputes; including Weir steel houses dispute, 1925-7; hours dispute in Lancashire cotton industry; National Union of Packing Case Makers dispute with Messrs. J. Wright Brothers, Northampton, 1925.

Women's Guild of Empire anti-strike propaganda, 1925.

Correspondence regarding dispute in the Yorkshire woollen textile industry following the Masters' Association's decision to reduce wages, leading to a lock-out of protesting workers.

Labour Party/Trades Union Congress Joint Research and Information Department report on the dispute in the wool textile industry, 1925.

Correspondence and documents regarding an unofficial strike by seamen against the 1 per month reduction in wages which had been agreed between National Sailors and Firemen's Union and the Ship Owners, which had led to ships being held up in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Correspondence regarding Scottish shale miners' and oil workers' strike against Scottish Oil Limited's decision to lay off 2,000 workers and reduce the wages of the workers kept on; including circulars of trade unions appealing for financial support.

Board of Trade report by accountants into Scottish Oils Limited, Cmd. 2538, 1925; Scottish Oils Limited annual report and balance sheet, 1924-5; report of a court of investigation concerning the wages position in the Scottish shale oil industry.

Correspondence with trade unions and National Union of Shale Miners regarding the appeal for funds.

The files dealing with disputes between 1926-30 are to be found at 252.63/1-15.

Correspondence regarding Transport and General Workers Union dispute with the above over the introduction of a split shift system and recognition of the union.

Documents including propaganda leaflets issued by the Bus Company.

Correspondence with National Glass Workers' Trade Protection Association regarding their dispute with Dale Brown and Company concerning the discharging of eight men and a proposed wage reduction.

Correspondence regarding Amalgamated Society of Shuttlemakers dispute concerning wages.

Correspondence regarding the above; including enquiries concerning appeals for assistance sent out by Labour Research Department.

Correspondence regarding the above unofficial strike at Hillman's Coaching Service with alleged Rank and File involvement.

Circular sent out by Trade Union Enquiry Conference on Hillman's Strike; Post cards from the strike committee sent by trade unionists demanding an enquiry into the strike; handbill sent out by the Chelmsford and Romford and Hornchurch Trades Councils.

Correspondence regarding Birmingham dispute between National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers and the Wholesale Meat Salesmen's Association over trade union recognition.

National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers handbill.

Correspondence regarding the above, following allegations by a former striker.

Correspondence regarding a strike by National Society of Painters and Operative House and Ship Painters concerning a non-union employee, whom they wanted discharged.

The employee, over 75 years old, had been a member of National Society of Painters for over 35 years, but his membership had ceased in April 1934.

Correspondence with Waterproof Garment Workers regarding their request for a loan to aid them in various disputes.

Correspondence regarding a dispute in the bleaching, dyeing, finishing and calico printing industry concerning wages and overtime.

Correspondence regarding National Union of Sign, Glass and Ticket Writers dispute with the above firm concerning improved shop conditions.

Correspondence regarding a demarcation dispute between painting trade unions and the Poplar Borough Council over washing and cleaning down paint work.

Correspondence regarding unofficial strike by tailors at the above over a new agreement.

National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers open letter to members over the Burton stoppage.

Correspondence regarding the above unofficial disputes.

Correspondence regarding a dispute between National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants and Prices, Tailors (Fifty Shilling Tailors) Limited regarding operation of an agreed code of wages and working conditions and the principle of collective bargaining.

Correspondence regarding National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers' dispute with the above concerning trade union recognition.

Correspondence regarding National Union of County Officers' dispute with Public Assistance Committee of the above Council regarding arbitrary dismissal of employees.

National Union of County Officers leaflet.

Correspondence regarding Amalgamated Society of Leather Workers dispute with Brewer and Hardy over reduction of wages; also including defacement of insurance cards by the time-keeper who had put strike in the stamp space.

Amalgamated Society of Leather Workers, Quarterly Journal, no. 99, February 1938.

Correspondence regarding Kent Mineworkers' Association's dispute with the above Colliery over redundancies; including enquiries regarding an appeal issued jointly by Deal Trades Council and Kent Mineworkers' Association.

Correspondence regarding the above trade unions' appeal for funds in their strikes against wage reductions.

Correspondence regarding Transport and General Workers Union dispute with Lincoln Electric Company Limited, Welwyn Garden City over trade union recognition.

Correspondence regarding Clerical and Administration Workers Union dispute with the above over trade union recognition.

Correspondence regarding an unofficial strike at the above firm in protest at the dismissal of a convenor.

Correspondence regarding dispute between National Union of Packing Case Makers and Messrs. W. Smith and Company over wages.

Correspondence regarding a threatened Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen strike over an award of the Railway Staff National Tribunal.

Correspondence with Trades Councils and trade unions regarding various strikes in the mines.

Complaint by Electrical Trades Union concerning a reference by V. Feather to the Bethnal Green dispute, 1951, where he was alleged to have claimed that the strike was not against the employers but a fellow unionist.

Documents regarding the above dispute following the Board of Trade's relaxation of the regulation that all ships over a certain tonnage should carry a wireless operator.

Correspondence regarding an impending dispute regarding wages increases.

The trade unions wanted 20s. per week; the employers offered 2s.6d. per week and new overtime and nightshift arrangements.

Correspondence regarding the above dispute over the introduction of a national agreement in 60 shops recently acquired by the Company in Birmingham and recognition of National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants.

Documents including various propaganda material issued by National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants.

Correspondence regarding the lockout of Rossendale Union of Boot, Shoe and Slipper Operatives over a clause in an unfinished agreement concerning a holiday fund scheme.

Documents including press-cuttings, reports, etc.

The Union and employers had reached agreement on 18 points, but the employers then inserted a 19th clause stating that the question of holidays with pay was to be outside the scope of the arbitration board already agreed upon.

Correspondence regarding an impending dispute following the decision of the employers to terminate existing wage agreements.

Statement by employers regarding their decision and answer by the Union.

Correspondence regarding disputes at Harrison and Rogers, and Messrs. W. Lusty and Sons.

Correspondence regarding an impending wages dispute in the above industry following National Union of Textile Workers decision to hand notices in.

The other trade unions on the Dyeing Committee had not agreed to do this, because the employers had decided to lockout all operatives if there were any cessation of work following the handing-in of notices at any works.

Press-cuttings.

Press-cuttings regarding an impending weavers' dispute in Lancashire after a strike at a factory in Nelson following the discharge of an Amalgamated Weavers Association official.

Correspondence regarding a strike at the above firm following the suspension of an employee.

Correspondence regarding the unofficial strike at Rego Clothes over revision of wage rates and calls for 100% trade union membership; involvement of Communist Party.

Propaganda material.

Correspondence regarding a dispute between National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers and Manchester Assurance Company Limited over trade union recognition.

Documents including memoranda and press-cuttings.

Assurance Agents Chronicle, vol. XL, no. 50, 15 December 1928.

Correspondence regarding a dispute between National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers and Wesleyan and General Assurance Society over a new system of payment.

Documents including reports, circulars, memoranda.

Assurance Agents' Chronicle, vol. XL, no. 11, 17 March 1928.

Correspondence regarding a dispute over winding enginemen's wages.

Correspondence regarding a dispute over the employers' demand for a reduction in wages.

Documents including memoranda, reports, press-cuttings.

Employers' case for a reduction in wages; cotton operatives' case as presented to the Court of Arbitration.

Correspondence regarding National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants and National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers' dispute with Wholesale Textile Association over the latter's decision to terminate a 1925 agreement on conditions of employment and minimum scale of wages.

Copy of above agreement.

Correspondence regarding the above; including ballot to decide which organisation should represent Nottinghamshire miners; summary of the case.

Correspondence regarding and copies of speeches delivered at a May Day rally in Nottinghamshire.

Correspondence and documents regarding a ballot held under the auspices of Trades Union Congress to determine the preference of the majority of miners between Nottinghamshire Miners Association and Nottingham and District Miners' Industrial Union.

Declaration of the results of poll; statutory declarations by the clerks; key to the ballot box numbers.

Correspondence with the above regarding statements concerning membership of any trade union for men set on at Nottinghamshire collieries.

Reports of meetings with Coal Owners' Association, 20 March and 29 June 1928.

To prevent discrimination, it was agreed by the Coal Owners' Association that no condition of employment regarding trade union membership was to be imposed.

Press-cuttings regarding the dispute.

Documents regarding the above; including memoranda; minutes; instructions, etc., regarding the ballot; shorthand notes of meetings.

The truth about the Nottinghamshire miners' ballot: an answer to critics, by W.M. Citrine; The truth about the non-political unions: a call to action, Trades Union Congress leaflet; Nottinghamshire Miners Association propaganda handbills, nos. 1-5.

Documents including Agreement between Nottingham and District colliery owners and representatives of workmen, 20 November 1926; Agreement between Derby and District Colliery Owners and representatives of workmen, 29 November 1926; reports of Nottinghamshire Miners Association meetings, 1926, 1928; press-cuttings; Non Political Miners' Journal, no. 10, vol. II, March 1928; ballot papers; Nottingham and District Miners' Industriual Union, objects and rules; Trent Motor Traction Company Limited time-table, 4-31 March 1928; booklet on Barton Motor Omnibus and Touring Services, etc.

Correspondence regarding requested employment of collectors by Nottinghamshire Miners Association at Trades Union Congress expense.

Documents regarding Nottinghamshire Miners Association finances; including general fund balance sheets.

Correspondence with the above regarding a circular on the mining situation sent out by Nottingham Joint Mining Committee which criticised Trades Union Congress' efforts.

Correspondence with Miners Federation of Great Britain regarding the situation in the Nottinghamshire coalfields.

Publicity including posters, handbills, booklets and correspondence regarding their drafting and printing.

Souvenir of the programme of the May-day celebrations; Sherwood Billposting Company Limited and Bolsover and District Billposting Company list of billposting positions.

Minutes of reports of Trades Union Congress sub-committee regarding dispute in the Nottinghamshire Coalfields; including reports to the General Council by the sub-committee.

Correspondence regarding speakers for the Trades Union Congress campaign in support of Nottinghamshire Miners Association; also including lists of speakers and venues.

Telegrams to and from G. Spencer, MP regarding alleged interference by a ballot supervisor at Bentinck Colliery and Citrine's offer to have the matter investigated at a public meeting called for the purpose.

Correspondence regarding alleged victimisation by colliery owners of miners not in the Miners' Industrial Union.

Typescript of W.M. Citrine's The truth about the Nottinghamshire miners ballot, with annotations.

Advertisements in favour of Nottinghamshire Miners Association, published by Trades Union Congress in the local press.

Documents regarding the ballot; including key to ballot box numbers, lists for allocation of boxes, polling stations, clerks; reports, receipts, etc.

Documents as above.

Correspondence regarding the dispute in the above industry concerning proposed reductions in wages by the employers.

Documents including reports, memoranda, etc.

Report by a court of inquiry concerning the matters in dispute regarding wages in the northern counties wool textile industry, 1930, Cmd. 3505.

Correspondence regarding the above dispute over a proposed new agency agreement.

Documents including reports, memoranda, copies of the draft agreement.

Correspondence regarding a dispute over dismissal of agents for an alleged act of indiscipline.

Co-operative Insurance Society circular, 1931.

Correspondence regarding an impending dispute over proposals to cut gross wages by approximately 15%; application by trade unions for the establishment of a Trade Board.

Facts for textile workers, National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade leaflet.

Correspondence regarding Cotton Fund Administrative Committee; including meetings; formation and winding up of the Committee.

Minutes and agendas, 1932.

Documents regarding the Trades Union Congress Cotton Fund; including circulars; publicity and propaganda regarding the fund; press-cuttings; lists of contributors and contributions; minutes, etc. Memorandum of agreement between Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association and North Counties Textile Trades Federation, 1932.

Correspondence regarding the above; also Trades Union Congress Cotton Fund; replies to a circular regarding disposal of the balance of the Trades Union Congress Cotton Fund, the suggestion being to place it in the Special Reserve Fund.

Circulars, handbills, receipt books, contribution cards, envelopes, etc., of the Trades Union Congress Cotton Fund.

Correspondence regarding the above dispute over wages and conditions and a request for 1,000 loan from the Trades Union Congress.

Correspondence regarding the above trade unions strike against the implementation of the Bedaux System at Richard Johnson and Nephew Limited; including appeals for financial assistance.

Correspondence regarding National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants' disputes with various multiple stores over the former's wages claim and the latter's refusal to agree to arbitration; also a further dispute with Messrs. George Mason and Company and Direct Trading Company over wage rates and working conditions.

Correspondence regarding Salt Workers' Federation's dispute with G. Hamlett and Sons Limited over non-union employees, wages and conditions.

Correspondence and documents regarding Nottinghamshire Miners Association dispute at Harworth Colliery and the employers' attempts to force miners into the Miners' Industrial Union; including amalgamation of the trade unions; Miners' Federation of Great Britain ballot of miners.

Miners Federation of Great Britain conference regarding the above dispute, 20 January 1937; report to Executive Committee of National Council for Civil Liberties regarding the Harworth Colliery Strike.

Correspondence regarding National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants' dispute with various firms (Jeremiah Rotherham and Company Limited, Copestake Crampton and Company Limited, Cook, Son and Company (St. Pauls) Limited) regarding a programme of wage rates and working conditions.

Documents including various propaganda material.

Correspondence regarding dispute over revision and amendment of the agreement between the two parties.

Reports of conferences between Engineering Employers Federation and Association of Wireless and Cable Telegraphists, 24 June, 26 October, 22 November, 1 December 1937; draft agreement.

Correspondence and documents regarding National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives' dispute with the above Company concerning trade union recognition; including discussion with Nederlandse Vereniging Van Fabrieksarbeiders and others regarding BATA.

General correspondence regarding refusal of recognition to the above trade union; including by Messrs. Leslie and Godwin Limited.

Correspondence regarding Guild of Insurance Officials' campaign for recognition by the Commercial Union Group.

Correspondence regarding Guild of Insurance Officials' campaign to secure recognition from the National Deposit Friendly Society, who insisted that internal machinery existed through which staff could make representations.

Correspondence and documents regarding Guild of Insurance Officials' campaign for recognition by the Salvation Army Assurance Society Limited, which was sent before National Arbitration Tribunal.

Report of National Arbitration Tribunal hearing, 10 December 1941.

Correspondence regarding dispute between Electrical Trades Union and Cinematograph Exhibitors Association regarding organisation of cinema employees; also including correspondence with Association of Cine Technicians and National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees.

Electrical Trades Union working rules for cinema operators and assistants; Today's Cinema, 19 May 1938.

Correspondence regarding Automobile Association's refusal to recognise National Union of Clerks.

Correspondence regarding Leicester Amalgamated Hosiery Union's dispute with Messrs. Howard Ford and Company, Liverpool, makers of `Bear Brand' stockings, concerning trade union recognition and operation of a national agreement; including Counsel's opinion on notices regarding the dispute.

Documents including hosiery union circulars.

Correspondence regarding a threatened Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen dispute over improved rates of pay and conditions of service.

Railway Staff National Tribunal decision no. 5, 28 February 1939; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen handbills and posters regarding the above.

Correspondence regarding various claims by Bank Officers Guild for recognition; including by District Bank Limited, 1936-7, 1940; joint conciliation council for the banking industry.

The Bank Officer, vol. XXIV, no. 7, Jul. 1942; The Bankers' Magazine, October 1942, vol. CLIV, no. 1183.

Correspondence regarding Fire Brigades Union's campaign for recognition by Birmingham City Council as the negotiating body for firemen.

The Firefighter, March 1941.

Correspondence regarding Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians' campaign for recognition by Engineering and Allied Employers National Federation.

253.30-1 see 248.01/3-4

Correspondence with National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel, Printing and Kindred Trades Federation and Typographical Association regarding a threatened dispute in Manchester, following the breakdown of negotiations.

A national agreement had been concluded with London Newspapers' Provincial Association concerning wage increases. It included a stabilisation clause postponing further wages increases until after the end of the war. However, separate negotiations in Manchester had been safeguarded.

Correspondence regarding National Federation of Colliery Deputies Associations campaign for recognition in Scotland and regarding presentation on the Coal Conciliation Board for Scotland.

Correspondence regarding an unofficial strike by Electrical Trades Union, Amalgamated Engineering Union and National Union of General and Municipal Workers at A.E. Cossor Limited, following the suspension and dismissal of various shop stewards.

Documents including various press-cuttings and circulars.

Correspondence and documents regarding National Union of General and Municipal Workers strike at the Savoy Hotel concerning implementation of a National Arbitration Tribunal decision involving reinstatement of a sacked employee; including injunction preventing A. Lewis MP and others counselling and persuading employees to strike; police brutality towards pickets.

Trades Union Congress memoranda on the above injunction.

Correspondence regarding National Union of Vehicle Builders dispute over a demand for a wage increase of 3d. per hour which had been refused by United Kingdom Joint Wages Board of Employers for the Vehicle Building Industry.

Correspondence regarding National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers' campaign for recognition by Northern Counties Assurance Company Limited.

Correspondence regarding National Union of Vehicle Builders dispute at the Austin Works, Birmingham, following the dismissal of a shop steward; including regarding Court of Inquiry set up to investigate the dispute.

Report of the above Court of Inquiry, May 1953, Cmd. 8839.

Correspondence regarding a threatened strike by National Union of Railwaymen regarding rates of pay.

Interim report of a Court of Inquiry into a dispute between British Transport Commission and National Union of Railwaymen, January 1955, Cmd. 9352.

Correspondence with Printing and Kindred Trades Federation and others regarding an unofficial dispute by maintenance workers, members of Electrical Trades Union and Amalgamated Engineering Union, in firms associated with Newspaper Proprietors' Association; attempts by Trades Union Congress to mediate.

The Trades Union Congress had been called in by all the printing trade unions whose members would be unemployed, if there were a prolonged dispute.

Correspondence and documents regarding Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen's dispute with British Transport Commission over wage differentials between themselves and National Union of Railwaymen.

Correspondence regarding the above dispute; including resolutions; letters of support; enquiries.

Correspondence regarding a musicians' strike at the BBC over the terms and conditions for casual studio broadcasts.

The above were undertaken by orchestral musicians other than those who were members of the BBC's standing salaried orchestras.

The Musician, no. 16, October 1955.

Correspondence regarding the work-to-rule and subsequent lock-out of the London Typographical Society; including discussion regarding effect on printing of trade union journals, newspapers, etc.

Correspondence regarding dismissals in the above industry leading to strikes at the British Motor Corporation and Standard Motor Company.

Correspondence regarding strikes in the above industries.

Correspondence regarding London bus strike over a rejected pay claim.

Documents including reports, memoranda, minutes of special meetings regarding the bus strike.

Circularisation of trade unions regarding the London Bus Dispute Appeal to aid the strikers.

Circularisation of trade unions regarding the London Bus Dispute Appeal.

Correspondence with Trades Councils, trade unions, individuals regarding the above; including donations, resolutions.

Correspondence regarding printing industry dispute over demands for 10 per cent increase in basic rates and the establishment of a forty-hour week which had been turned down by the employers.

The dispute begins: here are the facts a message from the general secretary, by W.A. Morrison, 1959.

Documents regarding the above dispute; including papers concerning enquiries into the basis of the printers' claims.

Case presented to the British Federation of Master Printers and the Newspaper Society regarding the application for a 40-hour week, and the employers' reply.

Correspondence regarding a threatened strike by National Union of Railwaymen over increases in wages and salaries.

[The National Union of Railwaymen wanted something now, whilst Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and Transport Salaried Staffs Association were prepared to wait for the report and findings of the Railway Pay Committee of Inquiry.]

Report of Railway Pay Committee of Inquiry, 2 March 1960.

Correspondence regarding National Union of Seamen dispute in Liverpool over the slow progress of the wage and hours claim; also regarding legal action against the strikers to prevent them from striking.

The National Union of Seamen members were prosecuted under section 225 of 1894 Merchant Shipping Act whereby a seaman could be summarily punished for quitting the ship without leave before the ship is placed in security, for disobeying lawful commands, for continued wilful disobedience/neglect of duty, for combining with other crew members to disobey lawful commands/neglect duty/impede navigation of the ship. The National Union of Seamen had previously been examining this Act with a view to suggesting amendments which might benefit their members.

Minutes, reports, correspondence regarding the maintenance of essential services during industrial disputes.

Minutes of the above Committee, also of joint meetings between Trades Union Congress and Employers' Group.

Miscellaneous correspondence (A-M) regarding industrial conferences.

Miscellaneous correspondence (M-Z) as above.

Correspondence with J. Conway Davies, Secretary of the Employers' Group, regarding the above.

Resolutions regarding the above sent in by trade unions, Trades Councils and Labour Parties, also National Minority Movement and Communist Party of Great Britain.

Letters from the general public regarding their views and schemes on industrial reconstruction.

The new theocentric science of life, by C.R. Enock; A new philosophy of life: the only road to prosperity, by T.P. Ritzema; The relative interests of capital and labour, by Sir John Pilter.

Correspondence and documents regarding Trades Union Congress investigation of a leak to the press concerning the proposed industrial conference between Trades Union Congress and a group of employers on the question of industrial peace and co-operation.

Correspondence regarding the above meetings.

Documents including minutes, memoranda, reports, etc.

Correspondence including invitation to meet the employers to discuss industrial reorganisation and relations; arrangements, etc., for various meetings; Sir Alfred Mond's Rome interview regarding fascism, May 1928; Lord Melchett's alleged interpretation of Conference joint interim report, 1929; final report of the conference.

Minutes of General Council meetings relevant to the above.

Miscellaneous documents regarding the above; including reports, memoranda, pamphlets, manuscript notes.

British Electricity Authority Bulletin, vol. 10, nos. 1-2, January-February 1929.

Minutes of the above Committee.

Correspondence with members of the Committee; notices of meetings, etc.

Circularisation of trade unions regarding the draft and interim reports of the Joint Conference on Industrial Reorganisation and Industrial Relations.

Draft report; interim report

Reports to the General Council regarding the progress of the Joint Committee discussions.

Agreed statements, resolutions, memorandum of the Joint Committee on Industrial Reorganisation and Industrial Relations.

Press reports and statements of the Joint Conference.

Minutes and report of the above meeting on 12 January 1928; also copy of the Trades Union Congress Chairman's (Ben Turner) speech.

Documents regarding the above on 4 July 1928; including minutes and report; official report of the proceedings; Interim Joint Report adopted by the Conference.

Documents regarding the above on 12 March 1929; including minutes and report; official report of the Conference; notes and suggestions for Mr. Tillett's speech; interim joint report on unemployment.

Correspondence regarding the winding-up of the Joint Conference on 22 October 1930; and regarding the final report.

Documents including drafts of the final report.

Final report of the conference, 1930.

Copies of speeches by Sir Alfred Mond.

Industrial peace: capital, labour, and consumer - a basis of co-operation, by T.B. Johnston, 1919; article by D. Zaslovsky.

Drafts of a statement on the above agreed at the third Joint Committee meeting, 4 April 1928.

Drafts of a statement on victimisation of employers or employees.

Documents regarding preparation of a statement on conciliation, arbitration and prevention of disputes.

Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, 1927.

Industrial Conference papers nos. 19a, 21a - 24a, 26a, 27a, 30a-40a on unemployment; also related correspondence.

Unemployment: a brief preliminary summary; Memorandum on insurance by industry-special and supplementary schemes, by D.E. Oliver.

General memorandum on unemployment; interim joint report on unemployment adopted by the full Joint Conference, 12 March 1929.

Minutes and notes of meetings and discussions on unemployment.

Drafts of the preliminary/interim report on unemployment.

Copies of the interim joint report and related documents.

Correspondence with J. Conway Davies regarding an investigation by C.V.R. Coutts into the above.

Reports by C.V.R. Coutts on suggestions by Mr. Bevin.

Correspondence regarding the above; including co-partnership schemes in the gas industry; Partnership in Industry Bill.

Documents including ICI circular on a share scheme; particulars of an employees' share scheme of Mond Nickel Company Limited; Employee Partnership Institute (New Zealand) Limited

Documents including address on the chemical industry by Sir Alfred Mond, 1927; Present day tendencies of industrial and commercial development, by Dr. W.H. Coates; The plight of British industry reprinted from The National Review; The Institute of Industrial Administration and its examination scheme, pamphlet.

Documents including drafts and final copy of an agreed resolution on rationalisation; address by Lord Melchett, The rationalisation of industry, 9 November 1928.

Miscellaneous correspondence and documents; including memoranda of evidence submitted to the Committee on Education and Industry, 21 April 1926, 2 March 1927; report of a speech by F.A. Freeth on behalf of Sir Alfred Mond to the Colston Research Society, 18 May 1928.

Documents including ballot papers sent to General Council members regarding the joint memoranda on the gold reserve and its relations with industry.

Currency and Bank Notes Bill, 1928; Trades Union Congress industrial conference report, 1928; final report of the Conference on Industrial Reorganisation and Industrial Relations; Memorandum on the gold reserve and notes on it by Philip Snowden.

Correspondence with Typographical Association and J. Conway Davies regarding alleged victimisation in the printing department of the above Company, where members of the department had ceased to be members of the union.

Correspondence with National Union of General and Municipal Workers regarding matters concerning the Old Age Pensions Act.

Correspondence with Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen and J. Conway Davies regarding Dorman Long and Company, concerning their compulsory pension scheme, the rules of which forbade trade union membership.

Correspondence with Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen regarding the above; including legal definition of workman.

Correspondence with various Joint Industrial Councils regarding conference proposals for the establishment of Joint Industrial Councils in every industry.

Correspondence with Birmingham Trades Council regarding proposals to form a local joint conference to discuss and consider industrial problems.

Correspondence regarding National Council for Pottery Industry proposals for compulsory provision of statistics on profits, wages and output.

General correspondence regarding meetings with Federation of British Industry and National Confederation of Employers' Organisation following the latter's rejection of the Mond-Turner Conference proposals; also enquiries regarding the Mond-Turner talks.

Correspondence with Federation of British Industry and National Confederation of Employers' Organisation; including conferences, 23 April and 19 December 1929; formation of a joint committee to explore methods of consultation and co-operation.

Documents including minutes, memoranda, reports, press statements.

National Confederation of Employers' Organisation constitution and conditions of membership; Trades Union Congress Industrial Conference report; The Bulletin of the British Electricity Authority, vol. 10, no. 2, February 1929.

Minutes of full meetings between Trades Union Congress and Federation of British Industry and National Confederation of Employers' Organisation.

Correspondence regarding Joint Committee meetings.

Minutes of the Joint Trades Union Congress/Federation of British Industry, National Confederation of Employers' Organisation Committee.

Minutes of the Joint Trades Union Congress/Federation of British Industry, National Confederation of Employers' Organisation Sub-Committee.

Minutes of various joint sub-committees on special subjects; including on finance and industry; film; Imperial Conference, Ottawa; displacement of labour due to rationalisation.

Duplicate minutes, transcript proceedings and other related papers of the above meeting.

Various papers, including on national finance and banking; Conference on Industrial Reorganisation and Industrial Relations agreed resolution on a National Industrial Council; paper on French and German economic councils.

Documents regarding co-partnership, profit-sharing and employee share ownership, including address by Fred Bramley on democratic control in industry, March 1925; various schemes and plans; Employee Partnership Institute (New Zealand) Limited

Profit-sharing, by James A. Farrell; Co-partnership in industry, by Walter M. Citrine; Co-partnership: its progress and present position, by James A. Bowie; particulars of employees' participation scheme of the Mond Nickel Company, Limited; The crisis in the British coal mining industry, by H. Valder.

Correspondence regarding co-partnership, profit-sharing; including Employee Partnership Institute (New Zealand) Limited; Industrial Co-partnership Association; equiries; resolutions.

MRG: management research groups, booklet; It's our business, booklet; TR Journal, autumn 1954; Co-operative Productive Review, June 1955; Co-partnership and co-operation in industry, Co-operative Union Limited, booklet; Profit sharing scheme, booklet regarding Caroni Limited scheme; Scott Bader Commonwealth Limited (Triumphs of enterprise no. 40); An experiment in common ownership, by J.R. Eaton.

Documents regarding the above.

These workers own and control their factory, Co-operative Co-partnership Propaganda Committee booklet; The co-operative movement - obstacle or inspiration? by Jack Bailey, and Industrial relations within the new social order, by Rt. Hon. Alfred Robens, M.P., Co-operative Co-partnership Propaganda Committee booklets; Co-operative co-partnership production in Great Britain, Co-operative Productive Federation Limited booklet; report of the Liberal Co-ownership Committee, 1948.

Correspondence with and regarding the above; including trade union enquiry into co-partnership, 1924; conferences and meetings.

Labour Co-partnership Association report of 3rd London Co-partnership Congress, 1926; The industrial situation and co-partnership, Industrial Co-partnership Association manifesto.

The above was originally the Labour Co-partnership Association.

Questionnaires returned by trade unions regarding the above enquiry into co-partnership and profit-sharing, also related correspondence.

Trade unionism and/or co-partnership, National Warehouse and General Workers' Union pamphlet.

Correspondence regarding an enquiry into Lever Brothers, instigated by Electrical Trades Union, Liverpool District secretary, W.M. Citrine, after members (who were also co-partners) had co-partnership scripts witheld by the firm, because the members had been participating in a strike; after consultation with the firm an enquiry was set up to investigate defects of the scheme.

The Co-partnership Trust in Lever Brothers Limited, draft proposed supplemental trust deed.

Circularisation of trade unions enquiring about the constitution and operation of the above, their purposes and effects, and trade union attitudes towards them; further circularisation regarding a paper compiled from views obtained in response to the first circular.

Documents regarding the above; including summary of ICI employees' profit-sharing scheme, October 1954; Baker Perkins Limited, employees' profit-sharing scheme; Cox and Company (Watford) Limited, special bonus scheme; Courtaulds Limited Employees' Co-partnership Trust, notice to employees; data on firms with schemes; The K-W-A Plan, Kalamazoo Limited, 1954; Kodak Limited, improved benefits under pension and life insurance plan, 31 December 1952; Amalgamated Engineering Union report to Executive Council on a national committee resolution on profit-sharing in the engineering industry, December 1955; rules of the Leicester Co-operative Printing Society, 1950; Brockhouse Organisation employees' profit-sharing scheme.