Correspondents include: Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association, on the association's proposed Shops (Sunday Trading Restriction) Bill, asking WSC to support it as President of the association, arrangements for the association's annual general meetings, sponsorship for the bill in the House of Lords, objections to a clause making an exception for Jewish traders, and on shortening working hours (23); Arthur Hutchinson, Private Secretary to the Home Secretary, on the bill; 2nd Lord Birkenhead [earlier Lord Furneaux], declining to sponsor the bill.Also includes: drafts of the proposed bill; copy of an extract from Hansard on the introduction of a similar bill in 1851; cutting with a statement by Sir John Simon, Home Secretary, on the bill; notes and copies of correspondence by Violet Pearman [Secretary to WSC].