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'The British Gazette' No. 1, 1926-05-05
Headlined 'First Day of Great Strike' but including only pages 1 and 4. Most articles discuss the trade unions strike (general strike) and its effects on food supplies, motoring, and postal services. Includes the list of Cambridgeshire civil commissioners and staff, and details of the day's broadcasting, including 'transmission from the London station of "Dido and Aeneas," an opera by Purcell, edited by Edward J. Dent and conducted by Percy Pitt.'
John Black Atkins (1871-1954), 1926-05-08
Material relating to those with a surname beginning 'A'.
General files on political issues, 1924-04 - 1948-08
The 1922 strike, 1960 - 1983
Official: Treasury: minutes and papers on the Trade Disputes Bill and the Civil Service., 11 Feb 1927 - 31 Mar 1927
Correspondents include: Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller, Treasury]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes cutting from the Daily Telegraph.Subjects covered by the file include: civil servants joining the General Strike and being affiliated to the TUC; proposed legislation on the affiliation of civil service associations to outside industrial and political bodies.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1929]
Message to WSC asking whether he wishes to reply to a statement by Ernest Bevin accusing him of preventing an agreement between the Cabinet and the trade unions which would have averted the General Strike.
(Untitled), 23 Apr [1929]
Letter from [Thomas Jones] (Offices of the Cabinet) to Donald Fergusson commenting on the draft of WSC's reply to the statement by Ernest Bevin that WSC had prevented an agreement between the Cabinet and the trade unions which would have averted the General Strike.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1929]
Note by [? Sir William Joynson Hicks, later Lord Brentford] on part of Ernest Bevin's statement accusing WSC of preventing an agreement which would have averted the General Strike.
(Untitled), 26 Apr 1929
Letter from [WSC] to Thomas Naylor thanking him for pointing out that it was not the printers who refused to set up the "Daily Mail" article "for King and Country" on the eve of the General Strike. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 24 Apr 1929
Letter from Thomas Naylor, secretary of the London Society of Compositors (House of Commons) to WSC pointing out that it was not the printers who refused to set up the "Daily Mail" article "for King and Country" on the eve of the General Strike.
(Untitled), 08 May 1926
Letter from Felix Rose (Reform Club, Pall Mall, [London]) to [WSC] suggesting that Sir John Simon's speech on the unlawfulness of the General Strike be posted on hoardings, and offering his services to carry out this task.
(Untitled), 07 May 1926
Letter from J Y Simpson (25 Chester Street, Edinburgh, [Scotland]) to WSC advocating the production and distribution of a leaflet shortly stating the case against the General Strike.
(Untitled), 07 May 1926
Edition of the "Times" with editorial and reports on the General Strike.
(Untitled), 08 May 1926
Edition of the "Times" with editorial and reports on the General Strike.
(Untitled), 07 May 1926
Edition of the "Evening News" containing news of the General Strike.
(Untitled), 08 May 1926
Edition of the "Daily Mirror" containing editorial and reports on the General Strike.
(Untitled), 08 May 1926
Edition of the "Daily Mail" with leading article and reports on the General Strike.
(Untitled), 09 May 1926
Edition of the "Observer" with leading article and reports on the General Strike.
(Untitled), 08 May 1926
Edition of the "Saturday Review" with leading article on the General Strike.
Budget Statement, 11 Apr 1927
Print of WSC's Budget statement on the effects of the General Strike and coal dispute, revenue (1926-1927) and expenditure (1926-1928), post-war Government departments, the National Debt, war debts, the sinking fund, simplification of income tax, tax evasion, indirect taxation, the McKenna Duties, wine and tobacco duties, the Road Fund and beer duties.
BBC Radio 4, News at One, 1985-01-30
L Parkin interviews Peter McNestry, General Secretary of the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS), on the closure of uneconomic pits in the miners’ strike.
(Untitled), 22 May 1936
Letter from WSC to C E Bechhofer Roberts, on the General Strike, stating that he could not comment on Cabinet matters, but that it was generally known at the time that he was against continuing the negotiations under the threat of an organised General Strike [carbon].
Notes of a meeting held in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Room at the Treasury, 03 May 1926
Minutes of a meeting between WSC and members of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association and the Newspaper Society on issues connected with the British Gazette, such as printing, distribution, finding men to work during the strike and whether it is a Government publication.
Post-miners’ controversy, 1984-07 - 1986-01
Official: Cabinet: British Gazette: various papers., 03 May 1926 - 05 Jun 1926
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