- keyword(s): general strike
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(Untitled), 17 Mar 1936
Letter from C E Bechhofer Roberts, Abinger Common, Dorking , Surrey to WSC, on his forthcoming book on Stanley Baldwin. Asking WSC about Baldwin's attitude to the General Strike.
(Untitled), 20 May 1936
Letter from C E Bechhofer Roberts, Abinger Common, Dorking, Surrey to WSC, on Stanley Baldwin, F E Smith (later Lord Birkenhead) and the General Strike.
(Untitled), 28 May 1926
Letter from Sir Douglas Hogg [later 1st Lord Hailsham] (Carter's Corner Place, Hailsham, [Sussex]) to [WSC] advising against a libel prosecution [of the "New Statesman" for publishing an article alleging that WSC urged the use of the military during the General Strike]. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/147/94.
(Untitled), 24 May 1910
(Untitled), [1911]
Notes concerning the widespread industrial unrest including observations on the following subjects: the threat posed by trade unionism; the concepts of sympathetic strikes and the general strike; and the lack of control in the event of a railway strike. Suggestions are made for a meeting between the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] and large industrial employers or the establishment of a committee. Manuscript on the notepaper of the Board of Trade.
Correspondence with MPs, D, 1985-10 - 1991-12
Official: Cabinet: Legislation Committee (Trade Union Bill): papers 9 - 17., 25 May 1926 - 26 Jul 1926
Letters from John Julius to Lady Diana from Beirut, 1958-01 - 1958-12
(Untitled), 23 May 1910
Copy of a letter from [Sir Edward Troup, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] on behalf of [WSC] to John Macauley, General Manager of the Alexandra Works and Railway Company, expressing satisfaction at the agreement reached between Houlder Brothers [one of the shipping companies involved in the dockers' strike at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales] and their general cargo employees, and thanking him for his "conciliatory spirit". Unsigned typescript.
Correspondence relating to NK’s Islwyn constituency, 1983-12 - 1984-10
Official: Treasury, 1924 - 1929
Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes., 09 Feb 1927 - 06 Jul 1927
(Untitled), 19 May 1926
Letter from [WSC] to Lord Linlithgow arguing against a snap general election and in favour of a ballot being required before a strike can be considered legal. Carbon typescript copy headed with the instruction that Edward Marsh is to write it out in his own writing.
Letters to Joan Lascelles, 1926
Including a visit to his family home, Sutton Waldron House, in Dorset, April 1926; moving house to 3 Hyde Park Street, London, April 1926; a trip to Scotland and being stranded at Lairg, in Sutherland, during the General Strike, May 1926; and the Prince of Wales' visit to Oxford, August 1926.
"Clementine Churchill": source material, 1920-29, 1976-08 - 2001-10
Notes and copies on subjects including F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell], the Mitford family, the General Strike and British Gazette and Winston Churchill's paintings. Includes a copy of a letter from Churchill to [Emma] Margot Asquith [Lady Oxford and Asquith] on the death of 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith, recalling Asquith's career and the cruise of the Admiralty yacht Enchantress in the Mediterranean, May 1913
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941
Telegram from [Sir Ronald] Campbell [British Minister to Yugoslavia] (Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia) passing on a message from [?Sir Thomas] Preston to WSC on General [Dusan] Simovic's [Prime Minister of Yugoslavia] reluctance to strike Italy, but promise to attack Albania.
(Untitled), [17] [Aug] [1911]
(Untitled), [17] [Aug] [1911]
Official: Treasury: correspondence., 23 Jan 1929 - 03 Jun 1929
(Untitled), 01 Sep 1911
Letter from J Freeth (Cardiff [Glamorgan, Wales]) addressed to "My dear General" about the possibility of a general strike in the coal industry over the issue of minimum wages which he thinks will take place in October, and which would threaten the coal supply to the Admiralty. Signed manuscript.
Diary and correspondence, 1921-01 - 1921-06
Office messages, 1984-05 - 1985-01
(Untitled), 04 Jul 1942
(Untitled), [1910]
Copy of a letter from [WSC, Home Office] to the Adjutant General concerning the presence of the Metropolitan Police in South Wales. As there is no sign of resolution in the strike it is proposed that the infantry force should be strengthened so that the police may be removed. WSC asks whether the War Office will be prepared to supply further infantry forces if Major-General [Cecil] Macready [Director of Personal Services, War Office] should require them. Unsigned typescript.