Social reform
Found in 316 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [1910]
Letter from WSC (Home Office) to the Cabinet enclosing a report of an address on the feeble-minded [see CHAR 12/1/3] delivered in May 1909 by Dr A F Tredgold (one of the medical advisors to the Royal Commission on the feeble-minded). The report is recommended by WSC as it summarises the "serious problem to be faced" which is the subject of a draft Bill.
(Untitled), 1909 - 1910
(Untitled), 10 Feb 1911
Copy of a letter from WSC to King George V describing events in the House of Commons, including discussion of the "Right to Work" Bill, and WSC's opinions that public works could be used to combat the effects [on unemployment] of fluctuations in trade and that there are "idlers and wastrels at both ends of the social scale". Manuscript in the hand of Sir Arthur Bigge [later Lord Stamfordham, Permanent Secretary to the King].
(Untitled), 16 Feb 1911
(Untitled), 13 Feb 1911
(Untitled), 14 Feb 1911
(Untitled), 04 Oct [1911]
Notes of two [Parliamentary] questions which ask whether WSC will act to withdraw or modify Clause 55 of the National Insurance Bill and its effects on Friendly Societies, or will support an amendment to the clause concerning medical benefits. Manuscript annotated "Repeated to Dawson". See CHAR 12/10/96-99.
(Untitled), 04 Oct 1911
Letter from J W A Dawson (Treasury Chambers) to Sidney Harris [Under Secretary of State, Home Office] including observations and suggested replies to two [Parliamentary] questions concerning the National Insurance Bill and its effect on Friendly Societies. Signed typescript. See CHAR 12/10/94-95.
(Untitled), 22 May 1911 - 01 Sep 1911
Timetable of Parliamentary business including allocation of Parliamentary days to individual bills and a schedule of the days for discussion of the National Insurance Bill at Committee stage. Typescript annotated "Very confidential. Please return to Chief Whip".
(Untitled), 05 Sep 1910
Letter from Sir Hubert Llewellyn-Smith [Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade] (Board of Trade) to [WSC] covering various issues including; the reception given to his speech on unemployment insurance; his opinion of proposals by the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] to combine legislation on unemployment and invalidity insurance; and consideration of suggestions for altering the law on imprisonment for debt. Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 23 Oct 1910
Letter from Richard Haldane [Secretary of State for War] (28, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster [London]) to WSC expressing his agreement with WSC's plans for prison reform and treatment of tramps (with special provision for those who may be converted into "industrious citizens") and saying that these measures might be well-suited to the 1911 Parliamentary session. Signed manuscript annotated "public".
(Untitled), c 1910
(Untitled), 15 Mar [1916]
Report of the fortieth meeting of the Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress. Two typescript copies.
(Untitled), 02 Feb [1916]
Report of the thirty-ninth meeting of the Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress.
(Untitled), 1920
"Ex-service men and women. By W.S. Practical information and authoritative facts relating to the interests of all men and women who served in the Great War." Pro-government pamphlet covering pensions, training and resettlement.
(Untitled), 07 Jan 1922
Letter from [WSC] to Charles McCurdy suggesting a resolution affirming the Government's commitment to constructive social policy. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), [Jan] [1922]
Resolution [by WSC] affirming the Government's commitment to constructive social policy. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 06 Mar 1922
Letter from J S Pierce (8 Brookland Road, Risca, Monmouthshire, [Wales]) to WSC arguing that health and unemployment insurance should be combined and should be made directly by the Government through the labour exchanges. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/121/69-70.
(Untitled), [Mar] [1922]
Note by [Edward Marsh] summarising CHAR 2/121/73-76.
(Untitled), 06 Mar 1922
Letter from Charles Drysdale, president of the Malthusian League (124 Victoria Street, Westminster, London) to WSC asking for his support for their campaign to educate working people about birth control as an antidote to the spread of Socialism and Communism.
(Untitled), 07 Mar 1911
Letter from Robert Harcourt (House of Commons) to WSC enclosing a programme of the forthcoming National Conference on the Prevention of Destitution [see CHAR 2/51/41] and inviting WSC to come and speak at it on the broad issues of social reform.
(Untitled), 1911
Proof programme of the National Conference on the Prevention of Destitution. Printed. 15,[1p. Sent with CHAR 2/51/40.].
(Untitled), 08 Mar 1911
Letter from WSC (Home Office) to [Robert] Harcourt stating that he is attracted by the idea of speaking at the National Conference on the Prevention of Destitution but that he wishes to talk to Harcourt first. Initialled typescript copy.
(Untitled), 14 Mar 1911
(Untitled), 06 Mar 1911
Letter from W J Sutherland (National Association of Master House Painters and Decorators of England and Wales Incorporated, 26 Oxford Road, Manchester) to J W White urging that representations be made to the Government in favour of the merger of workers' compensation with unemployment and invalidity insurance. Sent with CHAR 2/51/63.