Social reform
Found in 317 Collections and/or Records:
(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), 14 Sep 1925
(Untitled), 25 Mar 1929
Letter from Frederick Guest (7 Aldford Street, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC arguing that recent by-election results suggest that David Lloyd George's economic policies appeal more to agricultural than to urban districts, which is serious for the prospects of the Conservative Party, and suggesting that the Government should respond with a programme of slum clearance, further amalgamation of social services, a revival of trade facilities and development of the Empire.
(Untitled), 1929
Suggested reply for Conservative candidates to a question on the provision of unemployment insurance for agricultural workers.
(Untitled), 1929
Suggested reply for Conservative candidates to a question from the Committee on Wage Earning Children on the Employment of Young Persons (Particular Occupations) Bill.
(Untitled), 03 May 1929
Note from WSC to James Grigg asking for figures on the drawing of unemployment benefit.
(Untitled), [May] [1929]
Memorandum [by the Ministry of Labour] on the number of people drawing unemployment benefit. Sent with CHAR 2/167/3.
(Untitled), 09 May 1929
Minute from [Donald Fergusson] to [WSC] enclosing and summarising CHAR 2/167/45-47 and listing the objections to a scheme of unemployment insurance for agricultural workers.
(Untitled), 08 May 1929
Letter from Reginald Franklin (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) to Donald Fergusson on the possible extent of unemployment among agricultural workers and the policy of the Labour Party on unemployment insurance in agriculture.
(Untitled), 03 May 1929
Minute from WSC asking for information on the extent of unemployment among agricultural workers, the policy of the Labour Party on unemployment insurance in agriculture and the difficulties of a separate scheme. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/167/49.
(Untitled), 02 May 1929
Minute by WSC asking for information about the feasibility of a separate scheme of unemployment insurance for agricultural workers, with reply by James Grigg.
(Untitled), [1929]
Memorandum on unemployment insurance for agricultural workers. Sent with CHAR 2/167/52.
(Untitled), 29 Oct 1926
Cabinet memorandum by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries [Walter Guinness, later Lord Moyne] on unemployment insurance for agricultural workers. Sent with CHAR 2/167/52.
(Untitled), Apr 1929
Circular letter from Dorothy, Lady Lawrence, chairman of the executive committee of the National Society of Day Nurseries (117 Piccadilly, [London]) asking whether the recipients will bring the work of the Society to the attention of electors in their constituencies.
(Untitled), 16 Apr 1929
Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Sir Douglas Hogg] hoping that the Prime Minister is considering Hailsham's memorandum [on the care or children between the ages of one and five] [see CHAR 2/167/89-96]. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1929]
Memorandum from 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Sir Douglas Hogg] to WSC on the care of children between the ages of one and five. Sent with CHAR 2/167/88.
(Untitled), c 1929
Typescript copy of the first edition of a Labour Party leaflet on their intention to give more generous pensions. Sent with CHAR 2/167/97.
(Untitled), c 1929
Typescript copy of the second edition of a Labour Party leaflet on their intention to give more generous pensions. Sent with CHAR 2/167/97.
(Untitled), 30 Mar 1929
Extract from the "New Leader": part of a speech by James Maxton at the Independent Labour Party's conference on the cost of the party's proposed social reforms. Sent with CHAR 2/167/97.
(Untitled), [Feb] [1929]
Rough estimate [drawn up in the Ministry of Labour] of the cost of unemployment benefit at the rates and conditions proposed by the Labour Party. Sent with CHAR 2/167/97.
(Untitled), 20 Feb 1929
Letter from Kingsley Wood to Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland on the cost of a non-contributory pension scheme as proposed by the Labour Party. Carbon typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/167/97.