Suggested reply for Conservative candidates to a question on the provision of unemployment insurance for agricultural workers.

Suggested reply for Conservative candidates to a question from the Committee on Wage Earning Children on the Employment of Young Persons (Particular Occupations) Bill.

Note from WSC to James Grigg asking for figures on the drawing of unemployment benefit.

Memorandum [by the Ministry of Labour] on the number of people drawing unemployment benefit. Sent with CHAR 2/167/3.

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.

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.

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.

Minute by WSC asking for information about the feasibility of a separate scheme of unemployment insurance for agricultural workers, with reply by James Grigg.

Memorandum on unemployment insurance for agricultural workers. Sent with CHAR 2/167/52.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Issue of the "Liberal Magazine" including a list of the cost of social services under a Labour government. Sent with CHAR 2/167/97.

Campaign card issued by the Early Closing Association featuring an illustration of the Association and its achievements as a large oak tree which a "hostile press" is ineffectually attempting to cut down.

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.

"Parliamentary Debates" in the House of Commons, including discussion of the Unemployment Insurance (No 2) Bill.

Letter from the Reverend William Geikie-Cobb, Chairman, Marriage Law Reform League (1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London) to WSC, inviting him to become President of the League, in place of the late 1st Lord Buckmaster. He admits the unpopularity of public dealing with questions of marriage, but cites 1st Lord Hewart [Lord Chief Justice]'s recent articles on the need for reform.

Telegram from WSC [on board the Queen Mary reaching Canada] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee], Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon], and others concerned, marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire 36" on the publication of the Beveridge Insurance Scheme White Paper. [Copy].

Letter from WSC to Ernest Brown [Leader of the Liberal National Group] reciting additional sentence, regarding proposals for social security and full employment, which is to be inserted in the text of his letter of today [carbon].