Letter from the Cotton Employers' Parliamentary Association to WSC, enclosing pamphlet, The Cotton Trade: Trades Unions and Strikes, by Robert W. Williamson, opposing the Trades Disputes Bill.

Letter from the Calico Printers' Association Ltd to WSC, asking him to vote against the Trades Disputes Bill.

Reprint of articles from the Daily News on the Penrhyn Lock-Out.

Letter from William Clegg (Whirlow Green, Sheffield, [Yorkshire]) to WSC praising his performance as Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies, in particular his speech on [martial law in] Natal, [South Africa], but criticising the Lord Chancellor's policy on the appointment of JPs and the government's attitude to the Trades Disputes Bill.

Cutting from the Times: speech by Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] to the Labour Co-partnership Association.

Telegram from WSC to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] and Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] (San Francisco [United States]) stating that the War Cabinet has agreed to stick to its decision not to attach a TUC representative to the British Delegation [to the San Francisco Conference]. Carbon copy.

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he discusses labour relations, suggests that [the War Office] needs a press agent and says that he would be prepared to allow Sir Andrew Caird to work on this.

Telegram from [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary, Cairo, Egypt] to Private Office marked "Advance Copy", "From: Argonaut", and "Jason 560" passing on a message from WSC to Sir Walter Citrine [General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress and President of the International Federation of Trade Unions] thanking him and the delegates of the World Trade Union Conference for their encouragement [in the Yalta Conference negotiations].

Cutting from the "Daily Telegraph": letter to the editor from Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil] advocating copartnership between workers and employers as a cure for the country's current serious economic plight. Sent with CHAR 2/134/160.

Letter from F W Gregory (13 Grove Road, Hoe Stree, Walthamstow, [London]) to WSC arguing that a national co-operative system, whereby employers and workers shared in the profits of a business, would remove the root causes of Socialism.

Letter from Herbert Looker (House of Commons) to 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] enclosing and commenting on CHAR 2/147/88 and urging the Government to repeal the Trades Disputes Act.

Souvenir volume of the British Gazette in miniature comprising facsimiles of all editions of the British Gazette covering the period of the General Strike and giving information about the government's actions to counteract the strike. Printed.

Photograph of a luncheon party attended by those involved in the publication of the British Gazette [during the General Strike] including WSC. Annotated on the reverse "Miss [Clarice] Fisher to keep (British Gazette luncheon)".

Letter from [WSC] to Sir Auckland Geddes [later Lord Geddes] arguing that departments of state employing labour should be responsible for the day to day management of their own workforces but that general industry-wide conditions of service should be the province of the Ministry of Labour. Typescript copy.

Precis of an article [by Philip Kerr] on "national prosperity and industrial peace" reprinted from the Round Table.

Letter from T B Johnston (Bristol Pottery, Fishponds, [Bristol]) to the editor of the Bristol Times and Mirror advocating the organising of industries into cartels co-ordinated in a central council and describing the successful establishment of such a system in Germany. Reprint sent with CHAR 2/116/143.

Notes by Lord Weir [earlier Sir William Weir] on the need for the Government to formulate a constructive industrial policy in order to reduce the influence of extremists over more moderate workers and trade unionists. Written at the request of Andrew Bonar Law and WSC. Appendices include two printed letters to the Times on the threatened coal strike and the attempts of trade unions to bring about the complete break-down of the current industrial system.

Letter from CSC to WSC, commenting on the coal dispute.

Letter from CSC to WSC, on the coal dispute, also on WSC's meeting with Lord Beaverbrook and Beaverbrook's relationship with Jean Norton Part pub. CV V, Part 1, pp.823-824.

Letter from CSC to WSC, on the coal dispute, passing on the views of Lord Ancaster, who felt that "mediation was a mistake".

Letter from Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association to WSC, commenting on Private Members Bill introduced by Frank Hornby MP to extend shop opening hours during the two weeks before Christmas, quoting Patrick Hannon MP "I can assure you that there is not the ghost of a chance of the Bill going any further in the House of Commons this session, and probably it will never be heard of again".