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

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 F W Giddens, private secretary to the Canadian Deputy Minsister of Labour (Queen Anne's Mansions, St James's Park, [London]) to Edward Marsh (Colonial Office) enclosing the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act and a related return to Parliament [see CHAR 2/38/23-24]. Signed typescript.

The Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act (6-7 Edward VII, chap. 20) Sent with CHAR 2/38/22 15,[1p].

Copy of return to Parliament relating to the [Canadian] Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, showing the proceedings under the Act from March 22, 1907, to January 15, 1908 Sent with CHAR 2/38/22 14p.

Cutting from the Daily Mail: editorial approving the acceptance by workers' leaders of David Lloyd George's measures to restrict workers' rights in the interests of increased production of munitions.

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.

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".

Letter from Violet Pearman, PS to WSC to J Tracy, Liverpool, on Private Member's Bill introduced to the House of Commons by Frank Hornby MP, proposing to extend shopping hours in the two weeks before Christmas, commenting that there was very little chance of the Bill going any further [carbon].

Letter from Violet Pearman, PS to WSC to Walter Rose, Early Closing Association, sending presscutting on Private Member's Bill introduced to the House of Commons by Frank Hornby MP, proposing to extend shopping hours in the two weeks before Christmas, asking for comments [carbon].

Presscutting from the Bolton Evening News on Private Member's Bill introduced to the House of Commons by Frank Hornby MP, proposing to extend shopping hours in the two weeks before Christmas.

Presscutting from the Bolton Evening News, letter from Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association, on Private Member's Bill introduced to the House of Commons by Frank Hornby MP, proposing to extend shopping hours in the two weeks before Christmas.

Presscutting from The Newsagent-Bookseller's Review and Stationers' Gazette, on Bill to extend shopping hours during the two weeks before Christmas.

Letter from Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, on presscuttings on Bill to extend shop opening hours in the two weeks before Christmas.

Letter from Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association to WSC, on arrangements for 1935 Annual General Meeting, commenting that the Association was actively engaged on campaign against unnecessary Sunday Trading.

Letter from Violet Pearman, PS to WSC to Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association, confirming that WSC would be willing to chair AGM of the Association on any Thursday in March [carbon].

Letter from Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association to WSC, suggesting 14 Mar for Annual General Meeting.

Letter from Violet Pearman, PS to WSC to Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association confirming that WSC would chair Annual General Meeting on 14 Mar 1935 [carbon].

Shops [H.L.] Bill to regulate the hours of employment of persons under the age of eighteen years employed in the wholesale or retail trade [printed].

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)".

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].