Notes [on the Shops Bill] concerning the rights of shops near a market area to obtain licenses to trade during market hours. Manuscript.

Notes on the Shops Bill including objections to limiting the number of hours during which a shop may remain open and the effects [of clauses on Sunday trading] on costermongers [street traders] and Jews. Typescript.

Notes on restrictions on Trade Unions using their funds to pursue "political objects" and the right of individual members to contract out of political action. Manuscript in the hand of WSC.

Letter from Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] to WSC enclosing a letter to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] concerning proceedings in South Wales [see CHAR 12/6/2-3]. He warns that to settle the dispute between mine owners and miners it may be necessary to alter the Eight Hours Act to accommodate a half day holiday for miners on Saturdays. Signed manuscript.

Letter from Charles Masterman [Under Secretary of State, Home Office] to "Childe" asking him to establish an Independent Appeal Board for taxicar licenses and "make an 'honest woman' of his sweetheart", and referring to a "slight difficulty" in Avonmouth [Gloucestershire] over the Houlder Bros [one of the shipping companies involved with the dockers' strike at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales]. Manuscript signed with initials.

Letter from Sir Edward Troup [Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] to WSC forwarding an enclosure detailing events which have occurred since WSC left [see CHAR 12/6/6-8]. He explains that he has not been able to contact anyone at the War Office, refers to the landing of a "possible invader", and says that he has informed [Richard] Haldane [Secretary of State for War] of WSC's opinions on the use of mounted troops. Signed manuscript.

Note from I H M[itchell, a representative of the Board of Trade] to Sir Edward Troup [Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] enclosing an agreement between the dockers' Unions, representatives of the shipping companies involved [in the dockers' strike at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales], the Mayor [of Newport] and the Board of Trade [see CHAR 12/6/16]. Typescript.

Copy of an agreement between the shipping companies [involved with the dockers' strike in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales], their general cargo employees, the Mayor [of Newport] and the Board of Trade concerning the dispute over a proposal by the shipping company, Houlder Brothers, to substitute "days wages for a tonnage weight of payment". Typescript. Covering letter at CHAR 12/6/15.

Copy of a letter from [Sir Edward Troup, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] on behalf of [WSC] to the Mayor of Newport [Monmouthshire, Wales] expressing satisfaction at the agreement reached between Houlder Brothers [one of the shipping companies involved in the dockers' strike at Newport] and their general cargo employees, and congratulating the Mayor and the Watch Committee for their "careful attention". Unsigned typescript.

Copy of a letter from [Sir Edward Troup, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] on behalf of [WSC] to John Macauley, General Manager of the Alexandra Works and Railway Company, expressing satisfaction at the agreement reached between Houlder Brothers [one of the shipping companies involved in the dockers' strike at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales] and their general cargo employees, and thanking him for his "conciliatory spirit". Unsigned typescript.

Copy of a letter from [Sir Edward Troup, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] on behalf of [WSC] to the Chief Constable of Newport [Monmouthshire, Wales] expressing satisfaction at the agreement reached between Houlder Brothers [one of the shipping companies involved with the dockers' strike at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales] and their general cargo employees, and thanking him for his "efforts to protect person and property". Unsigned typescript.

Letter from Sir Arthur Bigge [later Lord Stamfordham, Permanent Secretary to King George V] (York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk) to WSC expressing concern on behalf of the King at reports of riots in South Wales and requesting a report of events from WSC. Signed manuscript.

Letter from Alexander Murray [Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury] to WSC marked "confidentially dictated" enclosing newspaper cuttings [concerning the miners' strike at Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales] and commenting "the principal Liberal papers...are backing you" Signed typescript. See CHAR 12/6/30 and CHAR 12/6/31.

Newspaper cuttings relating to WSC's decision to send re-enforcements of police to the riots and miners' strike at Tonypandy [Glamorgan, Wales] instead of the military force requested by the Chief Constable. Cuttings from: the Daily News, the Daily Chronicle, the Morning Leader and the Manchester Guardian. Covering letter at CHAR 12/6/29.

Transcript of a newspaper article from the Liverpool Daily Post relating to WSC's decision to send re-enforcements of police to the riots and miners' strike at Tonypandy [Glamorgan, Wales] instead of the military force requested by the Chief Constable. Typescript. Covering letter at CHAR 12/6/29.

Telegram from King George V (Sandringham) to WSC thanking him for his report of the riots [at Tonypandy, Glamorgan] Wales and hoping that the news that horses have been lost in the mines is not true. Manuscript.

Letter from Thomas Rees, editor of the Cambria Daily Leader (Leader Buildings, 151 Fleet Street [London]) to WSC congratulating him for his decision to delay the military troops sent to [the riots] at Tonypandy [Glamorgan, Wales], as "the sacrifice of life" which would have resulted could not have been rectified. Signed manuscript.