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L (Labour) Correspondence and papers on WSC's appeal to munitions factories to work through the Easter holidays to replace serious losses guns, machine guns and ammunition resulting from the German Offensive in France. Including handwritten draft of WSC's message, and letters and telegrams from individual factories, and handwritten draft of WSC's message of congratulation to the Ponders End Munitions Factory.

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L (Labour) Correspondence and papers on embargo on recruitment of skilled workers for munitions work.

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L (Labour) Correspondence and papers on strikes in the aircraft manufacturing industry, including: note on the sheet metal workers' strike; ; memo by Sir William Weir on position created by strike of aircraft sheet metal workers in the London area; memo on strike at the Waring and Gillow factory in Hammersmith, caused by the dismissal of a female Shop Steward in the Varnish Room: papers on strike at Alliance Aircraft Company works.

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M (Materials) Various papers including: papers on the organisation of the Materials Department by Lionel Phillips and Sir Leonard Llewellyn; papers on the Railway Strike, Sep 1918, including Board of Trade Bulletins on the progress of the strike and memorandum on "Railwaymen's Unrest" by A H Stanley (later Lord Ashfield), President of the Board of Trade;.

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L (Labour) Papers on Engineers' Strike including papers on recruitment of artificers for the Army; memorandum on the Engineering Amalgamation Committee and the Industrial Workers of the World; memoranda by the Ministry of Munitions Intelligence and Record Section on "History of the Strike of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers" in May 1917; the "Shop Stewards Movement" and the "Sequel of the Engineers' Strike".

Scope and Contents Includes letters, notes and minutes by: Patrick Duff [Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]; Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Ernest Gowers [Permanent Under-Secretary for Mines] (5); Norman Holden; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes press comments on the Coal Commission; note by Treasury reporters of a conference between the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] and representatives of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain; notes...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries] (2) including one on agricultural policy; Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick [Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade]; Sir James Craig [later 1st Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland] and Hugh Pollock [First Minister of Finance for Ulster, Ireland] (2) on the Northern Irish unemployment fund; Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard [Chief of the Air Staff] on air force economies; Neville...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton, President of the Board of Trade] on the level of trade; Abe [Bailey]; Admiral Sir Roger Keyes (6) on subjects including his tax position, the naval officers' marriage allowance, and Admiralty matters; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith, Secretary of State for India] (2) including one on Indian financial matters; Walter Runciman; Frederick Guest;...

Scope and Contents Recipients include: President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (3); F Stanley Jackson [Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party]; Count Guiseppe Volpi [Italian Minister of Finance] (2); Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple, Minister of Transport] (2); Sir Robert Horne [later 1st Lord Slamannan]; Leo Amery [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (4); Sir James Craig [later 1st Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Gilbert Upcott [Deputy Controller, Treasury], the High Commissioner for the Malay States [later part of Malaysia, Sir Hugh Clifford], and Secretary of State for the Colonies [Leo Amery] (2) on rubber restrictions; Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, from 1927], Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, until 1927] (2), and Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance] on the tariff on imported consumer goods.Also includes WSC and...

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Correspondents include: Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller, Treasury]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes cutting from the Daily Telegraph.Subjects covered by the file include: civil servants joining the General Strike and being affiliated to the TUC; proposed legislation on the affiliation of civil service associations to outside industrial and political bodies.

Scope and Contents Includes memoranda on: unemployment and the state of the coal mining industry by ?Ernest Gowers [Permanent Under-Secretary for Mines]; import prohibition and legislation by Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] and Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; notes of a meeting between Treasury officials and various bankers on agricultural credit, and between employers and the TUC General Council (with a cutting from the Daily Herald).Also includes notes by...

Scope and Contents Includes copies of: the Labour Magazine for September 1925 containing an article by Walter Citrine [Assistant Secretary, TUC] on "Lessons from the mining dispute"; the Unemployment Insurance Act; "Trade, currency, industry and unemployment" and "The remedy for unemployment: get the workers back to work" by Sir Alfred Mond [later 1st Lord Melchett]; "The co-operative movement and party politics", published by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.Also includes...

Scope and Contents Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade] (3); [Sir Arthur Duckham]; President of the Board of Trade [Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (2); William Brown [Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade].Also includes: Conference on industrial reorganisation and industrial relations report...

Scope and Contents Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller]; Sir Warren Fisher...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: King Manuel II on the "future of Portugal"; General Sir William Robertson [General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the Forces in Great Britain] (3); 1st Lord Milner [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on appointing neither Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard or General Sir John Cowans as Governor of Nigeria (2); Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal] passing on a copy of a letter from Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Lawson on a decline in his pay and position; Philip Kerr [later...

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of a meeting of the Committee on the Limitation of Armaments; a War Office memorandum on WSC's and other appointments; copy of Army Orders for 1919; copies of telegrams from the Adjutant-General [Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh] on potential police strikes; RAF demobilisation form; precis on the Roger Casement letters; outline of scheme of army reorganisation; notes from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso], Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary...

Scope and Contents Includes carbon copies of minutes (and telegrams) from WSC to various individuals including: Secretary [War Office, Sir Reginald Brade]; 1st Lord Peel [Under-Secretary of State for War]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Sir Herbert Creedy; Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Chief of the Air Staff [Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Major-General Fabian Ware; [David Lloyd George]; Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal]; Director of...

Scope and Contents Includes papers, copies of correspondence and extracts from minutes on various subjects including: labour on Sunday; the allocation of government contracts; the erection of a factory for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen; the control of raw and waste rubber; boring for petroleum in the United Kingdom; the formation of a joint electricity board; the supply of oxygen; the supply and rationing of coal; rebuilding; and the construction of an electricity power station.Also includes papers by...

Scope and Contents Includes committee minutes of statements made by: General Jan Smuts [South African Representative on the Imperial War Cabinet]; [17th] Lord Derby [earlier Edward Stanley] Secretary of State for War; WSC, Minister of Munitions; [1st] Lord Rothermere [earlier Harold Harmsworth] Air Minister; and Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service and Reconstruction.Subjects discussed include: shipbuilding; labour for construction work; use of existing buildings for government departments; the...

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Includes correspondence with Sir (Charles) Henry Plumb (President, National Farmers' Union), George Cattell (Director General, NFU), Peter Mills MP, Tim Raison MP and Alick Buchanan-Smith MP
Also includes a paper for MT by James Prior MP proposing a Conservative Industrial Relations Department of Central Office, which appears to have been mis-filed, November 1975

Scope and Contents Includes MT’s handwritten annotations IIncludes publications, press releases etc issued by the CBI; and correspondence with Sir John Greenborough (President, CBI) and John Methven (Director General, CBI) Also includes CBI situation reports relating to industrial action during the "Winter of Discontent": 14 January (copy unnumbered); 16 January (report no 9); report 15 did not exist, sequence mis-numbered; 20 January (reports no 18-20); 21 January (report no 21); 22 January...

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Papers and correspondence on Labour's relations with the trade unions and on the 1984-85 miners' strike.

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Correspondents include Herbert Samuel, Postmaster General (3); Dundee Women's Suffrage Society; Dundee Liberal Association; The Independent Labour Party (Dundee Branch).Subjects include Female suffrage; telegraph links with Dundee; the strike of Leven textile workers; the claims of Dundee over Aberdeen for the site of new wireless station; the Scottish Temperance Bill.

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Correspondents include Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-General (and others) on Post Office staff wage claim (6); P F Husband, Liberal Agent, on Party organisation and expenses in the constituency (4).Other subjects include duties of Sub-Postmasters; Labour Exchanges; the need for a second Liberal Candidate in the constituency; arrangements for presbyterian chaplaincies at Dundee and Ardrossan submarine bases.