Typescript notes explaining reasons for the Government's actions to secure supplies of food and fuel [during the railway and dock strikes] which are described as motivated by the responsibility of the Government to the public, and the working classes in particular, not by support to either side in the dispute. Annotated by WSC. See CHAR 12/12/49-50.

Copy of a letter from [WSC, Home Office] to the Adjutant General concerning the presence of the Metropolitan Police in South Wales. As there is no sign of resolution in the strike it is proposed that the infantry force should be strengthened so that the police may be removed. WSC asks whether the War Office will be prepared to supply further infantry forces if Major-General [Cecil] Macready [Director of Personal Services, War Office] should require them. Unsigned typescript.

Notes by [Sir Edward Troup, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] providing information about industrial unrest in various parts of the country including: London, Liverpool (where shortage of food is a problem), Manchester, Sheffield [Yorkshire], Derby, and Cardiff [Glamorgan, Wales]. Manuscript.

Notes [?by WSC] about the railway strike including the areas in which the majority of railway workers are on strike and where there is a threat of famine. The help of the population in the affected regions is appealed for and a promise is made that "there is nothing that the Government will not do that is in their power". Unsigned typescript annotated by WSC "Secret. Put by".

Section of a draft telegram to be ciphered and sent from [WSC] to King George V detailing the extent of the railway strike and the percentage of railway workers on strike in individual areas, and warning that the stoppage of goods trains in the strike areas threatens an estimated 20 million people with famine. Typescript.

Copy of a letter from WSC (Home Office) to King George V saying that it is likely that the strike will be settled, suggesting that a message of the King's satisfaction should be made public, and asking for permission to congratulate the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police on behalf of the King. Unsigned typescript.

Copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V including a report from the Chief Constable of Liverpool which describes the deterioration of the dock strike and the rioting in Liverpool. WSC includes details of the troops which have been sent to Liverpool and to areas close to Manchester and London. Typescript. Copy at CHAR 12/12/24. Draft at CHAR 12/12/30-34.

Copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V covering various subjects including: the restoration of order at Llanelly [Camarthenshire, Wales] and in South Wales; arrangements for a meeting of railway workers in London; preparation for the withdrawal of the troops and the settlement of the dispute between master lightermen and their employees. Typescript.

Copy of a telegram from [WSC] to King George V covering various subjects including: the restoration of essential services on the railway network; the numbers of railway workers still on strike; the refusal of offers of service by the railway managers; the continuing movement of the troops and enrolment of Special Constables and [WSC's] hopes of resolving the London docks strike. Typescript.

Copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V informing him of the improvement of the situation in London where railway and dock workers are returning to work; and describing the serious riots in Liverpool to which the troops have been called. Typescript with manuscript alterations.

Printed copy of the terms of the agreement reached [in the London dock strike] between the Port of London Authority, wharfingers, granary keepers, ship owners and the National Transport Workers' Federation.

Telegram from Sir Edward Troup [Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] to WSC concerning the movement of troops in a town [during industrial unrest]. Manuscript. Contains note by WSC on the dorse.

Letter from Neston Diggle [naval attache] (British Embassy, Rome, [Italy]) to WSC asking him to support his claims to be promoted to captain, expressing relief at the end of the coal strike in Britain, in which the Italians and Balkan peoples have taken a great interest, and reporting that extremists have been defeated in municipal elections in Rome and Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia].

Letter from [WSC] to the Maharaja of Alwar [India] on: the imminent acceptance by the people in Mesopotamia [later Iraq] of Emir Feisal; the efforts to secure a better recognition of the status of Indians in the British colonies and the particular difficulties this poses in South Africa; the defeat of the miners in the coal strike and the improving economic prospects for Britain; the good qualities of the Viceroy of India [Lord Reading, earlier Sir Rufus Isaacs]. Typescript copy.

Letter from WSC to H A Gwynne on the award of honours to printers and others who worked on the "British Gazette" during the General Strike and WSC's memories of the strike. Typescript copy.

Letter from H A Gwynne (The "Morning Post", 15 Tudor Street, [London]) to [WSC ] thanking him for remembering those who worked for the "British Gazette" in the honours list.

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Linlithgow arguing against a snap general election and in favour of a ballot being required before a strike can be considered legal. Carbon typescript copy headed with the instruction that Edward Marsh is to write it out in his own writing.

Letter from Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil] (Treasury Chambers) to WSC suggesting that special constables be recruited to perform ordinary police duties to enable regular police to form "an army of manoeuvre to be sent anywhere where it is necessary".

Resolution supporting the Government passed by a meeting of working women at Grays [Essex]). Sent with CHAR 2/147/87.

Letter from Wilfrid Ashley (Ministry of Transport) to [WSC] on his scheme for transporting by car members and officials of the House of Commons, for which no Labour members have put down their names.