File. Bail

Reference No:
U DCL/1/1
Dates:
1936-1939
Description:

Including:

a) Copy of the annual Report of the National Council for Civil Liberties about police methods (2 copies).

b) Record of a conference containing a verbal debate between Mr L.C. White, Mr Walkden and Mr Thompson recorded about the potential for Government misuse of the OSA even after an amendment, especially in regards to the Civil Service and trade unions, and the importance and the impact it has on public liberty. The second discussion talks of political views affecting the workplace and as such the importance of Trade Unionism. The third discussion talks of how to organise. The fourth discussion is about the deaths of 1,000 miners the year before.

c) A newspaper clipping about a "murderous assault" and following bail and the separate document of the evidence and bail (25/01/1938).

d) Letters and documentation between Ronald Kidd and D.N. Pritt about the statistics of annual arrests and releases in the years 1936 and 1937 (14/02/1938 - 18/03/1938).

e) Letters about the arrest and bad treatment of David Lloyd Wilson (5/11/1936-19/12/1936).

f) Letters between Kidd and M.G. Billson about the difficulties of obtaining bail when poor, with following anecdote of a case (2/06/1937-5/06/1937).

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of Liberty (formerly The National Council for Civil Liberties)