File containing press cuttings, publications and circulars received by the secretary of the Hull and District Trades Council.

Includes: pamphlet produced by the Ministry of Information 'The Outbreak of War'; two issues of the Industrial Newsletter for Women; pamphlet produced by the National Union of Public Employees; manuscript draft of Hull petition to parliament re defence of Czechoslovakia, the recall of Lord Runciman, and the summoning of Parliament.

Contains references to the following: Cost of Living Campaign; Spain; decrease in unemployment in Hull; Hull Constructional Engineering Union; China Week; law relating to road users' rights and responsibilities; D.J. Gordon Dixon and the Peace Ballot; International Peace Committee; activity to prevent the Wyvern from sailing to Japan; Air Raid Precautions; Czechoslovakia International Solidarity Fund; cinema workers; TUC memo on the Education Act 1936; National Union of Domestic Workers; Labour Research Department publication; National League of the Blind; Sir Stafford Cripps speech and the Petition Committee; organisation of hospital and institutional staffs, the 'No Silk Campaign' and China.