File containing copy letters sent out by the secretary of Hull and District Trades Council.

Includes: typescript draft Trades Council secretaries report for the year 1938; model rules constitution and standing orders for a trades council; half yearly report of the Typographical Association.

Contains references to the following: cinema operators strike; payment of accounts; International Peace Campaign conference; Spanish Relief conference; supply of publications; TUC Blackpool Congress; lantern lecture on Russia; affiliation to NCCL; strike at Messrs Falk Stadlemann and Co Ltd; Hull Basque Children's Fund; meetings; weekend school at Chevin Hall; loan of loud speaker equipment; Fair Wage Clause; May Day; affiliations to the Trades Council; Spanish ships in Hull; Poor Children's Holiday Fund; meeting organised by the Joint May Day Committee at Metropole Hall, West Street, Hull, on 1 May 1937; costs of a film show staged Feb 1938; advertisement for the Trades Council's annual trade union directory; Blackburn Aircraft; meeting relating to Hull cinema workers held in Oct 1938 and cinema strike; housing and slum clearance; Hull and District Employment Committee; Hull and District Employment Committee; minutes of full meetings of the Trades Council held 8 and 30 Dec 1938; possible violation of the Fair Wage Clause by Mr Greenwood of Princes Road; advertisements to be placed in The Sentinel; Hull City Labour Party day school at Co-operative Hall 4 Dec 1938; International Peace Campaign; memorandum of the Trades Council and Hull City Labour Party on Air Raid Precaution; TUC annual conference agenda; National Council of Labour Colleges Hull class on capitalism and world crises; annual meeting of the Labour Research Department.