File containing correspondence received and copy correspondence sent out by the secretary of the Hull and District Trades Council. Also some illustrations for use in The Sentinel and two posters produced by the TUC relating to the benefits of joining a trade union.

Contains references to the following: care of the homeless; no change to Sentinel rates as a result of war conditions; Halifax Federated Trades and Industrial Council; circularisation of trades councils; National Union of Railwaymen; shortage of cycle and torch batteries; NCCL conference on anti-semitism and fascism; Sunday bus service; loss of earnings incurred by Home Guard members; early closing of hairdressers; shopping hours; affiliations to the Trades Council; May Day celebrations; resolutions; Beveridge Report; National League of the blind; Reconstruction Committee; war savings; Anglo-Soviet Committee and Flag Day; The Pedestrians' Association; TUC Council for Educational Advance; Trade Union propeganda; Yorkshire Federation of Trades Councils; women members of the EC; National Council of Labour Colleges; advertisements to be placed in the Sentinel; Social Insurance Delegate Conference of the TUC to be held in Hull; speech by Dorothy Thompson 'Lets Face the Facts' relating to the conflict in Europe, Hitler and Churchill.