File. Hull and District Trades Council (General)

Reference No:
U DSTC/2/39
Dates:
1948
Description:

File containing correspondence and circulars received by the secretary of the Hull and District Trades Council, and some copy correspondence sent out.

Contains references to the following: Hull and district Employment Committee; Hull City Council Assessment Committee; TUC statement on the economic situation; publications available to the Trades Council; formation of Beverley Trades Council; University College Hull Socialist Society; Fair Wage Clause; Hartlepool Trades Council and cheaper fairs for pensioners; drive to collect supplies for European relief; TUC summer schools; financial position of the Labour Research Department; affiliations and delegates to the Trades Council; future of the Voluntary Hospitals Scheme; TUC and Pension Appeal Tribunals; employment of students; Workers Educational Trade Union Committee; Workers Educational Association rally at Hull University College; complaint from Musicians Union re engagement of non-union band; resolutions for consideration by the Trades Council; rebuilding of blitzed hotels by Hull Brewery and plight of a bombed out tenant; issues with the organisation of May Day events; Yorkshire Federation of Trades Councils; staggering of holidays; Arthur Horner to speak in Hull on problems in the coal trade; Organising and Propeganda Committee of the Trades Council; resolution on the situation in Greece; female representatives to the local Ministry of National Insurance Appeal Tribunals; TUC annual conference 1948; Spanish Trades Union Great Britain Section; commemoration service for war dead; public meeting re propeganda appeal; City Council minute re no cost to the Corporation for band concerts in public parks; British Medical Association East Yorkshire Branch; Regional Hospital Boards and engineering trades representation; discussions re formation of a Joint Industrial Council in Hull; Yorkshire Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign; complaint re Gough and Davys; British Soviet Society second annual conference; Hull Voluntary Health Contributory Scheme; local Food Control Committees; oil pollution; resignations of Trades Council officers and apologies for absences from meetings; food parcels from America; Labour Research Department constitution; National Council of Labour Colleges classes; Hull branch of the British Legion; Hull Voluntary Health COntributory Scheme and Hull Voluntary Hospitals Council; The Young Vic theatre; visit of overseas socialists to Hull; annual rally of the Workers Educational Association at University College Hull; Hull Citizens Arts League; Hull AUBTW supper and social evening at the Trades and Labour Club; South West Hull Divisional Labour Party weekend school; nominees for Executive Committee of the Trades Council in 1948; Trades Council delegates elected to Hull College; Workers Educational Trade Union Committee weekend schools; proposed Trades Council peace conference at Queens Hall, Alfred Gelder Street, Hull; Labour Pacifist Fellowship; Peace Pledge Union; Spanish Trades Union; conference on Spain and Spanish political prisoners; NCCL £5000 fund; National Council of Labour Webb Memorial Fund; Industrial Newsletter For Women; national appeal for a memorial to Margaret McMillan; Association of Building Technicians; British Road Federation on the case for motorways; Home and School Council of Great Britain conference; NCCL conference on freedom of speech; Union of Democratic Control publications; National Council of Labour Colleges annual meeting and tea in Leeds; the Greek trade union movement; The British Peace Committee; The British Soviet Society.

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of the Hull and District Trades Council