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

Includes: Hull and District Trade Council directory for 1949; constitution, rules and standing orders of the Hull and District Trades Council, revised Jan 1949; black and white photographs illustrating news from the Rumanian News Agency; 5 issues of Polish Labour Fights.

Contains references to the following: resolutions of the Trades Council; Trades Council representatives on various committees; affiliations and delegates to the Trades Council; National Council of Labour Colleges day schools in Hull and Scarborough; May Day Committee; TUC Peace Conference; International Brigades Association (Hull Branch); University College Hull course on methods of organisation in industry; publications available for supply to the Trades Council; Educational Interchange Council (Hull Branch); transport for school children; CARE food parcels; Hull Youth Committee; resolutions for consideration by the Trades Council; tenants and breakages; East Riding TA Association; Hull Voluntary Health Contributory Scheme; requests for advertising space in The Sentinel; National Assistance Act Appeals Tribunals and Local Advisory Committees nominees; reconstitution of Local Employment Committees; Hull Railwaymen's Silver Band; Municipal Election Fighting Fund; temporary residence of Spanish seamen; Adolphe Konschegg; open air market in Hull; alleged 'Communist infiltration' of Trades Councils; agricultural drains; Sculcoates power station cooling tower; Cooperative Society press conference; Hull youth Committee representatives; Hull and Beverley Disablement Advisory Committee; food parcels; Ragged Trousered Philanthropists play; National Council of Labour Colleges summer school; extra payment for dirty work re Penstock Doors; Workers Educational Association winter classes; Hull Voluntary Health Contributory Scheme meetings Aug-Dec 1949; paper on 'Forty Years of Chlorination' by Joseph Price; married women in National Insurance; British Peace Committee; World Congress for Peace; activities of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions; NCCL and release of Gerhart Eisler; TUC agenda for 25th Annual Conference of Trades Councils at Weston-super-Mare; survey of the electrical installation industry titled 'The Third Link'; council house rents; public meeting in Hull to hear Alfred Edwards MP speak agains the Steel Bill.