File containing circulars, correspondence and publications received by the Seretary of the Hull and District Trades Council, and agenda and annual reports relating to meetings of the Trades Council.

Includes: press cutting re garden where John Wesley preached; model rules constitution and standing orders for a trades council; programme, agenda and chairman's address for the 27th Annual Conference of Trades Councils in 1951; Industrial News bulletin no.80 dated 13 Jan 1950.

Contains references to Hull Joint Standing Committee Agains Nuclear Weapons, pharmaceutical developments in Hungary, May Day celebrations, 1954 executive committee ballot, local bus services, concerns over exterior painting of Hull Coporation housing, Housing Repairs and Rents Bill, resolution passed at special meeting of Hull and District Trades Council 30 Nov 1958; United Nations Association; International Socialist Conference; Labour Pacifist Fellowship; Labour Research Department conference on the economic consequences of the budget; No Conscription Council; Robert Smillie Memorial Fund; Weymouth Trades Council; All Britain Conference on Housing and Rents in Manchester and London; Yorkshire Federation of Trades Councils; endorsement of TUC wage policy by unions; day school expenses; resolutions for consideration by the Trades Council; National Survey of Municipal Housing; rising cost of producing The Sentinel; subscriptions to and adverts placed in The Sentinel; executive committee actions and decisions; protest against TUC co-operation with Conservative government; National Assistance Board Appeal Tribunal; Yorkshire Federation of Trades Councils meetings; International Brigade Association and Friends of Republican Spain; exhibition in Hull staged by the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association.