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

Includes: report of the Organising and Propaganda Committee of the Hull and District Trades Council, 1953.

Contains references to the following: National Conference of Shop Stewards in London; publications available for supply; Hull and Beverley Disablement Advisory Committee; nominees and delegates to Hull Local Employment Committee; advertising in The Sentinel; Yorkshire Federation of Trades Councils; Hull Cancer Education Committee; organising of bakers; first aid duties; resolutions for consideration by the Trades Council; talks arranged by the Trades Council; Hull Typographical Society and fair wages; Constructional Engineering Union; question of East-West trade; Korea emergency resolution; Trades Council Executive Committee acting also as The Sentinel Board; Hull Hospital Service; Soviet Trade Union Delegation; Hull Peace Council and a public meeting on the subject of 'War on Want', 7 Jan 1953; nominees for the 1953 Executive Committee of the Hull and District Trades Council; National Assistance Appeal Tribunals; TUC instigated boycott of publications printed by Messrs D.C. Thompson Limited; TUC school for secretaries of Trades Councils and Federations; Plato Films Ltd film show and discussion on 'Films and the Labour Movement'; Congress of Action for Peace; Labour Party policy; British Guiana and the suspension of the country's constitution by the British Government; Hull Joint Standing Committee Against Nuclear Weapons delegate conference and public meeting in Kingston Square 19 Feb 1956; Hull Peace Council peace rally at City Hall on 13 Jun 1952; United Nations Association (Hull Branch) talk 'Colour Conflict in Africa'; Hull City Labour Party; National Council of Labour Colleges one day school at the Co-operative Institute, Kingston Square, Hull, on 11 Jan 1953; NCCL AGM activities in 1953; 2nd National Assembly of Women 8 Mar 1953.