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

Includes: pamphlet 'Britain and the Bomb'; pamphlet 'Science in the Service of Life - the Rumanian Institute for Agronomical Reseaches'; pamphlet 'Britain and World Peace'.

Contains references to the following: International Brigade Association and Friends of Republican Spain; Hull City Communist Party Committee public rally; Yorkshire Federation of Trades Councils; Remploy; affiliations and delegates to the Trades Council; National League of the Blind and restoration of sight; bakery industry hours of work bill; Roxy Cinema in Bridlington; floral clock in Queens Gardens; housing rents and repairs bill petition; public meeting on Spain organised by the Trades Council; content and advertisments in The Sentinel; review of National Insurance Scheme; TUC updates; resolutions for consideration by the Trades Council; Higher National Certificate in Commerce; business and decisions of the Trades Council's Organising and Propaganda Committee; concern over highways and road accidents; National Council of Labour Colleges Swedish Summer School and other schools; weapons of mass destruction and concerns over possible nuclear warfare; Youth Employment Committee; first aid duties; wages subcommittee; meeting with Hull University College students union; advertising in transport; Allotments Subcommittee; increase of fares on public transport in Hull; Clerical and Administrative Workers Union; Peace Council garden party; Wymersley Road Camp; British Empire Cancer Campaign; imprisoned trade unionists in Spain; National Council for Civil Liberties activities; Hull Food Control Committee; Batchelors' Peas Workers Strike; Hull Branch United Nations Association; Hull Joint May Day Committee; oerhead linesmen; Hull and District Employment Committee; Hull Peace Council; Rents Act Joint Committee; Wortley Hall; radiated food; Western General Hospital Visiting; nominees for the executive committee of the Trades Council in 1954; establishment of a chest clinic in Hull; British Empire and Commonwealth Games; May Day celebratons; consideration of 'the blind' by Hull Welfare Services Comittee; water resources, Farndale and the River Hull; apprenticeship arrangements in approved schools; policy statement of the National Association of Tenants and Residents; NATO; Tied Cottage; Fire Brigades Union dispite with Glamorgan County Council; League for Democracy in Greece; Industrial News; Penny a Week Appeal for the Save the Children Fund; North Region Association for the Blind; the Pedestrians Association.