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: resolutions for consideration by the Trades Council; National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment; Yorkshire Federation of Trades Councils scheme to assist smaller Trades Councils to attend annual conference; divisions between sections of the National Federation of Old Age Pensions Associations; Keighley Trades Council 6th annual dinner; projector equipment; increasing unemployment and short time working within sections of industry; affiliations and delegates to the Trades Council; Paul Robeson passport petition; representative to be appointed to the Court of the University of Hull; resuming of activities by the British Soviet Friendship Society; TUC Scarborough weekend conference; requests for speakers to attend Trades Council meetings; various trade union associations; dismissal of the National Council of Labour Colleges organiser in the Leeds area; Britain-Malaya Committee; planned families publications; trade union organisation in the fire service; strike appeal for hosiery workers; Municipal Mutual Insurance Limited Dispute; National Assembly of Women; municipal entertainments; rents of municipal tenants; Yorkshire Labour Women's Rally; Lord Mayor's Sunday; Standard Strike Committee; NCCL annual general meeting; Leeds Regional Health Services Liaison Committee; Hull Sentinel supply; Hull Peace Council; Hull and District Employment Committee Work People's Panel; residential course on rehabilitation of the handicapped at University of Hull; possible conference on East-West Trade to be organised by the Trades Council; the Suez Canal and the Middle East; dispute involving the Cooperative Insurance Society; visit of USSR representatives to Hull; NHS; public lavatories at Paragon Station; nominees for the 1956 Executive Committee of the Trades Council; Trades Council conference on East-West trade at Kingston Square, Hull, on 30 Oct 1956; National Union of Agricultural Workers; film show organised by the Hull Joint Standing Committee Against Nuclear Weapons on 9 Nov 1956.