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General Election: 1929, 1929-1931

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CRD 1/7/1-4

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Comprises file CRD 1/7/1. This file includes:

  1. Memorandum from Sir RB Howorth, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, concerning the procedure for dealing with General Election questionnaires by the Emergency Business Committee, 30/05/1929
  2. Printed index to questionnaires dealt with by the Emergency Business Committee during the 1929 General Election, with cross-reference to the date of the particular meeting at which the response was agreed, 09/10/1931

Conclusions of meetings of the Emergency Business Committee, and organisations from which questionnaires were received and discussed:

1st meeting: 02/05/1929

2nd meeting, 03/05/1929

3rd meeting, 09/05/1929:

  1. National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
  2. Federation of Grocers' Associations (Burnley and District Branch)
  3. National Union of Teachers
  4. Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools
  5. Canon of Truro Cathedral
  6. National Association of Schoolmasters
  7. Divorce Law Reform Union
  8. Central Sunday Closing Association
  9. Hemel Hempstead Ministers of Religion (re: Sunday opening of theatres and music halls)
  10. The Rector of Holdenby, Northampton
  11. Sir A Conan Doyle (re: prosecution of mediums)
  12. International Order of Good Templars
  13. Monmouthshire Brewers

4th meeting, 13/05/1929:

  1. National Farmers' Union
  2. British Legion
  3. National Union of Women Teachers
  4. Birmingham and District Tenants' Association (re: rent restrictions)
  5. Liverpool Co-Operative Society Ltd - Women's Guild (re: rent restrictions)
  6. National Federation of Professional Workers
  7. Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association, Leicester Branch
  8. Mr A Coates (re: importation of dyestuffs)
  9. Merthyr Borough Club's Defence League
  10. Mr BH Oates (re: life insurance)
  11. Association of Officers of Taxes
  12. Lady Rhondda (re: League of Nations Equal Rights Convention)
  13. Mr EW Mantle (re: Voluntary National Health Insurance)
  14. Allotment Holders' Association, Great Gonerby Branch
  15. Town Clerk of Lowestoft (re: coastal erosion)

5th meeting, 16/05/1929:

  1. The National Conference on Widows' Orphans' and Old Age Pensions
  2. National Union of Agricultural Workers, Wiltshire Branch
  3. Co-Operative Party, Birmingham Council
  4. National Association of Navy and Army Pensioners
  5. National Association of Retired Police Officers
  6. National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen, and Clerks
  7. Miss LM Packer (re: Equal Pay)
  8. Miss Jannings (re: cruelty to animals)
  9. Committe on Wage Earning Children
  10. Constituent of Admiral Beamish (re: taxation of land values)
  11. National Council of Women
  12. Musicians' Union
  13. Licensed Victuallers Trade Protection Society
  14. Club Cricket Conference
  15. Union of Post Office Workers, Dumfries Branch
  16. Exeter Peace Conference
  17. Insurance Parliamentary Association Ltd
  18. Association of Headmistresses
  19. Married Women Teachers

6th meeting, 22/05/1929:

  1. National Federation of Merchant Taylors, Exeter Branch
  2. Actors' Association and Stage Guild
  3. Taxation of Widows and Orphans Funds
  4. Constituent of Col. Burton (re: Unemployment Insurance Scheme)
  5. National Association of Wholesale Stationers
  6. National Federation of Retail Newsagents, Booksellers and Stationers
  7. Co-operative Societies
  8. National Federation of Property Owners and Factors in Scotland
  9. Society for Lunacy Reform
  10. "Off" Licences Association
  11. Rent restrictions

This box also comprises:

  1. CRD 1/7/2 - Cabinet Emergency Business Committee: Conservative Central Office memoranda submitted to the Committee containing draft responses to General Election questionnaires received [Memoranda nos. 1-22], 1929
  2. CRD 1/7/3 - Cabinet Emergency Business Committee: Conservative Central Office memoranda submitted to the Committee containing draft responses to General Election questionnaires received [Memoranda nos. 23-44], 1929
  3. CRD 1/7/4 - Cabinet Emergency Business Committee: Conservative Central Office memoranda submitted to the Committee containing draft responses to General Election questionnaires received [Memoranda nos. 45-76]

Dates

  • Creation: 1929-1931

Extent

1 box (4 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

CRD 1/7/1-4

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

Contact:
Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom