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Colonial Development: Colonial Labour Advisory Committee, 1947-1950

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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/50
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Contains memoranda circulated to members, with covering letters from the Secretary:

  1. (item 1) Workmen's Compensation Legislation in the Colonies (pp. 6), 28 Feb 1947
  2. (items 2-3) Statutory Minimum Wage Regulation in Great Britain: two versions of memorandum (pp. 13 and 15), 3 Jun, Jul 1947
  3. (item 4) status of Trade Union Advisers (pp. 5), 3 Nov 1947
  4. (item 5) 'Guide Book for Trade Union Leaders': memorandum by the Government of Nigeria (pp. 5), 3 Nov 1947
  5. (item 6) circular despatch from D.R. Rees-Williams, for the Secretary of State, to Officers Administering the Government, on Cost of Living Indices (see items 11-12), 22 Feb 1948
  6. (item 7) Anglo-French-Belgian Labour Conference at Jos, Nigeria, 22 Feb-1 Mar 1948: Note on the Conference by C.A. Grossmith, Colonial Office, and copy of the 'Agreed Conclusions' (pp. 23), [1948]
  7. (item 8) list of Members of the Colonial Labour Advisory Committee (CLAC), including Rita Hinden's name, Apr 1948
  8. (items 9-10) Trade Union Pamphlets, No. 2: 'You and Your Union' (pp. 2, two copies), 3 Apr 1948
  9. (items 11-12) Cost of Living Indices in the Colonies: selection of replies to Circular Despatch and note by the Colonial Office Statistics Department (pp. 11 and 2), 20 Apr 1948-21 Jun 1949
  10. (items 13-16) Strikes and Lockouts in Essential Services in Colonial Territories, and a Memorandum of the Caribbean Labour Congress on the Trade Unions (Amendment) Bill - Leeward Islands (pp. 6), Apr-Aug 1949
  11. (item 17) Trades Union Congress (TUC) Scholarships for colonial students (p. 1), 1 Jul 1948
  12. (item 18) list of Members of the Colonial Labour Advisory Committee (CLAC), 27 Aug 1948
  13. (item 19) Trade Union Pamphlets, No. 3: 'You and Your Union' (pp. 3), Aug 1948
  14. (items 20-21) memorandum, 'Controls on External Capital invested in the Colonies' (pp. 22), and a note about the sub-committee on the subject, 13 Oct 1948, 7 Mar 1949
  15. (items 22-22A) Awbery-Dalley Report on Labour and Trades Union Organisation in the Federation of Malaya and Singapore: Comments of the two governments and summary of Malayan (Malaysian) press reaction (pp. 26), 31 Dec 1948, Sep 1949
  16. (items 23-25) Statutory Minimum Wage-fixing Machinery, including related paper dated 1947 (pp. 17), 29 Jan 1949
  17. (item 26) Trade Union Training Course, Barbados: Report by C.W. Burrows, Dean of the Course (pp. 14), 15 Feb, 28 Apr 1949
  18. (item 27) report on Housing for Government African Employees in Kenya (pp. 7), 9 Apr 1949-16 Jan 1950
  19. (item 28) extracts on labour conditions from the Report of the UN Visiting Mission to Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania) (pp. 21), 1948, 28 Apr 1949
  20. (item 29) Technical Education in East Africa - Weston-Ellis Report (pp. 9), 23 May 1949
  21. (item 30) Strikes and Lockouts in Essential Services: Circular Despatch from Creech Jones to Officers Administering the Government (pp. 5), 9 Jun-21 Nov 1949
  22. (item 31) notes by Professor W.M. Macmillan on his visit to East and South Africa (pp. 6), 17 Nov 1949
  23. (item 32) Colonial Workers in the United Kingdom (pp. 2), 21 Nov 1949
  24. (item 33) labour situation in Malta (pp. 2), 21 Nov 1949
  25. (item 34) International Aspects of Migration - International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention (pp. 4), 22 Nov 1949
  26. (item 35) housing in Africa (pp. 6), 19 Jan 1950
  27. (item 36) comments of the Africa Sub-Committee on the Report of the Brooke Commission of Enquiry into the labour situation on the Nigerian railways (pp. 9), 30 Mar 1950
  28. (items 37-39) Trade Unionism in the Colonies: memorandum by Rita Hinden, supplementary note by F.W. Dalley, and a copy of the Report of General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on the Mond-Turner Conference of 1928 (pp. 7), Apr 1950
  29. (item 40) labour conditions in Kenya and Uganda: talk given by E. Parry, Assistant Labour Adviser (pp. 2), 26 Apr 1950
  30. (item 41) list of Colonial Trade Unions (pp. 35), 13 May 1950
  31. (item 42) Labour conditions in Southern and Central Africa: account by E.W. Barltrop, Labour Adviser, of his tour, Jan-May 1950 (pp. 7), 6 Jun 1950
  32. (item 43) report of the Inter-African Labour Conference at Élisabethville (Lubumbashi), Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 4-12 Jul (pp. 3), 27 Jul 1950
  33. (item 44) account by C.A. Grossmith of the work of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 1950 (pp. 3), Jul, 14 Aug 1950
  34. (item 45) account by Miss S.A. Ogilvie of her tour in the West Indies (pp. 4), Aug 1950.

Dates

  • Creation: 1947-1950

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/50

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