Memoranda and other papers: 'Labour and trade Unions', 1947-1959

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(fol. 1) Ashanti Pioneer, p. 1, concerned chiefly with labour unrest in the mines, 11 Sep 1947
(fol. 2) 'Increase in Trade Union membership': Colonial Office information sheet, 24 Mar 1949
(fols. 3-4) Gold Coast Bulletin No. 42, Supplement No. 8: Meteorological Employees' Strike, 19 Oct 1949
(items 1-3) three pamphlets issued by the University College of the Gold Coast, Department of Extra-Mural Studies: (1) Trade Union Development in the Gold Coast (Ghana); (2) and (3) courses by R.B. Davison on 'Wages and working conditions' and 'Industrial Relations', 1951
(fols. 5-8) Accra PEA Trade Union Group: report by the Secretary, Joe Fio Meyer, on a weekend school and two discussion groups, 5 Jun 1951
(fols. 9-13) typed extracts from the Ashanti Pioneer ('Moscow?') and Accra Evening News ('Loyalty to Moscow or loyalty to Ghana?'), 31 Jul 1952, 5 Nov 1953
(fol. 14) 'Labor Split': part of a Newsletter, Spotlight on Africa, 2 Sep 1953
(item 14) 'Migrant Labour in the Gold Coast': Report by R.B. Davison (pp. 41), Dec 1954
(fol. 15) table showing wage rates paid to certain classes of mine labour in the Gold Coast (Ghana), n.d.
(fol. 16) 'Ghana Industrial Relations Act': Trade Union News from Overseas No. 48, issued by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), about a letter from the General Secretary, Vincent Tewson, to Nkrumah, 4 Mar 1959.

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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/81, folder 6

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