Memoranda on Labour Matters, 1933-1944

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Comprises:

(fols. 1-7) 'Welfare of the Mercantile Marine and the working of the Brussels Agreement'; Sixth Imperial Social Hygiene Congress, 3 Jul 1933
(fols. 8-19) 'Labour questions at Geneva'; two copies; not published, 7 Dec 1933
(fols. 20-52) 'The Migrant Labourer and the Map'; two copies, with manuscript notes headed 'Problems of cheap labour' (see MSS. Afr. s. 1117/2, folder 3, fols. 1-17), n.d.
(fols. 53-61) 'Labour and International relations', n.d.
(fols. 62-67) 'Labour Problems', n.d.
(fols. 68-88) 'Labour and the Economic Development of Tropical Africa' (see MSS. Afr. s. 1117/2, folder 2, fols. 74-78), n.d.
(fols. 89-97) 'Memorandum on Government Labour, by the Labour Commissioner', n.d.
(fols. 98-123) memoranda on 'Industrial Relations' prepared for a Command Paper on the Colonial Empire), 'The duties of the Labour Adviser', and 'Colonial Trade Unionism and the Trade Union Council'. These papers are clipped together, with correspondence between Orde Browne and the Colonial Office (Geoffrey Hibbert and W.J.D. Sabine), and a letter from M.L. Tovey asking Orde Browne to give a talk to Cadets at Cambridge, 6-17 May 1940
(fols. 124-142) 'Social Security in the Colonial Territories,' a cyclostyled draft memorandum sent to Orde Browne by T.K. Lloyd, Colonial Office, 19 Aug 1945
(fols. 143-205) drafts of various sections of a report or memorandum on labour in East Africa, n.d. [after 1944].

Dates

205 Leaves

MSS. Afr. s. 1117/2, folder 4

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