Box 606767518
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Contains 99 Results:
Report of the Land Settlement Committee: cutting from Guiana Review, with editorial comment, 30 Apr 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fol. 60
'Memorandum of evidence for the Royal Commission to the West Indies presented by J.D. Tyson, Esq., CBE, on behalf of the Government of India, Section II - British Guiana' (Guyana), printed in The Indian Opinion, Vol. 3, No. 11, pp. 277-285, and pp. 301-312 of the next issue, Apr and May 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 67-86
Extents: 20 Leaves
Dates:
Apr and May 1939
International African Opinion, Vol. 1, No. 7, with an editorial open letter to West Indian intellectuals, May-Jun 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 87-94
Letter from Blackman to Creech Jones, with committee minutes, a press release, and a list of parliamentary Questions and Replies, 13 May 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 95-115
With the minutes of a Committee meeting held on 4 Apr 1939, a press release on the work of the Committee, Jan-Mar 1939, and a list of Questions and Replies in the House of Commons, 15 Feb-29 Mar 1939.
Extents: 21 Leaves
Dates:
13 May 1939
Two letters from Clement O. Payne, Hon. Sec., Workers' United Front (WUF) Committee, Trinidad, to Creech Jones about constitutional reform, with enclosures, 15 May-12 Jun 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 116-127
Enclosures consist of:
a Resolution of the WUF Committee about the Attorney-General, J.L. Devaux
cuttings from the Port of Spain Gazette about the May Day Demonstration
extracts from the "Royal Order in Council re Constitution"
the "Memorandum with regard to Reform in the Constitution of the Colony" addressed to Malcolm...
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates:
15 May-12 Jun 1939
Minutes of a Committee meeting, with Mr Jagger in the chair, 23 May 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 128-130
Letter from Blackman to Creech Jones, and two from him, on Committee matters, 24-26 May 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 131-133
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
24-26 May 1939
Letter from Blackman to Creech Jones enclosing one from V.L. Arnett, Secretary of the People's National Party of Jamaica, about the amendment of Emergency Regulations in Jamaica, 6-26 Jun 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 134-140
Also, a letter from Creech Jones to MacDonald asking for information about the new regulations, and the latter's reply.
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates:
6-26 Jun 1939
Cutting from The Times on Union rivalry in Jamaica, 20 Jun 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fol. 141
Letter from Blackman to Creech Jones and two letters from Creech Jones, 23 Jun-7 Jul 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 142-145
About:
the water-rate in Jamaica
the training of Unionists from the West Indies
Sir William Jowitt's interest in the work of the Committee.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
23 Jun-7 Jul 1939
'The Leonora Enquiry Commission Report': editorial in The Indian Opinion, Vol. IV, No. 1, pp. 324-329, Jun 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 146-149
Agenda of a Committee meeting, annotated by Creech Jones, 28 Jun 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fol. 150
Two letters from Creech Jones to Blackman, (1) criticising certain draft Trade Union rules [perhaps for the West Indies], and (2) about West Indian education, 17-28 Jul 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 151-152
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
17-28 Jul 1939
Committee notice and minutes of the meeting of 28 Jun 1939 (manuscript drafts and cyclostyled copies), 20 Jul 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 153-162
Letter from Dudley Collard to Creech Jones commenting on the Immigration Ordinance, and the latter's reply, 27 and 28 Jul 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 163-164
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
27 and 28 Jul 1939
Three pages of Hansard with oral and written answers to Questions asked in the Houses of Commons, some concerning the West Indies, 2 Aug 1939
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 165-167
Letter from S.M. DeLeon, tobacco exporter in Jamaica, about a public meeting organised by him, 12 Aug 1940
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 7, fols. 168-170
With a copy of two resolutions passed at the meeting, expressing:
resentment of the Governor's treatment of the Elected Members of the Legislative Council
confidence in the latter.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
12 Aug 1940
Typescript of the memorial, 22 Sep 1941
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 8, item 7
New Statesman & Nation: article on 'War and Capitalism' by H.N. Brailsford, and subsequent letters from Leonard Woolf, Brailsford, and Harold Laski, 9 and 16 Feb, 2 Mar 1935
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 1, fols. 1-3
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
9 and 16 Feb, 2 Mar 1935
Manchester Guardian: letter from Professor Alfred Zimmern on the causes of the Great War, 29 Mar, 3 Apr 1935
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/2, folder 1, fols. 4-6
Also, a reply from Canon Peter Green, with an undated cutting from a journal, possibly South African.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
29 Mar, 3 Apr 1935