Box 606767582
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Contains 81 Results:
Letter from Benson to Rita Hinden and Hutchinson about old age pensions, 9 Sep 1943
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 2, fol. 185
'Document re Labour Supervision and Orde Browne Reports': manuscript comments, unsigned, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 2, fols. 319-320
'Labour in the Colonies': typescript by Rita Hinden, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 2, fols. 321-326
Correspondence between the FCB and the Colonial Office about the two Reports, 16 Oct-11 Dec 1943
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 2, fols. 327-358
The reports in question are the White Paper on Labour Supervision in the Colonial Empire 1937-1943 (Colonial No. 185) and Orde Browne's Report on Labour Conditions in Ceylon, Mauritius, and Malaya (Cmd. 6423). Contains:
(fols. 327-336) letter from the FCB about the Orde Browne Report (two drafts), and comments by Benson, 16 Oct-11 Dec 1943
(fols. 337-351) letter from the FCB...
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
16 Oct-11 Dec 1943
Letter from Hibbert to Rita Hinden covering a page from Hansard with a question by Riley about the possibility of the Labour Adviser (Orde Browne) visiting East Africa, 4 Dec 1943
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 2, fols. 359-360
'Orde Browne's West African Report': typescript note summarising the recommendations and proposing questions that might be asked, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 2, fols. 361-369
Circular despatch from W. Ormsby-Gore, S/S Col., [to Colonial Governors], 24 Aug 1937
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 1-3
Circular despatch from W. Ormsby-Gore, S/S Col., [to Colonial Governors] about arrangements for the supervision of conditions governing the employment of labour, and the establishment of Labour Departments.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
24 Aug 1937
Labour Party Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions Memorandum No. 189: 'Labour Problems at the Colonial Office', by A. Creech Jones, Nov 1937
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 4-5
Press release about the publication of the Colonial Office document 'Supervision of conditions under which labour is employed in the Colonial Empire', 26 Oct-20 Nov 1941
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 6-17
Also includes three typescripts (two copies of the third) on colonial labour, referring to this document (see MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 2, fols. 121-146). A note on Colonial Development and Welfare is included (fols. 13-14).
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
26 Oct-20 Nov 1941
Two copies of a letter from the Colonial Office to Creech Jones in reply to his Question regarding colonial emergency legislation prohibiting strikes and lockouts, 5 Nov 1941
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 18-19
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
5 Nov 1941
'Native Labour Problems in the African Colonies': Special Economic essay by Alan T. Peacock, St Andrews University, with a covering letter from him to Rita Hinden and her reply, 15 Jan, 13 Apr 1942
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 20-35
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
15 Jan, 13 Apr 1942
'Recent changes in colonial labour': FCB memorandum (two copies), Aug 1942
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 36-37
Correspondence between the FCB and the Colonial Office (Viscount Cranborne, U-S/S Col.) on 'Labour in the Colonies', 4 Sep-21 Nov 1942
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 38-66
Correspondence between the FCB and the Colonial Office (Viscount Cranborne, U-S/S Col.) on 'Labour in the Colonies', concerning the recommendations made in a memorandum presented by the Bureau to George Hall in Dec 1941. There are drafts and duplicate copies of many of the letters.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
4 Sep-21 Nov 1942
Letter from Andrew Dalgleish, Transport House, to Rita Hinden covering his report of the second meeting of the Colonial Labour Advisory Committee on 21 Aug 1942, 5 Sep 1942
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 67-69
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
5 Sep 1942
'Organising Arab Labour - Histadruth methods': Zionist Review, p. 6, 16 Oct 1942
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 70-71
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
16 Oct 1942
Typescript headed 'The following matters seem to call for some attention from the Colonial Labour Advisory Committee', n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 72-73
Contains notes under the following headings:
Industrial Conscription
Essential Works Order
Effective Minimum Wage Regulations
Copperbelt Stabilisation
Training of Labour Officers
The labour situation in the West Indies.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
n.d.
'Note regarding the extent to which the colonial legislatures are in a position to reject labour legislation sponsored by local government': two copies of typescript, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 74-77
'Brief Survey of International Labour Legislation in relation to British Colonial labour laws', and 'Essential Features in the I.L.O. Convention System': cyclostyled memoranda, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 78-81
Proof of review by Rita Hinden of 'Colour Conflict', a tract by Gerald J. Broomfield, and envelope addressed by Mrs B. Wyatt, International African Institute, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 82-83
'Colonial Labour Committee - Points on which action might be taken': corrected typescript, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/62, folder 1, fols. 84-85