Correspondence between Rita Hinden and members of the Cosmopolitan Workers' Union, Georgetown, including Lee, about an appeal from Mrs Violet Anita King against the termination of her employment at the Government Public Hospital, Georgetown; with related letters from Ivor Thomas to Frank Beswick, copies of the petition, of related letters from local officials to Lee, and proceedings in the Legislative Council.

Topics include: the detention of Drs Alessandro and Cesare Romiti (with a copy of a related letter from Hinden to the Under-Secretary of State) 25th Anniversary Celebrations of the British Guiana Labour Union (1943) Critchlow's visit to the World Trade Union Conference in London (Jun 1944) his difficulties with Trinidad immigration officials and a...

Correspondence with Hubbard (see also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/138, folder 2A, fols. 138-141). Topics include: questions about appointments to the Colony's Civil Service, and about the development of water power Hubbard's visit to the Paris World Trade Union Conference (Sep 1945), with related newspaper material his interviews with Creech Jones, officials of the Colonial...

Contains: (fols. 46-53) cables from the Indian Association (signed by Jacob, Lee, and Singhi) about the Franchise Commission's Report and adult suffrage, with replies from Rita Hinden and a related letter from George Hall to Hinden, 7 Jul 1944-24 Sep 1945 (fols. 54-71) letter from Jacob to David Adams, MP, enclosing a copy of a petition from himself and Lee to the Secretary of State...

Correspondence with S.F. Collymore, General Secretary of the British Guiana Co-operative and Credit Union League Ltd., and a related correspondence with A. Greenwood, MP, annotated by Marjorie Nicholson and others. Topics include: quota difficulties (with copies of a petition to the Governor and related correspondence with the Colonial Secretary) the appointment of a Co-operative...

Contains: (fol. 26) letter to the Reviews Editor, Daily Chronicle, about a review of Rita Hinden's pamphlet, 'Commonsense and Colonial Development', 23 May 1949 (fols. 27-29) correspondence with J. Davey, Georgetown, about Labour disturbances on sugar estates, trade unionism, and possible communist infiltration, 27 Jul 1948 (fols. 30-31)...

Letters from Greenidge on tour with the Settlement Commission, to Rita Hinden about British Guiana (Guyana)'s affairs, with a related note by Rita Hinden. Topics include: mining concessions, in particular bauxite the need for surveys, and for drainage and irrigation and the development of communications sugar and rice production forestry ...

Contains: (fols. 44) letter from Rita Hinden to C.C. Gouveia replying to a query about a legal matter, 8 Jun 1949. (fol. 45) letter from Rita Hinden, on tour with the Waddington Commission (see also: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/140, folder l), 23 Dec 1950. Those mentioned include Lee, Edun, the Jagans, the Governor, the Colonial Secretary and the other members of the Commission. Covers a variety of topics, including: ...

Contains: (fols. 74-83) cables and related letters from Mohammad B. Khan on behalf of the British Guiana East Indian Association about labour unrest on sugar estates, the enquiry into the shooting at Plantation Enmore, and measures taken by Bookers against the strikers; with replies from the Bureau giving the text of Answers to Questions asked by Hynd and Henderson Stewart (6 May and 22 Sep 1948). Other...

Contains: (fols. 1-22) correspondence between Jacob, the Colonial Secretary and the Director of Education, Georgetown, about the government's educational policy, 11 Apr 1940-21 Mar 1941 (fols. 23-35) letter from Lee to Creech Jones about proposed legislation on picketing and trespass, with related enclosures, and an ensuing correspondence between Creech Jones and Hall, 13 Apr-27 Jun...

Contains: (item 1) Ordinance No. 23 - Customs Duties Ordinance (30 pp.), 22 Nov 1935 (item 2) Ordinance No. 7 - Colonisation Fund Ordinance (6 pp.), 23 Apr 1937 (item 3) Sessional Paper No. 1: Report by Case on River Communication to the Interior (14 pp.), 1940 (item 4) Sessional Paper No. 153: Budget Statement by the Colonial Secretary (6 pp.), 26 Nov...

Contains: (fols. 1-5 and item 1) Workers' Study Circle: Committee Members' Manual, compiled by Hubbard (see also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/138, 1A, fols. 166-167); Report on the Circle's Work; and a Memorandum on Adult Education in British Guiana by B.B. Blackman, 5 Sep 1944-16 Aug 1945 (fol. 6) letter from the Duke of Devonshire, U-S/S Col., to Sorensen following his Question on the...

Contains: (fols. 1-99) detailed correspondence between Lee, Creech Jones and Rita Hinden, Oct 1940-Apr 1943. Those mentioned include the Governor, Sir Wilfred Jackson, G.D. Owen (Colonial Secretary), Sir John Waddington (Governor of Barbados), G.O. Case (Director of Public Works), M.B. Laing (Commissioner of Labour), A.A. Thorne (Labour Union), F.J. Seaford (Sugar Producers' Association), A.E. Luckhoo, E.G. Woolford, Jacob, Critchlow, and other local personalities. Topics...

Contains correspondence filed alphabetically.

Contains correspondence filed alphabetically.

Contains: folder 1A: Correspondence and related papers, 1940-1944 folder 1B: Official printed papers, 1935-1944 folder 1C: Correspondence and papers, 1945-1951 folder 2A: Correspondence, 1940-1943 folder 2B: Correspondence, 1942-1948 folder 2C: Correspondence, 1947-1950. See also...