Denis Delay Papers
Compiled by Dr Samantha Bird for the TUC Library Collections,
London Metropolitan University, 2013
IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): [not allocated]
Held at: London Metropolitan University: Trades Union Congress Library Collections
Title: Denis Delay Papers
Date(s): 1862 – 2009
Level of description:
Extent: 33 boxes
Name of creator: Denis Delay
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history
Denis Delay 1927-2011 was born in Wapping to a family working in the docks and became a stevedore in the Surrey Docks in
1950, joining the National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers. In 1954, he went to the Fircroft Adult Education College and
from there to Keele University. He returned to dock work, but in 1960 joined the Trades Union Congress where he remained until
his retirement in 1990. He became Secretary of the TUC Steel Committee, but retained his interest in the docks industry and its
history. He played a major role in staging the Docklands Exhibition in Congress House in 1980 and in the establishment of the
Museum of London Docklands. He was writing a history of industrial relations in the docks when he died.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract: This collection consists of personal papers belonging to Denis Delay, drafts of his history of industrial
relations in the docks, and material collected in relation to his research. It includes correspondence; minutes and papers of the
various committees and conferences; publications, leaflets and other ephemera; together with general background information on
trade unionism, the docks, shipping, London during the Second World War, social history and politics. A good deal of the material
consists of photocopies from material at the National Archives
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement: Original file labels have been retained, but files re-arranged to provide a more useful sequence [see
Contents below]
This collection is arranged into 7 sub-fonds as follows: 1. Denis Delay Draft Writing; 2. Subject Sequence; 3. Chronological
Sequence; 4. Press Cuttings; 5. Periodicals and Printed Works; 6. Denis Delay CD; 7. Books.
Within the first sub-fonds the collection is divided by function as follows: A. Denis Delay Draft Writings; B. Denis Delay Draft
Writings and Article; C. Denis Delay Draft Writings; D. Denis Delay Draft Writings and My Writings.
Within the second sub-fonds the collection is divided by subject as follows: A. Media; B. Life and Labour; C. Port of London; D.
Wartime; E. Second World War; F. Second World War; G. Second World War; H. Second World War; I. Leggett; J. Cameron
Enquiry 1947; K. Schemes and Enquiries Into; L. National Dock Labour Board (NDLB) and London Dock Labour Board (LDLB); M.
Denis Delay Personal and Personalities; N. Unions – Catholics, Trotskyists, Moral Rearmament Movement and others Port
Workers News; O. Canadian Dockers; P. Canadian Dockers; Q. J C Lovell PhD Thesis; R. National Joint Council (NJC); S. Use of
Troops, Emergency Organisations, Defence Regulation 1AA; T. The International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
and Pacific Maritime Association (ILWU-PMA); U. Bill Lindley (William Lindley) Correspondence; V. Hull, Merseyside and North
Ports; J W Murphy papers; W. History.
Conditions governing access: Open.
Conditions governing reproduction: Copyright varies. Reproduction only by permission of the TUC Library Collections, London
Metropolitan University
Finding aids: Handlist is available both in printed format and online.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history: Papers deposited in 2011 by creator’s executor, Gillian McCredie
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material is held in the Museum of London Docklands, the Modern Records Centre, National Museums Liverpool, Hull
History Centre
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Entry compiled by Dr Samantha L. Bird
Date of descriptions: 30 July 2013.
CONTENTS
The physical arrangement of the files within the Collection has been altered to bring similar material together. In the Contents List
below, the 1st column indicates the final location of the file, the 2nd column indicates the original numbering of the file, and the 4 th
column shows the extent of the file [i.e. number of items]. The titles of files in the subject sequence are those applied by Denis
Delay.
1 Denis Delay Draft Writings
1/A 31
Denis Delay Draft Writings
1/B 32
Denis Delay Draft Writings and Article
1/C 39
Denis Delay Draft Writings
1/D 43
Denis Delay Draft Writings and My Writings
2 Subject Sequence
2/A 2
Media
2/B 6
Life & Labour
2/C 9
Port of London
2/D 16
Wartime
2/E 44
Second World War
2/F
45
Second World War
2/G 48
Second World War
2/H 49
Second World War
2/I
19
Leggett
2/J
24
Cameron Enquiry 1947
2/K 36
Scheme and Enquiries Into
2/L
23
National Dock Labour Board (NDLB) and London
Dock Labour Board (LDLB)
2/M 21
Denis Delay Personal and Personalities
2/N 35
Unions – Catholics, Trotskyists, Moral Rearmament
Movement and others Port Workers News
2/O 25
Canadian Dockers
2/P 26/41/27
Canadian Dockers
6
10
13
12
5
37
48
14
6
36
17
19
1
2
28
5
54
66
137
76
2/Q
2/R
2/S
39
4
38
2/T
2/U
2/V
2/W
-
J C Lovell PhD Thesis
National Joint Council (NJC)
Use of Troops, Emergency Organisations, Defence
Regulation 1AA
The International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s
Union and Pacific Maritime Association (ILWU-PMA)
Bill Lindley (William Lindley) Correspondence
Hull, Merseyside and North Ports; J W Murphy papers
History
3 Chronological Sequences
3/A 1889-1940
3/B 1
1945
3/C 47
1946
3/D 47
1947
3/E 28
1948
3/F
7
1949
3/G 7
1950
3/H 20
1951
3/I
20
1952
3/J
20
1953
3/K 15/46
1954
3/L
15/10
1955
3/M 37
1956
3/N 1943-1977
4 Press Cuttings
4/A 4/8/12/13/14 Chronological
34/42/30
4/B 4/8/12/13/14
34/42/30
Subject Sequence
1
4
3
7
1
14
6
24
30
33
32
41
21
42
50
27
12
18
6
3
28
2
1
5 Periodicals and Printed Works
5/A 29
Periodicals
5/B Printed Works
28
21
6 Denis Delay CD
6/A Denis Delay CD (Please see Appendix 1)
1
7 Books
7/A -
12
Denis Delay’s books
Appendix 1
CD containing files from Denis Delay’s personal computer. Original file name is in (). These files appear to be drafts of his history of
the docks.
Information
History (AHISTORY)
Wartime (BWARTIME)
Dockers Charter I (CCHARTER)
Dockers Charter II (DCHARTER)
Decasualisation (ESODECAS)
Zinc Oxide Strike (FZOSTOP)
Ineffectives Strike (GINEFECS)
Canadian Seamen’s Strike Provincially (HCANPROV)
Canadian Seamen’s Strike London (ICANLON)
Port Strikes End (JPSEND)
Pre-Overtime Strike (KAFORE)
Overtime Strike (Overtime Strike)
Recognition Strike (LRECOG)
Miscellaneous (MMISC)
Additional (NADDITIONAL)
Down By The Riverside (OTDBTRSDE)
RefNo
Box
Date
Title
Author
Description [inc publisher for published items]
Extent
The Government and the Unions. Notes on strike
figures. Miscellaneous notes (handwritten and
typed).
Arthur Deakin and the Transport and General
Workers’ Union. The Communist Party and in
particular Harry Pollitt. The Complexities of ‘The
Call’. The Blitz. Ernest Bevin and the Strikes of
1943. 1945 Strike.
The Second World War. Labour.
Decasualisation. The Western Front Agreement.
Attacks on London and the Port of London (V1
and V2 rockets and bombing). Blitzkrieg! The
Thames barges as weapons.
Chronology of October 1945-September 1947;
The London Port in Wartime. The Transport and
General Workers’ Union in the Port of London. A
Curious Episode with the Stevedores. Human
Relations with the Docks. The Labour
Government brought to the Brink. London Port
Employers. Trouble from the Banks of the Clyde,
Glasgow. Use of troops. Sir Ben Smith’s concern
with Food Supply. New Leader of the Port of
London Sir John or ‘Pompous John’. The hard
winter of 1947 and its problems.
Canadian Strike Union (CSU). Dock disputes
between London Dockers, Avonmouth, Bristol and
Liverpool Docks against Clement Attlee and the
Labour Government. Three Conflicts between
June 1948 and July 1949. Canada. North
America. The Cold War. Russia. Communism.
The use of Troops. The bringing in of Civilian
1 Folder
DD
list
1/A/1
31
?
Draft Writing – Mixture 1
Denis Delay
1/A/2
31
?
Draft Writing – Mixture 2
Denis Delay
1/A/3
31
19391945
Draft Writing - Wartime
Denis Delay
1/A/4
31
19461947
Draft Writing – 1946-1947
Denis Delay
1/A/5
31
19481949?
Draft Writing – CANBOV
Denis Delay
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1/A/6
31
1950s?
Draft Writing - CONSGOVT
Denis Delay
1/B/1
32
1948
Draft Writing –
ZOSTOP/INEFFECS
Denis Delay
1/B/2
32
18001939
Draft Writing – Port of
London Notes
Denis Delay
1/B/3
32
1940s?
Draft Writing – ‘First Go’ DC
Edited, No Reserve Copy
Denis Delay
Volunteers
The Significant figures of the Combined Sectional
Committee and Executive Council, Communist
Ted Dickens and fiery Trotskyist, Harry Constable
both expelled from the Transport and General
Workers’ Union. National Union of Railwaymen
and dispute following Flying Scotsman smashing
through the gates of a level crossing. Core of
Communist Party members in the unofficial Port
Workers’ ‘Liaison Committee’. Stevedores and
Lightermen’s Executives Committees. Trouble in
the Northern Ports. Decasualisation. Political
Developments since October 1951 – the Labour
Party. Harry Pollitt. Birkenhead docks and a
breakaway ‘unofficial’ committee led by Bill
Johnson. Hull, Manchester, and Liverpool docks
send ultimatum to employers and if not met would
all strike in seven days time; parallel to the
General Election countdown. Police surveillance
of public meetings and individuals.
The Zinc-Oxide Strike 1948. The Governments
strike-breaking machine: the Ministerial
Emergency Committee (MEC) and the Official
Emergencies Committee (OEC). The ineffectives
– those who are old and sick to be removed.
Hand written notes on Wapping. Overview of the
history of the Port of London runs from 1800 up to
the outbreak of the Second World War. Key dates
noted between 1800 and 1921.
First few days of a new government under Attlee.
Looks at how industry should be organised in the
post-war years. The damage and destruction
caused by war. The transition to peacetime.
Discontent and disputes at Merseyside Docks
1945, which spread to Grimsby and Immingham,
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1/B/4
32
18801912
Draft Writing 1
Denis Delay
1/B/5
32
19401950
Draft Writing 2
Denis Delay
1/B/6
32
Draft Writing 3
Denis Delay
1/B/7
32
19201926
19451955
Draft Writing 4
Denis Delay
1/B/8
32
19401950
Draft Writing 5
Denis Delay
then to London. The government’s and Ports
responses, through to the end of the strikes.
About the Dock Companies: London and St
Katherine’s Dock Company, the East India
Company, the West India Company, Millwall Dock
Company, Surrey Dock Company, and Regent’s
Canal Dock Company. Writing on the Post-1889
Dock Strike. The beginnings of the Port of
London. The Boer War. Ben Tillett and the
Dockers Unions. Draft notes on 1889 strike and
the years leading up to the strike. Notebook of
Denis Delay’s notes and many handwritten notes.
Typed general notes on 1912.
The Docks and the Second World War. The
Canadian Seamen’s Union. Variety of handwritten
notes. 1945 Strike which started in Birkenhead
and spread to Liverpool/Merseyside. The Great
Northern Raid 1951-1956.
The General Strike.
The London Docks, trade unions and government.
Clement Attlee. The ‘go-slow’ campaign. Dock
Strike lead to the Strike for the Dockers’ Charter.
Involved were London, Liverpool, and Glasgow.
The Cold War. The Ineffectives Strike 1948. The
Canadian Seamen’s (CSU) Strike. Denis Delay’s
views on the final years of the docks and his own
experiences at Wapping.
The Second World War. The Communist Party.
The ‘go-slow’ campaign. The Attlee Government.
Post-Canadian Strike Union and Pre-Conservative
Government. Notes on the development of the
East End and the attitude of the government. The
nature of Dock Work. Ernest Bevin. Leader of the
Stevedore’s Union: Richard ‘Dick’ Barrett. Sir
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1/B/9
32
19501951
Draft Writing 6
Denis Delay
1/B/10
1/C/1
1/C/2
32
39
39
Port Transport Industry
Draft Writing - 1889
Draft Writing – 1911-1912
Denis Delay
Denis Delay
Denis Delay
1/C/3
39
Draft Writing – 1918-1920
Denis Delay
1/C/4
39
Apr 1968
1889
19111912
19181920
19331945
Draft Writing – 1933-1945
Denis Delay
1/C/5
39
1954
Draft Writing - 1954
Denis Delay
1/C/6
39
19541955
Draft Writing 7
Denis Delay
John Anderson also known as ‘Pompous John’.
Ted Dickens, Transport and General Workers’
Union. Lord Ammon of Camberwell, Minister of
Labour. Lead-up to and outbreak of the zinc oxide
strike 1948.
Arthur Deakin addresses the Trades Union
Congress 6 September 1951 in Bridlington. The
devaluation of the pound. The banning of
Communist Party Members to be delegates on the
Trades Councils, 1950. The decision to withdraw
from the port-wide continuity rule. Consequently,
dockers strike over eight men being expelled.
Surrey Docks, Regent’s Canal Dock, London and
St Katherine’s Dock. Troops sent in. 1st May
strike ended.
Draft Article.
The 1889 Dock Strike
The Coronation 22 June 1911. Strike in Hull.
Thursday, 23rd May all- London Transport Strike.
End of First World War 11 November 1918 up to
the Great London Dock Strike 1923
Pre-Second World War concerns in the ports. The
Second World War. The defence of the rivers.
Mine defensive and counter attack. Blitzkrieg.
The Port of London 1941. The Thames barge as
a weapon. Port of London base for the
construction of Neptune. Flying bombs.
The Great Strike, 4th October. The use of
‘Blacklegs’ on the SS Chusan. March through the
East End of London. Disruption at the Albert Hall.
Battle for Liverpool. The blockade of Britain
begins.
The General Election 1955. The Dock Strikes of
1954-1955. Merseyside and Liverpool strike.
Merseyside dockers strike to prevent ‘blue union’
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1/C/7
39
Draft Writing 8
Denis Delay
39
19541955
1954
1/C/8
Draft Writing 9
Denis Delay
1/C/9
1/C/10
39
39
1954
1948
Draft Writing 10
Draft Writing – 1948
Denis Delay
Denis Delay
1/C/11
39
1945
Draft Writing – 1945
Denis Delay
1/C/12
39
19491951
Draft Writing – 1949-1951
Denis Delay
1/C/13
39
19511954
Draft Writing – 11
Denis Delay
1/D/1
43
1950s1980s?
Draft Writing – Down By the
Riverside and personal
correspondence
Denis Delay
men from working on the docks. Port of London
on Strike. Stevedores’ Union calls a strike in
London on 23 May 1955, three days before polling
day, which is beginning of conflict with Transport
and General Workers’ Union. Trades Union
Congress support Transport and General Workers’
Union.
Duplicate of 1/C/6 Draft Writing 7
16 August 1954 4,000 Hull dockers strike against
the dangerous method of unloading grain, referred
to as ‘hand scuttling’.
Duplicate of 1/C/9 Draft Writing 9
Dock Strikes at Regent’s Canal Dock, London
known as ‘Zinc Oxide’ Strike and the ‘ineffectives’
Strike about those too old or infirm to work.
The immediate post-Second World War period at
the docks. The great ‘go-slow’ movement. The
General Election of 1945 and the Labour Party
come to power under Clement Attlee. The ‘Wages
Strike’ of 1945 started at Birkenhead and spread
to Liverpool, Merseyside and London. Outcome of
strike the ‘Dockers Charter’.
The impact of the government decision to
drastically reduce the value of the Pound Sterling
and an explosion at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard,
1950, which alters the military balance of power
between the West and the USSR. The Cold War.
Dock Strikes over wages.
The divisions between two unions: The Transport
and General Workers’ Union and the Stevedores
Union.
First Draft of Volume: Down By the Riverside: A
Tale of the London Docks. Denis Delay’s personal
experience of the London Docks. Personal
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
May
1944June
1955
19441945
Draft Writing – 12
Denis Delay
Draft Writing – 13
Denis Delay
43
1945
Draft Writing – ‘The
Dockers Charter’
Denis Delay
1/D/5
43
1949
Draft Writing – 14
Denis Delay
1/D/6
43
1949
Draft Writing – 15
Denis Delay
1/D/7
43
1949
Draft Writing – 1949
Denis Delay
1/D/8
43
1949
Draft Writing – 16
Denis Delay
1/D/9
43
19391945
Draft Writing – Second
World War up to 1945
Denis Delay
1/D/10
43
19331944
Draft Writing – 17
Denis Delay
1/D/11
43
?
Docks
Denis Delay?
1/D/2
43
1/D/3
43
1/D/4
correspondence from 1980’s and 1990’s.
Introduction to Volume 4
Decasualisation. The Western Front Agreement.
The Communist Party target the Port of London.
The Royal Docks Strike Committee. The Great
Strike. Merseyside and London Docks. The
Merseyside Strike Committee. The Dockers
Charter. The Tin Huts Strike.
The Dockers Charter. The great ‘go-slow’. The
General Election of 1945. The Labour Party in
power under Clement Attlee. Birkenhead Strikes
then its ‘All Out’ at Liverpool Docks.
The background in North America. The Canadian
Seamen’s Union Strike (CSU) 1949. London,
Liverpool and Avonmouth Docks.
Duplicate of 1/D/5 Draft Writing – 14 ,1949 and the
Canadian Seamen’s Union Strike.
An account of the Port of London and the
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Duplicate of 1/D/7 Port of London and the
Canadian Seamen’s Strike 1949
The Second World War and the Dockers. The
birth of the Dockers Charter. Harry Pollitt in 1941.
Western Front Agreement.
Pre-Second World War concerns about the ports.
The first weeks of World War Two, September
1939. Blitzkrieg! Preparations for invasion. The
Thames barge as a weapon of war. Operation
Overlord/the Battle for Normandy
Photocopy. History of the National Association of
Stevedores and Dockers. ‘Blue’ Union. 1954
Dock Strike. Unofficial Strike Movement.
1 Item
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Item
1/D/12
43
?
My Writings
Denis Delay
2/A/1
2
6 May
1949
Memorandum – Industrial
Relations Department
Industrial Relations
Department, Bristol
2/A/2
2
Nov
1948
Moral Values in
Broadcasting
2/A/3
2
May
1948
The Responsibilities of
Broadcasting
2/A/4
2
?
2/A/5
2
1949
2/B/1
6
?
Trade Unionists, The Mass
Media and Unofficial Strikes
Proposed broadcast:
Avonmouth Dock Strike,
1949
The Foreman Shipworker
Sir William Haley,
Director General of
the British
Broadcasting
Corporation
Sir William Haley,
Director General of
the British
Broadcasting
Corporation
Jay G Bulmer and
Alison J Ewbank
British Broadcasting
Corporation
2/B/2
6
2/B/3
6
19481960
19541956
2/B/4
6
2/B/5
6
2/B/6
6
Nov
1951
Jun 1956
Feb
1958
London Port Operations
Panel
Average Gross Weekly
Earnings of Daily Workers
(Dockers) in London
Tilbury – Details of Earnings
Increased Efficiency
Proposals
Ship operating statistics
Photocopy. An explanation by Denis Delay of
what is in the collection and what he was setting
out to achieve and where he had got to.
Port Transport Industry. Port of Bristol Authority,
Avonmouth Docks: Transport and General
Workers’ Union. Photocopy from TNA.
Booklet. Address to the British Council of
Churches on 2 November 1948
1 Item
Booklet. The Lewis Fry Memorial Lectures
delivered in The University of Bristol 11,12 MA
1948
1 Item
Article. Reprinted from the ‘British Journal of
Industrial Relations’ Vol VIII, No. 1
Correspondence. Photocopies from British
Broadcasting Corporation.
1 Item
London Port Types –
VII:
Port of London
Authority
?
Article.
1 Item
Minutes of Meetings.
1 Folder
Photocopy.
1 Item
National Dock Labour
Board
Ocean Shipowners’
Group Joint
Committee
Port of London
Authority
Photocopy.
1 Item
Photocopy.
1 Item
Letter to William Lindley, Watermen, Lightermen,
Tugmen and Bargemen’s Union
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Folder
2/B/7
6
6
Feb
1950
Jan 1967
Minutes of the London
Agreement Joint Committee
Dock Operation – Men,
Machines and Methods
London Agreement
Joint Committee
Stanley Turner, Chief
Docks Manager, Port
of London Authority
2/B/8
2/B/9
6
?
Royal Group of Docks
2/B/10
6
Jun 1973
2/B/11
6
Nov
1957
2/B/12
6
Jul 1937
Scheme for the Regulated
Call-On of Labour in the
Royal Group of Docks in
Times of Acute Labour
Shortage
Supervisory Roles and the
Man in the Middle: Dock
Foremen
Dates of birth of Lightermen
on National Dock Labour
Board Register
Accidents at Docks, 1936
2/B/13
6
1937
2/B/14
6
19511966
2/B/15
6
2/B/16
6
19551960
1924
Docks, Wharves, Quays,
Dock Warehouses and
Ships Application of the
Factories Act
Adjustments to National
Minimum Rates of Pay
since 1951
Average Earnings in the
Docks
Report of the Conference
on The Prevention of
Accidents at Docks
Minutes of Meeting.
1 Item
Photocopy of a paper presented at Thurrock
Technical College, Essex on 17 January 1967 as
one of a series of lectures on the theme ‘The
Problems of Port Operations’
Copy of Leaflet.
1 Item
Stephen Hill
Photocopy. Extract from ‘British Journal of
Industrial Sociology’
1 Item
National Dock Labour
Board
Handwritten version and typed up copies
1 Folder
1 Item
Political and Research Two Photocopies’ and one copy of same item.
Department Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Government
Photocopy TNA BK 2/149
1 Folder
?
1 Item
?
1 Item
Members of the
Conference,
comprising
representatives of the
Admiralty, the
Booklet. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery
Office.
1 Item
1 Item
2/B/17
6
1970?
Productivity Agreement
(Devlin Stage II)
2/B/18
6
1970?
Productivity Agreement
(Devlin Stage II)
Association of Public
Wharfingers of the
Port of London, the
Dock and Harbour
Authorities’
Association, the
Employers’
Association of the
Port of Liverpool, the
Railway Companies’
Association, the
Shipping Federation
and the Transport and
General Workers’
Union
The Enclosed Docks
Employers (London
Ocean Trade
Employers
Association and the
Port of London
Authority) with The
Transport and
General Workers’
Union and The
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
The London Ocean
Trades Employers
Association (Clerical
Section) with The
Transport and
General Workers’
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
2/B/19
6
1956
Piece-Work Rates
(Discharging) to be paid by
the Shipowners or their
Contractors
2/B/20
6
1956
Piece-Work Rates
(Loading) to be paid by the
Shipowners or their
Contractors
2/B/21
6
Jun 1967
Agreement to provide for
the introduction of
permanent employment of
labour.
2/B/22
6
1920
National Agreement of 5th
May 1920
2/B/23
6
1924
Rules
Union and The
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Port of London and
Ocean Trades. The
Ocean Shipowners’
Group Joint
Committee.
Port of London and
Ocean Trades. The
Ocean Shipowners’
Group Joint
Committee
The Enclosed Docks
Employers (London
Ocean Trades
Employers
Association and the
Port of London) with
the Transport and
General Workers’
Union and The
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
The National Joint
Council for the Port
Transport Industry
National Council of
Port Labour
Employers and The
Transport and
Booklet
2 Items
Booklet
2 Items
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
2/B/24
6
1958?
Dealporters Piece-Work
Rates as agreed with the
Federation of London Public
Wharfingers Ltd (Groups
Joint Timer Sub-Committee)
which includes the Port of
London Authority
Agreement to provide for
the introduction of
permanent employment of
labour
2/B/25
6
Jun 1967
2/B/26
6
Oct 1955
2/B/27
6
Apr 1934
2/B/28
6
1928
Rules
2/B/29
6
1975
Rules
Coastwise Trades.
Piecework Conditions and
Tariff. Port Working Rules.
Bye-Laws for Dockers.
Docks Regulations
Registration of Port
Transport Workers
General Workers’
Union?
Transport and
General Workers’
Union and the
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
The Enclosed
Dockers Employers
(London Ocean
Trades Employers
Association and Port
of London Authority)
with The Transport
and General Workers’
Union and the
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Port of London
Registration
Committee
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
National
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet. Liverpool, Birkenhead and Bromborough
Docks.
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet. Two copies.
2 Items
2/B/30
6
1982
Badge
2/B/31
6
Nov
1951
2/B/32
6
2/B/33
6
Sept
1955
19541958
Working Arrangements for
Pieceworkers (Including
Rates of Pay and Overtime
Conditions)
An Introduction to Port
Working
Various
2/B/34
6
1975
2/B/35
6
2/B/36
6
2/B/37
6
May
1957May
1962
Nov
1934Aug
1937
1958
2/C/1
2/C/2
9
9
Oct 1928
Apr 1964
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
?
1 Item
1 Item
Brown, A H J
Booklet. National Dock Labour Board
1 Item
Government
All Photocopies from the TNA. BK 2/689 ‘Lloyds
List’ article: Accidents Among Dock Workers;
National Dock Labour Board, Extract from ‘Dock
and Harbour Authority, April 1958 ‘The Geneva
code for Safe Working in the Docks’
XXXIV National Voluntary Severance Scheme
XXXV Terms of Agreement
2 Items
Terms between the National Association of Port
Employers and the Transport and General
Workers’ Union and other Signatory Unions.
Pamphlets.
Transport and General Workers’ Union and other
Signatory Unions. Pamphlets. Two copies of
November 1934 and 17 August 1937
9 Items
Discussing National Wage Agreement.
1 Item
Newspaper. Very Acidic
Newspaper. Very Acidic
1 Folder
1 Folder
Handbook of National
Agreements – Supplement
No. 1
Terms of Agreement
The National Joint
Council for the Port
Transport Industry
The National Joint
Council for the Port
Transport Industry
Terms of Agreement
National Joint Council
for Dock Labour
Correspondence
Clerk to the Council.
The National Joint
Council for the Port
Transport Industry
The Times
The Guardian
Capital Port: A Guardian
Commemorative badge 1872-1982.
1 Item
3 Items
2/C/3
9
2/C/4
9
Mar
1959
1973
2/C/5
9
1950
2/C/6
9
Jun 1970
2/C/7
9
2/C/8
9
2/C/9
9
Aug
1968
Jun/Jul
1950
1971
2/C/10
9
2/C/11
9
2/C/12
9
May
1971
Aug
1963
1956
2/C/13
9
Oct 1966
2/C/14
9
?
2/C/15
9
?
Survey of the Port of
London
The Times Supplement on
the Port of London
Steamships. 2: Merchant
Ships from 1880
Shipping Companies
Financial Information
The Times
Newspaper. Very Acidic
1 Folder
Bathe, B W
A Science Museum illustrated booklet
1 Item
Shipping Companies
Moody’s Sheets for the following Shipping
Companies: Anchor Line, Clan Line Steamers,
Donaldson Line, Elder Dempster Lines Holding,
France Fenwick and Company, General Steam
Navigation, Houlder Line, Orient Steam
Navigation, Royal Mail Lines Limited
Newspaper. Very Acidic
1 Folder
Containers: A Special
Report
Changing Shipping Times
The Times
Barclays Bank Review Brochure
1 Item
Smithfield
Hewison, R J P
1 Item
Notes on The Port of
London
Tilbury Docks
Port of London
Authority
Port of London
Authority
Townsend, C E C
Photocopy from TNA CAB 21/3626. Supply of
Meat to Smithfield Market. London Meat Supplies.
Booklet. Cokin Smythe Limited.
Booklet. Public Relations Department.
1 Item
Booklet. Reprinted from the Port of London
Authority Monthly.
Booklet.
1 Item
Dudley Perkins.
Director-General, Port
of London Authority.
Captain Murray, G R
A
Copy of a paper to be delivered at a meeting of
the Thurrock Technical College, Grays.
1 Item
Copy. No. 10 in the Series: Problems of Port
Operation
1 Item
Ashbee, R A
Photocopy of article.
1 Item
The East India Warehouses
in Cutler Street
Third Report of the Ports
Efficiency Committee to the
Minister of Transport and
Civil Aviation
The Role of Tilbury in the
Development of the Port of
London
The Regulation and Control
of Maritime Traffic in the
Port of London
George Carr Glyn and St
Ports Efficiency
Committee
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Katharine Dock
Smithfield
Warehouse of the World
Revealing its Secrets
London Fire Brigade – River
fire Service
Heart of Dartford
International Port
The Museum in Docklands
2/C/16
2/C/17
9
9
?
Jun 1983
Sogues, Liz
Leaflet
Photocopy of Article
1 Item
1 Item
2/C/18
9
?
?
Paper
1 Item
2/C/19
2/C/20
2/C/21
9
9
9
Jan 1991
?
1980s
Cartwright, Justin
The Port
Museum of London
Docklands
Article from ES Magazine.
Newspaper. Supplement of The Port Newspaper
Two Booklets and one leaflets about the Museum
of Docklands
Various Maps of the Thames
1 Item
1 Item
1 Folder
2/C/22
9
Maps of the Thames
2/C/23
9
18621972
?
1 Folder
Cotton, G
Baxter, H F
Various postcards of the River Thames, mainly
depicting Tower Bridge
Photocopy of Facts and Figures concerning the
Port of London. Booklets: Port of London Annual
Review 2002; The History of the Port of London up
to the advent of the Port of London Authority;
Contributing to Regional Prosperity: The Economic
Impact of the Port of London; Statutory
Responsibilities for The River Thames: Over 90
Years Working for the Tidal Thames. Port of
London Newspaper Vol 2 No. 70. Leaflets: Port of
London. Britain’s trade link with Europe; Bulk
Wine Facilities
Photocopy. Article in Hay’s News.
Photocopy. Article in Hay’s News.
2/C/24
9
2002?
Port of London Authority
Port of London
Authority
2/C/25
2/C/26
9
9
1966
1965
2/C/27
9
Oct 1983
2/C/28
9
1956
2/C/29
9
19481960
The Polish Lines
The London Association of
Public Wharfingers
The Giant Warehouse of
the World may soon be
Revealing its Secrets
Ports Efficiency Committee:
Third Report
Stoppages in the London
Docks
Docklands News
Docklands News Article.
1 Item
Ports Efficiency
Committee
?
Photocopy of Booklet
1 Item
Causes for stoppages, numbers involved and
unions
1 Item
Postcards of the Thames
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Item
2/C/30
9
19541955
Average Gross Weekly
Earnings of Daily Workers
(Dockers) in London
Port of London
OST Clerks – Recruitment
?
Photocopy
1 Item
2/C/31
2/C/32
9
9
2/C/33
9
1950s?
19491960
?
Government
?
Photocopy TNA HMC 3/29
All Recruitment
1 Item
1 Item
Port of London
Port of London
Authority
Trades Union
Congress
Booklet
1 Item
2/C/34
9
1980
Leaflets
1 Folder
2/C/35
9
1987
London Docklands
Publishing
Consortium Ltd
London and India
Docks Company
Journal
1 Item
2/C/36
9
1905
Booklet. Spottiswoode and Company.
1 Item
2/C/37
2/C/38
9
9
2/C/39
2/C/40
9
9
?
Sept
1965
1877
Jun 1984
Darke, Nick
Port of London
Authority
Forrow, Alex
Docklands History
Survey
Programme
Booklet
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy. A Lecture.
Booklet. The Greater London Council Historic
Buildings Division for the Docklands History
Survey Management Committee
Chart showing the workings of the Docks Group
within the Transport and General Workers’ Union
union.
Map of the redevelopment of the dock
1 Item
1 Item
2/C/41
9
?
2/C/42
9
?
The Royal Victoria Dock
2/C/43
9
?
Photographs from a book
(unknown which)
Eight pictures taken from a book presumably all by
Bill Brandt. Titles: Wapping – The Wharves,
Charley Brown’s, Limehouse; ‘As I was a-walking
down Nightingale Lane…’; Below Tower Bridge: St
Paul’s seen from Bermondsey; Horselydown new
Stairs, Bermondsey; Hermitage Stairs, Wapping;
8 Items
London’s Docks and
Docklands Exhibition at
Congress House
The Docklands Experience
Guide for the Use of Visitors
to the Docks and
Warehouses
A Tickle on the River’s Back
The Exporters’ Guide to the
Docks of the Port of London
The Thames and its Docks
Docklands History Survey
The Royal Victoria
Dock Development
Bill Brandt?
1 Item
1 Item
2/C/44
2/C/45
9
9
Jan 1966
Feb
1979
Beside the Silver Thames
Your Port of London:
Planning the Next Five
Years
The Said Noble River
The Thames Estuary
Port of London
Authority
2/C/46
9
May
1937
2/C/47
9
1924
Port of London Authority
9
1950
Smithfield Market
Port of London
Authority
Government
2/C/48
2/C/49
9
1948
Ministry of Transport
2/D/1
16
Jun 1944
Report of the Working Party
on the Turn-Round of
Shipping in the United
Kingdom Ports
Neptune. Review after the
Event
2/D/2
2/D/3
16
16
1940
1944
The Home Commands: II
Preparations for Europe
Invasion
?
Government
2/D/4
16
1943
The Nore
Government
Alan Bell
Government
Shad Thames; Warehouses Along the South Bank
From The Times Review of Industry. Photocopy
Information Paper No. 3.
1 Item
1 Item
Book. Published by the Port of London Authority
to Commemorate the Coronation of their Majesties
Kind George VI and Queen Elizabeth 12 May
1937
Book.
1 Item
All Photocopies from the TNA. LAB 10/989
regarding Smithfield Workers and Strike
Booklet.
3 Items
All Photocopies from TNA. ADM 234/366, ADM
116/5809, WO 199/3142 and HMSO – Normandy
Landings June 1944. Preparations and planning
for the D Day Landings. Ships/Crafts involved.
Photocopy. Chapter 8 from TNA ADM 186/790
All Photocopies from TNA. DEFE 2/425,
MT40/106 outline plan for Operation ‘Overlord’
(the Battle of Normandy), MT 40/108 Embarkation
Cards, MT 50/162 Instructions to UK ports in
connection with the Liberation of Europe. WO
199/3124 and WO 107/143 planning of operation.
MT 40/108 London Docks. ADM 199/1050, ADM
199/1454.
All Photocopies from TNA, ADM 199/1454. The
Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the river
Medway. Used during World War Two to guard
the east coast convoys supplying the ports of
North Eastern England. E-boat incidents.
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Folder
1 Folder
2/D/5
16
1942
Operation Sledgehammer
Government
2/D/6
16
?
Book Extracts
Various
All Photocopies from TNA, CAB 84/92, CAB 66/26
and CAB 65/30, PREM 3/333/2, DEFE 2/264,
DEFE 2/564 and DEFE 2/794, WO 205/890, WO
199/451, ADM 116/4918, ADM 199/610. Invasion
of Europe to form a Second Front. Planning for
invasion of Northern France.
War at Sea Vol 1, Roskill; Action This Day,
Erskine and Smith (ed); B. Ramsay: Year of DDay; Love and Major (eds); Chapter VI: The Battle
of the Ports, (unknown); Chapter V: The Railway
Crisis, 1940-41 (unknown); Chapter I: British
Transport, 1914-39 (unknown); Shipping it
Green/Into the Wind (unknown); Problems of
Social Policy, Titmuss, Chapter II ‘The Expected
Consequences’; Chapter I ‘Planning in the
Nineteen-Thirties’ (unknown); Chapter II ‘The PreWar Assumptions and Preparations (unknown);
Chapter IV ‘German Attack to Fall of France’
(unknown); Chapter I ‘Introduction’ (unknown);
Article ‘Some Particularly Favourable Target’ A P
Herbert; Port at War APH; Unusual and Notable
Vessels (unknown); The Spirit of London’s Rivers
L M Bates; Strikes Leeson; The War in the Air
(unknown); Dunkirk: The Great Escape A J
Barker; The Desert Rats (unknown); May 1941
(unknown); ‘Conclusion’ (unknown); Commando
Strike Kenneth Mackset; Defence of the United
Kingdom Collier; Liverpool and the Mersey Hide;
From Churchill’s Secret Circle to the BBC
Richardson; Ultra goes to War Lewin; A New
History of British Spy Ronald Hope; Conflict over
Convoys Smith; Hitler’s Rockets Longmate; The
War Story of Southend Pier (unknown); Hold the
Narrow Seas Smith; ‘Flashback to 1940’ by
‘Lighterman’ and ‘The Thames on Fire’ Port
1 Folder
1 Folder
2/D/7
16
?
Port of London Authority
Plan of the Docks
The River Thames
The Parish of St Margaret
Port of London
Authority
Port of London
?
2/D/8
2/D/9
16
16
?
?
2/D/10
16
1946?
Thirty-Seventh Annual
Report
Defence of the River
Thames
Port of London
Authority
Government
2/D/11
16
19391943
2/D/12
16
19431945?
Operation Neptune
Government
2/D/13
16
19431944
Operation Overlord
Government
London Authority Magazine Oct 1959; ‘Thamesside Personality’ by ‘Lighterman’ Port London
Authority Magazine June 1955; ‘Centenary of a
Thames-side Personality’ by ‘Lighterman’ Port
London Authority Magazine 1956; Dictionary of
National Biography Frederick James Leathers;
Way of Life (unknown); Clement Attlee: A Political
Biography (unknown); Hitler’s Naval War Bekker;
Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs (unknown)
Original Maps
Original Map with Denis Delay annotation
Photocopy. Extract from book. Chapter 19:
Montagu House
Photocopy. Trade, Finance and the War at the
Port of London.
All Photocopies from the TNA. WO 199/2576, WO
199/2478, WO 166/2056, AIR 15/173, ADM
116/4148. Defence of the River Thames against
aerial attacks. ADM 199/56 on Formation of the
Thames Barrage. ADM 199/1455, CAB 81/1, WO
199/660. Map of the Thames Defences 1940.
Test of Thames and Medway Defences, 1939.
All Photocopies from the TNA. ADM 199/1454.
Preparations for Operation Neptune, the
codename for the Normandy Landings or D-Day.
All Photocopies from the TNA. MT 40/108, MT
40/109, WO 205/3, WO 106/4311, WO 171/438,
WO 106/4173 map of Camps for Tilbury, WO
199/3073, CAB 98/40, ADM 179/478, ADM
199/1560. Plans, preparations, minutes of
meetings, for Operation Overlord codename for
the Battle of Normandy.
2 Items
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
2/D/14
16
2001
Thames Barges at War in
time for D-Day, 6th June
1944
?
Photocopy of article from www.naval-history.net
1 Item
2/E/1
44
1944?
Phoenix before and after
the event
Government
1 Folder
2/E/2
44
19431944?
The Evolution and
Execution of Operation
‘Overlord’
Government
2/E/3
44
Mar
1942
E-Boat Engagement. Night
of 14-15th March
Commanding Officer.
HMS ‘Guillemot’
2/E/4
44
Mar
1941
AVA
2/E/5
44
19391943
Conclusion 3 of the Minutes
of the meeting of the Import
Executive, 28th February
1941
Air Defence
All Photocopies from the TNA. ADM199/1618,
DEFE 2/425, FCO 62/91. Construction
programme and general design of Phoenix;
caissons constructed and shipped to Normandy to
form basis on which harbour walls would be
constructed. Aid in the Normandy Landings.
All Photocopies from the TNA. WO 106/4173, WO
205/1237. Evolution and execution of plans for
operation ‘Overlord’ codename for the Battle of
Normandy. The sending of Expeditionary Forces
to Europe.
Photocopy from TNA. ADM 199/784
memorandum from the Commanding Officer, HMS
‘Guillemot’ to The Flag Officer in Charge, Harwich
Photocopy from TNA. PREM 3/360/3.
1 Folder
2/E/6
44
1939-
Air Defence
Government
All Photocopies from the TNA. AIR 41/47, Air
41/001 the free balloon barrage, AIR 73/96, AIR
16/145 anti-aircraft defence of the Thames
Estuary, AIR 16/657 measures to counter enemy
mine laying from the air. Air 41/73 E-boat
operations, torpedo attacks and mine laying. AIR
15/384, AIR 16/402 planning for operation ‘petard’
the release of barrage balloons to counter enemy
mine laying activity between Shoeburyness and
Clacton-on-sea. AIR 41/47, AIR 41/48ADM
2/10315, ADM 116/4138. Tables of Attack and
Defence of Allied Shipping in Home Waters.
All Photocopies from the TNA. WO 199/29792
Government
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Item
1 Folder
1944
2/F/1
45
1944
Operation ‘Overlord’
Government
2/F/2
45
19401942
Government
2/F/3
45
1945?
Government
Photocopy from the TNA. MT 63/345
1 Item
2/F/4
45
19421945
Vessels which entered the
Board’s Docks at Liverpool
direct from overseas ports.
Letter and Statement
showing how special labour
rates for ‘Overlord’ came to
be fixed
Dock Labour and the Ports
anti-aircraft defences. ADM 199/110 casualties to
ships, barges and tugs from bombing. ADM
199/2112. CAB 66/3, CAB 86/1, CAB 98/37 chart
of flying bomb incidents in London Region. WO
199/2979 London’s anti-aircraft defences. HO
192/654 bomb damage to Stepney Borough. HO
201/34, HO 201/30 damage by enemy action, HO
201/40 memorandum and table of damage. HO
201/27 summary of air-raids in London and
Merseyside. AIR 24/520 diary extract. MEPO
3/3066. Chronology of the Battle, extract from The
Battle of Britain Hough and Richards. ADM
199/2178, MT 63/137 Port of London
All Photocopies from the TNA. MT 63/344
1 Folder
operation ‘Overlord’. MT 63/345 and ADM
116/5144 vessels and man power to be used in
the Normandy landing.
Photocopy from the TNA. MT 63.356
1 Item
Government
1 Folder
2/F/5
2/F/6
45
45
1940
?
Government
?
2/F/7
45
?
Shipping Convoys
Colossal Task of Guarding
British Merchant Ships at
Sea
Overtures of War
All Photocopies from the TNA. MT 40/109, MT
63/356 London Port Emergency Committee. MT
63/309 port clearance. ADM 199/2178. CAB
86/1 Dock Labour in British Ports. BK 1/97, BK
1/159 National Dock Labour Corporation Limited
1943, LAB 76/21 Labour in the Docks
Photocopy from the TNA. ADM 199/6
Photocopy of Map
?
Photocopy of Map. U-boat Mining Operations in
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/F/8
45
?
2/F/9
2/F/10
45
45
2/F/11
2/F/12
45
45
Jan 1944
Feb
1941
1942
Apr 1942
2/F/13
45
1940
2/F/14
45
Aug
1947
2/F/15
45
2/F/16
2/F/17
45
45
Nov
1945
?
?
2/F/18
45
2/F/19
45
2/F/20
45
2/F/21
45
2/F/22
45
2/F/23
45
19421943
May
1940
Nov
1940
Sept
1939
Jul 1944
May
1940
The German Navy’s World
War Two
National War Effort
Discharging of Ships.
Von der Porten
Hostile Raids
Mine laying in the Thames
Estuary
Organisation for Home
Defence
World War – British Naval
and Merchant Shipping
Losses during War
Dock Strike
House of Commons
Government
British Waters
Photocopy.
1 Item
1 Item
1 Folder
Government
Government
Photocopy from House of Commons.
Photocopy from the TNA. MT 63/136 most
efficient place to discharge ships.
Photocopy from the TNA WO199/2579
Photocopy from the TNA AIR 16/419
?
Photocopy of Map
1 Item
1 Folder
1 Item
Keesing’s
Photocopy.
Contemporary Archive
1 Item
Mrs E M Braddock,
Member of Parliament
?
O’Brien
Photocopy from House of Commons
1 Item
Photocopy.
Photocopy from Civil Defence
1 Item
1 Item
House of Commons
Photocopy
1 Item
War Diary
?
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/375
1 Item
Supply of Electricity during
the Second World War
U-Boat Warfare
Electricity
Commission
House of Commons
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/110
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Letter questioning the
reliability of figures for
berthage and ships in port
Minutes of meeting to
advise the Government on
P N Harvey
Photocopy from the TNA MT 65/181
1 Item
National Joint
Advisory Council.
Photocopy. Meeting chaired by Ernest Bevin
(Minister of Labour and National Service)
1 Item
Costal Warfare
The Financial Issue, New
Scale of Attack (1937), and
the Warren Fisher
Committee
Man-power
matters in which employers
and workers have common
interest
The Pierhead Diary
2/F/24
45
?
?
2/F/25
45
Sept
1939Dec
1941
Part I. September 1939December 1941
The Admiralty
2/F/26
45
Jan 1943
The Admiralty
2/F/27
45
Jan 1940
Letter to the Commandersin-chief of The Nore,
Rosyth, Western
Approaches, Plymouth,
Portsmouth, the Home Fleet
and the Flag Office
Commanding, Orkneys and
Shetlands, Dover, The
Admiral (Submarines)
Defence of the Thames
2/F/28
45
2/F/29
45
19421945
1942
Warship Production
Superintendent
The Early Losses of 1942
2/F/30
45
List of Ships either Sunk or
Damaged
The Admiralty
2/F/31
45
Jan
1940-Apr
1945
Sept
1939Dec
Nore Command. War Diary
The Admiralty
R M Servaes.
Director of Local
Defence
The Admiralty
The Admiralty
Photocopy from the TNA, ADM 199/2174 Chapter
IV. Southend.
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/1455. The
Role and duties of E C Boyle, Flag Officer-inCharge. The Port of London Authority and Nore.
Warship production and emergency repairs
overseas. Armament supply and mounting of
guns. Tilbury Naval Base. Auxiliary Patrol. Mine
watching and mine sweeping. Bomb disposal and
defence measures.
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 179/330. Letter
about the reduction in defence measures in the
United Kingdom.
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 116/4138.
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/1455. Aspects
of Nore Command. The Thames Estuary.
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/1454.
Shipping losses in the Thames Estuary.
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/1455. Dates
and names of ships and whether they were sunk
or damaged and where it occurred.
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/375.
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/F/32
45
2/F/33
45
2/F/34
45
2/F/35
45
2/F/36
1939
19401945
Oct
1939Dec
1939
Nore Command. War
Despatches
Diversion of Shipping
The Admiralty
Photocopies from the TNA. ADM 199/1648 and
ADM 199/1050 War Despatch Number 3 to 12
Photocopies from the TNA. CAB 67/1, CAB 65/1,
CAB 65/2, War Cabinet notes and memorandums
from the Minister of Transport and Minister of
Supply. ADM 199/2077 copy of letter from W G
Hynard.
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/2077
1 Folder
Aug
1939Sept
1939
1941
Protection of Merchant
Shipping – Admiralty
Messages
The Admiralty
Nore Command
The Admiralty
All photocopies from the TNA. ADM 199/845 Nore
Operation Order “P.E” (short title – “Purge”), antiinvasion plan. ADM 199/1454 Chapter Seven:
The London Battle of 1941; The Heavy Losses of
1941; The E-boat Mining Campaign.
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/1456
1 Folder
45
19391945?
The Admiralty
2/G/1
48
1943
2/G/2
48
1944
2/G/3
48
2/G/4
48
Jan
1940Sept
1943
19431946
Précis of Minesweeping in
Sheerness since the
Outbreak of War
Roof Over Britain: The
Official Story of Britain’s
Anti-Aircraft Defences
1939-1945
Manpower: The Story of
Britain’s Mobilisation for
War
Vessels arriving in the Port
of London are paying River
Tonnage Dues
The Ministry of
Information
Booklet.
1 Item
The Ministry of
Information
Booklet.
1 Item
Government
Photocopy from the TNA MT 63/356
1 Item
Dock Labour
Government
Photocopy from the TNA LAB 76/21. Preliminary
consideration of Operation Overlord dock labour
needed. End of war pre-occupation with
decasualisation
2 Items
War Cabinet
1 Item
1 Item
2/G/5
48
19411943
Shipping Imports
Government
2/G/6
48
1941
Organisation of Convoy
Shipping
Government
2/G/7
48
19351945
Port of London
Government
2/G/8
48
Diversion of Shipping
2/G/9
48
Nov
1939
1939
Port and Transit
Organisation
Ms Behrens
2/G/10
48
1943
2/G/11
48
1940-
Statement showing how
special labour rates for
Overlord came to be fixed
Coastal Convoys Chapter
The Outbreak of War to the
Fall of France
All photocopies from the TNA. MT 63/309
memorandum by B Sanderson on imports for
October to December 1943 and Import figures of
October 1941. ADM 199/2178 Private note on Mr
Donald’s Talk on Programme of Ships Bringing
Stores to UK for the United States Army and
Sipping Diversion Policy 30th May, 1941. CAB
86/1 Air Raid Damage to Port and Shipping,
Report by the Lord Privy Seal
All photocopies from the TNA. PREM3/60/1 The
Battle of the Atlantic. CAB 86/1, CAB 92/70 and
ADM 199/2178 debates over the time wasted by
ships sailing into UK waters and how this can be
improved through convoys.
Two original maps of the River Thames.
Photocopies from the TNA. CAB 102/419 arrival
of ships to UK ports. MT 40/109 and MT 40/108
loading and storage of explosives and ammunition
in preparation for operation ‘Overlord’ or the Battle
of Normandy. HO 192/1095 the Port of London
and St Katharine Docks. MT 63/203 Report by Mr
Pick on The Port of London. Chapter titled River
Thames: London Bridge to the Nore.
Photocopy from the TNA CAB 67/3
1 Folder
1 Folder
Williamson
Denis Delay notes: unpublished paper. Photocopy
from the TNA CAB 102/419 of some parts. A. The
Diversion of Shipping in the Autumn of 1939. D.
The Problem of Port Facilities. Appendix. The
extent of the diversion of shipping in October
1939.
Photocopy from the TNA MT 63/345.
The Admiralty
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 199/2112
1 Item
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Item
1944?
19391945
19391945
IX General
Sinking’s
The Admiralty
Diversion of Shipping
Government
48
1944
Operation Neptune – Force
‘L’ Operation Orders
The Admiralty
2/G/15
48
1944
Force ‘L’
?
2/G/16
48
19411944
Shipping
Government
2/G/17
48
19411944
Defence of the Thames
Government
2/H/1
49
19361939
Diversion of Shipping
Government
2/G/12
48
2/G/13
48
2/G/14
All photocopies from the TNA ADM 199/2367 and
ADM 199/1455
All photocopies from the TNA. PREM 3/360 ships
in port. MT 63/276, CAB 86/1 and ADM 199/2178
on the East Coast, cold storage and Port of
London. Shipping Losses from air attack. CAB
92/70 imports and use of London and East Coast
ports. MT 63/137 cases of two ships: SS Clan
McTavish and SS Masirah. War Cabinet notes,
memorandum and report on diversion of shipping
CAB 67/3. CAB 21/1233 Survey of Economic and
Financial plans and the British ports.
Photocopy from the TNA 119/1560. The Landing
operations for the allied invasion of Normandy.
Covers General instructions and initial passage.
Photocopy from the TNA ADM 234/367 assault
group L. Photocopied piece on Task Force L by
Lewis Sorley. Photocopy of Follow-up Force L,
rear Admiral W. Edward Parry.
All photocopies from the TNA. CAB 102/803. MT
63/309 Import Programme. CAB 86/1 Battle of the
Atlantic, losses; shipping from UK ports to United
States ports; turn round of liners. ADM 199/2178
Lord Leathers on Efficiency of Control
All photocopies from the TNA. AIR 16/419 Mine
laying in the Thames Estuary September and
October 1941. AIR 15/384 letter to Air Chief
Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferte. AIR 16,657
anti-mine laying in the Thames Estuary. ADM
199/1456 Boom Defence at Sheerness. WO 199/
2576 River Thames Defence Measures. WO
166/2056 artillery defence of Thames.
All photocopies from the TNA. MT 63/94 Imperial
Defence committee Minutes of 20 April 1939
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
2/H/2
49
1939
2/H/3
49
Mar
1938
2/H/4
49
Jul 1936Jan 1937
2/H/5
49
1942
2/H/6
49
Sept
1945
2/H/7
49
19391944
2/H/8
49
19401941
meeting and Memorandum of 13 April 1939,
Diversion of Shipping to West Coast Ports. CAB
16/113 Decreasing the bulk supplies of food in the
docks area, memorandum by the Board of Trade
and interim report of 21 July 1936. LAB 25/121
Port transit and labour problems.
Photocopy from the TNA MT 50/112
1 Item
Glasgow and
Clydebank Port
Emergency
Committee
Committee of Import
Distribution
Photocopy from the TNA MT/50/113
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA CAB 2/6 Minutes from 30
July 1936 and 28 January 1937
2 Items
?
All photocopies. Article from The Times
Newspaper 25 September 1942 ‘Port Labour on
Merseyside’. MT 63/217 Report of inquiry into the
conditions obtaining under the Merseyside Dock
Labour Scheme, notice to Dock Workers in
Liverpool and Birkenhead. ADM 199/2112
coastwise shipping.
Photocopy from the Dock and Harbour Authority
1 Folder
All photocopies from the TNA. ADM 199/1454 and
ADM 199/1545 preparations for invasion,
operation Dynamo, defeating the magnetic mine
and shortage of naval vessels,
All photocopies from the TNA. CAB 92/70 dock
labour schemes for Clydeside and Merseyside.
1 Folder
Progress made towards the
establishment of a Port and
Transit Organisation to
accomplish the Diversion of
Shipping and Redistribution
of Imports
Extract from draft scheme
submitted by Glasgow and
Clydebank Port Emergency
Committee
Organisation to control the
Diversion of Shipping and
the Redistribution of Imports
Port Labour in Merseyside
Sir Eldon Manisty
Report of the Work of the
Committee during the Years
1940 to 1944
The Nore
Port of London
Registration
Committee
Government
Port Clearance
Government
1 Item
1 Folder
2/H/9
49
19411945
Dock Labour
Government
2/H/10
49
1941
Mr Ernest Bevin
2/H/11
49
Letter to Mr A L C Bullock
2/H/12
49
Feb
1965
?
2/H/13
49
Mar
1940
Letter to all port officers 18
March 1940
2/H/14
49
Jun 1944
Minutes of Meeting
2/H/15
49
?
Western Front Agreement
2/H/16
49
Feb
1942
Quicker Turn Round of
Ships
2/H/17
49
Feb
Record of Proceedings of
House of Commons
debates
P G Thomas, National
Dock Labour Board
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers.
Ernest Bevin, General
Secretary to the
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen,
and Bargemens Union
The Ocean
Shipowners’ Group
Joint Committee
Lord Leathers,
Minister of Transport
and Ernest Bevin, MP,
Minister of Labour and
the National Service
Transport and
Stevedores Section.
Working Rules
LAB 8/355 labour at Merseyside, port clearance.
LAB 8/197 ninth report of the standing advisory
committee. MT 63/212 port clearance. MT 63/13
dock labour overtime.
All photocopies. From the TNA: MT 63/407
Decasualisation of Dock Labour, MT 63/345. CAB
92/70 port facilities at Merseyside and the Clyde.
BK 1/236 stoppages at work 1943. From the
Churchill College Cambridge, Ernest Bevin, dock
labour and the arrival of ships from the Atlantic.
Photocopy
1 Folder
1 Item
Photocopy from the Churchill College Cambridge
1 Item
Photocopy.
1 Item
Photocopy. Letter concerns urgent transfer of dock
labour from East to West coasts.
1 Item
Minutes of meeting plus letters relating to the
meeting.
1 Folder
Pamphlet.
1 Item
Photocopy of pamphlet.
1 Item
Minutes of proceedings.
1 Item
1944
2/H/18
49
Feb
1944
2/H/19
49
Nov
1943
2/I/1
19
19501951
2/J/1
24
May
1947
2/J/2
24
1947
2/K/1
36
Nov
1964-Apr
1965
re-called National Docks
Delegate Conference
Record of Proceedings of
re-called National Docks
Delegate Conference
Defence (General
Regulations, 1939) In the
matter of the conditions of
employment and national
arbitration orders, 1940 to
1942, and in the matter of
an arbitration between the
Transport and General
Workers’ Union and Messrs
WM Cory and Son Limited,
Messrs, Lambeth
Wharfage, Limited, and
Messrs, The Grosvenor
Discharging Company
Limited
Minutes of Meetings –
Leggett Committee
General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Shorthand Notes of
GL Bannerman and
Company
Inquiry into the Dock
Workers (Regulation of
Employment) Scheme 1947
(Cameron Inquiry)
Port Transport Industry
Held before John
Cameron
Devlin Enquiry. Inquiry
into: 1) the causes and
circumstances of the
present dispute between
the two sides of the
Held before Lord
Devlin
Leggett Committee on
the London Docks
Government
Photocopy of 2/H/17
1 Item
Rates of pay for the dockers.
1 Item
All Photocopies from the TNA. LAB 101/222
60602 minutes of meetings one to twenty-five.
Minutes for meeting twenty-one missing. Chaired
by Sir Frederick Leggett
Notes of proceedings, numbers one to six.
1 Folder
Photocopy from the TNA LAB 10/1277 Extract
from Report of Inquiry by Cameron
Ministry of Labour. Minutes of proceedings: first
day, second day, second stage second day, third
day, second stage fifth day, second stage eighth
day, 18th March 1965: evidence from The
Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen’s
1 Item
6 Items
1 Folder
2/K/2
36
Jun 1966
2/K/3
36
May
1961
2/K/4
36
1944
2/K/5
36
1947
2/K/6
36
1941
2/K/7
36
1967
2/K/8
36
1962
2/K/9
36
1946-
National Joint Council for
the Port Transport Industry;
2) decasualisation; 3)
causes of dissension in the
industry and other matters
affecting efficiency of
working.
Public Inquiry into
Objections made to the
draft Dock Workers’
(Regulation of Employment)
(Amendment) Order 1966.
Hearing of Objections to the
Draft Dock Workers
(Regulation of Employment)
(Amendment) Order, 1961
Constitution
Amendments to the Dock
Labour Scheme as set out
in the Schedule to the Dock
Workers (Regulation of
Employment) Order, 1947
Essential Work (Dock
Labour) Order, 1941. Dock
Labour Scheme for the Port
of London
The Dock Workers
Employment Scheme 1947
The Dock Workers
(Regulation of Employment)
Scheme. Explanatory
Memorandum
Dock Labour Scheme
Union, second stage seventeenth day (two
copies).
Held before Sir
George Honeyman
Ministry of Labour. Minutes of Proceedings day
one to day seven.
7 Items
Held before Lord
Forster of Harraby
Ministry of Labour. Minutes of Proceedings day
one to day five.
5 Items
National Joint Council
for the Port Transport
Industry
?
Pamphlet.
1 Item
Pamphlet
1 Item
The National Dock
Labour Corporation
Ltd
Photocopy from the TNA BK 1/169. Pamphlet
1 Item.
National Dock Labour
Board
National Dock Labour
Board
Pamphlet
1 Item
Pamphlet
1 Item
Various Authors, see
Article by Denis Delay ‘Myths about the Origins
1 Folder
1986
2/K/10
36
Aug
1941Nov
1944
notes.
Dock Labour Scheme
Various
and Effects of the National Dock Labour Scheme’
June 1986 (three copies). Denis Delay article ‘The
British National Dock Labour Scheme’. Pamphlet:
Dockers Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act,
14 February 1946. Pamphlet: Statutory Rules and
Orders 1947 No. 1189 Dock Workers (Regulation
of Employment). Pamphlet: The Scheme: An
Abstract of the Dock Workers (Regulation of
Employment) Scheme, 1947. Pamphlet: The
Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment)
Scheme, 1947: Explanatory Memorandum by the
National Dock Labour Board. Pamphlet: Port
Transport Industry: Objections made to the Draft
Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment)
(Amendment) Order, 1961. Leaflet: ‘The Enquiry
– What does it mean – What should we do?’
Special Docks Bulletin, issued by the Transport
and General Workers Liaison Committee. Press
Notices from the Department of Employment and
the Ministry of Labour on the Dock Labour
Scheme. Photocopy of National Dock Labour
Corporation Limited, Notice to all Port Transport
Workers, Special Notice to Lighterage Employees,
and Notice to all Lightermen and Bargemen.
Suggested amendment to the London Dock
Labour Scheme. Photocopy of Dock Workers
(Regulation of Employment) Order and Scheme
1947. Photocopy of article ‘National Dock Labour
Board vs. British Steel Corporation’.
All Photocopies. Transport and General Workers’
Union letter from J Donovan about the post-war
Dock Labour Scheme. Meeting of Docks National
Committee about Disputes in Bristol, Cardiff,
Liverpool, and Tyne and Wear and what could be
done. Letter from the Port of London Local Joint
1 Folder
All for one – one for all
Dock Labour Scheme:
Report of Committee of
Inquiry
Revised draft Affidavit
2/K/11
2/K/12
36
36
?
Jul 1956
2/K/13
36
Aug
1964
2/K/14
36
Jul 1969
Docks and Harbours Act
1966
2/K/15
36
Sept
1945
2/K/16
36
?
Employers’ Proposals for
Post-War Decasualisation,
and Employers’ Reply to the
Trade Unions’ Claim
Decasualisation
2/K/17
36
Dec
1936
Memorandum: On the
History of Registration
Schemes for Dock Workers
2/K/18
36
Correspondence
2/K/19
36
MayNov1966
Aug
1965
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union
Dock Workers
Ministry of Labour and
National Service
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers and National
Dock Labour Board
Central Office of the
Industrial Tribunals
(England and Wales)
National Association
of Port Employers,
Port Transport
Industry
National Joint Council
for Dock Labour
Standing Advisory
Committee for the
Port Transport
industry
P O’Shea, Dock
Group Secretary
J L Jones Acting
Assistant General
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Committee Secretary E J G Weare about
Continuity Rule Agreement. Notice to all
Transport Workers. Essential Work (Dock Labour)
order, Explanatory Memorandum. Memorandum
of evidence submitted by the London Chamber of
Commerce to the Committee of inquiry into the
Dock Labour Scheme
Photocopy of leaflet
Press Notice
1 Item
1 Item
Covering letter and revised draft affidavit. The
Dock Workers’ (Regulation of Employment) Order,
1947
1 Item
Photocopy. Application for determination of a
question between The National Dock Labour
Board and Dagenham Storage Company, Ltd.
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA.
1 Item
1 item
Letters to T O’Leary, National Secretary, Transport 9 Items
and General Workers’ Union. Decasualisation.
Letter to Regional Secretaries in the Ports
1 Item
Concerned
Mar
1965?
Aug
1965
Apr 1966
Meeting
Union
?
Correspondence
??
Correspondence
36
Aug
1965
2/K/24
36
Aug
1965
National Joint Council for
the Port Transport Industry
– National Policy Directive
on the Modernisation of the
Docks Industry
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
T O’Leary and William
Lindley
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
2/K/25
36
Sept
1965
2/K/26
36
1965
2/K/27
36
Jul 1955
2/K/28
36
?
2/L/1
23
2/L/2
23
19511954
1954
2/K/20
36
2/K/21
36
2/K/22
36
2/K/23
National Policy Directive on
the Modernisation of the
Docks Industry
What Devlin Means
Report of a Committee
appointed on 27 July 1955,
to inquire into the operation
of the Dock Workers
(Regulation of Employment)
Scheme, 1947
Objections to the Dock
Workers (Regulation of
Employment) Order
Annual Report
Minutes of Meetings
B Fry Regional
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Port Transport
Industry
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
National Dock Labour
Board
London Dock Labour
Dock Labour Scheme. Unofficial dock strike
1950??
Page one only. Devlin Report
1 Item
National Modernisation Committee
3 Items
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Covering Letter and Conclusions of the Devlin
Committee of Inquiry
2 Items
Newspaper
1 Item
Booklet
1 item
1 Item
Photocopies. Fifth to Eighth Report.
4 Items
Minutes of the meetings from January to
1 Folder
Board
London Dock Labour
Board
National Dock Labour
Board
December 1954.
Minutes of the meetings from January to
December 1955.
Booklet
National Dock Labour
Board
Denis Delay
All Photocopies from the TNA BK 1/172
1 Folder
One hand-written draft letter to Gillian. Typed
letters to London Electricity with responses.
Typed letters to Boots Opticians and Solicitors.
Letters Denis Delay wrote to Mr Hastings, The
Editor of The Times Literary Supplement, and
Gillian. Also a letter to Denis Delay from W P
Hegarty, secretary of the National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers.
Piece about Denis Delay being a new recruit. A
piece about his writing and a copy of it. A note on
what was in his living room, by way of drafts. A
letter on visiting archives to see Transport and
General Workers’ Union archives. A hand-written
letter to Gillian about Denis’ research. A few diary
entries in a memo book. Opening paragraphs for
piece called ‘Down by the Riverside’.
Eight of Denis Delay’s Contribution Cards.
1 Folder
Letter Denis Delay wrote to the Editor of the
Manchester Guardian and the editor’s response.
Letter Denis Delay wrote to a newspaper
(Financial Times??).
Photocopy. Letter Denis Delay wrote to a
newspaper
Press Cutting. Denis being funny??
1 Item
2/L/3
23
1955
Minutes of Meetings
2/L/4
23
First Annual Report
2/L/5
23
2/M/1
21
Jun
1947-Jan
1948
19461947
20002002
2/M/2
21
19601997
2/M/3
21
?
Writings
Denis Delay
2/M/4
21
1951
Contribution Card
2/M/5
21
?
A Student in the Docks
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Denis Delay
2/M/6
21
?
Dockers fear ‘the call’
Denis Delay
2/M/7
21
?
?
Denis Delay
2/M/8
21
?
Delay ‘spoiling’ Labour
?
Minutes of Meetings
Letters to London
Electricity, Boots Opticians,
Solicitors and Gillian
Letters
Denis Delay
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Folder
1 Folder
8 Items
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/M/9
21
Jun 2006
chances
Lives of Dr Johnson
2/M/10
21
1955
Contribution Card?
2/M/11
21
1955
Contribution Card
2/M/12
21
?
Hand-written notes
National Dock Labour
Board, Port of London
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
?
2/M/13
21
1954
Denis Delay
Various
2/M/14
21
Oct 1983
Letter to Denis Delay
Denis Barnes
2/M/15
2/M/16
2/M/17
21
21
21
Oct 1983
Oct 1986
Oct 1989
2/M/18
21
2/M/19
2/M/20
21
21
2/M/21
2/M/22
21
21
2/M/23
21
19851986
1983
19831987
?
Aug
2005
19602009
Letter to Denis Delay
Letters to Denis Delay
Correspondence with Sir
John Walley
Letter to Denis Delay
Frank Kermode
Page of the New York Review. Denis has ringed a
very ‘Denis’ phrase
Denis Delay’s book
1 Item
Denis Delay’s Contribution Card
1 Item
2 Items
Jack Banfield
Harry Freeman
Sir John Walley and
Denis Delay
Jim Murphy
About Roman Catholicism and the anonymous
author’s [G. Hern?] organizing the ‘Blue’ Union in
the North of England and every branch in Hull.
Also his role in organizing the National Dock Strike
of 1945
Correspondence between Denis Delay and the
London Dock Labour Board. An earnings card.
National Dock Labour Board booklet with an article
by Denis Delay. Denis Delay letter to The Port
editor.
Denis Barnes recollections of the ‘zinc oxide’ strike
of 1948
Letter and article.
Typed Letters
Typed Letters. Plus letter from Sir John Walley to
the Editor of The Times
All Hand-written letters
Letter and Notes.
Letters to Denis Delay
Ernie Thomas
Bill Green
All Hand-written.
Hand-written and typed.
1 Item
1 Folder
Handwritten Notes
Letter to George ?
?
Denis Delay
Photocopy of hand-written notes?
Photocopy of hand-written letter
1 Folder
1 Item
Correspondence of Denis
Delay
Various
Correspondence Denis Delay had with numerous
institutes and persons regarding his research.
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Folder
Also a photocopy of 2nd Battalion Letter and
Summary Reports May 1986. Application to use
the Modern Records Centre Archives. Invite to a
study day at the Museum of Docklands. A letter to
the Modern Records Centre that Denis Delay
never sent. Letter from Friends of the National
Archives and four copies of PROphile Vol 15 No. 1
and 3; Vol 16 No. 1 and 2
Correspondence Denis Delay had with numerous
institutes and persons. Dealing with
correspondence from his time as Secretary to the
Steel Committee and his retirement.
Report from his visit to Japan. British Steel
Corporation and Trades Union Congress Steel
Industry Consultative Committee
Typed Letters.
2/M/24
21
19651984
Correspondence of Denis
Delay
Various
1 Folder
2/M/25
21
1975
Japan: Report of a Joint
BSC/TUCSICC visit
Denis Delay
2/M/26
21
Correspondence with Lord
Shawcross
Lord Shawcross and
Denis Delay
2/M/27
21
The Real mafia Man
New Statesman
Article on Bob Mellish.
1 Item
2/M/28
2/M/29
21
21
Simon Mahon
Sir William Haley
Daily Telegraph
?
Obituary.
Obituary.
1 Item
1 Item
2/M/30
21
Bill Jones
?
Photocopy of Obituary
1 Item
2/M/31
21
Dec
1987Feb
1988
Aug
1982
Oct 1986
Sept
1987
Mar
1988
?
Andrew Boyd
Photocopy of book review
1 Item
2/M/32
21
1961
Harry McShane: 70 years of
battle
Letter to William Lindley,
General Secretary of the
Watermen, Lightermen,
Tugmen and Bargemen’s
Union
From C Stebbing,
General Secretary of
the Executive Council
of the National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
Typed Letter.
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/M/33
21
1950
Correspondence about J W
Cowley
2/M/34
21
Company Personalities
2/M/35
21
2/M/36
21
Dec
1965
Sept
1955
?
Photocopy.
2 Items
Photocopy about Alf Kemp, Hatchwayman at
Fennings Wharf.
Photocopy of article from Port London Authority
Monthly
Photocopy
1 Item
2/M/37
2/M/38
21
21
?
1981
Photocopy
Booklet.
1 Item
1 Item
2/M/39
2/M/40
2/M/41
21
21
21
1944
1944
Jul 1980
Harry Pollitt
Dona Torr
?
Booklet
Booklet with introduction by Harry Pollitt
Photocopy and original
1 Item
1 Item
2 Items
2/M/42
21
Jul 1964
George Sinfield
Photocopy of article
1 Item
2/M/43
21
1955
Daily Worker
Photocopy of two articles
1 Item
2/M/44
2/M/45
2/M/46
21
21
21
?
?
Jul 1980
Observer
Hull Daily Mail ?
?
Photocopy of article re John Platts-Mills
Obituary of Joseph Kerman
Newspaper cutting and photocopy of item
1 Item
1 Item
2 Items
2/M/47
2/M/48
2/M/49
21
21
21
?
?
19551960
Newspaper cutting re Geoffrey Cullington
Newspaper cutting
Photocopied newspaper articles.
1 Item
1 Item
4 Items
The Workers’ Charter
?
?
Financial Times, Daily
Worker, The Times,
Manchester Guardian
Harry Pollitt
2/M/50
21
?
1 Item
Commander J G D Ouvry
A B Sainsbury
Photocopy of booklet from Trades Union Congress
archives
Newspaper cutting
2/M/51
21
?
Retirement of ViceChairman
Marney, the firework among
the dockers
Arthur Deakin
Problems of Communism:
Ernest Bevin 1881-1981
How to Win the Peace
Tom Mann
Kerman’s Korner: A walk
down memory lane with Joe
Kerman
A record which makes
nonsense of the ban
The Case of Mr Deakin and
Tribute
Great oak of the Old Left
A man with strong views
In reply to B J Murphy “Ode
for a Docker” (View-points
July 18)
Port chief bows out
Allan Nunn May
Harry Pollitt
W A Newbury,
National Dock Labour
Board
?
Sir Douglas Ritchie
News Chronicle
Reporter
?
Editor Jack Lane
1 Item
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2/M/52
21
Jul 1993
2/M/53
21
?
2/M/54
21
2/N/1
35
Mar
1965
1965
2/N/2
35
1958
2/N/3
35
1968
2/N/4
35
?
2/N/5
2/N/6
2/N/7
2/N/8
2/N/9
35
35
35
35
35
?
?
1965?
1941
Oct 1959
2/N/10
35
Jun 1961
2/N/11
35
Aug
1958
2/N/12
35
Jul 1977
Air Vice-Marshal Harry
Hogan
Law and Politics
?
Newspaper cutting. Obituaries.
1 Item
?
3 Items
Get the goods moving!
New World News
Photocopy. Chapter 27 An Arduous Task,
Chapter 28 Minister of Labour, Chapter 29 The
Railway Crisis and a few other pages
Photocopy of article. Moral Re-Armament (MRA)
Trotskyism and its
supporters in Britain
Trotskyism in British
Industry – II The Extremists
and Their Aims
Encounter
David Williams
Common Cause Bulletin, Summer 1965
1 Item
Sunday Times
Pamphlet.
1 Item
Editors: Melvin J
Lasky and Nigel
Dennis
?
Periodical. April 1968
1 Item
Photocopy.
1 Item
?
?
George Thayer?
War Cabinet
The Daily Telegraph
Photocopy.
Photocopy.
Photocopy.
Photocopy from the TNA. CAB 92/55.
Reprinted.
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Industrial Research
and Information
Services, Ltd (IRIS)
The Economic
League Ltd. (London
and South Eastern
Region)
David Gilles, Carl
James and Peter
Challis
Newspaper.
1 Item
Leaflet.
1 Item
Photocopy from Tribune. 22/7/77
1 Item
Introduction. 1. The
Workers Revolutionary
Party. 2. The Militant
Tendency
A Matter of Trust
The Climate of Treason
The British Political Fringe
Communist Activities
Dockside Trouble-Makers at
Work
Industrial Research and
Information Services (IRIS)
News
Two Minutes News Review
The Truth About Trotskyism
part two: The great
sectarian divide
1 Item
2/N/13
35
Apr 1944
The Trotskyist Movement in
Great Britain
Letter regarding donation
2/N/14
35
?
2/N/15
35
Red Flag
2/N/16
35
Jul-Aug
1963
Apr 1964
2/N/17
35
Feb
1958
Correspondence about the
Labour Review Pamphlet
2/N/18
35
1959
2/N/19
2/N/20
35
35
?
?
Some Past Rank and File
Movement
Part One
Tilbury Liaison News
2/N/21
2/N/22
35
35
1967
?
2/N/23
35
Mar
196?
2/N/24
35
Feb
1963
2/N/25
35
1963
2/N/26
35
?
2/N/27
35
1956
Letter to T O’Leary
Royal Group Distress Fund
The Future for Dockland:
Problems of the Industry. A
Way Forward for its
Workers
Discussion. 28th Congress
Communist Party of Great
Britain
Discussion. 28th Congress
Communist Party of Great
Britain
Communism your questions
answered
London’s Port? Facts about
the Port of London Authority
Uncle Joe
War Cabinet
Photocopy.
1 Item
Socialist Labour
League
Revolutionary
Workers Party
From a Transport and
General Workers’
Union Divisional
Officer
Transport and
General Workers’
Union.
Brian Pearce
Letter from Carol Curtis, business manager of The
Newsletter
Vol1 no 1
1 Item
Leaflet attached for meeting 12/ 4 64 with
speakers from the Socialist Labour League and
the National Amalgamated Stevedores and
Dockers Union.
Correspondence between T O’Leary and J H Wall
1 Item
Pamphlet.
1 Item
?
?
1 Item
1 Item
?
Communist Party
Photocopy of newspaper article.
With compliments slip attached from H J Freeman
Transport and General Workers’ Union.
Leaflet.
Pamphlet.
Communist Party
Pamphlet.
1 Item
Communist Party
Pamphlet.
1 Item
Emile Burns
Photocopy.
1 Item
Communist Party
Ports Branch
The Economic
League Limited
Pamphlet.
1 Item
Photocopy.
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/N/28
35
Jun 1961
London Dock Strike
2/N/29
35
Dec
1958
IRIS Newsletter
2/N/30
35
1950
Torch. News Service
2/N/31
35
1977
2/N/32
35
2/N/33
2/N/34
35
35
Feb
1977
?
?
Notes on Marxism in Britain
Since 1945
A brief history since 1945
2/N/35
35
?
2/N/36
35
Jul 1985
2/N/37
2/N/38
2/N/39
35
35
35
?
Jul 1971
?
2/N/40
35
Feb
1948
Association of Catholic
Trade Unionists
2/N/41
35
?
From Catholic Worker
2/N/42
35
Sept
1936
Communism
Trade Union Democracy
Trotskyists in Industry
Discussion Classes on
various aspects of Port
Working
Renew and anti-Catholic
program
Queer Shepherds
The Holy Ghost
Catholic Worker Information
Service
Industrial Research
and Information
Services, Ltd (IRIS)
Industrial Research
and Information
Services, Ltd (IRIS)
Economic League
(Central Council)
Information and
Research Department
Raymond Williams
Photocopy.
1 Item
Photocopy.
1 Item
Photocopy.
1 Item
Photocopy.
1 Item
James Klugmann
Photocopy.
1 Item
Sam Henderson
H G Barratt, A E
Aylward, Peter Fryer
National Joint Council
Photocopy.
Letters to the Editor.
1 Item
1 Item
Leaflet. On the back of which is a hand written
letter to Brother Hall regarding the leaflet and
finding out who was responsible for such writing.
Leaflet. A supplement to Approaches No. 90.
1 Item
Leaflet. A supplement to Approaches No. 90
Booklet. London, Catholic Truth Society
Photocopy of letter regarding the Communist Party
hoping to secure control of the National Union of
Tailors and Garment Workers Union.
Photocopy of Letter
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy of letter regarding the Communist Party
hoping to secure control of the National Union of
Tailors and Garment Workers Union
Photocopy of memorandum on the present
position of Communism in this country, with
1 Item
G H Duggan
?
Bede Jarrett
R P Walsh
Archbishop of
Westminster (Cardinal
William Godfrey?)
Bob Walsh
R P Walsh, Editor of
the Catholic Worker
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/N/43
35
19461948
2/N/44
35
1953
2/N/45
35
?
2/N/46
35
2/N/47
special reference to London, and suggestions
regarding the Catholic attack.
Photocopy
3 Items
Photocopy of article
1 Item
Photocopy of two articles about Moral ReArmament (MRA) and international Christian moral
and spiritual movement.
Photocopy of two articles about Moral ReArmament (MRA)
1 Item
Correspondence of
Reverend T J FitzGerald,
Stepney
Communism Goes Out,
Production Goes Up,
Absenteeism Goes Down
MRA’s Claims Unfounded
and Debating MRA
Correspondence with
the Lord Cardinal
(William Godfrey?)
Sir Roy Pinsent
?
Backing Moral ReArmament and Spirit Behind
MRA
1 Item
35
?
2/N/48
35
1951
?
Photocopy of article from the Moral Re-Armament
International Service
1 Item
2/N/49
2/N/50
35
35
Jul 1950
1950
?
?
35
1959
Photocopy from New World News
Photocopy of article from the Moral Re-Armament
International Service
Photocopy from Ideology and Coexistence
1 Item
1 Item
2/N/51
2/N/52
35
?
35
1940
2/N/54
35
Jul 1950
Photocopy from Moral Re-Armament ‘World
Labour and Caux’
Photocopy from the Trades Union Congress of
address
Photocopy
1 Item
2/N/53
Moral Re-Armament’s
Claims Examined
From the World’s Ports:
Shipping Executives and
Dockers’ Leaders at Caux
World Messages
The Lifeline of Nations:
Dockers’ leaders at Caux
A Trained Communist
Speaks
Statement by Leaders of
Canadian Labour
Moral Re-Armament
HE Holmes, A Cullen,
James Harrison, G J
Simmons, E G Gooch,
Tom Oswald and G O
de R Channer
John Herbert
Photocopy of article
2/N/55
35
1951
Photocopy from Moral Re-Armament International
Service
1 Item
A Brief Report on the Visit
of the Japanese Delegation
to Britain
The Docks – the Life-Line of
Britain
John Herbert and A
Smith
?
?
Ben Tillett
?
Fred Hoyle
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/N/56
35
1950
2/N/57
35
1951
2/N/58
35
Jun 1949
2/N/59
35
1950
2/N/60
35
?
2/N/61
35
2/N/62
2/N/63
2/N/64
35
35
35
2/N/65
35
2/N/66
35
Dec
1951
Jun 1952
1959
Nov
1949
May
1951Sept
1953
1945
A Meeting of East London
Dockers
Harry Phillips
?
1 Item
?
Photocopy from Moral Re-Armament International
Service
Photocopy from Moral Re-Armament International
Service
Photocopy from World Labour and Caux
List of key figures in Moral
Re-Armament
Greetings sent to World
Assembly at Caux
Japanese Delegates in
London
New World News
?
Photocopy
1 Item
?
Photocopy. Mass meeting in East London
1 Item
?
Photocopy of pictures of Dockers Leaders
1 Item
?
Ideology Coexist
Port Workers’ Clarion
American Weekly
?
?
Photocopy.
Photocopy
No. 2
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Port Workers’ Clarion
Birkenhead Port
Workers Committee
Fragile Newspapers. May 1951, July 1951, March
1952 (two copies), July 1952, Nov/Dec 1952,
September 1953
1 Folder
Merseyside Dock Workers
Various
Handwritten letter for Jim Murphy from John Ford.
A Résumé of the Situation in the Dock Strike given
by Canon Reeves, Rector of Liverpool, 31 October
1945. Photocopied from The Archives,
Archbishops House, Westminster, letter to the
Archbishop of Westminster from John Ford. Letter
to the Lord Mayor of London from the Archbishop
of Westminster, Mansion House Papers Box
10A.13. Catholic Social Guild letter to the Lord
Archbishop about the Dock Strike. Catholic
Worker letter to the Archbishop of Westminster
about the Dock Strike and update letter.
Photocopy of The Russian Communist Party and
the Dockers’ Struggle: Submitted by the Liverpool
District Committee, 22 November 1945.
1 Folder
Harry Phillips
1 Item
1 Item
2/O/1
25
2/O/2
25
May
1949
?
2/O/3
25
?
2/O/4
25
2/O/5
25
2/O/6
Photocopy from the TNA BK 13/3 leaflet about the
aims of the Dock Workers of Liverpool and
Birkenhead and BK 1/240 notes from meeting.
Photocopy from World News and Views, 1945.
Photocopy of Personal Report of events leading
up to the conclusion of the Dock Strike 28 October
to 2 November 1945. Couple of original pages
from the Socialist Appeal. Photocopies from
Socialist Appeal July to September 1945.
Photocopy of leaflet Merseyside Area Docks Strike
Committee. Photocopy of extract from Rerum
Novarum 15 May 1891.
Canada Seamen’s Strike
To Trade Unionists and
Interested Citizen
Government of Canada
Files
The Post War World
Minister of Labour,
Canada
Internet Search
Feb
194?
Apr 1949
Canadian Seamen Today
Searchlight
For Immediate Press
Release
25
May
1948
Speech
2/O/7
25
?
A Message from the
Department of Labour
2/O/8
25
?
It Happened in Halifax
The United
Automobile Workers
of America
Delivered by Percy R
Photocopy, poor copy.
Bengough, President
of the Trade and
Labour Congress of
Canada
Humphrey Mitchell,
Photocopy.
Minister of Labour and
A MacNamara,
Deputy Minister of
Labour
Canadian Seamen’s
Photocopy
Union
Searchlight
List of references and files for search ‘seamen’s
and union and 1949 and Canadian’.
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy. In support of the Canadian Seamen’s
Union Strike
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2 Items
1 Item
1 Item
2/O/9
25
?
Seafarers International
Union
For Immediate Press
Release
The Case of the Canadian
Seamen’s Union
?
Photocopy, poor copy.
1 Item
2/O/10
25
Apr 1949
Canadian Seamen’s
Union, Local No. 1
Percy R Bengough,
President of the
Trades and Labour
Congress of Canada
Searchlight
Photocopy, poor copy.
1 Item
2/O/11
25
?
Photocopy
1 Item
2/O/12
25
2/O/13
25
Mar
1949
Jan 1949
CSU Makes Final Move to
Settle by Peace
10 Ships Stop Work in UK
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight(?), Official Organ of
the Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
1 Item
2/O/14
25
Oct 1948
Searchlight
2/O/15
25
?
2/O/16
25
Sept
1948
2/O/17
25
2/O/18
25
Sept
1948
Jul 1948
2/O/19
25
Apr1948
Labor Puts Run to 5th
Column!!
Unions Rally Behind CSU
As Labor Expels Traitor
Strike Vote: Seamen’s
Answer to Companies ‘Plan
to Cut Wages and Scuttle
Merchant Marine’
Boss-Controlled SIU
Operates 12 Hour Day
Six Deep-sea Crews Greet
Lake Strikers at London
Rally
Plot Against CSU
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
1 Item
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
1 Item
2/O/20
25
Apr 1948
Searchlight
2/O/21
25
2/O/22
25
Mar
1948
Oct 1947
2/O/23
25
Jul 1947
Co’s Refuse to Meet
Congress Leaders
Pres. Harry Davis Reports
to 7th CSU Convention
Congress Gives SIU the
Axe
Officers’ Unions Back CSU
Searchlight
Searchlight?
Searchlight
Searchlight
Searchlight
Searchlight
Searchlight
Searchlight
Searchlight
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/O/24
25
?
2/O/25
25
?
2/O/26
25
Apr 1947
2/O/27
25
?
2/O/28
25
Jun 1946
2/O/29
25
2/O/30
25
2/O/31
25
Nov
1948
Nov
1948
Apr 1949
2/O/32
25
2/O/33
25
May
1949
1951
2/O/34
25
Apr 1949
2/O/35
25
1949
2/O/36
25
1948
Lenton Flays Money
Savages
Full Steam Ahead
Searchlight
Membership Expels
Sullivan the Traitor
In the Interest of…
Searchlight
Order in Council Amending
the Wartime Wages Control
Order, 1943 P.C. 2432
Premises and Equipment,
London Tilbury Dock
Statistical Report
Searchlight
Canadian Seamen’s
Union
A D P Heeney, Clerk
of the Privy Council,
Ottawa
Government
Government
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy from Searchlight, Official Organ of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
Photocopy
1 Item
Note: on the reverse is Statement of Hon.
Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour in the
House of Commons, Monday, June 24, 1946
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/255
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/255.
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Letter to H G Gee, Foreign
Office
Letter from the Ministry of
War Transport
Report of the Canadian
Districts Administrator for
the Fifth Biennial
Convention in San
Francisco, California
Letter to M G Gee, Foreign
Office
Telegram from Sir O Franks
to Foreign Office
From the British
Photocopy from the TNA LAB 13/532
Embassy, Washington
Government
Photocopy from the TNA un-numbered files MT
9/5215
Seafarers
Photocopy from the TNA MT 9/5215
International of North
America ?
1 Item
From A Mc D Gordon
Photocopy from the TNA LAB 13/532
1 Item
[British Embassy?]
Washington
1 Item
In the Matter of the
Industrial Relations and
Disputes Investigation Act
and of a Dispute between
Various Deep Sea Dry
Cargo Shipping Companies,
The Board of
Conciliation and
Investigation
Photocopy from the TNA LAB 13/532
Text of statement from American Federation of
Labor re new trade union international
Also includes Memorandum of Agreement for Dry
Cargo Freight Vessels. Looks at Wages, Holiday
and Holiday with pay, Working Rules, and Working
Rules for Stewards and Engine Rooms
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/O/37
2/O/38
25
25
?
1965
2/O/39
25
1949
represented by the Shipping
Federation of Canada, In,.,
and the Shipowners’
Association (Deep Sea – of
the British Columbia and
Canadian Seamen’s Union )
Cabinet Minutes
The Right Honourable Lord
Crook, Chairman of the
National Dock Labour
Board.
Canadian Seamen Dispute
2/O/40
25
Jan 1949
Dock Work correspondence
Bill Lindley and A R
Griffiths
2/O/41
25
Apr 1949
SS Seaboard Ranger
A W Marshall
2/O/42
2/O/43
25
25
?
1949
?
National Dock Labour
Board
2/O/44
25
Apr 1949
Rising Tide
Meeting of the Executive
Committee of the National
Dock Labour Board
Minutes of the 27th Meeting
2/O/45
2/O/46
25
25
Jun 1949
Apr 1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
SS Seaboard Ranger
2/O/47
25
Apr 1949
Dispute of the Canadian
Seamen’s Union
Government
Secretary to Mr T.
O’Leary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Various
National Joint
Advisory Council
The Month
Goulandris Brothers
Limited
Correspondence
between Mr T Yates,
National Union of
Seamen and Mr V
Feather, Assistant
Secretary of the
Photocopy from the TNA CAB 128/015
Letter with extracts from the Minutes of some
earlier Board Meetings
1 Item
1 Item
All photocopies from the TNA MT 9 5111. Press
Cuttings, Letters, and statement.
Original handwritten and typed letters between
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
and the Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union and photocopy of General
Executive Committee
Photocopy from TNA BK 2/75. Letter from the
Liverpool Dock Labour Board to Mr Thomas
Photocopy of page
Photocopy
I Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy
Photocopy of letter to National Dock Labour
Board, Liverpool, TNA BK 2/75
Photocopies of two letters.
1 Item
1 Item
3 Items
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2 Items
2/O/48
25
Apr 1949
Correspondence
2/O/49
25
Apr 1949
SS Seaboard Ranger
2/O/50
25
Apr 1949
Strike of the Canadian
Seamen’s Union
2/O/51
25
Apr 1949
American Blacklegs in
Britain
2/O/52
2/O/53
2/O/54
25
25
25
Apr 1949
?
Apr 1949
Cabinet papers
Settling Down
Canadian Seamen
2/O/55
25
Apr 1949
Canadian Seamen
2/O/56
25
Apr 1949
Canadian Seamen Letter
2/O/57
25
Apr 1949
2/O/58
25
Apr 1949
2/O/59
25
Apr 1949
NOT Canadian
Seamen…Are at the Bottom
of the Shipping Strike
Letter to H G Gee, Foreign
Office
Unofficial London Docks
Strike – Executive
Committee
Trades Union
Congress
Between The Editor of
the News Chronicle
Ltd and the
Stevedores and
Dockers’ Union
Goulandris Brothers
Limited
Meeting of the
International
Transport Workers
Federation Seafarers
London Strike
Committee, Canadian
Seamen’s Union
Mr Newman
?
M Head, Liverpool
Humphrey Mitchell,
Minister of Labour
Ottawa
J H Pope, UK
Representative,
Canadian Seamen’s
Union
East Coast Operators
of Canadian Flag
Deep-Sea Vessels
A Mc D Gordon
Special Committee
Two letters concerning an article published in the
News Chronicle regarding action intended by F A
Sudbury, transport chief of the sugar refiners, Tate
& Lyle
2 Items
Photocopy of letter to Monroe Brother Limited,
Liverpool, TNA BK 2/75
Letter and photocopy of letter
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA MT 9/5215
Photocopy of page
Photocopy of Telegram from M Head to Tewson,
Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
Photocopy of Memorandum in answer to wires
and communications addressed to Ministers of the
Dominion Government. TNA LAB 10/833
Canadian Seamen’s Union. Letter and photocopy
of letter.
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy from TNA LAB 13/532
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
2 Items
1 Item
2 Item
2/O/60
25
Apr 1949
Minutes of meeting of the
London Agreement Joint
Committee
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
2/O/61
25
Apr 1949
2/O/62
25
Apr 1949
2/O/63
25
Apr 1949
2/O/64
25
May
1949
2/O/65
25
May
1949
Minutes of Meeting
2/O/66
25
2/O/67
25
2/O/68
25
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
Industrial Disputes. Dock
Strikes
Strike of Canadian Seamen:
Avonmouth
Emergencies Committee
2/O/69
25
Strike of Canadian Seamen
Cabinet
2/O/70
25
May
1949
May
1949
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
2/O/71
25
Dock Dispute
2/O/72
25
May
1949
May
1949
Port of Bristol
Employers’
Association
S C Parkin
Minutes of a Special
Meeting of the Local Dock
Local Dock Labour
Board (Liverpool
Statement Regarding the
Strike of the Canadian
Seamen
Ships Affected by the
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Emergencies Committee
Minutes of Meetings
London Agreement
Joint Committee
1 Item
Arthur Bird, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Humphrey Mitchell
Letter and photocopy
2 Items
Photocopy from the TNA LAB 10/833 (two copies,
have Denis Delay notes on them)
2 Items
London Dock Labour
Board
Cabinet
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
1 Item
2 Items
Emergencies
Organisation, Coordinating Committee
Cabinet Minutes
Photocopy from the TNA PREM 8/1081. Minutes
of two meetings held on 30 May 1949 one at
9.30pm and one at 5.00pm.
Photocopy from the TNA MT 9/5215. Meeting on
30 May 1949 at 12 noon. Meeting on 24 May
1949 at 4.15pm
Photocopy from the TNA CAB 128/15
Cabinet Office
Photocopy from the TNA PREM 8/1081
1 Item
Cabinet
Photocopy from the TNA PREM 8/1081. Minutes
of Meeting held on 25 May 1949, 6.00pm. Report
by the Emergencies Co-ordinating Committee on
the Strike of Canadian Seamen. Avonmouth and
other Ports.
Photocopy from the TNA PREM 8/1081. Minutes
of Meeting held on 23 May 1949 at 12 noon
Photocopy from the TNA LAB 10/833
2 Items
Photocopy from the TNA PREM 8/1081
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
1 Item
2 Items
2 Items
1 Item
1 Item
Labour Board (Liverpool
Group)
Statement on the Docks
situation at Liverpool
2/O/73
25
May
1949
2/O/74
25
Correspondence
2/O/75
25
2/O/76
25
2/O/77
25
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
2/O/78
25
2/O/79
25
May
1949
May
1949
Matter of Urgency –
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
2/O/80
25
Letter
2/O/81
25
2/O/82
25
2/O/83
25
2/O/84
25
2/O/85
25
2/O/86
25
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Letter to All Port Worker
Group)
Employers’
Association of the
Port of Liverpool
Between Arthur Bird
and W Huet
?
London Dock Labour
Board
Sponsors: Ted
Dickens, Joe Cowley,
Bill Jackson, Jack
Dash, Pat Colman,
Ted Kirby, Jack Prynn
General Executive
Council
National Dock Labour
Board Bristol and
Severn
Hodges
1 Item
Handwritten letter from W Huet and typed letter
from Arthur Bird
Photocopy from the TNA PREM 8/1081
2 Items
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA PREM 8/1081
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
8 Items
1 Item
Dispute at Avonmouth
Docks
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Canadian Crisis Problems
G A Isaacs, MP
Photocopy of letters dated, 15 May, 18 May, 19
May, 25 May, 27 May and 28 May. Minutes of
meeting on 14 May and 21 May
Letter from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
Photocopy from the TNA MT 81/313
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
S C Parkin
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
1 Item
Aubrey Clerk
Photocopy from the TNA MT 9/5215
1 Item
Press Notice
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
1 Item
Letter to Arthur Bird
Ministry of Labour and
National Service
J Saunders
Transport and General Workers’ Union
1 Item
Letter to S C Parkin
?
Letter regarding Labour Dispute – “Dingwall” Hull
and photocopy of letter
2 Items
1 Item
1 Item
2/O/87
2/O/88
25
25
?
May
1949
Rising Tide
Extract from International
Transport Workers
Federation Press Report
Strike of Canadian Seamen
?
International
Transport Workers
Federation
Note by Marine
Division, Ministry of
Transport
Bennett
Photocopy
Photocopy from the TNA MT 63/489
2 Items
1 Item
2/O/89
25
May
1949
Photocopy from the TNA MT 63/489
1 Item
2/O/90
25
May
1949
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75. From the
Bristol City Line of Steamers
1 Item
2/O/91
25
May
1949
V P Blakeley, The
Ocean Shipowners’
Group Joint
Committee
?
Two photocopies.
2 Items
2/O/92
25
Letter to Bennett
2/O/93
25
2/O/94
25
2/O/95
25
2/O/96
25
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
1 Item
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute – letter to Mr Parish
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
?
Poor photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
1 Item
Arthur Bird
Transport and General Workers’ Union
1 Item
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Guess?
1 Item
May
1949
Correspondence
25
May
1949
Letter to W Kitchener of the
Watermen, Lightermen,
Tugmen and Bargemen’s
Union
25
May
1949
To Trade Unionists and
Interested Citizen
W G Stevens, New
Zealand Government
Offices
From R Barnett,
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Minister of Labour
Canada
Photocopy from the TNA LAB 10/833. Port of
Bristol Employers’ Association.
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75. National Dock
Labour Board Bristol and Severn Ports letter and
statement
Photocopy
2/O/97
25
2/O/98
2/O/99
Letter to S C Parkin,
National Dock Labour
Board, London
The Canadian Seamen’s
Strike
Parkin?
2 Items
2 Items
1 Item
1 Item
May
1949
May
1949
May
1949
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Correspondence
May
1949
?
25
2/O/10
6
2/O/10
7
25
2/O/10
8
25
2/O/10
0
2/O/10
1
2/O/10
2
25
2/O/10
3
2/O/10
4
2/O/10
5
25
25
25
25
25
Parkin
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
2 Items
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/75
1 Item
3 letters sent out from the London National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
3 Items
North Atlantic Treaty
National Dock Labour
Board
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
?
Photocopy
2 Items
Settling Down
?
Photocopy
2 Items
May
1949
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Various
1 Folder
May
1949
May
1949
Minutes of International
Committee
Letter to Arthur Deakin
regarding Canadian
Seamen’s Union and SS
Gulfside
Letter to J R Cross,
Secretary, Port of Bristol
Employers Association
Trades Union
Congress
H R Priday
All Photocopies from the TNA. BK 2/75, BK 4/5
Labour Force; CAB 16/201 Minutes of the
Emergencies Organisation Co-ordinating
committee; LAB 10/904 Minute Sheet, Mr
MacMullan; LAB 10/201 Conditions of
Employment and National Arbitration Orders; LAB
10/833 Note of a Conversation that Mr Young had
with Mr Hayes, letter to Sir Robert M Gould, Port
of Bristol Employers’ Association letter and
handwritten letter; CAB 128/015 Cabinet Minutes;
MT 9/5245 Inward telegram to Commonwealth
relations office and Newport Dock Labour Strike;
MT 9/5215 Dispute concerning SS Gulfside; MT
81/313 London Dock Strike – April 1949;
Photocopy
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
May
1949
H R Priday
1 Item
2/O/10
9
25
May
1949
Letter to Mr R Miller,
Liverpool Trades Council
and Labour Party
2/O/11
0
25
May
1949
2/O/11
1
25
May
1949
2/O/11
2
25
May
1949
2/O/11
3
25
May
1949
Working Party on Increased
Mechanisation in the United
Kingdom Ports
Letter to H R Priday, Area
Secretary, Transport and
General Workers’ Union
Letter to W Kitchener,
Assistant General
Secretary, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union
Letter to Mr Barrett
2/O/11
4
25
May
1949
Letter to All Docks Officers
2/O/11
5
2/O/11
6
25
May
1949
Jun 1949
25
Trades Council
Section, International
Transport Workers’
Federation
National Joint Council
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Regarding bulk sugar on SS Baron Haig
1 Item
Set of Information
J R Cross, Port of
Bristol Employers
Association
G Hern, Secretary,
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
R M Gould,
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen,
and Bargemen’s
Union
Arthur Bird, National
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Mr W D Henderson
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Government
All Photocopies from the TNA. MT 81/18, MT
9/5215 Extract from International Transport
Workers’ Federation, notes of meeting at
Commonwealth Relations Office and Telegram
from Commonwealth Relations office on United
Kingdom Dock Strikes; CAB 134/222 Food – for
the next twelve months, the Dollar situation, CAB
128/15 Industrial disputes; CAB 134/220 IntraEuropean trade and payments, balance of
1 Item
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
1 Item
1 Item
1 Folder
2/O/11
7
25
Jun 1949
Letter to J Parnell
2/O/11
8
25
Jun 1949
Letter to A Bird
2/O/11
9
2/O/12
0
2/O/12
1
25
Jun 1949
25
Jun 1949
Report on SS Seaboard
Trader
Memorandum
25
Jun 1949
Preparatory International
Trade Union Conference,
Geneva
payments; CAB 130/46 Railway negotiations; BK
2/75 Port of Bristol Employers Association, Dock
Strikes, National Dock Labour Board, Bristol and
Severn Dock Labour Board; BK 5/4 National Dock
Labour Board Canadian Shipping Dispute; BK
2/269 National Dock Labour Board, London; BK
2/458 Bristol and Severn Dock Labour Board; BK
2/76 letter from James Murphy, Hull, Canadian
Seamen’s Strike, Liverpool Labour Report; LAB
10/833 Portal Docks, Ministry of Labour and
National Service, Liverpool Docks, letter from
Harold Wilson, Bristol Docks; LAB 10.904 Extract
from Official Log Book SS Beaverbrae; MT 9.5215
telegram; PREM 8/975 telegram; PREM 8/1081
Stoppage at Avonmouth and Liverpool, Dock
Strikes, Letters from Helsby to Pittam, Broadcast
by the Minister of Labour and National Service,
Dock Strike Avonmouth, Letter to Prime Minister.
Letter re ‘ Canadian ship at Hull ‘
1 Item
SS Lake Minniwanka
1 Item
Copy of Report to A Bird for his information
1 Item
To Mr Macdonald
Concerning SS Dromore
1 Item
Press Office
Photocopy
1 Item
Private Secretary,
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
J Parnell, Hull Docks
District Office,
Transport and
General
Workers’Union
Area Secretary
2/O/12
2
2/O/12
3
25
Jun 1949
Docks (Disputes)
House of Commons
Debates
Owen Smith and R
Chick, Area
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
The Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada
Bulletin
Photocopy
1 Item
25
Jun 1949
Correspondence
Discharge of Timber and Grain SS Sea-board
Trader
2 Items
2/O/12
4
25
Jun 1949
2/O/12
5
2/O/12
6
2/O/12
7
2/O/12
8
25
Jun 1949
25
Jun 1949
Report of the Executive
Council on the Suspension
of the Canadian Seamen’s
Union
Parliamentary Report and
Pioneer for World Progress
Unofficial Strikes
Radio Release 10 pm June 3, 1949
1 Item
House of Commons
Debates
Arthur Bird
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy. Transport and General Workers’
Union
Photocopy
1 Item
25
Jun 1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Minute Book
25
Jun 1949
Dock Workers (Regulation
of Employment) Scheme
The National
Association of Port
Employers
Copies of replies received from four unions:
Transport and General Workers’ Union, National
Union of General and Municipal Workers, National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers, Scottish
Transport and General Workers’ Union
Photocopy
1 Item
2/O/12
9
25
Jun 1949
Employers’ Levy to the
National Dock Labour
Board
2/O/13
0
2/O/13
1
25
Jun 1949
25
Jun 1949
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Letter
2/O/13
2
25
Jun 1949
Letter to Arthur Bird
2/O/13
25
Jun 1949
To all the Trade Union
Executive Committee,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
W Condon, Secretary
– Docks Group
Barrett G Wilson,
Watermen’s and
Lightermen’s Hall
J Parnell, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
B Gebert, Assistant
Transport and General Workers’ Union
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Letter and document on SS Lake Minniwanka
2 Items
Photocopy. Invitation to conference
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
3
Organisations of Seamen
and Dockers
2/O/13
4
2/O/13
5
2/O/13
6
2/O/13
7
25
Jun 1949
Appeal
25
Jun 1949
Letter to Arthur Deakin
25
Jun 1949
Canadian Vessels
25
Jun 1949
2/P/1
26/4
1
Jul 1998
Minutes of a Special
Meeting of the Local Dock
Labour Board (Liverpool
Group)
Internet findings
2/P/2
26/4
1
19841991
Correspondence
2/P/3
26/4
1
Mar
1963
2/P/4
26/4
1
Jul 1963
2/P/5
26/4
1
?
Extract from Hearing of
Industrial Commission as to
Shipping in the Great Lakes
and St Lawrence River
System
Report of Industrial Inquiry
Commission on The
Disruption of Shipping
Report on British Dockers
General Secretary of
the World Federation
of Trade Unions
World Federation of
Trade Unions
H R Priday
Photocopy. Invitation to 2nd World Trades Union
Congress
Bristol and Avonmouth Docks Dispute
1 Item
National Dock Labour
Board
National Dock Labour
Board
Letter and photocopy of Report of discussions on
Canadian Vessels from the TNA, BK 2/75
Photocopy
2 Items
Various
Canada’s Sweetheart: The Saga of Harold
Chamberlain Banks who was recruited to break up
Communist controlled unions and to create a
Canadian Seafarers International Union. Pages
on Canada After the Second World War and A
United States Criminal to the Rescue, by Robin
Mathews. Proceedings of the Subcommittee on
Veterans Affairs, Ottawa. Evidence of Mr
Broadfoot, Canadian Merchant Navy Association.
Captain Elworthy correspondence all photocopied.
5 Items
Booklet
1 Item
T G Norris
Photocopy
1 Item
John White
Reprint of article that appeared in ‘Militant’ weekly
paper of the Socialist Workers’ Party of America
1 Item
Denis Delay, Captain
Elworthy and National
Archives of Canada
Canadian Labour
Congress
1 Item
1 Item
3 Items
2/P/6
26/4
1
1949
Review of the British Docks
Strikes
2/P/7
26/4
1
?
2/P/8
26/4
1
26/4
1
26/4
1
26/4
1
26/4
1
26/4
1
26/4
1
26/4
1
?
‘The Secret Battalion’:
Communism in Britain
during the Cold War
The Story of the Ban
?
Calling Seamen & Dockers
1950
The Communist Trial
1960
Notes and Comments
?
1948
Canadian Seamen’s
Dispute
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
1948
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
?
London Port Workers
Locked Out
26/4
1
26/4
1
?
Lighterage Trade
?
Canadian Seamen’s Union
2/P/9
2/P/10
2/P/11
2/P/12
2/P/13
2/P/14
2/P/15
2/P/16
2/P/17
Presented to
Pamphlet. Poor condition.
parliament by the
Minister of Labour and
National Service
Phillip Deery
Photocopy of article.
1 Item
Bob Darke
Photocopy
1 Item
The Economic
League
George Marion
Leaflet
1 Item
Book
1 Item
The Economic
League
?
Leaflet
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Canadian Seamen’s
Union
Seafarers’
International Union
London Port Workers
Central Lockout
Committee
Lighterage Shop
Stewards Committee
Canadian Seamen’s
Union
Leaflets. Canadian Seamen in London
6 Items
Leaflets. Canadian Seamen in London
2 Items
Leaflet. Canadian Seamen in London
1 Item
Leaflet. Canadian Seamen in London
1 Item
Photocopied leaflets, letters, and statements.
Canadian Seamen in London. Port of Bristol
Employers Association suspended unloading
ships arriving at Avonmouth. Transport and
General Workers’ Union leaflet to all Dock
Workers at Bristol and Avonmouth regarding SS
Montreal City. Imported American Blacklegs in
Britain. TNA photocopy LAB 10/904 Seamen. To
Affiliated Dockers’ and Seafarers’ Unions.
1 Folder
1 Item
2/P/18
26/4
1
May
1948
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
2/P/19
26/4
1
1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
2/P/20
26/4
1
Apr 1949
Docks Groups
2/P/21
26/4
1
26/4
1
?
Tally Men Strike Threat Off
1949
26/4
1
1949/50
Report of the Special
Committee Appointed under
the terms of the decision
recorded in the minute No.
1125 of the General
Executive Council. Dated
December 15th 1949.
Unofficial London Docks
Strike
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
2/P/22
2/P/23
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Seafarers International Union leaflets.
Photocopy of Letter Cyclo No. 24318
1 Item
Photocopies from the Modern Records Centre.
MSS126/T62 Minutes of the Docks National
Committee. MSS/TG/1/1/27 Minutes of the
General Executive Council. Copies of Telegrams
received by A Bird regarding Canadian Seamen’s
Strike and correspondence. Correspondence to J
H Oldenbrock, International Transportworkers
Federation. MSS/126/T62/box37 Notes of meeting
of Workpeople’s side of the National Joint Council
for the Port Transport Industry. Minutes of
Meeting of the London Shipowners Dock Labour
Committee, 21 June 1949. MSS126/T&G Minute
No. 54.
Letter to all members from T W Condon,
Secretary, Docks Group. Photocopy
1 Folder
Press Cutting
1 Item
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Report. Six copies of same report. Two have
notes attached.
6 Items
Government
All photocopies from the TNA. CAB 132/11 dock
amenities. CAB 134/222 Sterling area net gold
and dollar deficit. CAB 134/220 Intra-European
1 Folder
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Daily Herald
1 Item
2/P/24
26/4
1
?
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
National Dock Labour
Board
2/P/25
26/4
1
1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
International
Transport
Federation/Seafarers
International Union of
North
America/Canadian
Seamen’s Union/
trade and payments, United Kingdom-Canada
Trade Relations, Tariff Negotiations at Annecy.
WO 32/15476 Operation ‘Thames’ – Report on the
Dock Strike – July 1949, Labour Resources,
Correspondence on working troops in shifts,
Accommodation for Services in London – for Dock
Strike
All photocopies from the TNA. MT 63/489
relations of the Emergency Committee with the
National Dock Labour Board. MT 63/488
Emergency Committee for the Port of London. BK
5/4 National Dock Labour Board, Port of London,
Workers register and analysis of men on strike
after morning call, London Dock Strike – 1949. BK
2/76 National Dock Labour Board, Bristol and
Severn Canadian Seamen’s Dispute. DO 35/2704
Canadian Ships Transferred to UK Registry
All photocopies. Modern Records Office:
Management Committee of the International
Transport Federation meeting 12 April 1949. MSS
126/TRG copy of letter from Victor Schiff, Rome.
International Transport Federation meeting with
the Canadian Seamen’s Union President, Mr
Harry Davis, 18 February 1949. Letter from Harry
Lundeberg, President of the Seafarers
International Union of North America to J H
Oldenbrock, General Secretary of the International
Transportworkers’ Federation regarding conditions
in Panamanian ships, MSS 159/3/D/101. MSS
159/3/D/1B letter from T G McManus, SecretaryTreasurer of the Canadian Seamen’s Union to
Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour, Ottawa,
Ontario about the Deep Sea Strike. MSS
159/3/D/103 Meeting of the International Transport
Federation Seafarers’ Sectional Committee 26
1 Folder
1 Folder
2/P/26
26/4
1
1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
National Association
of Port Employers
2/P/27
26/4
1
1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Trades Union
Congress
April 1949. MSS 159/1/5/F/4 International
Transport Workers’ Federation Joint International
Dockers’ and Seafarers’ Conference Rotterdam,
26 to 30 August 1949 about the recent Canadian
Shipping Dispute. Copy of Affiliated Organizations
and Propaganda, pages 8, 149, 150.
Day-by-day report on Dock Labour Board from 21
May 1949 to 3 June 1949. Extract from letter to
Sir John Hobhouse on the Liverpool Strike
‘Dronmore’. Memorandum to Mr Macdonald 3
June 1949. Rest photocopies: Hull Association of
Port Labour Employers Executive Committee
Minutes of Special Meeting 8 March 1949.
Meeting at the Port London Authority 23 July
1949. Group No. 8 Southampton and South Coast
of England Port from and including Weymouth to
Dover minutes of meetings: 31 March 1949 and 28
April 1949? Minutes of Meeting of the Port
Employers in London 11 April 1949 to 22 July
1949 selected meetings? Executive meeting 28
July 1949 of National Dock Labour Board. Notes
of Meetings held 9 July 1949 to 25 July 1949 in
connection with the Dock Labour Strike by the Port
of London Authority.
All photocopies. TUC file 918.2 Meeting held on 1
May 1949 at Piazza del Populo and then onto
Genzano de Roma, near Rome. Correspondence
of W G Stevens, Official Secretary, New Zealand
Government Offices, London. Correspondence of
Vincent Tewson, General Secretary of Trades
Union Congress. Correspondence on the
Avonmouth Strike and the ‘Trojan Star’.
Correspondence of Mr T Yates, National Union of
Seamen. Canadian Seamen’s Union and
Hospitality Committee Correspondence.
1 Folder
1 Folder
2/P/28
26/4
1
Mar-Jul
1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Parliament
2/P/29
26/4
1
1949?
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Government
2/P/30
26/4
1
1949?
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Government
2/P/31
27
Jul-Aug
1949
Open Letters regarding
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
2/P/32
27
Letter
2/P/33
27
Aug
1948?
1949?
Jul 1949
2/P/34
27
Dec
1949
Letter to General Executive
Council
Hal C Banks,
International
Representative in
Canada and T G
McManus Secretary
Treasurer Canadian
Seamen’s Union
Bud Doucette,
Canadian Seamen’s
Strike Committee
London Portworkers
Central Lock-out
Committee
Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary.
Transport and
Statement of Account
Canadian Seamen’s Dispute correspondence from
Shoreditch Trades Council, Union of Shop,
Distributive and Allied Workers, National Society
of Painters, Liverpool Trades Council and Labour
Party. Letter from Victor Schiff, Rome. Extract
from General Council Minutes 27 July 1949.
Letter to Ernest Bell, Trades Union Congress.
Extract from Industrial News, Canadian Seamen’s
Strike by Mr Bell.
All Photocopies from House of Lords or House of
Commons, Hansard papers. Selected items
between 22 March 1949 and 27 July 1949
All Photocopies. TNA PREM 8/1081 Handling of
Canadian Ships in UK ports and Dockers Strikes.
Photocopy from minutes of National Docks
Groups.
All Photocopies from the TNA. BK 2/76, Brief
particulars of Dock Workers known to have been
more or less prominent during the Strike.
1 Folder
2 Items
1 Item
2 Items
Photocopy of letter sent from Brixton Prison
1 Item
Financial Report. Original copy, difficult to read
and photocopy
2 Items
Photocopy
1 Item
2/P/35
27
Aug
1949
Letter. Unofficial London
Strike – Canadian
Seamen’s Dispute
2/P/36
27
2/P/37
27
Aug
1949
Apr-Jun
1949
2/P/38
27
Aug
1949
London Docks Delegate
Conference
Appendix to area
Secretary’s Report. Factual
Account of the
Observations Relating to
the Unofficial Docks Dispute
at the Bristol Ports
Letter to Alfred Barnes,
Member of Parliament
2/P/39
2/P/40
27
27
2/P/41
27
Oct 1949
Dec
1949
Apr-Nov
1949
General Workers’
Union
Arthur Bird, Docks
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Trades Union
Congress
H R Priday, Area
Secretary
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/76
`1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Debates
Meeting
Sir John Hobhouse,
National Association
of Port Employers
House of Lords
Dock Labour Board
Photocopy. Dock Strike Losses
Photocopy. Page 2 only
1 Item
1 Item
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Government
All Photocopies from the TNA. LAB 10/904 day by
day of events. LAB 10/201 Note on London Docks
Strike day by day. LAB 10/832 Central Police
Office, Liverpool. LAB 8/1956 Emergencies
Organisation Co-ordinating Committee and
Cabinet Emergencies Committee day by day
account of events; Emergencies Co-ordinating
Committee of the Emergencies Organisation; Sir
Harold Willes. LAB 10/904 Dock Strike,
Information Drawn from Police Reports. LAB
8/1707 Dock Labour Scheme. LAB 13/690 Notes
from L H Hornsbey. BK 2/72 Port of Bristol and
the Canadian Seamen’s Strike, day by day. BK
2/76 National Dock Labour Board, Unofficial
Strike, Liverpool SS Seaboard Ranger and SS
1 Folder
2/P/42
27
Nov
1949
Letter to Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary,
Transport and General
Workers’ Union
2/P/43
27
Jul 1949
2/P/44
27
Jul 1949
Report to T W Condon,
Docks Group Secretary,
Transport and General
Workers’ Union
Minutes and Record of
Special Meeting
2/P/45
27
Jul 1949
2/P/46
27
Jul 1949
2/P/47
27
Jul 1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
2/P/48
27
Jul 1949
Letter to Clement Attlee,
Prime Minister
2/P/49
27
Jul 1949
Letter to Arthur Bird,
Letter to Arthur Bird,
Transport and General
Workers’ Union
Open Letter to London
Dock Branches
J C Leary, Acting
Secretary, Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
B Blac ? Tilbury
Docks Official ?
(handwritten on by
Denis Delay)
Docks Group
Committee, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
J Parkin, National
Dock Labour Board
Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
T W Condon,
Dromore; letter from Lord Ammon; letter to Sir
Douglas Ritchie. MT 81/18 Dock Labour Scheme.
MT 9/5215, MT 63/488 The relations of the
Emergency Committee with the National Dock
Labour Board,
Aftermath of Canadian Seamen’s Dispute
1 Item
Original and photocopy
2 Items
1 Item
Canadian Vessels
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy. Aftermath of Strike and official
response
1 Item
Photocopy from TNA PREM 8/1081. Dock Labour
Scheme.
1 Item
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
1 Item
National Secretary,
Transport and General
Workers’ Union
Secretary, Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Arthur Bird, National
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Docks Group
Committee, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Mr McCarthy
2/P/50
27
Jul 1949
Report of special meeting of
the London Crane Drives’
Branch
2/P/51
27
Jul 1949
Minutes and Record of
Meeting
2/P/52
27
Jul 1949
Telephone conversation
2/P/53
27
Jul 1949
2/P/54
27
Jul 1949
Letter to Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary,
Transport and General
Workers’ Union
Former Canadian Seamen’s
Union Officer Exposes Red
Plot
Arthur Bird, National
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
John Harkin
2/P/55
27
Jul 1949
To London Port Workers
Government
2/P/56
27
Jul 1949
Strike, London Docks
2/P/57
27
Jul 1949
Statement
R J Mellish Member of
Parliament
National Dock Labour
Board ?
2/P/58
27
Jul 1949
2/P/59
27
Jul 1949
Note on the Meeting with
the Minister of Labour and
the National Dock Labour
Board
Statement to Dock Workers
National Dock Labour
Board
National Dock Labour
I tem
1 Item
Position to date includes, Surrey Dock, Upper
Pool, Royal, India and Millwall and London Docks
Photocopy. Docks Group. Note, Deakin at Royal
Hotel, Scarborough
1 Item
Pamphlet. Three articles: Seamen’s Strike Aim to
Halt Aid to Europe; Strike Plans Helped by
Confusing Issues; United States Sailors Purged of
Reds
Photocopy from the TNA. BK 5/4 Appendix B
issued by the Port Employers in London
Pamphlet. Published by the House of Commons,
extract from the Official Report
Home Secretary, Minister of Labour and Minister
of Transport saw Lord Ammon and the Chairman
of the Emergency Committee of the National Dock
Labour Board
Photocopy
2 Items
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/P/60
27
Jul 1949
2/P/61
27
Jul 1949
Press Statement: London
Dock Strike
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
2/P/62
27
Jul 1949
Press Statement
2/P/63
2/P/64
27
27
Jul 1949
Jul 1949
Note
Emergency Generating
Equipment
2/P/65
27
Jul 1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Board
The Shipping
Federation
Government
National Dock Labour
Board
Attlee Papers
Maintenance
Committee, Port of
London Authority
Government
Photocopy
1 Item
All Photocopies from the TNA. Lab 13/532
Communism and Organised Labour. LAB 10/904
Ministry of Labour and National Service, National
Joint Advisory Council, meeting; Industrial
Relations Department; London Dock Strike. BK
5/4 National Dock Labour Board. BK 2//76
Correspondence with Lord Ammon; Emergency
Regulations, 1949; Emergency Committee. CAB
128/16 London Dock Strikes. CAB 129/36
Memorandum by the Minister of Labour and
National Service – The Dock Labour Industry and
the National Dock Labour Board; The Dock Labour
Industry and the National Dock Labour Board.
CAB 134/176 Cabinet Emergencies Committee
meeting. MT 9/5215 correspondence T R
Newman; MT 63/488 Emergency Committee for
the Port of London
1 Folder
1 Item
Photocopy Bodleian Library ?
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
All Photocopies from the TNA. LAB 10/904
Memorandum of meeting at Minister of Labour and
National Service; Broadcast talk by the Minister of
Labour and the National Service. MT 63/488
Emergency Committee for the Port of London;
Resolution of National Dock Labour Board. MT
63/489 Statement by the High Commissioner for
Canada; meeting Dock and Canada Division;
Canadian Registered Vessels. MT 9/5215
1 Folder
2/P/66
27
Jul 1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Government
2/P/67
27
1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Canadian Seamen’s
Correspondence L B Walsh-Atkins; Inward and
Outward Telegram to Commonwealth Relations
Office. MT 9/5111 Prime Minister Attlee. BK 2/76
London Dock Strike; meeting Minister of Labour
and National Service. BK 5/4 National Dock
Labour Board. BK 2/76 Letter from K F Boaver,
Docker, National Association of Seamen and
Dockers; Dock Workers (Regulation of
Employment) Order 1947: The Port of London;
Statement to Dock Workers, National Dock Labour
Board; Emergency Powers. CAB 134/176 Minutes
of Emergencies Committee. CAB 134/176
Economic Policy Committee; Emergencies
Committee. CAB 128/16 London Dock Strikes.
PREM 8/1081 Prime Minister Attlee; London Dock
Strike. FO 800/519 Letter to J Chuter from Ernest
Bevin.
All Photocopies from the TNA. CAB 130/46
Meeting of Ministers on Strikes – The Unofficial
Strike in the London Docks in Support of the
Canadian Seamen’s Union. CAB 134/176
Emergencies Committee; London Dock Strike.
CAB 134/220 Economic Policy Committee. CAB
128/16 London Dock Strike. CAB 21/3626
Publicity and Industrial Disputes. BK 4/5 National
Dock Labour Board. BK 2/76 Labour Difficulties
SS Montreal City Letter from Attlee to Lord
Ammon. MT 9/5215 Mass Distribution from
Washington to Ministry of Transport; Trade
Unions; Inward and Outward Telegram to
Commonwealth Relations Office; Dock Dispute,
Threatened Boycott of British Ships in America.
LAB 10/904. LAB 16/201 Dock Strike Lock-Out.
PREM 8/1081 Prime Minister Attlee; Dock Strike
All Photocopies. Two leaflets: Canadian Sailors
3 Items
Union
2/P/68
2/P/69
27
27
1949?
1949
Chaos: Is Their Objective!
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Arthur Deakin
?
2/P/70
27
1949
Minutes of Meeting
2/P/71
2/P/72
2/P/73
27
27
27
1949?
1949?
1949?
Handwritten Letter
Information
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
2/P/74
27
1949
Central Lock-out Committee
2/P/75
27
1949
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Scottish Transport
and General Workers’
Union
?
D W Henderson
Atlantic Shipping
Agencies
Trades Union
Congress
Government
2/P/76
27
??
Reference Library
2/P/77
27
?
Transport and General
The Canadian High
Commission
Bud Doucette,
and Crews are coming over to the Seamen’s
International Union. Poster: Deep sea
shipowners, not Canadian Seamen
Photocopy. Article
History. Photocopy of Minutes from Trades Union
Congress; Statement of Canadian Seamens Union
re: Suspension from Trades and Labour Congress
of Canada
Photocopy. Canadian Vessels
1 Item
3 Items
1 Item
Photocopy. Canadian Dispute
Canadian Seamen’s Strike
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy. National Dock Labour Scheme and
Blacklegs
All Photocopies from the TNA. LAB 10/833
Message to Prime Minister from Minister of
Labour; Dock Strike Note by the Minister of Labour
and National Service. CAB 10/904 figures of
strikers. CAB 21/3626 Industrial Disputes. CAB
134/179 Accommodation of servicemen in London
during a civil emergency. CAB 134/220 Economic
Policy Committee minutes. CAB 129/35BK 2/76.
CAB 128/16. BK 2/258. BK 2/264 Canadian
Seamen’s Dispute; National Dock Labour Board.
BK 2/76 London Local Board. BK 2/75 National
Dock Labour Board Canadian Shipping Dispute.
PREM 8/1085. MT 9/5215 Meeting held at
Commonwealth Relations Office. MT 63/488
Emergency Committee for the Port of London
References for the library
1 Item
1 Folder
2 Items
1 Item
Workers' Union
Canadian Seamen’s
Strike Committee
J C Lovell
PhD Thesis – LSE, University of London
1 Item
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemens’
Union
National Joint Council
for the Port Transport
Industry
Minutes for 15 December 1946, 12 January 1947
(two copies) and 22 April 1947
4 Items
Minutes of Meetings plus additional
correspondence.
1 Item
Minutes of the Meetings plus additional
correspondence and booklets.
1 Item
Strike Breaking
National Joint Council
for the Port Transport
Industry
?
1 Folder
Emergency Organisations
Government
All Photocopies. TNA LAB 10/1431 Procedure
agreed with supply departments for the use of
military to maintain essential services affected by
industrial disputes. HO 186/927 memorandum by
the ministry of Home Security. WO 32/15476
London Dock Strike Reports one to eight, relating
to the use of troops. Photocopy of leaflet StrikeBreaking Organisations by the Labour Research
Department, Trades Union Congress Archives.
Various press-cuttings about Strike Breaking, all
photocopies.
All Photocopies from the TNA. MAF 85/158
Instructions for the Divisional Food Officers
Concerning Strikes. T 221/19 Emergencies
Committee, supply of transport. PREM 8/673
Supply of Transport Organisation. CAB 134/178
2/Q/1
39
1966
Trade Unionism in the Port
of London, 1870-1914
Minutes of Meetings
2/R/1
40
Dec
1946-Apr
1947
2/R/2
40
Jun
1944–
Oct 1955
Minutes of Meetings held at
the Head Office
2/R/3
40
Minutes of the Executive
Committee
2/R/4
40
2/S/1
38
Sept
1945May
1950
May
1950-Jun
1953
19441950
2/S/2
38
19451950
Minutes of the Executive
Committee
1 Item
1 Folder
2/S/3
38
Apr 1944
Defence Regulation 1AA
Government and
Trades Union
Congress
2/T/1
1963
Men and Machines
Editorial Board and
Publishers:
International
Longshoremen’s &
Warehousemen’s
Union
2/T/2
1976
Lawrence M. Kahn
2/T/3
1963
Internal Labor markets: San
Francisco Longshoremen
The International
Longshoremen’s and
Lincoln Fairley,
Research Director,
Official Committee of Emergencies. CAB 134/353
Industrial Emergencies Committee. LAB 8/1282
Emergencies co-ordinating committee, supply of
transport.
All Photocopies apart from one original. From the
TNA: LAB 76/29 Defence Regulation 1AA made it
an offence to strike among persons engaged in
the performance of essential services. CAB 65/42
Unofficial Strikes and industrial unrest. CAB 71/15
Lord President’s Committee meeting. BK 1/55
Instigation of Strikes – New Defence Regulation.
Photocopy of Trades Union Congress Minutes,
April 1944. Photocopy of booklet Defence
Regulation 1AA by D N Pritt. Photocopy from the
House of Commons April 1944. Photocopy from
Trades Union Congress: Statement on Regulation
1AA, Defence of Regulation 1AA, further provision
for the prevention of stoppages in war-time, notes
on illegal strikes, leaflet: Statement on Regulation
1AA. Photocopy from modern Law Review, April
1943 Collective Agreements Under War
Legislation. Original Statutory Rules and Orders
1944 No’s 461-4 Emergency Powers (Defence)
General Regulations.
A photo story of the Mechanization and
Modernization Agreement between the
International Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union and the Pacific Maritime
Association now in operation in the ports of
California, Oregon and Washington. Book and
Supplement sheet.
Photocopy. Industrial Relations, Vol 15, No. 3,
October 1976
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Sixteenth
Annual Meeting Industrial Relations Research
1 Folder
2 Items
1 Item
1 Item
Warehousemen’s Union
and Pacific Maritime
Association (1945 ILWUPMA) Mechanisation and
Modernization Agreement:
An Evaluation of
Experience Under the
Agreement; The Union’s
Viewpoint
The International
Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union
and Pacific Maritime
Association (ILWU-PMA)
Mechanisation and
Modernization Agreement
Statement for delivery to the
55th Annual Convention of
the American Association of
Port Authorities
International
Longshoremen’s &
Warehousemen’s
Union
Association, December 1963
Lincoln Fairley,
Research Director,
International
Longshoremen’s &
Warehousemen’s
Union
Spring Meeting of the Industrial Relations
Research Association. Subsequently published in
Labor Law Journal, July 1961
1 Item
September 15 1966, Detroit, Michigan
1 Item
The International Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union and Pacific Maritime
Association (ILWU-PMA) Mechanization and
Modernization Agreement
1 item
New York Shipping Association, Inc. and
International Longshoremen’s Association, AFLCIO. Provides two lists of names.
Booklet: Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and
Barmen’s Union. Evidence to the Royal
Commission on Trade Unions and Employers
1 Item
2/T/4
1961
2/T/5
1966
2/T/6
?
Selected Bibliography
2/T/7
?
?
Harry Bridges,
President,
International
Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s
Union
Prepared by the
Research
Department,
International
Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s
Union
?
2/U/1
19311966
Bill Lindley (William Lindley)
Correspondence
Bill Lindley (William
Lindley)
1 Folder
2/V/1
May
1920
2/V/2
1935
2/V/3
1948
2/V/4
May
1954
Grimsby Deal Year Revised
Working Regulations and
Rates of Pay
Rules for the Settlement of
Disputes Rising at Hull
Docks
Conditions and Rates for
Dock Workers at Grimsby
and Immingham Docks
Port of Hull Stevedoring
Rates
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Hull Joint Port
Working Committee
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
E.T. Wilcox & Son,
Stevedores
Associations. The Dock Workers (Regulation of
Employment) Order 1947. Handwritten notes from
a Special Meeting on Future Policy. Shop
Stewards Movement of the Lighterage Industry 24
hour stoppage against claims for a shift system
controlling hours and refusal of representation in
the discussions about decasualisation scheme.
Partial Alteration of Rules. Wages and holiday.
Lightermen in attendance of craft. Docks
Regulations. Dispute at Rippleway Wharf,
Barking. Joint Executive Meeting 21 August 1959.
Ineffectives, only on natural wastage. Executive
Council Statement to all members 14 October
1959. National Joint Council, meeting to consider
the provision of washing facilities in the Ports and
Warehouses operating under the Dock Labour
Scheme, 5 January 1962. A Craft Concerned with
Craft gives a brief history of Watermen and
Lightermen. Suggested amendment to the
London Dock Labour Scheme. Paper called
Present Position and Future Trends in Lighterage
Traffic. Report on the London Lighterage Industry
to the Rochdale Committee (two copies, one with
Denis Delay notes).
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
Booklet. Rates and Conditions for Discharging
and Loading
1 Item
2/V/5
1949
Rules
General Workers Cooperative Stevedores
Society Limited
Kingston Upon Hull
Court and Press
2/V/6
Aug
1931
James Brady Case.
2/V/7
1932
G C Murray
2/V/8
Aug
1937-Jul
1957
Correspondence to Mr W
Innes
Correspondence
2/V/9
Jul 1938
Minutes of Meeting
2/V/10
19311950
J W Murphy (Jim Murphy)
(James Wilcox Murphy)
Hull Master
Stevedores First
Council
Various
J W Murphy (Jim
Murphy) (James
Wilcox Murphy)
Booklet
1 Item
Court Summons for James Parnell, Leonard
Metcalfe, Marney McGowan, William Westerdale,
Arthur Moore and Harry Larvin for unlawfully
assaulting and beating James Brady. Also a press
cutting of story.
Manuscript comment by Delay ‘First Independent
firm to try to beat Stevedoring racket’.
Letters include: reference letter for tenancy;
competition between price-rings and independent
firms; handwritten letters by J W Murphy; safety of
dockers; Fowesthers Fatality and extract from Hull
Mall; newspaper cutting on ‘Safety Net would have
Saved Life’; Sanderson Fatality; Bird’s Fatality
(Winch Fatality); Unionism; Welfare Worker;
Mulchinock accident; Embley death and use of
derricks; Lill deceased; death of Harry Graham;
extract from Hull Daily Mail ‘Fatal Fall into Ship’s
Hold’; report on Hall’s Death; Master Stevedores
in the Port of Hull: F S Crosland & Sons and E T
Willcox & Son;
2 Items
3 Items
1 Folder
1 Item
Leaflet: An Appeal to Commonsense and Loyalty
on the part of all Registered Port Workers in the
Port of Hull; press cutting picture of Harry Phillips
and Bill Johnson; death of Embley verses
Dickinson & Co (Stevedore) Ltd, SS Gloucester;
fatal accident of Mr Mulchinock; death of William
Bird; Leaflet: Hints to Slingers; safety of dockers;
Notice: Welting is not allowed (welting, missing
from a job without permission); Extract from Hull
1 Folder
Hull’s Closed Shop
Controversy
Eight Face Sack in Closed
Shop Row
The Life of a Docker
Hull Dockers Welfare Fund
2/V/11
Apr 1978
2/V/12
1978?
2/V/13
2/V/14
?
?
2/W/1
1981
2/W/2
?
2/W/3
2/W/4
?
?
Brief History of the
Waterman, Lighterman,
Tugmen and Bargemen’s
Union
Draft History of the
Watermen Lightermen
Tugmen and Bargemen’s
Union
History of Dock Labour
Note
2/W/5
1989?
The Spirit of ‘89
Various
Daily Mail: Five Men Bound Over for Hull Dock;
General Meeting of Hull Dockers Welfare Fund;
Stevedoring at Hull; James Brady Case (please
also see 2/V/6) SS Ethiopian.
Press Cutting
1 Item
Chris Hansford
Press Cutting
1 Item
?
J W Murphy,
Secretary of the Hull
Dockers’ Welfare
Fund
William Lindley
Poem/Song?
Rules of the Fund
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
W Lindley (Secretary)
?
Photocopy. Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union (merged with Transport and
General Workers’ Union 1971). Presumed to have
been written by the Secretary W Lindley.
Photocopy
Discusses the history break-away unions: National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union; the
Watermen, Lightermen and Bargemen’s Union;
and the Scottish Transport and General Workers’
Union.
Programme Notes. A musical evening presented
by the Trades Union Congress about the changing
spirit of over two hundred years of Docklands
History. Music performed by the Docklands
Sinfonietta and Chorus and actors Haydn Gwynne
and Roy Marsden. Charts the unrest in 1889, the
Dock Strike, Matchgirls Strike and other smaller
strikes that occurred.
1 Item
?
?
Trades Union
Congress
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2/W/6
19471967
Industrial Disputes
National Dock Labour
Board
List of Industrial Disputes including, port, and the
number of men involved, dates of disputes and the
cause or objection. Also letter of a summary of
disputes both typed and handwritten. List of man
days lost through strikes from 1960 to 1968.
Major Strikes since the inception of the Dock
Workers (Regulation of Employment) Scheme,
1947
A collection of photocopied handwritten letters,
with typed up versions, concerning the 1889 Dock
Strike
Photocopy of Award. Original and photocopy of
appendix, Schedule A: Working Rules. The
London Master Stevedores’ Association and the
Amalgamated Stevedores’ Labour Protection
League (ASLPL): Arbitration Award
11 Items
3/A/1
1889
Correspondence
Various
3/A/2
1908
Arbitration Award and
Appendix Schedule A:
Working Rules
3/A/3
1908
3/A/4
1912
3/A/5
c. 1912
3/A/6
1913
3/A/7
1915
3/A/8
1918
The Checking of PieceWork Wages in Dock
Labour
Report of Special General
Council Meeting and Report
of Second Annual General
Council Meeting
The Benefits of the Dockers
Union
Reorganization and
Decasualization of Labour
Minutes of Court Arbitration.
London County Council and
The Dock Wharf Riverside
and General Workers Union
Minutes of Proceedings
before the Committee of
Production
S B Boulton, Albert G
Sandeman, Frederick
Rogers, Harry
Gosling. London
Labour Conciliation
and Arbitration Board
Departmental
Committee
Report
1 Item
National Transport
Workers’ Federation
Photocopies MSS 126/NTW/4/2 and 3. Various
dock unions:
2 Items
Dockers Union
Photocopy. Possible Recruitment Leaflet?
1 Item
Port of London
Authority
From the Shorthand
notes of N J Funnell
Booklet
1 Item
The Conciliation Act, 1896
1 Item
From the Shorthand
notes of N J Funnell
Companies present: Harrisons Limited, Hudson
and Company Limited, The Tilbury Coaling
Company Limited, William Cory and Son Limited
1 Item
9 Items
2 items
3/A/9
1919
Agreement
3/A/10
1920
3/A/11
1920
3/A/12
3/A/13
May
1940
1920
Transport Workers – Wages
and Conditions of
Employment of Dock
Labour
Memorandum of
Engagement
Judgment
3/A/14
1920
Maintenance. Minutes of
Meeting
3/A/15
1922
First Annual Report of the
National Committee
3/A/16
1923
Transport and General
Workers’ Union versus
Stevedores. Dispute.
Minutes of Proceedings
Employers’
Association of the
Port of Liverpool and
the National Union of
Dock Labourers and
Riverside Workers
A Court of Inquiry
This agreement embodies the amendments to the
White Book Agreement of 1 May 1914 and comes
into effect on 22 April 1919. Also attached are the
Terms and Conditions of Dock Labour in the Port
of Liverpool.
1 Item
Report
1 Item
Port of London
Authority
Mr Justice Farwell
Weeks
Transcript from the
shorthand Notes of
Geo. Leslie
Bannerman
Engagement of John William Battley as a
Permanent Labourer.
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
1 Item
Photocopy. Conference between The National
Council of Port Labour Employers and the
National Transport Workers’ Federation. Four
points 1. Registration; 2. Maintenance during
unemployment and under-employment; 3.
Payment of Wages weekly and 4. Working of
Shifts
Photocopy. Meeting following on from 3/A/13
looking at Maintenance.
1 Item
London District. Dock
Wharf Riverside and
General Workers’
Union
Harry Gosling, Acting
National Secretary.
Waterways Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Various
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
All photocopies. Dispute hearing with A A H
Findlay in the Chair. Report of Meeting at
Eccleston Square. Disputes Committee.
Correspondence: including Amalgamated
6 Items
3/A/17
Feb
1924
3/A/18
1924
Minutes of Fourth Meeting
(1923-4) of Emergency
Committee of London
Members
Memorandum of Interview
3/A/19
1924
Correspondence
3/A/20
1927
List of Officers. Their
Designations and Salaries
3/A/21
1928
Piecework Conditions
3/A/22
1932
3/A/23
1933
A Critical Examination by
the Dockers Reform
Committee
Stevedore Fund
3/B/1
1
Jan-Dec
1945
Reports and Minutes
3/B/2
1
3/B/3
1
House of Commons
Debates
Correspondence
3/B/4
1
Feb-Dec
1945
Feb
1945
Mar
1945
3/B/5
1
Mar
1945
London Dock Dispute:
Report of Committee of
Inquiry
Minutes
Trades Union
Congress
Mr Citrine and
Cabinet Committee
F C Allen National
Council of Port Labour
Employers
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
The Ocean
Shipowners’ Group
Joint Committee
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Henry Maynard
Stevedores’ Labour Protection League.
Photocopy. Dock Workers Dispute. Two
Meetings
2 Items
Photocopy
1 Item
Correspondence to Ernest Bevin, Transport and
General Workers’ Union regarding the Covent
Garden Dispute
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy. Original held at TUC
1 Item
Stevedore Fund contributed by the Stevedore
members of the National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers Union
All Photocopies
1 Item
All Photocopies
1 Folder
Sir Ronald Garrett
Photocopy
1 Item
Ministry of Labour and
National Service
Booklet
1 Item
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Government
Port of London
Executive Committee
14 Items
1 Item
3/B/6
1
Mar
1945
London Dock Dispute.
Report of Committee of
Inquiry
Dock Strike and Stoppage
Port of London Local
Joint Committee
In poor condition
1 Item
3/B/7
1
Mar-Nov
1945
Government
1 Folder
May-Dec
1945
Transport and General
Workers’ Record
1
May-Nov
1945
Correspondence
All Photocopies
9 Items
3/B/10
1
Jun 1945
Report for Quarter Ended
30 June 1945
3/B/11
1
Jul 1945
3/B/12
1
Aug
1945
3/B/13
1
Nov
1930-
Minutes and Record of the
Proceedings of the Eleventh
Biennial Delegate
Conference
The Corporation in Review
and Some Thoughts on the
Future
Union’s Application
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
T W Condon,
Secretary – Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
All Photocopies from TNA. BT A/197 The National
Dock Labour Corporation Limited. MT 63/407
Treasury Solicitors, MT 81/16 The National
Association of Port Employers. CAB 65/53
Industrial Dispute. CAB 128/1 Dockers Strike.
CAB 129/1 Docks Strike. CAB 129/4 Effects of
the Dock Strike. CAB 21/2511 Prime Minister. BK
1/105 Southampton Docks Committee Resolution;
The National Dock Labour Corporation Ltd, Bristol,
Stoppage of Work; Strike Position – London, 11
October 1945, Why Strike? Issued by the London
Central Strike Committee
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3/B/8
1
3/B/9
The National Dock
Labour Corporation
Limited
Transport and
General Workers’
1 Item
1 Item
Published booklet of minutes held on 16-19 July
1945, at the Jubilee Theatre, Coronation Street,
Blackpool
1 Item
Booklet
1 Item
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
joining the Transport and General Workers’ Union.
1 Item
Sept
1945
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1
Sept
1945
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1945
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1
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1
1
Oct 1945
Oct 1945
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1
Oct 1945
Minutes and Record of
Special Meeting
3/B/21
1
Oct 1945
Correspondence
Sept
1945
Sept
1945
Minutes
Convenors’ Notice of
Second Meeting of the
World Trade Union
Conference for the purpose
of adopting the constitution
of the World Federation of
Trade Union
Correspondence
Correspondence to Mr R
Coombes, Secretary –
Watermen, Lightermen,
Tugmen and Bargemen’s
Union
For ‘Trud’
Minutes
Union, National Union
of General and
Municipal Workers,
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers and Scottish
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Trades Union
Congress
World Trade Union
Letters and Application.
DM?
Charles Brandon,
Area Secretary,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Sir Walter Citrine
Port of London Local
Joint Committee
Docks National
Committee, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Chas F Smith
Secretary, London
Photocopy
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Photocopy
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Stoppage of work at Birkenhead
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1
Oct 1945
Meeting
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1
Oct-Nov
1945
Correspondence
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1
Nov
1945
Minutes and Records
3/B/25
1
Dec
1945
New National Docks
Agreement
3/B/26
1
Dec
1945
Report for Quarter Ended
29 December 1945
3/B/27
1
Dec
1945
3/B/28
3/B/29
1
1
?
?
Port Transport Industry:
Report of a Committee of
Investigation on a
Difference Between
Employers and Workpeople
Regarding the National
Minimum Wage and the
Piece-workers’ Minimum
Guarantee
Minutes of Meeting
To All Members
Master Stevedores
Association Limited
Trades Union
Congress
R Barrett, General
Secretary. National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
National Joint Council
for the Port Transport
Industry
T W Condon,
Secretary – Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Ministry of Labour and
National Service
?
Transport and
General Workers’
Union (Docks Group –
Area 1) and National
Amalgamated
Photocopy. World Trade Union
2 Items
3 letters
3 Items
Photocopy
1 Item
Letter from E P Hull, Clerk to the Council and the
Terms of the Agreement
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1
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1
3/C/1
47
3/C/2
47
3/C/3
47
19441945
?
Report of the National
Executive Committee
Extracts from books
Stevedores and
Dockers
National Council of
Labour
?
Feb-Mar
1946
Oct-Dec
1946
Debates
House of Commons
Port Transport Industry
Ministry of Transport
Jan-Dec
1946
Port Transport Industry
Government
Photocopy
1 Item
All Photocopies. Various extracts from books –
Change and Fortune; Strike on the Waterfront
Chapter Two: The Strike in 1945: The First Revolt;
extract from Clement Attlee diary 6-8 August 1945;
Herbert Morrison; Social Consensus 1945-57
chapter six Consensus Re-examined; Article: ‘The
struggle for control of the air-waves: the Attlee
governments, the BBC and industrial unrest, 19451951’ by Justin Davis Smith
All Photocopies, 11 February and 19 March 1946
1 Folder
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Forster’s Report on Port Transport Industry; Dock
Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1946;
regards decasualisation
All Photocopies from the TNA. MT 81/16 and MT
81/17 Sir John Forster’s Report on Port Transport
Industry by Mr Aubrey Clerk. MT 81/17 Dock
Schemes: Variations in rate of percentage levy at
Clydeside and at NDLC (National Dock Labour
Corporation) ports and effect of application of
NDLC rates to payments by Clydeside employers.
LAB 8/1356 correspondence between Mr Glen
(Ministry of Labour and National Service) and Mr
Barnes; Minute Sheets; notes of meeting held at
the Ministry of Labour and National Service on 8
October; Report on Men who will have attained the
age of 65 years on 30 September 1946 (list of
docks, allocated workers and age groups); Dock
Labour Scheme: Notes on Conference at St
James’ Square, 26 June 1946; Dock Labour;
6 Items
2 Items
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47
1946
3/C/5
3/C/6
47
47
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Feb
1946
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47
Mar
1946
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47
Mar
1946
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47
Mar
1946
3/C/10
3/C/11
47
47
Apr 1946
1947?
3/C/12
47
1946?
Port Transport Industry:
Report of Inquiry held under
paragraph 1(4) of the
Schedule to the Dock
Workers (Regulation of
Employment) Act, 1946
Unofficial Strike Committee
Minutes of Third Meeting of
the Standing Joint
Committee
Correspondence to Mr D F
MacDonald, Secretary,
National Association of Port
Employers
Open Letter
Minutes of the First Meeting
of the Decasualisation SubCommittee
Minutes of Meeting
Important
Scheme for the Regulated
Call on of Labour in the
Surrey Commercial Docks
in Times of Acute Labour
Ministry of Labour and
National Service
?
National Joint Council
for the Port Transport
Industry
J Donovan, National
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
J Donovan, National
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
National Joint Council
for the Port Transport
Industry
?
Shop Stewards
Movement of the
Lighterage Industry
?
National Dock Labour Corporation: Financial and
Labour Supply Position; notes on meeting held in
Mr Glen’s room 4 February 1946; National Dock
Labour Corporation Limited: Age Enquiry, 1945
60, 560 men covered; Port Transport Industry:
Strength of Labour Force
Photocopy from the TNA. MT 81/17
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
Regarding Decasualisation of Labour in the Port
Transport Industry
1 Item
Regarding Decasualisation
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy. Regarding Decasualisation
Decasualisation Leaflet
1 Item
1 Item
Decasualisation
1 Item
Shortage
Scheme for the Regulated
Call on of Labour in the
Royal Group of Docks in
Times of Acute Labour
Shortage
Correspondence to Mr R
Barrett, General Secretary,
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Report on discussions
between the parties
concerned in the question
of the restoration of the prewar trade practice in the
London Docks
Re-organisation SubCommittee
Correspondence
3/C/13
47
1946?
3/C/14
47
May
1946
3/C/15
47
May
1946
3/C/16
47
3/C/17
47
May
1946
Jun 1946
3/C/18
47
Aug
1946
3/C/19
47
Aug-Sept Correspondence
1946
Correspondence to R
Barratt, General Secretary,
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union
?
Secretary, Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Port Transport
Industry
Port Transport
Industry
J Donovan, National
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Mr H Parsons,
General Secretary,
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
Mr H Parsons,
General Secretary,
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union and J Donovan,
National Joint Council
Decasualisation
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA BK 1/243
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy. American Seamen’s Strike
1 Item
I Item
2 Items
3/C/20
47
Aug-Sept Letter to H Parsons,
1946
General Secretary,
Watermen, Lightermen,
Tugmen, and Bargemen’s
Union
Sept
Trade Union Revival and
1946
Correspondence
R Barrett, General
Secretary, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Communist Party?
3/C/21
47
3/C/22
47
Sept
1946
Open Letter
3/C/23
47
Sept
1946
Open Letter
3/C/24
47
Sept
1946
Quarterly Report
3/C/25
47
Oct 1946
Letter to H Parsons,
General Secretary,
Watermen, Lightermen,
Tugmen, and Bargemen’s
Union
Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary
and John Donovan,
National Secretary,
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary
and John Donovan,
National Secretary,
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
John Donovan,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union and Joint
Secretary, National
Joint Council for the
3 Items
Reprint of article in the Daily Worker (in poor
condition). Letter from S Mahon, Area Secretary,
Transport and General Workers’ Union, Liverpool
and Press Statement to ‘Liverpool Echo’
3 Items
1 Item
Leaflet. Transport and General Workers’ Union
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Representation on the National Joint Council for
the Port Transport Industry
1 Item
3/C/26
47
Oct 1946
Minutes and Record of
Special Meeting
3/C/27
47
Oct 1946
Decasualisation and
Reduction in Registers –
Fact Finding Committee
Report
3/C/28
47
Oct 1946
?
3/C/29
47
Nov
1946
3/C/30
47
Nov
1946
3/C/31
47
Nov
1946
3/C/32
47
Jun
1945Mar
1947
Report of the Committee
appointed under the terms
of the decision recorded in
council minutes no. 558,
dated May 29 1946, to
inquire into the general
administration of the Docks
Group
Correspondence to H
Parsons, General
Secretary, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union
Letter to Mr J M Glen,
Ministry of Labour and
National Service
Port of London Register
Port Transport
Industry
Docks National
Committee, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
National Secretary
Quarterly Report,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union?
Trades Union
Congress
Committee of Inquiry:
E E Fryer, A Grant, L
Jervis, B Slack, H J
Edwards (Chairman) ,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy from Trades Union Congress Report
1 Item
Photocopy. General Administration of the Docks
Group (Liverpool and Birkenhead)
1 Item
R Barrett, General
Secretary, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Cockers
Robert Letch
Two letters and a Report of the full registration
committee meeting which took place on the 15
November 1946
3 Items
Photocopy
1 Item
Government
All Photocopies from the TNA. LAB 10/569 Minute
Sheet; Port Transport Industry Report, Admission
of Sons of Stevedores to the Port of London
Register; Port of London Registration Committee,
Recruitment of Sons of Port Workers to Balance
Wastage; Live Register on 9 April 1946;
1 Folder
3/C/33
47
Jan
Minutes
1946-Jan
1947
Jan-Apr
Haulage Strike
1947
National Dock Labour
Corporation Limited
All Photocopies from the TNA BK1/198
1 Folder
3/D/1
47
Government
1 Folder
47
47
Apr 1947
Jan-Jun
1947
Debates
Dock Labour Scheme
House of Commons
Government
3/D/4
47
Jan 1947
3/D/5
3/D/6
47
47
Jan 1947
Jan 1947
1 Item
1 Item
47
3/D/8
47
Mar
1947
Mar
1947
The National Dock
Labour Corporation
Limited
?
G Isaacs, Ministry of
Labour and National
Service
Communist Party?
Photocopy
Photocopy
3/D/7
3/D/9
47
Minutes of a Special
Meeting of the Board of
Directors
Minutes
Letter to Sir Robert Letch,
National Association of Port
Employers
Report of National Docks
Conference, 2 March 1947
Draft Permanent Scheme
for the Decasualisation of
Dock Workers
Shortage of Dock Labour in
London: memo …to
increase the labour force
and remove restrictive
All Photocopies from the TNA. MA 99/1435
Cabinet Industrial Emergencies Committee
minutes; Transport Strike – Maintenance of
essential food transport services, minutes;
Operation ‘Eatables’ General Report; Ministry of
Food Memorandum, Road Haulage Strikes: Food
Supplies. CAB 128/9 Road Haulage Strike. CAB
130/17 Cabinet, Working Part of Subversive
Movements, minutes; The British Commonwealth
and Empire. BK 1/271 Clearance of Port of
London, Port of London Authority.
All Photocopies
All Photocopies from the TNA. MT 81/17 Dock
Workers Scheme; Dock Labour Scheme. LAB
8/1356 Minute Sheet; Note of a meeting held on
22 January.
Photocopy from the TNA BK 1/198
3/D/2
3/D/3
Mar
1947
2 Items
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Item
Ministry of Labour and
National Service
Photocopy
1 Item
Port Employers
Committee?
Photocopy. Doc. sent to London Shipowners’
Dock Labour Committee?
1 Item
practices…
Minutes and Record of
Special Meeting
3/D/10
47
Mar
1947
3/D/11
47
Redundancy
3/D/12
47
Mar
1947
Apr 1947
3/D/13
47
Apr 1947
Open Letter
3/D/14
47
Apr 1947
Minutes
3/D/15
47
Apr 1947
Glasgow Dock Labour
Dispute
3/D/16
47
Apr 1947
Minutes
3/D/17
47
Apr 1947
3/D/18
47
May
1947
Glasgow and London Dock
Workers’ Disputes.
Memorandum
Docks National Committee
Minutes
3/D/19
47
Jun 1947
Minutes and Record of
Special Meeting
Correspondence to Mr
Lindley and letter from
Barnes, Minister of
Docks National
Committee, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
J Donovan, National
Secretary
Docks National
Committee, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
T W Condon,
Secretary, Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Docks National
Committee Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Scottish Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Port Labour Executive
Committee
Minister of Transport
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
R Mellish
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy. Glasgow dispute
1 Item
Notes, Report, Press Statement
4 Items
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA CAB 134/175, Cabinet
Emergencies Committee
1 Item
Photocopy. Transport and General Workers’
Union
1 Item
2 Items
Transport
Correspondence to Mr
Thomas, Acting General
Secretary, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union
Minutes and Record of
Special Meeting
3/D/20
47
Jun 1947
3/D/21
47
Jun 1947
3/D/22
47
Jun 1947
Correspondence to R
Barrett, General Secretary,
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
3/D/23
47
Jul-Aug
1947
3/D/24
47
Jul 1947
Activities of the Stevedores’
Union and ‘Doughty’
Committee of Inquiry
Minutes of Meeting
3/D/25
47
Sept
1947
Quarterly Report
3/D/26
47
Oct 1947
Minutes of Joint Meeting
3/D/27
47
1947??
Report for Executive
Councils Application for
seat on National Joint
R Barrett, General
Secretary, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Docks National
Committee, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Mr Thomas ? Acting
General Secretary,
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
?
London Agreement
Joint Committee
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union and the
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
Handwritten
1 Item
Council for Port Transport
Industry
Note: The ‘Closed Shop’
Docks Industry
Correspondence to R
Barrett, General Secretary,
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union
3/D/28
47
Oct 1947
3/D/29
47
Nov
1947
3/D/30
47
Dec
1947
Correspondence about
Mechanical Equipment –
Royal Docks.
3/D/31
47
Dec
1947
Turn Round of Ships
3/D/32
47
Dec
1947
Balance Sheet and
Statement of Accounts
3/E/1
28
Jan 1948
The Rochester Case,
Meeting
3/E/2
28
Jan 1948
Statement
3/E/3
28
Jan-Apr
1948
Wastage Replacement to
the Register
3/E/4
28
Feb
Dockers: The Forster
Union
?
Mr Thomas ? Acting
General Secretary,
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
V P Blakeley,
Assistant Secretary,
London Shipowners’
Dock Labour
Committee
A Bird, National
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
E Hunt Transport and
General Workers’
Union
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Communist Party
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy. Correspondence and Report. Ministry
of Transport. Working Party on Shipping
Turnaround in British Ports. Port of London.
Interim Report by Visiting Team.
2 Items
Photocopy of page two only
1 Item
Leaflet
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Looks at Transport and General Workers’ Union,
National Amalgamated Stevedore Dockers and
employers’ figures.
1 Item
Leaflet
1 Item
1948
Feb
1948
Report and Nationalisation
Discussion Statement
28
May-Oct
1948
3/E/7
28
Jun 1948
Correspondence Mr W
Kitchener, Acting General
Secretary, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union
Struggle
3/E/8
28
Jun 1948
3/E/9
28
Jun 1948
3/E/10
28
Jun 1948
3/E/11
28
Jun 1948
3/E/12
28
Jun 1948
3/E/13
28
Jun 1948
3/E/14
28
Jun 1948
3/E/5
28
3/E/6
Minutes and Record of
Special Meeting
Minutes and Record of the
Special Meeting
Unofficial London Dock
Strike
Transport and General
Workers’ Union. Docks
Group
Unofficial London Dock
Strike
Report by the Committee
for the Review of Industrial
Arrangements
Notes for Chairman –
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
R Barrett, General
Secretary, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Docks Group
Committee
Docks National
Committee
Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
T W Condon,
Secretary, Docks
Group
Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
National Joint Council
for the Port Transport
Industry
Dock Labour Board
1 Item
Two letters
2 items
News Letter
1 Item
Transport and General Workers’ Union. Meetings
on 14 June and 19 June 1948
Photocopy. Transport and General Workers’
Union
Letter to the Members of the General Executive
Council. Attached is an open letter to all Members
of the Docks Group from T W Condon, Secretary,
Docks Group.
2 Items
Open Letter
1 Item
Photocopy of letter with Denis Delay’s notes
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
2 Items
Meeting
Report of the Special
Committee Appointed under
the terms of the decision
recorded in minute number
930
Minutes and Record of the
Special Meeting
Re-Called National Docks
Delegate Conference
3/E/15
28
Aug
1948
3/E/16
28
3/E/17
28
Aug
1948
Aug
1948
3/E/18
28
Aug
1948
The Union and The Press
3/E/19
28
Aug
1948
Unofficial London Dock
Strike (1948)
3/E/20
28
Sept
1948
Particulars of London
Register
3/E/21
28
Oct 1948
Minutes of Meeting
3/E/22
28
Oct 1948
Meeting
3/E/23
28
3/E/24
28
Nov
1948
Dec
1948
World Federation of Trade
Unions
Quarterly Report
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Unofficial London Dock Strike
1 Item
Docks National
Committee
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Photocopy. Transport and General Workers’
Union
Represented: Transport and General Workers’
Union, National Union of General and Municipal
Workers, National Amalgamated Stevedores and
Dockers, Scottish Transport and General Workers’
Union, and Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union. W Leahy in Chair
Newspaper Article. Fragile
1 Item
Photocopy with Denis Delay’s notes
1 Item
Transport and
General Workers’
Record
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
World Federation of
Trade Unions
Docks Group
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Question of redundancy
1 Item
Photocopy. Assessing which countries are
Communist or non-Communist in vote
Photocopy. Transport and General Workers’
Union
1 Item
1 Item
3/E/25
28
1948
You are the Judges
3/E/26
28
1948
The Men’s Own Case
3/E/27
28
1948
Note
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
London Port Workers
Strike Committee
?
3/E/28
28
1948
Why Workers Should
Support Dockers Strike
Revolutionary
Communist Party
3/E/29
28
Jun 1948
?
3/E/30
28
Jun 1948
Appendix 1 Notices sent to
members of gang who
refused to unload zinc oxide
off the SS Themes.
Appendix 2 Notice printed
by W Millwall Dock Liaison
Committee
1948: Docks Strike: London
and Merseyside
3/E/31
28
1948
3/E/32
3/E/33
28
28
Jun 1948
Jun 1948
3/E/34
28
Jun 1948
3/E/35
28
Jun 1948
3/E/36
3/E/37
28
28
Jun 1948
Jun-Jul
1948
Official Co-ordinating
Committee
Dock Strike
Strike at Port of London
over disciplinary action by
the Dock Labour Board
Men on Strike and Ships
Affected
Minutes
Debates
Zinc Oxide Dock Strike
Leaflet
1 Item
Leaflet
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA LAB 10/783. Eleven
men suspended without pay for seven days
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/72. London
Dockers striking against the victimisation of eleven
of their brothers.
Photocopy
1 Item
Keesing’s
Contemporary
Archives
Government
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy from the TNA PREM 8/1086
1 Item
Government
Industrial Relations
Department
All Photocopies from the TNA NO 32/15476
All Photocopies from the TNA LAB 10/783. Port
Transport Industry. Transport and General
Workers’ Union. Regents Canal Dock Incident.
Photocopy from the TNA BK 2/72
3 Items
2 Items
Photocopy from the TNA PREM 8/1086
1 Item
Photocopy. Zinc Oxide Dock Strike June 1948
All Photocopies from the TNA. MT 81/18 Dock
Labour Scheme. BK 2/72 London Strike – Appeal
Tribunal; National Dock Labour Board; Meeting;
11 Items
1 Folder
National Dock Labour
Board
Cabinet Emergencies
Committee
House of Commons
Government
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
3/E/38
28
Jun 1948
Minutes
3/E/39
3/E/40
28
28
3/E/41
28
Jun 1948
Sept
1948
1948
Bevin’s Discourtesy
The Case for the Men of
Silvertown Services
Appeal to all Port Workers
3/F/1
3/F/2
3/F/3
7
7
7
3/F/4
7
Jul 1949
Jul 1949
Aug
1949
Aug-Oct
1949
Strike, London Docks
Letter
Ammon’s “Showdown”
Exposed
Letters
3/F/5
7
Aug
1949
Report of Brothers C Cecil,
H Arnold, W Miller and
Saddington given to Brother
Trades Union
Congress.
International
Committee
?
Trades Union
Congress
Trades Union
Congress
R J Mellish
?
London Port-workers’
Lockout Committee
London Central LockOut Committee and
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Emergency Powers; London Dock Strike. Chief of
Police Re: Joseph (Joe) Bloomberg, looking into
Bloomberg’s background. BK 2/269 Minutes,
National Dock Labour Board. CAB 128/13
Industrial Disputes. Dock Workers Strike. CAB
125/13 Industrial Disputes. CAB 130/38 Strike of
London Dock Workers; Germany Situation in
Berlin. Dock Workers Strike. PREM 8/1086
Emergency Organisation, Dock Strike; Ministry of
Food; London Dockworkers Strike. LAB 10/783
Sir Harold Wiles; London Dock Dispute; Port
Employers in London; Ministry of Labour and
National Service; Port Transport Industry; Appeal
Tribunals; Disciplinary Action
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy. Compulsory Overtime Case.
Silvertown Services Committee.
Hansard papers. Government
Photocopy. Reference to strike in June.
1 Item
Two letters. One hand-written and the second to
Arthur Bird, National Secretary, Transport and
General Workers’ Union
2 Items
Photocopy. Report of meeting at Canning Town
Hal called by the London Port Workers Lockout
Committee 7 August 1949
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Wells, Docks Officer
[Transport and General
Workers’ Union]
Docks Group Letter
3/F/6
7
Aug
1949
3/F/7
7
Aug
1949
Correspondence to Mr E
Dickens
3/F/8
7
Union Membership
3/F/9
7
Sept
1949
Sept
1949
3/F/10
7
Sept
1949
Report for Quarter
3/F/11
7
Dec
1949
Correspondence R C
Neagle, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union
3/F/12
7
1949
3/F/13
7
Apr 1949
Ammon’s “Showdown”
Exposed
Redraft Press Release.
London Dock Strike
Correspondence to
Members of Docks Group
Committee
Arthur Bird, National
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
T W Condon,
Secretary, Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
J N Haworth
T O’Leary, Acting
Secretary, Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
T O’Leary, Acting
Secretary, Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
W Newman,
Secretary, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
London Port-workers’
Lockout Committee
National Dock Labour
Board
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy. McGregor, Gow and Holland Ltd, Hull
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
2 Items
Photocopy
1 Item
Part of the Ineffectives Strike. The ineffectives
were those who were either too old or disabled in
some manor to be able to carry out their duties
effectively.
1 Item
3/F/14
7
Oct 1950
Minutes and Record of a
Special Meeting
Membership of the National
Board
Docks National
Committee
Unions
Photocopy. Ineffectives Strike.
1 Item
3/F/15
7
3/F/16
7
Nov
1948-Apr
1949
Apr 1949
Various letters and meetings about membership of
the National Dock Labour Board relating to
ineffectives strike
All Photocopies from the TNA, all relating to the
ineffectives strike. PREM 8/1085 letters to
Clement Attlee; London Dock Strike. LAB 10/831
Statement by the Ministry of Labour and National
Services made to the press 13 April 1949; Dock
Strike: Stevedores; Ministry of Labour and
National Service, Port Transport; Memorandum of
Meeting. LAB 16/201 Dock Strike. BK 2/255.
CAB 134/126 the London Dock Strike; meeting of
the Emergencies Committee. MT 81/18 notes by
Mr Beagley.
Personal Records. Details of Registration Number
and working history. Personal Details of two
dockers
All photocopies. Various correspondence relating
to Communist Activity within the dockers unions
and the Canadian Seamen’s Strike
Report prepared for George A. Isaacs, Member of
Parliament, Minister of Labour and National
Service
Unofficial London Docks Strike (1949). Note Joe
Blomberg and Jack Dash present.
5 Items
Ineffectives Strike
Government
3/F/17
7
?
J, Harrison and Victor Frank
Marney
?
3/F/18
7
Aug-Sept Communist Activity in
1949
Dockers’ Unions
Various
3/F/19
7
19491950
National Dock Labour
Board
3/F/20
7
Dec
1949
3/F/21
7
3/G/1
7
Dec
1949Mar
1950
Mar
1950
A Report on Dock
Amenities in Certain Ports
of the United Kingdom
Report of the Special
Committee appointed under
the terms of the decision
recorded in minute no. 1125
Unofficial London Docks
Strike (1949)
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Correspondence and Report
12 Items
Docks Group
National Secretary,
Transport and
Letter
1 Item
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
1 Folder
2 Items
15 Items
I Item
1 Item
3/G/2
7
Mar
1950
Permanent Gangs
3/G/3
7
Mar
1950
Mass Meeting
3/G/4
7
Mar-Apr
1950
London Docks Strike
3/G/5
7
1950
3/G/6
7
May
1950
The Danger from
Agreements that Create
Regular Gangs on a
Permanent Basis
Permanent Gangs
3/G/7
7
May
1950
3/G/8
7
May
1950
3/G/9
7
Jun
1950
Conciliation Machinery and
Procedure in the Port of
London
Special Executive Council
Meeting
Correspondence between
Arthur Bird, National
Secretary, Docks Group. R
Barrett, General Secretary,
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union and W. Lindley,
General Workers’
Union
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Government
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Leaflet
1 Item
Photocopy. Leaflet
1 Item
Inter-Departmental Memorandum, list of
requirements and docks worked, correspondence
with Arthur Bird, National Secretary and T W
Condon, Secretary, Docks Group
Leaflet
1 Folder
Leaflet
1 Item
Photocopy. LAB 10/1244 Port Transport Industry
and Port of London Local Joint Committee
1 item
Photocopy
1 Item
1 Item
3 Items
General Secretary,
Watermen, Lightermen,
Tugmen and Bargemen’s
Union
Open Letter to all Branch
Secretaries
3/G/10
7
Jul 1950
3/G/11
7
Jul 1950
Correspondence to P J
O’Hare, Liverpool
3/G/12
7
Feb-Sept
1950
Minutes for Mass Meetings
held at Public Hall Canning
Town 11 Feb and 7 Sept
1950
3/G/13
7
Sept
1950
3/G/14
7
Sept
1950
3/G/15
7
Oct 1950
Correspondence with Arthur
Bird and Mass Meeting
Leaflet
Notice: Shift Workmen’s
Facilities New
Arrangements
Re-Called National Docks
Delegate Conference
3/G/16
7
3/G/17
7
Jul-Oct
1950
Oct 1950
Debates in House of
Commons
Mass Meeting
3/G/18
7
1950
3/G/19
7
Aug
Docks Group. Shaw Savill
and Albion Company,
Limited
Unofficial Activity. Letter to
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
National Secretary,
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Combined Executive
Council, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers?
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
National Dock Labour
Board
Re branch at Silvertown Services
1 Item
Regarding Port Workers Defence Committee in
London
1 Item
Handwritten minutes. First meeting deals with
suspension of General Secretary, T. Barrett.
Second meeting - wages
2 Items
Letter to A Bird and Leaflet for Mass Meeting held
in Poplar regarding Trade Unionists in Liverpool,
Birkenhead and Hull.
Photocopy of leaflet
2 Items
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Government
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy
6 Items
London Port Workers
Committee
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
P J O’Hare, Liverpool
Leaflet
1 Item
Leaflet
3 Items
Birkenhead, Merseyside
1 Item
1 Item
1950
A. Bird
Correspondence about
unofficial activity in
Birkenhead
List of Meetings being held
3/G/20
7
Sept
1950
3/G/21
7
3/G/22
7
Sept
1950
Sept
1950
3/G/23
7
3/G/24
Correspondence about
unofficial activities (Brother
A Khal)
Grimsby Telegraph
7
Sept
1950
Oct 1950
3/G/25
7
Oct 1950
Minutes of Meeting
3/G/26
7
Oct 1950
Correspondence with Arthur
Bird and minutes
3/G/27
7
Oct
The Great Sell Out
Correspondence to Brother
F Agnew
Acting District
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
?
Arthur Bird, National
Secretary, Docks
Group and S Mahon,
Regional Secretary,
Region no. 12,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Merseyside Port
Workers Committee
Arthur Bird, National
Secretary, Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Emergency SubCommittee of the
Regional Committee
(Region No. 12),
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
District Secretary,
Port Workers’
Committee
Merseyside Port
Merseyside
4 Items
Birkenhead, Merseyside
1 Item
Liverpool, Merseyside
1 Item
Merseyside
1 Item
Handwritten letter from Agnew. Birkenhead,
Merseyside.
3 items
Liverpool ? Merseyside
1 Item
Merseyside Port Workers Committee
2 Items
Merseyside
1 Item
3/G/28
7
1950
Oct-Nov
1950
3/G/29
7
Jan 1950
3/G/30
7
Jan 1950
3/G/31
7
Mar
1950
3/G/32
7
Apr 1950
3/G/33
7
1950
Statement of Appeal to
Transport and General
Workers’ Union Against
Expulsion
Notes from Inquiry?
3/G/34
7
Jul 1950
3/G/35
7
Jan-May
1950
Correspondence Docks
Section (Unofficial
Movement)
Workers Committee
S Mahon, Regional
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Merseyside
2 Items
Inquiry
1 Item
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Inquiry
1 Item
Arthur Bird, National
Secretary, Docks
Group. Transport and
General Workers’
Union
E Dickens
Report of the Special Committee. Inquiry
2 Items
Special Supplement. Inquiry
1 Item
Photocopy from the Modern Records Centre MSS
126/T6/3 Box 30/1
1 Item
Smithfield Strike
Transport and
General Workers’
Union?
Government
2 Items
London Docks
Government
All photocopies from the TNA. CAB 128/18 Strike
of Smithfield Drivers. CAB 129/41 The Smithfield
Strike, Memorandum by the Home Secretary
All photocopies from the TNA. CAB 134/177
London Docks; Ban on overtime; Token ban on
overtime; Unofficial Port Workers Defence
Committee; Unofficial ban on overtime; Port of
London; London Docks. CAB 134/178 official
Unofficial London Docks
Strike. Terms of Reference
to Special Executive
Committee of Inquiry
Report of the Area No. 1
Secretary to the General
Executive Council’s
Committee of Inquiry into
the Unofficial London Dock
Strikes
Correspondence and
Unofficial London Docks
Strike
1 Folder
3/G/36
7
Jan 1950
Minutes of meeting
3/G/37
3/G/38
7
7
Jul 1950
May-Jul
1950
Debates
Dock Strikes, Stoppages,
Smithfield Strike
3/G/39
7
Jul-Dec
1950
Dock Strikes
Trades Union
Congress
Government
Government
Government
committee on emergencies. CAB 128/17 London
Dock Strike. CAB 129/39 Stoppage in the London
Docks. LAB 10/943 Minutes of Meeting; Strike
threat over plan of operate a system of permanent
men; Permanent Gangs; Port Employers in
London; Emergencies Committee; Shaw, Savill
and Albion, Stevedores Dispute. LAB 10/940
Ministerial Committee on Emergencies. BK
2/1086. BK 2/270 National Dock Labour Board
All Photocopies
Photocopy
All Photocopies from the TNA. CAB 134/78
Official Committee on Emergencies, Operation of
Ports during an emergency. PREM 8/1289 Dock
Stoppages; The working of the Dock Labour
Scheme. CAB 13/177 Emergencies Committee.
CAB 134/178 Official Committee on Emergencies.
CAB 129/40 Illegal Strikes. CAB 128/17 Industrial
Disputes. CAB 128/18 Smithfield Strike. LAB
13/690. LAB 10/989 Smithfield Strike.
All Photocopies from the TNA. CAB 129/41
Subversive Activities in Connection with the
fulfilment of his Majesty’s obligations in pursuance
of the United Nations Charter; Overseas
operations (Security of Forces Bill). CAB 128/18
Interference with Military supplies; Industrial
Disputes. CAB 132/15 London Dock Amenities.
CAB 124/1196. CAB 124/1194 Legal Action in
Connection with Unofficial Strike. CAB 129/42
Legal Action in Connection with unofficial Strikes;
Overseas operations (Security of Forces Bill).
CAB 129/43 Illegal Strikes. CAB 130/63 Overseas
Operations (Security of Forces Bill). CAB 130/64
Draft of broadcast by the Minister of Labour and
2 Items
1 Item
1 Folder
1 Folder
3/G/40
7
Apr 1950
London Dock Strike
Government
3/G/41
7
Oct 1950
Correspondence with Arthur
Bird
3/G/42
7
Oct 1950
Minutes of Meeting
3/H/1
20
1951
3/H/2
20
Apr 1951
3/H/3
20
1951
3/H/4
20
Feb
1951
The Seven in the Dock,
We’re out of the Docks
Information Received from
the National Dock Labour
Board
Review of the National
Trade Groups and National
Trade Sections
Operation of National Dock
Labour Scheme
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Re-Called National
Docks Delegate
Conference
Port Workers’
Committee, London
National Dock Labour
Board
3/H/5
20
Feb
1951
Re-Called National Docks
Delegate Conference
3/H/6
20
Feb
1951
All members to stay in work
3/H/7
20
Feb
Representatives of the
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
The Journal of
Commerce and
Shipping Telegraph
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Royal Group of Docks
and National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
??
National Service; Legal measures to be taken
about unofficial strikes. CAB 134/177 Ministerial
Committee on Emergencies. LAB 10/989
All photocopies from the TNA. WO32/15476
London Dock Strike Situation Reports number 1 to
number 8; list of definitions agreed by the National
Dock Labour Board.
All Photocopies
1 Folder
3 Items
Transport and General Workers’ Union
1 Item
Leaflet. Seven arrested brothers stand trial at the
Old Bailey
Report of meeting held at Tower Hill 9 April 1951.
Urged workers to return work. Seven dockers
standing trial
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy
1 Item
Chair: Brother T Richards. Unions represented:
Transport and General Workers’ Union; National
Union of General and Municipal Workers; National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers: and
Scottish Transport and General Workers’ Union
Leaflets. Leaflet and copy from the National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers; president:
H W Whitewood and General Secretary: R Barrett.
Docks Group leaflet from Docks Group Secretary
T W Condon
Note on event
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
3 Items
1 Item
1951
Liverpool Dockers in
London calling for support
The issue of ‘ships pokers’
in the employ of the Blue
Funnel Line
3/H/8
20
Feb
1951
3/H/9
20
Information on stoppages
3/H/10
20
Feb
1951
Mar
1951
3/H/11
20
Apr 1951
Meeting at Tower Hill
3/H/12
20
Jun 1951
3/H/13
20
May
1951
Statement on Causes of
Dispute at the Manchester
Docks
Joint Executive Meeting
3/H/14
20
Jun 1951
Conditions of Employment
and National Arbitration
Order 1305
Minute No. 481: London
Ships (Tally) Clerks
General Secretary,
Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union. Bill Lindley ??
National Dock Labour
Board
Correspondence of R
Barrett, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers and W
Lindley, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
Wally Jones –
Chairman
Manchester Port
Workers Committee
Transport and
General Workers’
Union and the
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Trades Union
Congress
Two letters to the National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers and the Transport and
General Workers’ Union about ‘ships pokers’ in
the employ of the Blue Funnel Line. The practise
of ‘ships pokers’ moving craft without a lighterman
in attendance
2 Items
1 Item
4 letters
4 Items
Note on event. Other industries joining the
dockers striking on issue of 1305 such as Bus
drivers and conductors, Road Transport Workers
and Festival of Britain Workers
Booklet
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
Photocopy.
1 Item
Unofficial Dispute – Region
No. 1
Correspondence
3/H/15
20
Jun 1951
3/H/16
20
19471951
Dock Strikes
3/H/17
20
Jun 1951
3/H/18
20
Jun 1951
3/H/19
20
Jun 1951
Report of Committee of
Inquiry into unofficial
stoppages in the London
Docks
Extract of Minutes of
Meeting: Allocation to
Sunday Work
Unofficial Stoppages at the
London Docks
3/H/20
20
Jun 1951
Unofficial Stoppages at the
London Docks
3/H/21
20
Jul-Nov
1951
3/H/22
20
Jul 1951
Extracts from Reports
submitted to the Docks
Group Secretary and
National Secretary
Correspondence
3/H/23
20
Sept
Schemes for Regulated
W Lindley, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen,
and Bargemen’s
Union and R Barrett,
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
National Dock Labour
Board
Finances and General
Purposes Committee,
Trades Union
Congress?
National Joint Council
Executive Committee
Two letters. Action to try and convene a National
Delegates Conference of Port Registered Workers
2 Items
Two letters and four years of dock strikes. The
ports the strikes were held and the number of
days.
Photocopy
7 Items
1 Item
1 Item
Sir Vincent Tewson,
General Secretary,
Trades Union
Congress
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
W Bloe. Transport
and General Workers’
Union?
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy. Response to previous item 3/E/19
1 Item
General Secretary,
Trades Union
Congress
National Dock Labour
Gangs of Stevedores and Dockers in the
Commercial Dock working all night.
1 Item
Letter and copies of scheme.
3 Items
2 Items
1951
Call-on of Labour in the
Surrey Dock and Royal
Docks in times of acute
labour shortage
Statement of Income and
Expenditure for Quarter
Ending
3/H/24
20
Sept
1951
3/H/25
20
Oct 1951
Correspondence Re:
Voluntary Lightermen
3/H/26
20
Nov
1951
Tilbury Dockers Fight
Against Permanency
3/H/27
20
Nov
1951
Brothers, This concerns
You!
3/H/28
20
1951
No. 2 Docks Divisional
Committee
3/H/29
20
Dec
1951
Activities of National
Amalgamated Stevedores
and Dockers Union in
Tilbury Dock
3/H/30
20
3/H/31
20
3/H/32
20
Dec
1951
Dec
1951
1951
Overtime. Extract from
Minutes of Meeting
Speech for mass meeting,
Canning Town
Personal Writing
Board
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
R Barrett, General
Secretary, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
S Wilkins, Chairman
of Tilbury Docks,
Working Committee
W H Southgate,
Tilbury Docks,
Working Committee
L J Wells, Divisional
Officer, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Transport and
General Workers’
Union and National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
National Joint Council
Executive Committee
Bill Lindley??
Joseph Sealey, Docks
District Secretary of
1 Item
Letter to W Lindley, General Secretary, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen’s Union
1 Item
Leaflet
1 Item
Leaflet
1 Item
Leaflet
1 Item
Correspondence between W Bloe and Arthur Bird.
Leaflet on Important and Urgent Meeting in
Canning Town with an agenda: Report on present
position. Policy of the future.
4 Items
London – Action by National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Denis Delay writes that it is almost certainly by Bill
Lindley.
Joseph Sealey also Chairman for the year 1951 of
the National Dock Labour Board (Merseyside
1 item
1 Item
1 item
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
3/H/33
20
Mar
1951
Letter to Arthur Bird,
National Secretary,
Transport and General
Workers’ Union
3/H/34
20
Jan 1951
Bulletin
3/H/35
20
Dec
1950 –
Apr 1951
Correspondence
3/H/36
20
Jan 1951
Letter: Docks Position
3/H/37
20
Birkenhead
3/H/38
20
Feb
1951
Feb
1951
3/H/39
20
Feb
1951
Correspondence
To all Registered Dock
Workers, Liverpool and
Birkenhead
Joseph Sealey,
District Secretary,
Liverpool, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Merseyside Port
Workers’ Committee
Joseph Sealey,
District Secretary,
Liverpool, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
S Mahon, Regional
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
?
S Mahon, Regional
Secretary and J
Sealey, District
Secretary Transport
and General Workers’
Union
P J O’Hare, Branch
Secretary, Liverpool
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Area) and member of the Executive Committee of
the National Joint Industrial Council for the Port
Transport Industry. Resides in Liverpool.
Composition of council. Notes on outcome of
application for a substantial increase in wages by
the Dock Delegate Conference.
Letter about the recent strike on wage increases
and his forthcoming appearance at the Old Bailey
1 Item
Leaflet
1 Item
Letters, press cuttings and leaflets
1 Folder
Unofficial meetings held in Liverpool at Gladstone
Dock
1 Item
Stoppage at Birkenhead
2 Items
Leaflet
1 Item
Handwritten letter to Arthur Deakin. Leaflet:
Statement by The Port Workers’ Committee
2 Items
3/H/40
20
Feb-Mar
1951
Apr 1951
Minutes
20
Nov
1951
Jun 1950
– Dec
1951
Mass Meeting, Picton Hall,
26 November
Leggett Committee
Liverpool Dock
Labour Board
Arthur Bird, National
Secretary, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Merseyside Port
Workers’ Committee
Various
3/H/41
20
3/H/42
20
3/H/43
3/H/44
20
1951?
Order 1305
Various
3/H/45
20
Jan –
Jun 1951
Order 1305
Government
3/H/46
20
Jan 1951
Minutes
Committee on the
London Docks
3/H/47
20
1951
Dock Strikes
?
3/H/48
20
1951
Average Weekly Gross
?
SS Rippingham Grange
1 Item
Memorandum
1 Item
Leaflet
1 Item
All Photocopies. Extracts from Minutes of Meeting
of the London Ship-Owners’ Dock Labour
Committee. Correspondence with Sir John
Hobhouse. Meeting report. Correspondence of R
Barrett, General Secretary, National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers. Report of Committee of
inquiry into unofficial stoppages in London.
Leaflet: An Open Letter to All Trade Unionists by
Albert Knight, Secretary, Joint Trade Union
Defence Committee. Photocopies: Extracts of
Trades Union Congress meetings on National
Arbitration Order; Revision of Order 1305.
Minutes of Third and Fourth Meetings of Trades
Union Congress
All Photocopies. TNA CAB 134/179 Dock Strike.
CAB 134/177 Arbitration Order. Letter from Martin
Hill and H E Gorick, joint secretaries, General
Council of British Shipping to A Barnes, MP
Minister of Parliament concerning Dock Labour in
the United Kingdom. Photocopy of extract from
The Braddocks
Photocopy from the TNA LAB101/222 covering:
Canadian Seamen’s Strike, Wages, Decisions to
Strike, Stevedores and Dockers
List of Strikes across the country, number of men
involved, duration cause or object for strike
Photocopy. Earnings for Dockers, Lightermen and
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
3/H/49
20
1951
Earnings
Ballot Paper and note
3/H/50
3/I/1
20
20
1951
Jan 1952
Looking
Correspondence
3/I/2
20
Jan 1952
Cargo Handling
3/I/3
20
Jan 1952
Letter
3/I/4
20
3/I/5
20
3/I/6
20
Feb
1952
Feb
1952
Feb
1952
Delay in Docks Unity
Mystery
Inter-Departmental
Correspondence
Concerns over the method
of conducting the
proceedings when a
member is charged with an
offence and summoned
before a Divisional or Trade
Committee and minuting the
results
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Sir David Burnet
W Lindley, General
Secretary, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
& Bargemen’s Union,
N Newman,
Secretary, Stevedores
Section, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores & Dockers
Port of London
Authority
Stevedores
Ballot Paper for Area No. 12. Note about men
leaving.
2 Items
Photocopy
Letters in response to letter from J A Finzi Layman
& Co. Ltd regarding whether stevedores could
work barges in the absence of the lightermen
1 Item
4 Items
Notes of Meeting held at the Head Office. Port
Operating Statistics. Three letters. Two copies of
Cargo Handling and the slow turnaround of ships
compared with pre-war. Notes on the issue with
the example of William. Cory & Son Ltd
Photocopy. Relationships between unions.
8 Items
R Barrett, General
Secretary, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores & Dockers
Daily Worker
Photocopy. Newspaper Article
1 Item
Trades Union
Congress
Divisional Officers –
Docks Group. Docks
Group Secretary
1 Item
Photocopy. Regarding above Daily Worker article
‘Delay in Dock Unity Mystery.
Letter outlines the procedure. 8 letters are also
attached about the document.
1 Item
9 Items
3/I/7
20
Feb
1952
Arbitration on Wages and
Conditions in the Docks
Industry
Case of P McDonnell
Treasury Reporter
Order 1305
1 Item
3/I/8
20
Feb
1952
Various
6 Items
Mar
1952
Meeting and letter
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
20
Mar
1952
Unofficial Stoppages in the
London Docks
3/I/11
20
Mar
1952
Photocopy
1 Item
3/I/12
20
20
3/I/14
20
Jul 1952
Analysis of Gross Earnings of Pool Men, not
Permanent Men, who were on the London PayRoll throughout the fifty-two weeks for 1950, 1951
and 1952
All photocopies. Letters are from unions and from
Trades Councils either seeking information or
setting out resolutions on the dispute
Letters concerning Transport and General
Workers’ Union in the Wapping Area
contemplating taking action against men working
at Colonial Wharf. Two stapled sets of letters, six
1 Item
3//13
Mar
1950Mar
1952
Jun 1952
Extract from Hull Daily Mail
and Extract from Yorkshire
Post
Analysis of Gross Earnings
of Pool Men
Assistant Secretary to
Sir Robert Gould,
Ministry of Labour and
National Service
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
?
Correspondence relating to the case of P
McDonnell, Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union against H Hennesey, National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union.
Hennesey hit McDonnell, because McDonnell
wanted to move the barge and work on a different
part of it.
Letter to Arthur Deakin, General Secretary
regarding the National Amalgamated Stevedores
and Dockers Union. Report to General Executive
Council – March 1953. Relates back to the
Wages Delegate Conference in February 1952.
Photocopy. Re-Called National Docks Delegate
Conference.
Photocopy
3//I/9
20
3/I/10
Letters from unions and
from Trades Councils
Various
Letters from unions
Various
2 Items
2 Items
5 Items
13 Items
3/I/15
20
Jul 1952
Redundancy is Looming in
Surrey Docks
Letter and review of
financial position
Communist Party
3/I/16
20
Jul 1952
3/I/17
20
Jul 1952
3/I/18
20
Sept
1952
Proposed Amendments
3/I/19
20
Sept
1952
3/I/20
20
Sept
1952
De-nationalising Road
Transport and
demonstration on 12
September 1952
Open letter
3/I/21
20
Sept
1952
3/I/22
20
1952?
3/I/23
20
Oct 1952
3/I/24
20
Oct 1952
3/I/25
20
Dec
1952
Whose Cause Should
Trade Union Leaders
Defend?
A Suggested Programme
for Democratic Reform
Revival of the Dockers
Charter by the Communist
Party
Minutes of meeting
Labour Position in Docks
duplicates.
Press Cutting. Fragile
1 Item
National Dock Labour
Board
Docks Group
Liverpool, Transport
and General Workers’
Union and Communist
Party
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Photocopies TNA
2 Items
Communist Party Leaflet and correspondence
between the Docks Group and Transport and
General Workers’ Union
3 Items
Photocopy of proposed amendments, Rule 18,
Rule 2. Voting paper.
1 Item
Letter about the demonstration at Liverpool.
Sample page of petition.
2 Items
Docks Group,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Trades Union
Congress
Worries over the recession in trade and the
consequent underemployment of members in the
Docks Industry
1 Item
Photocopy of leaflet
1 Item
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Manchester Ship
Canal Company
Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy. Letter and copy of report of
Communist Party Meeting on Sunday, 28
September 1952.
Photocopy. TNA BK2/199
2 Items
Two letters
2 Items
South London Press
National Dock Labour
Board
R Barrett, General
Secretary, National
1 Item
3/I/26
20
Dec
1952
Minutes of meeting
3/I/27
20
Aug –
Dec
1952
Monthly Reports
3/J/1
20
Feb
1953
Letter about meeting
3/J/2
20
Apr 1953
Disciplinary Procedure
3/IJ/3
20
Apr 1953
Alterations for the Dock
Labour Scheme
3/J/4
20
Apr 1953
Labour Force – London
3/J/5
20
May
1953
Height of Timber Stacks
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers and W
Lindley, General
Secretary, Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
Workpeople’s side of
the National Joint
Council for the Port
Transport Industry
Docks Group
Committee, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
T W Condon, Docks
Group Secretary,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
National Dock Labour
Board
National Dock Labour
Board
National Dock Labour
Board
R Barrett General
Secretary, National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union and W
Lindley, General
Secretary, Watermen,
Photocopy. MSS/126/TG2/BOX37
1 Item
5 Items
Photocopy. Meeting between Transport and
General Workers’ Union and National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers at Surrey
Dock Office.
1 Item
All photocopies. TNA LAB8 2112 letter and court
proceedings
Disciplinary Proceedings and suggested
alterations to the scheme. Explanatory
Memorandum. All items stapled together.
All photocopies. TNA BK 2/787 letter and chart of
Labour Position – 57 weeks ended 9 May 1953
2 Items
4 Items
2 Items
2 Items
3/J/6
20
Jul 1953
Report
3/J/7
20
Aug
1953
SS Themoni
3/J/8
20
Sept
1953
Information to All Members
3/J/9
20
Oct 1953
Stoppage of Work –
Birkenhead
3/J/10
20
Oct 1953
Dock Strike – Liverpool
3/J/11
20
Feb –
Dec
1953
Correspondence
3/J/12
20
Dec
Industrial Disputes
Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemen’s
Union
Docks Group
Committee, Transport
and General Workers’
Union
Various
Dockers Section.
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
P. O’Hare, National
Secretary, Docks
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Ian Parkin, National
Dock labour Board
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers and
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
Government
1 Item
SS Themoni arrived with a cargo of 10,200 tons of
refined sugar in linen bags to be discharged by
Port London Authority labour. ‘Blues’ tried to
‘muscle in’ and renegotiate. Lightermen then
refused cargo and subsequent dispute broke out
related back to SS Beaverbrae dispute.
Photocopies from the TNA LAB 10/1244 Port
Transport Industry
Leaflet
1 Folder
Photocopy
1 Item
Letter
1 Item
Letters discussing the Amalgamation, Federation
and Transfer of Membership Agreement from the
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers to
the Transport and General Workers’ Union. The
Transport and General Workers’ Union refer to the
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
as an ‘ad hoc’ committee.
Photocopy TNA PREM 11/1026
17 Items
1 Item
1 Item
1953
Jan 1954
3/K/1
15/4
6
Important Mass Meeting
National
Relations between unions in the docks. Leaflet
Amalgamated
Stevedores & Dockers
Transport and
Relations between unions in the docks
General Workers’
Union
Daily Worker
Public meeting at Hyde Park on Saturday with
Harry Pollitt.
1 Item
3/K/2
15/4
6
Jan 1954
Report of the Special
Committee
3/K/3
15/4
6
May
1954
3/K/4
15/4
6
1954
3/K/5
15/4
6
1954
No need for slump or war –
Unite to Clear the Tories
Out!
London Area: Average
Weekly Gross Earnings of
Daily Workers
Report on Northern Branch
Books
National Dock Labour
Board
Relations between unions in the docks
1 Item
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
E G Ornbo, Hull ?
Ports covered: Birkenhead. Manchester, Hull,
Liverpool. Relations between unions in the docks
1 Item
3/K/6
15/4
6
Sept
1954
Letter to A Bird, National
Dock Group Secretary,
Transport and General
Workers’ Union
Refers to smaller Hull Master Stevedores’
Association, which has only 8 members.
Association within the Hull Association of Port
Labour Employers with about 180 members.
Relations between unions in the docks
Copy of TUC document on relations between
unions in the docks
1 Item
3/K/7
15/4
6
Oct 1954
Trades Union
Congress
3/K/8
15/4
Oct-Nov
1954
Report on Committee of
Inquiry into unofficial
stoppages in the London
Docks
Minutes of Meetings/Diary
Photocopy. Handwritten minutes and diary.
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers.
Birkenhead and Transport House
Photocopy. Entitled: Yourselves and the National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers. Relations
between unions in the docks
3 Items
3/K/9
15/4
6
Oct 1954
Letter to Sir Vincent
Tewson, Trades Union
Congress
3/K/10
15/4
Oct 1954
Letter to Arthur Deakin,
Arthur Deakin,
General Secretary,
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
R Head ? Regional
Entitled: Stoppage – Hull Docks. National
1 Item
Mick Byrns ?
1 Item
1 Item
1 item
1 Item
6
3/K/11
3/K/12
15/4
6
15/4
6
3/K/13
15/4
6
3/K/14
15/4
6
General Secretary,
Transport and General
Workers’ Union
Secretary, Hull
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
J Johnstone
Dec
1954
Sept
1954 –
Mar
1955
Jan –
Dec
1954
Dock Industry: Liverpool
and Birkenhead Docks
Members Lapsed Out
Confederation of Unions
Various Unions
Jan –
Oct 1954
Pre-Overtime Strike.
Relationships between
Unions. Hull Dock Strike
Various Unions
London Docks
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers had
meeting to go out on strike. Relations between
unions in the docks
Photocopy TNA LAB 10 1506. Relations between
unions in the docks
Royal Group and Tilbury. Relations between
unions in the docks
1 item
Proposed Confederation of Dock Unions.
Confederation Ballot, 18 July 1954. Various
letters between the unions on this matter.
Proposed Constitution and Constitution. Mass
Meeting Notes, handwritten. Report of Joint
Meeting of the Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen
and Bargemens Union, National Amalgamated
Stevedore and Dockers Union, and the Transport
and General Workers’ Union, held in Glasgow,
handwritten and two copies of typed notes. Copy
of the Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union Ballot Form. Meeting of the
Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen’s
Union, Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers,
Scottish Transport and General Workers’ Union on
7 to 9 May at Glasgow.
Hull Dock Strike over the discharge of bulk grain
SS Argaddon. Transport and General Workers’
Union: Parnell’s Report on Hull Dock Strike;
Region No. 6 Docks Group Executive Inquiry. Hull
Dock Workers’ application to join the National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union.
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers:
Mass Meeting; Amendments to Scheme; Scheme
Alterations; National Joint Council. Scottish
1 Folder
1 Item
1 Folder
3/K/15
15/4
6
1954
Dispute over ‘poaching’
Transport and General
Workers’ Union and the
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union
Trades Union
Congress??
Transport and General Workers’ Union: Payments
Scheme; Wage Increases. BBC Broadcast on
Stevedores Union Extract from the minutes and
record of the Irish Docks Conference advising Irish
Dockers not to drift into the National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers but to stay united in the
Transport and General Workers’ Union.
Transport and General Workers’ Union Minutes
Two telegrams: both to Arthur Bird one about
token strike in Salford and other about
reinstatement of victimised Manchester Brothers.
Photocopies: Trades Union Congress: Rules and
Standing Orders Rule 13 Conduction of Affiliated
Organisations; pamphlet ‘Relationships between
Union’; Disputes Committee heard complaints by
Transport Workers against Stevedores of taking
dissatisfied members into the Union: Report to
General Executive Council, March 1953;
London Stoppage of Work SS Haparingi over the
discharge of meat. London’s position.
Docks Group Report. Docks Group (Liverpool –
Hull). Dock Labour Situation Port of Liverpool.
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers:
Bridlington Recommendations. Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen’s Union:
membership of National Joint Council for the Port
Transport Industry. Transport and General
Workers’ Union: Hull Docks Dispute
All Photocopies. National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers threat to strike for
recognition. National Amalgamated Stevedores
and Dockers were ‘poaching’ unionists from the
Transport and General Workers’ Union. Award
made by the Disputes Committee. National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers in breach
3 Items
3/K/16
15/4
6
1954
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
3/K/17
15/4
6
Jan –
Dec
1954
Overtime Strike leading to
the out-casting of the
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Various Unions and
Government
of Clause 5 of the Bridlington Agreement.
History and overview of the National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers and the northern ports
with the allegation of ‘poaching’ and the unions
wish for re-admission to the National Joint Council.
The question of overtime. Stevedores had a ban
on overtime. Leading on to the out-casting of the
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
Union from the Transport and General Workers’
Union. Handwritten note by Denis Delay. Minutes
of meeting between Watermen, Lightermen,
Tugmen and Bargemen’s union and the National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union.
National Association of Port Employers: London’s
overtime Ban and the National Amalgamated
Stevedore and Dockers. National Amalgamated
Stevedore and Dockers: Booklet on Overtime Ban;
Leaflet: Overtime – voluntary or compulsory;
Leaflet: Dockers, Stevedores, Deal Porters and
Clerks; Refusals to work overtime on Sunday;
Overtime. Voluntary or Compulsory. Scottish
Transport and General Workers’ Union: Scheme
Alterations. Transport and General Workers’
Union: Meeting ‘London – Overtime Ban –
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers’.
Leaflets: Statement to the Court of Inquiry
appointed by the Minister of labour; statement of
the history of the current dispute in the docks
given by T O’Leary; To all dock members of the
above union – A Reminder – What this dispute is
all about. Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and
Bargemen’s Union and National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers: Minutes, Report on
Overtime Ban; Leaflets: Mass Meetings; Extract
from evidence of W Lindley to the Court of Inquiry,
1 Item
1 Folder
London Docks Dispute 20-21 October; Glasgow
Report. National Transport and General Workers’
Union: Leaflet: Why they pick on us by Arthur
Deakin, The Unvarnished Truth, Birkett; Extract
from speech to be delivered by Arthur Deakin at
the Midland Festival of the Union, held at
Birmingham; To All Docks Members of the
Transport and General Workers’ Union. Food
Relief Committee: Income Account. National Dock
Labour Board: Disciplinary Action taken by the
London Local Board in respect of refusal to work
reasonable overtime and summary of disciplinary
action; Labour Report. Transport Union Liaison
Committee Statement. Trades Union Congress:
leaflets: The TUC says. Industrial Courts Act,
1919: Final Report of a Court of Inquiry into a
Dispute in the London Docks November 1954
Photocopies: TNA LAB 8 1995 Note. LAB
10/1277 Dock Labour Board Disciplinary
Procedure; Overtime ban in Port of London, Note
of Meeting on 19 and 13 August, 1954; London
Docks; Letter from Barrett to Deakin; London
Docks – Overtime Ban; Port Transport – London
Docks: Overtime Ban. National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers, Overtime. Voluntary or
Compulsory. PREM 11/1025 Dock Strike. CAB
134/859 Extract from LL (?); Strike of SPD Drivers;
Supplies of Foodstuffs; Dock Strike. CAB
134/857: Dock Strike. CAB 128/27 Docks. BK
2/83 National Dock Labour Board: Ban on
Overtime 1953/4; letter from Deakin to Barrett;
Ban on Overtime – London. PREM 11/1025
Supplies of Foodstuff; Dock Strike; Possible need
for the use of Service Labour. Note by the Home
Secretary; Industrial Courts Act 1919.
3/K/18
15/4
6
Oct –
Dec
1954
Post Overtime Strike
Government
Appointment of Court of inquiry and rules of
procedure. National Amalgamated Stevedores
and Dockers: Proposed formula to be presented to
the members for the replacement of men not able
to work overtime’ article; Leaflet: Right to Leisure
General Council: invited comments on paragraph
67 of the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into
unofficial stoppages in the London Docks;
Information to All Members. The Transport and
General Workers’ Union replied saying there was
no great difficulty; An Appeal to Common-sense
and Loyalty on the part of all Registered Port
Workers in the Port of Hull. The National
amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers thought
that a conference of the two unions should take
place. Port of London Authority. Royal Victoria,
Royal Albert and King George V Docks: position of
shipping at 8am 9 July 1954. Minutes: Overtime
Ban – London and Attendance Money and Fall
Back Guarantee. Trades Union Congress: Press
Reports. Modern Records Centre: handwritten
reports of meetings. Sermon preached by His
Eminence Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of
Westminster at mass attended by the Association
of Catholic Trade Unionists. Hansard papers:
London Docks (Strikes). Record, November 1954:
The Inside Story by Arthur Deakin. Joint
Portworkers Liaison Committee leaflet: The
overtime ban – make it 100%
All Photocopies from the TNA. HMC 3
correspondence; Minutes of Meetings of the
Ocean Shipowners Group Joint Committee;
National Dock Labour Board: Refusal to Work
Overtime, Reference under Clause 8 of the
Ammon Report; Minutes of Meeting of the Joint
1 Folder
3/L/1
15/1
0
Jan –
Jun 1955
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union Strike
Various
3/L/2
15/1
0
Jan – Jul
1955
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union Strike – The Betrayal
Strike
Various
Peacework sub committee
National Dock Labour Board: Employment of
Dockers at Merseyside – Opinion; Minute
references re: National Amalgamated Stevedores
and Dockers Union. Story of Pennington, acting
delegate for the National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers Union, at Merseyside
Photocopies: BK 2/220 memoirs of D Pickard. BK
2/485 Minutes of Local Dock Labour Board –
Liverpool Group and Manchester. BK 2/257
Minutes of National Dock Labour Board. PREM
11/3545 Prime Minister’s Brief for Deputation from
the Trades Union Congress General Council;
Threatened Dock Strike; Minutes; LAB 8/1995
Notes of meetings LAB 10/1506 Employers’
Association of the Port of Liverpool; National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers,
Birkenhead; Interview with Mr T Birkett, National
Officer of the Transport and General Workers’
Union about Dockers on the Merseyside. LAB
10/1374 Dock Strike
Economic League: A Communist Directive
Correspondence.
The Trades Union Congress disputes commission
demanded the expulsion of the northern men from
the ‘blue union’. In return the suspension of the
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
from the Trades Union Congress was to be lifted;
Statement: The Position in the North (2 copies).
Handwritten notes on the current situation in the
north and concerns in London. Minutes of Strike
Meetings. Handwritten: letter to Brother Bird; note
about leaflet issued by Dick Barrett and Barrett not
prepared to work with Aylward and Hurley;
statement from the Transport and General
1 Folder
1 Folder
Workers’ Union about the immediate amendment
to the overtime clause in the Dock Labour
Scheme; notes by Denis Delay? National Joint
Council for the Port Transport Industry Minutes,
Wage awards. Transport and General Workers’
Union correspondence and minutes; Leaflet: Not a
Penny Less than thirty bob; Wages, Salisbury, Hull
Dockers Leaflet; An Appeal to Common-sense
and Loyalty on the part of all Registered Port
Workers in the Port of Hull; Leaflet: To All Dock
Members. National Amalgamated Stevedores
and Dockers: Correspondence; Hull; Threatened
Strike National Dock Labour Board: Payment to
Union Officials; ‘A Scandalous Case of
Victimisation’ says Union Solicitor; American
Militants Support the ‘Blues’. Docks National
Committee: minutes National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers and Watermen,
Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen’s Union
minutes. Docks Group: Biennial Delegate
Conference Election 1955. Leaflet: A Call from
the Transport and General Workers’ Union Liaison
Committee to all Portworkers. Liverpool Controls
Representative Committee: Your Questions
Answered. Leaflet: To our London Brothers from
the Merseyside ‘Blues’.
Photocopies: Minutes of Strike Meetings. National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers:
Threatened Strike; Leaflets: Dockers Stevedores
Deal Porters OST Permanent Gangs Port Line
Ltd; Permanent Gangs – Port Line. Second
Conference of Representatives of all sections of
the Transport and General Workers’ Union.
Important Statement by Liverpool Portworkers
Committee. Situation in Liverpool, Birkenhead,
3/L/3
3/M/1
15/1
0
10
1955
Police Reports
Police
1955
Recognition Strike by the
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Various
Hull and London. Minutes of the First Meeting of
the National Committee. Leaflet: Apology and
Withdrawal. Extract from Port Workers News.
Statement of Accounts for the year ended
December 1954, General Council. An Economic
League Leaflet: Overtime. Memorandum
prepared by the Chief Police Officer of the Port of
London Authority. Manchester Ship Canal
Company, observations sent to the National
Association of Port Employers. Trades Union
Congress: Threatened Dock Strike – Press
Statement. Press Statements. LAB 10/1363
Docks meeting. Hull Joint Port Working
Committee: Constitution and Procedure. 85.289
regarding Francis Spring’s membership to the
Liverpool Area Branch, National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers.
Police Reports of Dock Meetings. Very Fragile.
Typed and handwritten description of the strike so
far. National Amalgamated Stevedores and
Dockers: Leaflet; letter to Hull, Liverpool,
Birkenhead, Garston and Manchester secretaries
regarding implementation of Trades Union
Congress Disputes Committee Decision; Reply to
Hull and Goole Dock Labour Board; letter to fellow
dockers in Glasgow; report on situation in
Liverpool. Executive Council Delegates, circular
letter. Transport and General Workers’ Union:
leaflets, minutes of meetings; Poaching activities;
Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen’s
Union and the National Amalgamated Stevedore
and Dockers. Mass meeting held at Canada Yard,
Surrey Commercial Dock. Close the Ranks: The
Lessons of the Strikes, leaflet
1 Folder
1 Folder
3/M/2
10
1955
Recognition Strike by the
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Government
3/M/3
10
1955
Post Recognition Strike by
the National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
and Devlin Inquiry
Various
Photocopies:
Transport and General Workers’ Union: meeting
Trades Union Congress: Press releases;
correspondence with National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers; Docks dispute; dispute
sub-committee; inter-departmental
correspondence to say that the National
Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
suspension from the Trades Union Congress was
lifted from noon on 20 June 1955; meeting;
Emergency Powers: The Emergency Regulations,
1955. National Amalgamated Stevedores and
Dockers report on members for breaking union
instructions. Press Office, Treasury: Effect of the
Rail and Dock Strikes on industry. Transport
Union Liaison Committee Statement.
All Photocopies from the TNA. CAB 134/860
Threatened Railway Strike; Emergency Committee
Meeting. LAB 8/1995. LAB 10/1392 Current
Industrial Relations Problems. LAB 10/1506 Dock
Strike – May-July 1955. LAB 10/1363 notes of
meetings between Ministry of Labour and Trades
Union Congress, various dates; Dock Dispute;
Dock Stoppage; Hull Report on 24 June, 17 June,
24 May of situation each morning; Telephone
conversation on Ourselves and the Transport and
General Workers’ Union. PREM 3545
correspondence; Stoppage of work by members of
the National Amalgamated Stevedores and
Dockers in support of claim for recognition
Note of Discussion with certain number 12 region
Docks Delegates Attending Union, Blackpool Dock
Committee, Blackpool. Docks Situation, letter
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
correspondence with William Lindley, Watermen,
1 Folder
1 Folder
3/N/1
37
1956
Post Recognition Strike and
Position in the North
Various
Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen’s Union.
Assessment of Liverpool, Hull, Birkenhead,
Garston and Manchester Docks; Minutes of Joint
Executive Council; Merseyside Area Minutes.
Handwritten note of Special Manchester Executive
Committee (?) Meeting with brother Freeman as
Chairman, regarding possibility of court action by
the Trade Union Council and who would pay.
Transport and General Workers’ Union, minutes
Scottish Transport and General Workers’ Union,
Glasgow Minute Dispute, correspondence and
Confederation, Docks Inquiry (Devlin Inquiry)
Minutes of Evidence. Transport and General
Workers’ Union, reorganisation at Liverpool.
Trades Union Congress minutes
The Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment)
Scheme, 1947, Minutes of Evidence.
Photocopies: Trades Union Congress: Minutes of
meetings. Transport and General Workers Record
September 1955; position of the docks at Hull,
Liverpool, Birkenhead, Manchester. London
Chamber of Commerce, Interim Report on the
Working of the London Docks
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers:
minutes and correspondence; Alywards report to
the Merseyside Sectional Committee. Terms of
the Bridlington Agreement, which governs the
transfer of British trade union membership, to
prevent them poaching each other’s members.
Docks National Committee: Quarterly report on
Liverpool, Birkenhead, Garston, Manchester and
Hull. Copy of leaflet distributed in the Royal Group
of Docks: Ocean Shipowners Group Joint
Committee ‘Increased Efficiency Proposals’.
Reports and flyers on local meetings: Mersey
1 Folder
3/N/2
37
Feb –
Dec
1956
Minutes of Meetings
3/N/3
37
Nov
1956 –
Jan 1957
19431957
National Amalgamated
Stevedore and Dockers
Union Enquiry
Various Correspondence
and meetings
3/O/1
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Trades Union
Congress
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Café, Civic Centre, Poplar, Greenwich. National
Joint Council Executive Committee meeting
minutes. Extract from ‘Tribune’: ‘We Fight’.
Transport and General Workers’ Union: minutes,
letters and official note of discussion with
representatives of the Watermen, Lightermen,
Tugmen and Bargemen’s union.
Merseyside Docks Membership
Agreement between Transport and General
Workers’ Union and the National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers 6 January. Trades Union
Congress: meeting
Photocopies: National Amalgamated Stevedores
and Dockers: correspondence, minutes. Trades
Union Congress: Docks Situation Liverpool and
Birkenhead, minutes. George William Cooper and
John Allen: Hearing before the appeal tribunal of
the Liverpool Dock Labour Board, 8 February.
Both appealing against decision of the Local
Board which dismissed them for refusing to work
with Fay. Executive Council Minutes
Transport and General Workers’ Union:
correspondence. Daily Worker article.
24 February to 28 December. Minutes of
Executive Council; Joint Executive Council;
Combined Executive Council
Photocopy: Handwritten and typed notes on
enquiry. Recognition in the North of the ‘Blue
Union’.
Income and Expenditure on account of
Amalgamation fund 31 December 1943. Special
Meetings. A Policy for the Future by Barrett,
Stevedores Section. Extract From ‘Socialist
Leader’ called Unrest in the Docks. Sectional
1 Folder
1 Folder
1 Folder
3/O/2
19581962
Annual Return for a
Registered Union
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
3/O/3
19571972
Various Correspondence
3/O/4
3/O/5
1956
1958
Minutes of Special Meeting
Correspondence to the Port
Manager, National Dock
Labour Board
Port London Authority
Various Wharfs
3/O/6
1958?
Draft
?
Committee Minutes. J H Wall, Regional
Secretary, Report on Reorganisation of Docks
Group. Minutes of Area Committee.
Photocopy
Minutes of Meeting 13 November 1957 at the
Albany Institute, Deptford and flyer for meeting on
21 October 1959. Accounts sheet for Branch 3
Stevedores June Quarter 1959. Affiliation to
Trades Union Congress. Stevedore Section.
Workers hours, containerisation, palletisation,
modernisation, mechanisation and implications.
Minutes of Meetings of the Stevedores Section, 1
August, 3 October, and 7 November 1972.
Photocopy: correspondence regarding affiliation to
Trades Union Congress. Meeting between the
Liverpool and Birkenhead District Committee’s,
Officials, Members of the National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers area committee and
Brother R Webb National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers (London) 13 December
1965
Group Joint Committee.
Dock Labour Board correspondence regarding
need for men to work as registered port workers
have withdrawn their labour, Taylor Brothers
Wharfage Co. Ltd, Thames Wharves and
Warehouses Ltd, Service Wharves Ltd, The Union
Cold Storage Company Ltd, Butler’s Wharf Ltd,
and others.
Regarding employment of unregistered labour by
the P & O Company (Peninsular and Orient
Company). Transport and General Workers’
4 Items
1 Folder
1 Item
6 Items
1 Item
3/O/7
1958
Report of a Court of Inquiry
Industrial Courts Act
3/O/8
1960
Discharging of Refrigerated
Meat
3/O/9
1962
3/O/10
1962
Committee of Inquiry into
the Major Ports of Great
Britain (Rochdale
Committee)
Correspondence
3/O/11
1963
Ocean Shipowners
Group Joint
Committee
The Association of
Master Lightermen
and Barge Owners
(Port of London)
Docks Group.
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
T O’Leary, General
Secretary. Transport
and General Workers’
Union
3/O/12
1964
3/O/13
Feb
1964
1965
1965
3/O/14
3/O/15
3/O/16
3/O/17
19651966?
1966-
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Representation
Workpeople’s Side National
Joint Council
First Report of the
Committee of Inquiry into
certain matters concerning
the Port Transport Industry
Some Port Problems
Export Express
Correspondence
Need We Become a
European Off-Shore Island
Working Party on the
Union took action to protect members
Report into a dispute between employers who are
members of the employers’ side and workpeople
who are represented on the workpeople’s side of
the national Joint Council for the Port Transport
Industry
Minutes and correspondence
Frank Ferneyhough
Transport and
General Workers’
Union
?
Economic
3 Items
1 Item
1 Item
Collection of correspondence.
Minister of Labour,
Devlin
Clifford A Dove
1 item
1 Folder
1 Item
A Paper read to Northern Section, Institute of
Transport
Photocopy of Article. TSSJ Journal?
1 Item
Photocopy. Talk given?
1 Item
Letter and Final Report. European Free Trade
2 Items
1 Item
3 Items
1967
3/O/18
1966?
3/O/19
1968
3/O/20
1969?
3/O/21
1969
3/O/22
196?
3/O/22
1970
3/O/23
1970
3/O/24
1971
3/O/25
1971?
3/O/26
3/O/27
3/O/28
1972
1972
1977
4/A/1
4/8/1 19122/13/ 2009
Handling of General Cargo
in Ports
Election of General
Secretary
Reorganisation of the Ports:
Worker Participation with
covering letter
Royal Docks Amenities
Blocks Meeting
Quarterly Report
Arrangement of Derricks
Rigged for Union Purchase
Industrial Disputes –
National Strike
Committee of Inquiry into
National Ports Dispute
Correspondence
European Economic
Community – Capacity of
North East Ports
Dockers and their work
Letters to the Editor
Down by the Docks
Chronological
Development
Committee
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers
Richard O’Brien,
Department of
Economic Affairs
Royal Docks
Amenities
Docks and Waterways
Group, Transport and
General Workers’
Union
?
Association
National Dock Labour
Board
National Joint Council
W S Powell.
Transport and
General Workers’
Union, Docks and
Waterways Group
?
Stephen Hill
Various
Joy Hatwood
Press Cuttings
Voting Card
1 Item
Letter sent to Denis Delay
2 Items
1 Item
Photocopy
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Plan
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Photocopy
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Photocopy
1 Item
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Photocopy
1 Item
Photocopy. Article from New Society 17 August.
Letter: Jack Jones on Democracy
Photocopy. A montage documentary on life in
London’s Dockland.
Envelopes:
1. 1912-1919
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3. 1921-1923
4. 1924
5. 1926-1932
6. 1933-1938
7. 1939-1941
8. 1942-1943
9. 1944
10. 18/1/45-29/9/45
11. 2/10/45-12/10/45
12. 13/10/45-21/10/45
13. 22/10/45-4/11/45
14. 5/11/45-31/12/45
15. 1946-1947
16. 2/1/48-23/6/48
17. 24/6/48-24/12/48
18. 10/1/49-30/4/49
19. 1/5/49-30/6/49
20. 1/7/49-10/7/49
21. 11/7/49-17/7/49
22. 18/7/49-23/7/49
23. 24/7/49-31/12/49
24. 1950
25. 26/1/50-20/4/50
26. 21/4/50-18/5/50
27. 10/7/50-8/2/51
28. 9/2/51-19/2/51
29. 20/2/51-31/3/51
30. 7/4/51-21/4/51
31. 1/6/51-14/12/51
32. 28/9/52-30/9/54
33. 1/10/54-10/10/54
34. 11/10/54-20/10/54
35. 21/10/54-31/12/54
36. 5/1/55-22/5/55
es
37. 23/5/55-31/5/55
38. 1/6/55-16/6/55
39. 17/6/55-30/6/55
40. 1/7/55-31/12/55
41. 1956-1959
42. 1960-1964
43. 1965-1969
44. 1970-1971
45. 1972
46. 1973-1975
47. 1976-1978
48. 1979-1980
49. 1981-1982
50. 1983-1986
51. 1987-1989
52. 1990-1996
53. 1997-1999
54. 2000-2002
55. 2003-2009
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8. 1972
9. 1973-1975
10. 1976-1978
11. 1979-1980
12. 1981-1982
13. 1983-1986
14. 1987-1989
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2000-2002
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2. Biography
3. Biography (B/C/S)
4. Bizzare/Unusual/Amusing
5. Chronological Historical Reference PreWar
6. Chronological Historical Reference
Overviews of Post War Years
7. Communist, Left Politics
8. Communists in Unions 1
9. Communists in Unions 2
10. Economics
11. Espionage
12. Intelligence Services/Communists
13. Intelligence/Espionage
14. Intelligence Service
15. Labour and Working Class History
16. Left Politics
17. London History
18. Machinery of Government
19. Media
20. Methodology Styles Etc. 1
21. Methodology Styles Etc. 2
22. Methodology Styles Etc. 3
23. Moral Re-Armament (MRA)
24. Personal and Miscellaneous
25. Personalities (A & D)
26. Personalities (All Except A & D)
27. Police, Emergencies
28. Police, Security Services
29. Publishing
30. Shipping Industry, Ports
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29
19541959
The PLA Monthly
Port of London
Authority
19672001
The Port
Port of London
Authority
31. Sources 1
32. Sources 2
33. Trade Union: History
34. Trade Union: Power and Structure
Watermen Lightermen Tugmen and Bargemens
Union (WLTBU) 1947-1951
Issue Numbers: 341-348, missing 349-350, issue
351, missing 352, issues 353-357, missing 358,
issue 359, missing 360, issues 360-362, missing
363-364, issues 365-377, missing 378-381, issue
382, missing 383, issues 384-386, missing 387388, issues 389-393, missing 394, issues 395397, missing 398, issues 399-400, missing 401402, issues 403-406, missing 407, issues 408410. Plus Staff Supplement October 1958
Number 382. Article published in Lloyds List on 5
January 1961 and reproduced in the PLA Monthly
in February 1961: Some Answers to Critics of the
Port of London by ‘Lighterman’
Issues:
1. No. 1 April 28,1967
2. No. 2 May 12, 1967
3. No. 3 May 26, 1967
4. No. 6 July 7, 1967
5. No. 82 May 21, 1970
6. No. 88 July 30, 1970
7. No. 89 August 13, 1970
8. No. 90 August 27, 1970
9. No. 93 October 8, 1970
10. No. 478 March, 1990
11. No. 536 February, 1995
12. Vol 2 No. 35 November, 1998
13. Vol 2 No. 42 June, 1999
14. Vol 2 No. 43 July, 1999
15. Vol 2 No. 44 August, 1999
52
issues
(includin
g staff
supplem
ent and
reprodu
ced
article)
16
Issues
5/A/3
19561960
Merseyside News
5/A/4
Nov
1960
Jul 1978
Waterfront Pioneer
5/A/5
Docks Section of the
Transport and
General Workers’
Union (Region 12)
Editor: Joe Hancock
Waterfront and Industrial
Pioneer
Port Workers News
Editor: Peter Rundell
Thames Lighterage
Shop Stewards
Committee
Joint Docklands
Action Group
Greater London
Industrial Archaeology
Society
The Docklands
History Group
5/A/6
19461955
5/A/7
1949
Lighterage News
5/A/8
Apr 1983
Docklands Action News
5/A/9
1980
London’s Industrial
Archaeology
5/A/10
19842004
Minutes of Meetings
National Portworkers
16. Vol 2 No. 57 May/June, 2001
Issue Numbers: 1-17. Only Number 1 is a
photocopy.
Later known as The Waterfront and Industrial
Pioneer
17
Issues
1 Issue
1 Issue
All photocopies unless stated original copy. No. 1
January 1946; Vol. 1 No. 1-2; missing Vol 1 No. 3;
Vol 1 No. 4-5; Vol 1 No. 6 Original; missing Vol 1
No. 7-9; Vol 1 No. 10-12.
Vol. Vol II No. 1-4; January 1951 Special,
Original; Vol II No. 5-6; missing Vol II No. 7-8; Vol
II No. 9-11; Vol III No. 1-5; missing Vol III No. 612?; Vol IV No. 1; missing Vol III No. 2; Vol III No.
3-5; Vol IV No. 6 Original; Vol IV No. 7-8; missing
Vol IV 9?; Vol V No. 1-2; Special Supplement,
February 1954; Vol V No. 3 Original; missing Vol V
No. 4; Vol V No. 5-8
Note this was incorporated into the Portworkers
News.
All Photocopies: Numbers 1 to 5
No. 14
40
Issues
Number Two
1 Item
Minutes from:
1. 4 April 1984
2. 3 October 1984
3. 7 May 1986
4. 4 June 1986
5. 1 October 1986
1 Folder
5 Issues
1 Item
5/A/11
1980
5/A/12
1979
History Workshop
Federation
Our History Journal
5/A/13
18661966
Centenary Supplement: A
Century of Service
History Workshop
Communist Party
History Group
East London
Advertiser
6. 3 August ?
7. 1 February 1989
8. 3 March 1993
9. 4 June 1997
10. 6 August 1997
11. 3 September 1997
12. 5 August 1998
13. 4 November 1998
14. 2 September 1998
15. 6 January 1999
16. 3 February 1999
17. 7 April 1999
18. 5 January 2000
19. 1 March 2000
20. 3 May 2000
21. 2 August 2000
22. 3 October 2001
23. 6 February 2002
24. 2 October 2002
25. 2 April 2003
26. 4 June 2003
27. 3 September 2003
28. 5 November 2003
29. 7 April 2004
All meetings held at the Museum in Docklands
Bulletin No. 1 September 1980
1 Item
February 1979 No. 4
1 Item
Souvenir Supplement. Articles covering historic
events in the East End: The Great Dock Strike;
Siege of Sidney Street, with unusual pictures;
George Lansbury, John Scurr and the Poplar
Councillors who went to prison 1921; ‘farthing
bundles at the Fern Street Settlement’ Dr
1 Item
5/A/14
1966
Mariner’s Mirror
The Society for
Nautical Research
5/A/15
1982
International Review of
Social History
International Institute
of Social History
5/A/16
1951
Political Quarterly
5/A/17
1967
The Newsletter
Central Committee of
the Socialist Labour
League
5/A/18
1970
Workers Press
5/A/19
1965
Peace News
Central Committee of
the Socialist Labour
League
Editor Rod Prince
5/A.20
1972
The Dockworker
Registered Dockers
Rank and File
Newspaper [1967-]
Barnardo’s; East End playwrights and composers
– Bart, Wesker, Klein, Pinter, and Speight; Seven
Mills of Millwall; When Gandhi stayed in Bow;
Father Joe fought the slumlords and vice; Jack the
Ripper; Breweries – Truman; Modernising the
docks; Battle of Cable Street; General Strike; The
Blitz; The Bell Foundry; Limehouse Farm; famous
boxers like Ted ‘kid’ Lewis; West Ham Football;
Poplar and Blackwall and District Rowing Club;
Bethnal Green shelter disaster, World War Two;
Bryant and May Matchgirls; Wiltons Music Hall;
the People’s Palace.
Photocopy. Vol 52, Issue 3. Article: NineteenthCentury Dock Labour in the Port of London by
George Pattison
Vol 27 No. 3 December 1982. Article: Custom,
Job Regulation and Dock labour in Liverpool,
1911-39 by R. Bean
Vol 22, Issue 3 July 1951. Article: The Post-War
Dock Strikes by Kenneth Knowles
Vol 11, No. 513 The Newsletter, began publication
in May 1958 over a year before the launch of the
Socialist Labour League and was superseded by
the Workers Press.
No. 250. An Early copy of the Workers Press, as
it was begun in 1970.
No. 1507 London May 14 1965. Pacifist paper.
Launched by Humphrey and his wife Kathleen
Moore in 1936 became the paper of the Peace
Pledge Union. Published from 5 Caledonian
Road, London, moved to premises in 1959.
Number 21. Front page about the dock strike of
1972, with Jack Jones General Secretary of the
Transport and General Workers’ Union, rather
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5/A/21
1970
Militant
Editor Peter Taaffe
(Hackney Central
Labour Party
The Socialist Party of
Great Britain and the
World Socialist Party
of Ireland
Communist Party of
Great Britain
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
5/A/22
1970
Socialist Standard
5/A/23
1967
Morning Star
5/A/24
1955
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union Mersey Broadsheet.
(NASD Mersey Broadsheet)
5/A/25
1955?
5/A/26
1956
National Amalgamated
Stevedores and Dockers
Union Bulletin (NASD
Bulletin)
Northern Broadsheet
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
5/A/27
1956
Extracts from the Northern
Broadsheet
5/A/28
Apr 1939
The Docks
5/B/1
?
5/B/2
1932
National Museum of Labour
History
Port Workers! Unite!
National
Amalgamated
Stevedores and
Dockers Union
Dockers and
Portworkers League
Lord Asa Briggs and
Professor B Fishman
Port Workers’ Unity
than calling his membership out on a general
strike, took the issue to the Trades Union
Congress
Number 67, September 1970. Workers Socialist
party
1 Item
September 1970
1 Item
16. November 7 1967. Incorporates The Daily
Worker
35. News of the ‘Blues’. Photocopies: Number
1, January 1 1955 and Number 16, 16 April
1955. Originals: Number 11, 12 March
1955, (in fragile condition) and Number 21,
21 May 1955.
Photocopy. Issue Number 2.
1 Item
News of the ‘Blues’. Photocopies: Issue Number
1, 15 March 1956; Number 2, 26 April, 1956,
which has two correspondences relating to the
issue; Number 8, 17 May 1956. Original: Number
8, 17 May 1956 (a very fragile issue)
All photocopies. Extracts from Number 7, 12 July
1956, Number 11, 13 September 1956, with
reader’s letter; Number 13, 11 October 1956;
Number 14? 25 October 1956; and Number 28
Photocopy. Number 1
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1983
5/B/4
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5/B/5
1985
5/B/6
1960
5/B/7
5/B/8
1991
1981
5/B/7
1977
5/B/8
1980
5/B/9
5/B/10
?
1908
5/B/11
1906
5/B/12
1921
5/B/13
1958
5/B/14
?
Fifty Years Ago Memories
of the 1930’s
Port of London Authority
The International Transport
Workers’ Federation
Archive
Guide For Research
Students Working on
Historical Subjects
Sources for Labour History
Bibliographies and Reading
Lists
The Story of the Transport
and General Workers’
Union
British Cabinet Politics
West India Docks
The Cardinal Democrat:
Henry Edward Manning
Special Committee on
Unskilled Labour
Industrial Problems and
Disputes
Hands off the ‘Blue Union’!
Democracy on the Docks
?
Movement
The Age Exchange
Theatre Company
Chairman Rt Hon
Viscount Simon CMG
Nicholas Baldwin
1 Item
1 Item
Modern Records Centre Sources Booklet No. 3
G Kitson Clark
Simon Fowler
Department of
Employment Library
General Executive
Council
Martin Burch and
Michael Clarke
Chris Eliners
I A Taylor
1 Item
1 Item
Labour Heritage
Library Checklist, Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour
1940-1945
1 Item
1 Item
1 Item
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Booklet. River Series 4
Photocopy of Chapter XIII The Dockers Strike and
part of Chapter XII Social Reformer
Photocopy
1 Item
2 items
Photocopy. Summing Up
1 Item
William Hunter
A Labour Review Pamphlet
1 Item
?
Photocopy. Chapter Sixteen: Red Decks; Chapter
Seventeen: Enter the SIU; Chapter Eighteen:
Farewell to all the Fleet; Chapter Nineteen: Battle
Joined; Chapter Twenty: Blood on the Docks;
Chapter Twenty-One: The Home Front; Chapter
Twenty-Two Cooperation, Yes – Domination, No!;
Chapter Twenty-Three Pickets Around the Globe;
1 Folder
Charity Organisation
Society
George Askwith
1 Item
5/B/15
1978
5/B/16
1953
5/B/17
?
5/B/18
1952
5/B/19
1976
5/B/20
?
5/B/21
1941
6/A/1
7/A/1
7/A/2
1975
1985
7/A/3
7/A/4
7/A/5
1958
1959
1990
7/A/6
1969
7/A/7
1967
Life & Death of a Union: the
Canadian Seamen’s Union
1936-1949
Rising Tide: A Novel of the
British Way
Docks: Breakaway and
Unofficial Movements
What Next For The PortWorkers?
The Anarchists in London
1935-1955
London’s River
The Defenders of Human
Rights
Denis Delay
London’s Docks
The Dockers Union: A
Study of the National Union
of Dock Labourers, 18891922
British Ports and Shipping
Ships of the London River
A Tale of Two Ports:
London and Southampton
Stevedores and Dockers: A
Study of Trade Unionism in
the Port of London, 18701914
Trade Unions
1 Item
Jack Lindsay
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Battle in Britain;
Chapter Twenty-Five Internationalism; Chapter
Twenty-Six The Final Round
Photocopy of chapter: East Coast, Deep Sea,
1948-1949 (Class mark for TUC library HD
6528.S42C367
Photocopy of entire book
Bob Pennington
Photocopy
1 Item
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Photocopy
1 Item
John Stanton
Albert Meltzer
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Port of London
Communist Party
?
Photocopy. Booklet
1 Item
Booklet
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Denis Delay
1 Item
John Pudney
Eric Taplin
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1978
1978
7/A/12
1972
Trade Unions under
Capitalism
London Docklands: Past,
present and future
The Port of London
Under Oars: Reminiscences
of a Thames Lighterman
1894-1909
London in Maps
Edited by Tom Clarke
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Dr S K Al Naib
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