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- 1927 - 1930 (Creation)
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Correspondence with E E Dijkhuizen and D Polak, Secretaries, and J B van den Borg, Chairman, of the Bond, with J A Driver, Secretary of the Diamond Workers Union, Henri Polak. Secretary, and L van Berckelaer, Chairman, of the Universal Alliance of Diamond Workers, and with the Ministers of Labour and of Mines and Industries.
Subjects:
1927.
Formation of a diamond polishers union.
1928.
European diamond cutters decide not to send teachers to South Africa, to maintain their own monopoly.
Apprenticeship conditions in the diamond industry.
Dislike by diamond workers of a plan to establish a technical college in South Africa to train diamond cutters.
Decision to affiliate to SATUC.
1929.
Conciliation Board.
Dissolution of the Bond, re-establishment and reaffiliation to SATUC.