Correspondence, memoranda and press clippings relating to the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (I.C.U), its constitution, finances, training of personnel of the Union, liaison with white trade union movements, co-operative enterprises in Africa, the Protectorates, labour relations and the Durban riots. The documents in this collection relate to a large degree to the appointment of W.G. Ballinger as an adviser to the Union, and the support of his work from people like A. Creech-Jones, National Secretary of the Administrative, clerical and supervisory group of the Transport & General Workers Union, in London, and Winifred Holtby, a British writer.