Correspondence with T C Brown, General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, and with branch secretaries.

Subjects:

1927.

Deputation from SATUC to address branches.

1930.

Resignation of E Simpson from the executive of SATUC.

Correspondence with P W Stanton, Secretary of the S A Canvas and Ropeworkers Union, Divisional Inspector of Labour, Johannesburg, T J Stiglingh, Secretary of the Canvas and Ropeworkers' Conciliation Board, MLAs C Brown and M Kentridge, W B Madeley, Minister or Posts and Telegraphs, other cabinet ministers, E C Williams, Secretary of the Industrial Council, and D I Fram and Co.

Subjects:

1927.

Composition of the Conciliation Board, minutes of their meetings and agreement reached.

Complaint about delays in appointing Conciliation Boards.

Dispute between the Union and D I Fram and Co. resolved.

1928.

Complaint by the Union against a government tent contract being given to S A Canvas Co. because the work will be done in Durban using cheap labour.

Victimisation by D I Fram and Co. of shop stewards appointed by the Union.

1930.

Accusation by D I Fram and Co. that they are being blacklisted by the Union.

Correspondence with unions and workers in South Africa, labour organisations overseas Johannesburg municipal officials, cabinet ministers and R Blank (SWA), T Boydell, M Kentridge, W B Madeley and Rev J Mullineux.

Subjects:

1925.

Offer by E Shaw, editor and publisher of the Workers' News, to Dell it to SATUC.

1926.

Anti-Conscription Manifesto from London.

Invitation to attend a Conference of the Chinese Nationalist Party, Johannesburg.

Organisation of workers unions in Potgietersrust.

1927.

Question of Gorman guilt for the war.

Sedition Bill unlikely to be introduced.

Native Administration Bill.

Resolution that only trade union members be employed by the Public Works Department.

Land tax.

Infringement of Fair Wage clamant in municipal contracts.

Willing of vacancies in NEC.

Need for a co-ordinating body.

Replant that May 1st be a public holiday.

Discharge of 180 European employers by liquidations at Roodepoort Central West Gold Mining Co: question asked in the House of Assembly by M Kentridge.

1928.

Propound Mutual Bank and Investment Society: a Workers Bank.

Need for unemployment relief.

Pan African Exhibition, Bloemfontein.

1929.

Annual Congress.

Adult education for trade unionists.

Special course on wage problems at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Small fines on employers convicted of underpaying employees.

1930.

Testimonials for trade unionists visiting Europe.

Fair Wage condition in government contracts.

Cost of Living Enquiry.

Wage Board Investigation: Commercial and Distributive Trade.

10th International Congress of the Workers International Relief.

Sympathy to the British Primo Minister for the loss of the airship R101.

Formation of S A Trades and Labour Council and transfer of affiliations.

Conditions of work in the Diamond Diggings at Lichtenburg. Industrial Conciliation Act.

Correspondence with G McCormick, Secretary of the Committee, C Kadalie, Secretary of Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, union, Labour Party, the Department of the Interior and the Prime Ministers Office.

Subjects:

Arrangements for May Day celebrations, financial statements of the Committee, participation of Africans in May Day events and requests to government that May 1 become a statutory holiday.

Correspondence with W Munzenberg, Secretary (Germany) and V Chattopadhyaga, Secretary (India) of the League, Department of the Interior, S A Federation of Non-European Trade Unions and the Arbeiter-Verbandes fur Sudwest-Afrika.

Subjects:

1929.

Government's refusal to grant passports to black delegates.

Report of the delegate to the International Congress of the League, Frankfort, July 21-28, 1929, signed W H Andrews.

Question of SATUC's affiliation to the League and of giving financial help.

League's request for information on the living conditions and wages of workers at Otavi Mine and Railway Co., South Wont Africa (Tama).

League's advice that all trade union organisations, black and white, unite.

1930.

Call for an international conference of negro workers for July 1930, Berlin.