Letters received and some copies of outgoing correspondence of R Stuart, Secretary, with government ministers and officials, Cape Municipal officials, Cape manufacturers, stores and unions, other trade union organisations such as the South African Industrial Federation and the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union. From 1922-1928 there in a continuous correspondence with the Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union, Johannesburg.
Correspondents:
A Alexander.
H D Alger.
W H Andrews.
H Beynon.
W Blake (Sec. BWIU).
H Burton (Minister of Finance).
A Crawford (Sec. SAIF).
Sir N F de Waal (Administrator).
B Dolby.
J R Finch (Town Clerk.
W Freestone (Inspector).
W Gemmill.
C Kadalie (Sec. ICU).
H J Laite.
R Little.
L Manaergh.
A A Moore.
C S Playfair.
J A Rich.
H B Shawe.
H Warrington Smyth (Minister of Mines).
N J Thorns (Mayor).
C B Tyler (Sec. BWIU).
I L Walker.
W Wanless (Sec. S A Labour Party).
W Whittern.
Subjects:
1917.
Representation of the Cape Federation on the Industrial Advisory Board.
Representation of the Cape Federation on the Foodstuffs Commission.
Polling stations for elections.
Recruitment of skilled men from the building trades for munitions work in England.
Formation of an up-to-date labour newspaper.
Shop hours for Hairdressers' assistants.
Delegates for the Conference of South African trade union bodies.
Wages in the tailoring industry.
1918.
Influenza epidemic.
Wages in the painting industry.
Wages for coloured operative bricklayers.
1919.
Peace celebrations.
Conditions in the baking trade.
Shop Hours Ordinance.
Apprenticeship.
Wage Board: Leather workers.
1920.
Conciliation Board for Amalgamated Cabinet Workers Union of South Africa.
Employment of artisans on Robben Island.
Need for white unions to support non-European strikes.
Dockers strike.
Reorganisation of the Tramway Workers' Union.
Need for a national organisation of trade unions.
Representatives for the Industrial Advisory Board of the Cape.
Wage increase demand by master plumbers.
Poor condition of Timbers Ltd factory, re machinery.
Question of a National Building Trades Federation for South Africa.
1922.
The strike of 1922.
Strike Victims Dependants Relief Fund.
Wages and industrial disputes in the building trade.
Relationship between builders in the Cape and the rest of South Africa.
Attempt to make the Federation's conference more of a national one.
1924.
Liquidation of the People's Press.
Special congress to consider the need for a national trade union federation.
Relationship between the Cape Federation and the South African Industrial Federation.
Wages for reduction workers and mechanics in the mining industry.
Cape Building Trades strike and the agreement that a National Industrial Council be formed.
1925.
Delay in implementing wage increases in the building industry.
Application by the Eastern Province Building Trade Union for affiliation to the Cape.
Seamen's Strike, Cape Town.
1926.
Need for 1 union for the building industry.
Tour of A J Cook, Secretary of the Mines Federation.
1928.
Conference between South African Trade Union Co-ordinating Committee and the South African Labour Party, to foster closer co-operation between the political and industrial wings of the labour movement.
