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.

Correspondence with J Wallace, Secretary of the S A Co-ordinated Employees' Organisation, B Stuart, Secretary of the Cape Federation and the Secretary of Labour.

Subjects:

1925.

Dissolution of the S A Co-ordinated Employees' Organisation and trans for of its assets to S A Association of Employees' Organisations.

1927.

Formation of a Trade Union Co-ordinating Committee composed of members of the Cape Federation and SATUC.

Application for affiliation by Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union.

Meetings of Joint Executives.

1930.

S A Trade Union Co-ordinating Committee calls a conference to discuss the establishment of a national co-ordinating authority for the trade union movement in South Africa. The Conference was held on 4 October in Cape Town.

Correspondence with other ministries, C W Malan, Minister of the Department, C M Hoffe, Secretary, Sir W W Hoffe, General Manager of the SAR and H, the Shipping Manager, Johannesburg, F McGregor, Registrar of Trade Unions, T A Haynes, Secretary of the Joint Executives Railway Artisans Registered Trade Unions and of the Joint Committee of Railway Associations, W T Tonkin, Secretary of the National Workshop Steward Committee and the Joint Executives of the Woodworkers, Ironmoulders, Boilermakers and Engineering Union.

Subjects:

1925.

Union Government Steamships: wages and terms of work.

1926.

Conference of the Joint Committee of Railway Associations with the Department, re rates of pay.

1927.

Claim for reinstatement by railway worker, A Langridge.

1928.

Railway excursion facilities.

Recommendation that the government contract be given to the now coppersmith industry, founded in Johannesburg.

1928-1930.

Registration of the Railway Artisan Association.

Correspondence with F R Roux, Secretary of the Young Communist League and the Communist Party, E S Sachs, Secretary of the Young Communist League and S P Bunting, Secretary of the Party.

Subjects:

1925.

Need to call a meeting of apprentices to discuss trade unionism among young workers and the Apprenticeship Act. Possibility of continuing to demonstrate against 1913 Rand Club murders.

1927-1928.

Agenda for the annual conference of the Party, to which delegates from SATUC invited.

Correspondence with J W Hitchcock, Secretary of the Association, R Bruce Mcfie, Secretary of the Benoni Branch of WGA., MLAs A C Fordham and J Mullineux and individual unions.

Subjects:

1927.

MLAs asked to help obtain financial grant for WRA.

1929.

Affiliation of SATUC to the Transvaal WEA.

Course offered on industrial history by M L Hodgson.

Joint meetings of SATUC and WEA.

Debate on unemployment.

1930.

Lectures and exhibitions of educational films.