Trade Unions

Scope and Contents This file contains Chilembwe letters dating from 1900 to 1915 (copies). Letters in the Zomba Archives (9) (with covering letter, 17 March 1965). Writers: Chilembwe, Peters, Bismarck. Includes Minutes of the National Industrial Union Meetings, 15 June 1909 and 14 August 1909. Letters from British East Africa. Sent as 'News from the Field' to the National Baptist Foreign Mission Board of...

Scope and Contents Clements Kadalie and the ICU [Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa]. The Aims and Methods of the ICU, the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa. Notes refer to various accounts, copies of The Workers' Herald, and letters from correspondents. Typescript. "The Relation between White and Black Workers in South Africa". A brief account of the Labour Movement by...

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The material consists of correspondence with Martin Rivers Pollock and papers regarding the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs' activities nationally and at the University of Edinburgh, 1968-1975.

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The material consists of correspondence with Martin River Pollock and papers regarding the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staff activities at the University of Edinburgh, 1976. Itrelates to industrial action taken by the ASTMS. Pollock did not support the strike and offered to resign from the union.

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The material consists of correspondence with Martin Rivers Pollock and papers regarding the Association of Scientific Workers, 1965-1966.

Scope and Contents 1-33. Clements Kadalie, National Secretary of the Industrial Workers Union of Africa with Arthur Creech-Jones, Transport Workers Federation. References to a constitution, an application for affiliation to the International Federation of Trade Unions, and the relationship between the South Africa Congress and The ICU.34-38. Clements Kadalie with Winifred Holtby (copies). Grateful for her support and for her efforts on behalf of the native workers. 1926-1927.39-41....

Scope and Contents This collection comprises the papers of Colin Legum, an Anti-Apartheid activist and political exile, and later newpaper political correspondent. It includes correspondence files, committee minutes, freelance articles, files in legal document wallets labelled alphabetically, office filing, published periodicals, journals, research files, press cuttings, notes, publications, and newspapers relating to the post-colonial history of many countries mostly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and...

Content Description This fonds consists of the Records of the Edinburgh Chile Solidarity Committee (c. 1973-1978), with some material relating to the Chile Solidarity Campaign UK-wide. The records of the committee include minutes, correspondence, membership lists, publications, documents relating to the "adoption" of Chilean refugees by the committee, and various printed ephemera used to spread awareness of their campaign and advertise events organised to support the committee. There are also...

Scope and Contents INTVEE grew up on a farm before moving with his family to Wardieburn at the age on nine. He left school at 14 and had various jobs in cinemas and at the North British Rubber Works. At 18 he joined the navy. He spent seven days leave in Philadelphia and remembers going round Gimball Brothers' Store which had one whole floor laid out with electric trains, twice the size of Woolworths in Princes Street. He now works at the Wireworks, he likes the job but not the people, his truck turned over...

Scope and Contents INTVEE left school at 14 when his father was still a prisoner of war, his first job was as a can boy on a building site making cups of tea, he then went to the shipyards but his apprenticeship was interrupted by National Service. INTVEE and his wife moved to Edinburgh at the time of the rivetters strike so there wasn’t a job available. He did some engineering then eventually got a job at Henry Robbs. He was laid off last year. He was offered a job in England but was told he would have to...