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The 45 files described below are all part of the Trades Union Congress archive. The contents of each file is now being digitised - further information about the project is available elsewhere on our website.
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MSS.292/946/1
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Spain, 1935-1945
Correspondence, circulars, bulletins, minutes, etc. Subjects include: Spanish seamen's strike, 1936; Spanish and Basque trade unions, supply of aid, resistance to Franco, political prisoners and persecution of trade unionists, Hogar Espanol.
Documents include: minutes of the Spanish Relief Committee (under auspices of Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women's Organisations), 1936-1940; text of speeches by Albert Guigui and Louis Marin at the opening of the Resistance Exhibition in Warrington, 1944; manifesto of the National Alliance of Democratic Forces, 1944; annual report of the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and Basque Children's Trust Ltd, 1944-5; 'Summary of the fortifications, artillery, etc. on the coasts and in the naval bases of the peninsula and of Morocco', including information re German assistance to the rebels, 1938; results of parliamentary elections on 16 Feb 1936.
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MSS.292/946/9
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Spanish Political Situation, 1934-1935
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc., re the revolution and its aftermath. Correspondents include Trades Councils, trade unions (including Ernest Bevin of the TGWU), and the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU).
Documents include: TUC General Council report on IFTU and Labour and Socialist International (LSI) delegation to the Spanish Government, 1935; reports on the Spanish situation forwarded by IFTU and LSI, Nov-Dec 1934, including on 'The part played by the Anarchists and Syndicalists in the Spanish Revolution, October 1934'; report on events in Spain by G.H.B. Ward, Nov 1934.
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MSS.292/946/10
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1936-1937
Correspondence, circulars, press cuttings, memoranda, etc. Subjects include: fund raising and aid to Spain, sending of an "observer", complaints at the policy of non-intervention and its breach by certain countries, capture of two members of a Scottish Ambulance Unit, fascist aerial bombings.
Documents include: circular (in French) from the Comissariat de Propaganda, Generalitat de Catalunya [Catalonia], Oct 1936; 'This is what fascism means!', Communist Party (of Great Britain) leaflet, 1936; minutes of National Council of Labour and TUC General Council, 9-10 Sep 1936.
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MSS.292/946/11
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1937-1939
Correspondence, circulars, memoranda, etc. Subjects include: International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) delegation to Spain, Spanish trade unions, the situations in Asturias and Santander, evacuation of children, aid to Spain, transportation of arms by SS Yorkbrook.
Documents include: report by Clement Attlee of meeting with the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary about their visit to Rome, Jan 1939; report of joint meeting of the Executive of the IFTU and the Bureau of Labour and Socialist International, 25 Nov 1938; article on 'The Spanish Charter of Unity of Action' by Pietro Nenni, Aug 1937.
Most documents date from 1937.
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MSS.292/946/12a
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1938
Correspondence, circulars, reports, etc. Subjects include: Spanish trade unions, aid for Spain, opposition to the arms embargo, proposed delegation of women to Spain, help for refugees, involvement of foreign powers in the conflict; deputation to the Foreign Secretary, Apr 1938.
Documents include: several letters of fraternal greetings from Republican army units (in Spanish, with English translations); report on milk canteens and hospitals in Spain in receipt of milk sent by the British Labour Party and Co-operative Union; 'Summary of a report on the rebel persecution of the Basque people during and since the war in that country' from the Basque delegation at the Spanish Embassy; French leaflet re aerial bombardments by German and Italian aeroplanes and aid for Spanish children.
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MSS.292/946/12b
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1938-1939
Correspondence, circulars, etc. Subjects include: trial of Spanish trade unionists, aid for refugees, the defeat of the Republican Government, public demonstrations in Britain, deputation to the Prime Minister to protest at the government's policy of neutrality whilst the German and Italian governments continued to intervene.
Documents include: 'The foreign policy of Spain: Official statements by General Franco (May 19th-July 14th 1939)'; reports on the situation in Spain received from the Basque Government, Jan, Apr, Jun-Jul 1939; extract from article 'Franco at Bilbao' from Italian newspaper 'Il Popolo d'Italia', 20 Jun 1939; analysis and summary of the Law of Political Responsibilities enacted in Feb 1939; extracts from speech by Senor Don Jose Antonio de Aguirre, Euzkadi [Basque] President, on 21 Dec 1938.
Most documents date from 1939.
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MSS.292/946/13
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1939-1942
Correspondence regarding the aftermath of the Civil War. Subjects include: Republicans in exile, arrest and execution of trade union leaders; possible extradition of Largo Caballero, former Prime Minister, to Spain by the Vichy Government, 1940-2; situations of Harry Graham, Frank Ryan and Gunnar Ebb, former members of the International Brigade, and Gwendolen Adams, charity worker.
Also includes: cuttings of article, 'Soviet Russia's part in Spanish war revealed' by Luis Araquistain, North American Newspaper Alliance, c1940.
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MSS.292/946/14
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1936-1937
Circulars, reports, memoranda, minutes etc.
Includes: list of Labour meetings held on behalf of Spain between Jul 1936-Jul 1937; reports of meetings of the National Council of Labour (NCL - General Council of the TUC, National Executive Committee of the Labour Party and Parliamentary Labour Party), 25, 27-28 Aug, 9 Sep 1936; report on visit of all-party group of MPs to Spain, 1936; NCL memoranda on the Spanish conflict and 'Labour and fascism', Aug 1936; report of NCL delegation to the Foreign Office, 26 Aug 1936; article on 'The duty of the international proletariat in the Spanish revolution' by Pietro Nenni, Aug 1936; reports of joint meetings of the Labour and Socialist International (LSI) and International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 28 Jul, 21 Aug 1936; declaration to Spanish workers from the International Bureau for Revolutionary Socialist Unity, London, 17 Aug 1936; text of dispatch from Victor Schiff re situation in Catalonia, Aug 1936; statement of subscriptions received from trade unions between 28 Jul-13 Aug 1936; report on LSI and IFTU mission to Spain, 8 Aug 1936.
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MSS.292/946/15a
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1936
Circulars, reports, memoranda, minutes, press cuttings, etc.
Includes: reports of meetings of the National Council of Labour (NCL), 4, 9 & 30 Sep, 7 & 28 Oct 1936; reports of joint meetings of the Labour and Socialist International (LSI) and International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 28 Sep, 26 Oct 1936; minutes of Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women's Organisations Spanish Relief Committee, 22 Oct 1936; booklet 'La "non intervention" dans les affaires d'Espagne: Documents publies par le Gouvernement de la Republique Espagnole' (mostly in French, with English summary), 1936; report on Portugal from a special envoy of the 'Daily Herald', 20 Sep 1936; reports of delegations to Spain, Sep 1936; report of visit to Paris, Sep 1936; verbatim report of speeches of Sir Walter Citrine at the NCL meeting on 4 Sep 1936.
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MSS.292/946/15b
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1936-1937
Reports, memoranda, minutes, circulars, extracts from articles, etc.
Includes: summarised report on Labour and Socialist International (LSI) and International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) mission to Spain in Jan 1937; draft 'Daily Herald' article on aid to Spain, 20 Jan 1937; League of Nations report on the health mission to Spain, Jan 1937; report of meeting of Walter Citrine and Victor Tewson with deputation from TGWU and NATSOPA trade unions, 21 Dec 1936; reports of joint meetings of LSI and IFTU, 4-5 Dec 1936, 14 Jan 1937; 'Memorandum on the proposed co-ordination of work for the relief of the Spanish civil population', Dec 1936; report on visit of all-party group of MPs to Spain, 1936; report of meeting of the National Council of Labour (NCL), 28 Oct 1936.
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MSS.292/946/16a
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1937
Reports, memoranda, circulars, minutes, etc.
Includes: press communiques re International Committee for the Application of the Agreement Regarding Non-Intervention in Spain, 5, 7, 18, 26, 28 May, 18 & 29 Jun, 2 Jul 1937; reports of joint meetings of the Labour and Socialist International (LSI) and International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 17 Feb, 11 Mar, 16-17 Jun 1937; reports of meetings of the National Council of Labour (NCL), 9 Mar, 23 Jun 1937; memoranda of telephone conversations and meetings re the situation in Bilbao and evacuation of refugees (including with Mr Lizaso, of the Basque Government, and Anthony Eden), Apr-Jun 1937; TUC and Labour Party statement on the bombing of Guernica, 28 Apr 1937; bulletins of the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief, nos. 2, 4-5, 19 Feb, 19 Mar, 9 Apr 1937; minutes of meeting of IFTU Executive, 29 Apr 1937; report on TUC General Council deputation to Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar 1937; National Peace Council memorandum on the Spanish situation, 18 Feb 1937; notes of interview between Sir Walter Citrine and Mr W. Schevenels, 8 Feb 1937.
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MSS.292/946/16b
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1937
Reports, memoranda, circulars, minutes, leaflets, etc., including copies of documents in Spanish, French and English re the split between Union General De Trabajadores De Espana (UGT - Spanish Trades Union Congress) and the Communist Party.
Includes: summarised report of meeting of the Executive Committee of International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) with representatives of the Spanish trade union movement re difficulties in the movement, 7-8 Dec 1937; minutes of meetings of Labour's Spain Campaign Committee, 4 Nov 1937, and Royal Albert Hall Sub-Committee, 8 & 22 Nov 1937; leaflets and circulars re the Labour Party Spain Campaign Committee; 'Spanish Labor News', no.2 (containing text of address by Francisco Largo Caballero), New York, 16 Nov 1937; English translation of the programme of common action of the Spanish Socialist and Communist Parties, Aug 1937; report of meeting of the National Council of Labour (NCL), 22 Sep 1937; reports of joint meetings of the Labour and Socialist International (LSI) and International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 25 May, 13, 15-16 Sep 1937; leaflet, 'Spain and the Trades Union Congress', 10 Sep 1937; confidential memorandum of conversation between Julius Deutsch and the editor of 'Populaire', 17 Aug 1937; report of meeting of the National Council of the Spanish Socialist Party on 19-21 Jul 1937; NCL statement on the Spanish situation, Jul 1937.
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MSS.292/946/17a
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1938
Reports, memoranda, circulars, minutes, leaflets, etc. Subjects include: visits and delegations to Spain, refugees and provision of aid, conferences, the international situation.
Includes: reports of joint meetings of the Labour and Socialist International (LSI) and International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 21 Apr, 25 Nov 1938; minutes of meetings of the Labour Party Spain Campaign Committee, 8 Feb, 26 Apr, 9 Nov 1938; report on other countries' commercial relationship with Spain; report of the London Trades Council Youth Advisory Council, Oct 1938; report of the League of Nations on the request of the Spanish government for technical assistance in the study of measures for providing food supplies for refugees, 3 Nov 1938; minutes of the British National Committee [of the International Peace Campaign], 25 Nov 1938; text of speeches by Dr Negrin, Spanish Prime Minister, 18 Jun, 14 Oct 1938; report on refugees by the Government of Catalonia, London, 25 Aug 1938; 'Resolutions and reports of the World Conference on the Bombardment of Open Towns and the Restoration of Peace', Paris, Jul 1938; report of TUC deputation to the Foreign Secretary, 6 Apr 1938.
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MSS.292/946/17b
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War], 1938-1939
Reports, memoranda, circulars, minutes, leaflets, etc. Subjects include: refugees and provision of aid, demonstrations, the international situation.
Includes: statement authorised by the Prime Minister to be made to the National Executive of the Labour Party and the General Council of the TUC, following National Council of Labour (NCL) deputation on 24 Jan 1939; leaflet, 'Aims of the Spanish Republic: The 13 points of Dr. Negrin's government'; information from the Parliamentary Committee for Spain - report or article on 'Life returns to "normal" in Spain, notes for speakers on 'Spain, Britain and the Rome-Berlin Axis', report on 'The Anglo-Italian Agreement', and leaflet on 'The Prime Minister on British relations with Italy'; minutes of NCL meeting, 14 Feb 1939; report of deputation to the Prime Minister from the Spain Emergency Committee of the International Peace Campaign, 7 Jan 1939; summary of decisions adopted by the British trade union and labour movement and the International Federation of Trade Unions and the Labour and Socialist International between 1936-c1938; extracts from press articles on 'Spain' and 'Spain: The arms question', 1938; extracts from speeches in the Houses of Parliament re Spain following the Anglo-Italian Agreement, 1938; report on 'Transport of war materials to the rebels' between 1936-8.
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MSS.292/946/18a
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Spanish Situation [Civil War]: Publications, 1936-1939
Includes:
Receipt books for Scottish Trades Union Congress 'Foodship for Democratic Spain' campaign, undated.
Pamphlets: 'A nation in retreat', British Committee for Refugees from Spain, 1939; 'Deux discours prononces par M. Alvarez del Vayo, Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres d'Espagne...', Paris, 1938; 'The drama of Spain 1931-1936' by A. Ramos Oliveira, National Council of Labour, c1936; 'The Spanish problem: Report of speeches at the Plymouth Trade Union Congress 1936'; report of Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain special conference on the international situation, 28 Apr 1938; 'Report on the administration of justice in the Basque Country during the Civil War', Autonomous Government of Euzkadi, Feb 1938; 'A Catholic looks at Spain' by Semprun Gurrea, Labour Publications Department, Jan 1937; 'The agony of Spain. Socialist appeal to British democracy: Spanish envoys tell the facts', Labour Party, 1936; National Council of Labour (NCL) 'Statement on the Labour relief work for Spain', undated [1937?]; 'Madrid. The "military" atrocities of the rebels: A record of massacre, murder, mutilation', Labour Party, Feb 1937; 'Catholics and the Civil War in Spain', NCL, Dec 1936; 'Labour raises £500,000 for Spain', NCL, c1939; NCL 'Summarised report of relief work in Spain undetaken by the International Solidarity Fund', 1938; 'Famine faces a million in Spain', National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief, Oct 1937; 'Spain and the TUC' by Harry Pollitt, Communist Party of Great Britain, Sep 1936; 'We saw in Spain' (Clement Attlee, Ellen Wilkinson, John Dugdale and Philip Noel Baker), Labour Party, undated [1937?].
Photographs issued by 'Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya', showing evidence of attacks using German and Italian munitions, undated.
Typescript report: 'International solidarity and the Spanish Republicans', presented by the Organising Bureau of the International Emergency Conference for Spanish Refugees, 15-16 Jul 1939.
Leaflets and circulars from NCL, Trades Union Congress, Labour Party, Parliamentary Committee for Spain, Spanish Medical Aid Committee, National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief, London Trades Council, International Brigade Dependants and Wounded Aid Committee, Basque Children's Committee; and re the Conference Internationale d'Aide aux Refugies Espagnols, Jul 1939.
Journals: 'Voice of Spain', no.8, London, 27 May 1939; 'Suplemento de 3a Division', Nov 1938 (in Spanish); 'Spanish Relief', National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief, no.9, Oct 1937.
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MSS.292/946/18b
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Spanish Situation [Civil War]: Publications, 1936-1938
Includes:
Pamphlets: 'Madrid. The "military" atrocities of the rebels: A record of massacre, murder, mutilation', Labour Party, Jan 1937; 'The Pope on the Spanish Terror: Full text of address to the Spanish refugees', Catholic Truth Society, Oct 1936; 'National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief', Feb 1937; 'The Spanish problem: Report of speeches at the Plymouth Trade Union Congress 1936; 'Franco bombs British seamen: Labour condemns Chamberlain's surrender', Philip Noel-Baker MP, Labour Party, 1938; 'What Spanish democracy is fighting for', Labour Party, 1938; 'Le 13 points du President Negrin' (in French); 'The agony of Spain. Socialist appeal to British democracy: Spanish envoys tell the facts', Labour Party, 1936; 'Spain and ourselves', Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain, 1938; 'Report and findings of Committee of Enquiry into Breaches of International Law relating to Intervention in Spain', Oct 1936; 'The "Dubinsky issue" in the 1936 campaign: How 26 million American voters buried the "Red bogey"', International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, New York, Dec 1936; 'Report of a group of Anglican and Free Churchmen who visited Spain, January 29 to February 9, 1937'; report on 'The visit of an all-party group of Members of Parliament to Spain', Lawrence & Wishart, 1936.
Leaflets from: Communist Party of Great Britain, Labour Party, Voluntary Industrial Aid for Spain, National Council of Labour, Spanish Exhibition Committee, International Peace Campaign, Relief Committee for Victims of Fascism, Spanish Emergency Committee, Spain Shop Committee, Spanish Youth Foodship (London Committee). Leaflets re.: National Conference on Spain, 1938; the film 'Blockade', undated; the exhibition of Picasso's 'Guernica' in London, undated; 'For Spain Indian Evening' arranged by Sehri Saklatvala, undated; national conference of the Friends of the Spanish Republic, 1937. Also includes two pro-nationalist / rebel leaflets on foreigners in the Republican army and bombing of open towns, produced by Spanish Press Services Ltd.
Bulletins and journals: National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief bulletin, no.3, 5 Mar 1937; Spanish Medical Aid Committee, May 1938; 'El Obrero Sanitario', journal of the Sindicato de Empleados de Hospitales (UGT), 1 Jun 1937 (in Spanish).
Information re joint meetings of the International Federation of Trade Unions and Labour and Socialist International, etc., Jul-Dec 1936.
'Starvation in Madrid', reprint of article from 'The Sunday Post', Glasgow, 21 Feb 1937.
HM Stationery Office publication: International Committee for the Application of the Agreement Regarding Non-Intervention in Spain, proposals submitted by HM Government in the UK, 14 Jul 1937.
International Brigade Dependants and Wounded Aid Committee receipts and payments account, 7 Jun-30 Nov 1937.
Illustrations showing destruction caused to the Prado Museum and Art Gallery in Madrid by fascist forces, 5o Regimento Acero, c1936.
Photographs issued by 'Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya', showing bomb damage in Madrid and German munitions, undated.
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MSS.292/946/19
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War]: Catholic Aspect, 1936-1939
Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings, reports of interviews with the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, etc. Subjects include meetings and discussions with the Archbishop regarding a divergence between the labour movement and the Catholic Community.
Also includes the pamphlet 'The case of the Basque Catholics', by J. De Hiriartia, published by Euzko Deya (London) Ltd, 1939.
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MSS.292/946/20
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International Conference on Spain, 1937
The conference of organisations connected to the International Federation of Trade Unions and the Labour and Socialist International was held in London on 10-11 March 1937.
List of speakers and verbatim report.
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MSS.292/946/21
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International Conference on Spain, 1937
Correspondence, circulars, minutes, lists of delegates, resolutions, text of speeches, reports of conference, etc.
Includes: minutes of special meeting of the National Council of Labour, 9 Mar 1937; reports on the conference in 'Comunicat de Premsa' of the Generalitat de Catalunya (English edition) and 'The Week', 17 Mar 1937; copy of 'La Correspondencia de Valencia', newspaper of Union General de Trabajadores, 17 Feb 1937.
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MSS.292/946/22
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International Conference on Spain, 1937
Correspondence, minutes, press cuttings etc. Subjects include infiltration of the conference by Frank Pitcairn [an alias of Claud Cockburn], Daily Worker journalist, and the refusal of a passport to allow Pitcairn to return to Spain.
Documents include: report of joint meeting of the International Federation of Trade Unions and the Labour and Socialist International, 17 Feb 1937; text of discussion at National Council of Labour meeting, 9 Mar 1937.
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MSS.292/946/23
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War]: Shipping from Germany, 1936-1938
Correspondence regarding German shipping, submarine activity, and bombardment of ports. Correspondents include the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), trade unions and the Foreign Office.
Includes: 'List of ships interfered with, attacked or sunk during the war in Spain, July 1936-June 1938', Press Department of the Spanish Embassy in London; reports on German activity forwarded by the ITF.
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MSS.292/946/24
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War]: POUM Leaders for Trial, 1938
Includes correspondence (mostly with the Independent Labour Party) regarding the forthcoming trial of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM) leaders; and ILP statement re the trials.
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MSS.292/946/25a
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Spanish Seamen in British Ports, 1939-1942
Correspondence, memoranda, etc., including re provision of aid, emigration to South America, employment in Britain, etc. Correspondents include: National Union of Seamen, government departments, the Basque Delegation in London, and the Mid-Atlantic Shipping Company Limited.
Documents include: lists of Spanish seamen; report of meeting of British Section of the International Transport Workers' Federation, 13 Mar 1939.
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MSS.292/946/25b
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Spanish Seamen in British Ports, 1939-1940
Lists of Spanish and Basque sailors, in some cases with information about funds paid to them or the names of their ships; returns submitted by trade councils, listing 'Spanish refugees: Seamen'; circulars and correspondence.
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MSS.292/946/26
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Spanish Refugees, 1938-1939
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. Subjects include: requests for help for or from particular individuals, enquiries about relatives still in Spain, provision of aid, French camps, emigration to South America.
Documents include: report re situation of Spanish refugees in France (in French) by Union General de Trabajadores de Espana (UGT), Jul 1939; 'census list' (statistics showing numbers of men, women and children in specified camps) re Spanish refugees in France, Jul 1939; memorandum on 'The situation of the Spanish refugees in France', Comite International de Coordination et d'Information pour l'Aide a l'Espagne Republicaine', May 1939; report of British representative on the International Delegation to Investigate Conditions in Spanish Refugee Camps in French Algeria, 1939.
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MSS.292/946/27
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Spanish Refugees, 1939-1943
Correspondence, etc. Subjects include: requests for help for or from particular individuals, provision of aid.
Also includes: information bulletin of the Anti-Fascist Relief Committee, no.2, Jan 1940.
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MSS.292/946/28
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International Solidarity Fund for the Relief of Workers in Spain, 1936-1937
Correspondence, circulars, statements of subscriptions, reports, etc. Subjects include: the foundation and administration of the fund, provision and transportation of aid.
Documents include: report of delegation to Spain, Sep 1936; report of meeting of Solidarity Fund Committee in Paris, 29 Sep 1936; National Council of Labour statement on the labour relief work for Spain, undated; National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief bulletin no.2, 19 Feb 1937.
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MSS.292/946/29
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International Solidarity Fund for the Relief of Workers in Spain and 'Save the Basque Children' Fund, 1937-1938
Correspondence, circulars, statements of subscriptions, etc. Subjects include: the administration of the funds, provision and transportation of aid.
Documents include: National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief publicity and propaganda notes for local committees, Nov 1937.
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MSS.292/946/30
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International Solidarity Fund for the Relief of Workers in Spain, 1938
Correspondence, circulars, memoranda, etc. Subjects include: the administration of the fund, provision and transportation of aid.
Documents include: 'Summarised report of relief work in Spain undertaken by the International Solidarity Fund', National Council of Labour, 1938; pamphlet, 'Aid for Spain', International Solidarity Fund, 1938; extract from report of Trades Union Congress, 1938; report of visit to Spain re 'Homes for Spanish Orphans' Fund', Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain, Sep 1938; National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief plan for Winter campaign, Sep 1938; report on position in the south, by G.T. Garratt, Sep 1938; report regarding children's homes in Spain from the International Federation of Trade Unions, 1938; 'General scheme for the creation of a number of homes in France and/or Spain for orphans of Spanish miners', provisional report by Schevenels, 1938; 'The People and Freedom News Sheet', The People and Freedom Group, London, Easter 1938.
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MSS.292/946/32
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International Solidarity Fund Collection and Administration, 1938-1940
Documents include: correspondence with Spanish Relief Committee, Co-operative Wholesale Society, International Federation of Trade Unions, and others; appeal leaflets; resolutions and account of the International Executive Commission of the International Committee of Co-ordination and Information for Aid to Republican Spain, Dec 1938; TUC statement showing contributions of the movement to the International Solidarity Fund (ISF) up to 31 Dec 1938; summary of union responses to TUC enquiry re amounts given to ISF, Jan 1939; memorandum re 'Spain: Relief', [1939?]; summary of amounts given by each country to ISF between Jul 1936-Dec 1938; secretary's report and accounts for Spanish Refugee Fund, Apr 1940; lists of firms contributing packages of footwear for refugees, 1939; details of consignment on SS Busiris, May 1939; list of Spanish refugees assisted by ISF, c. Apr 1939; list of contents of shipments sent between Oct 1938-Jan 1939; accounts showing funds raised by NCL for Spain, c. Jan 1939; League of Nations report on request of the Spanish Government for the technical assistance of the League in the study of measures for providing food supplies for refugees, Nov 1938.
Subjects include: shipments of goods, especially food, milk and clothing; aid for refugees.
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MSS.292/946/33
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International Solidarity Fund, 1939
Summaries of union responses to TUC circular requesting information about amounts given to ISF, Jan-Feb 1939.
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MSS.292/946/34
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War]: International Brigade, 1937-1942
Includes: correspondence, memoranda; leaflets and circulars from the International Brigade Dependents and Wounded Aid Committee, the International Brigade Association and the Anti-Fascist Relief Committee; lists of trade unionists [members of the British battalion?]; list of trade union members of the British Battalion who were killed in Spain; International Brigade Dependents and Wounded Aid Committee accounts, Jun 1937-Nov 1938; report of deputation from the International Brigade Dependants and Wounded Aid Committee to the National Council of Labour, 31 Mar 1938; list of returned wounded from British Battalion between Dec 1936-Apr 1937.
Subjects include: the International Brigade Dependants and Wounded Aid Committee, International Brigade National Memorial Fund, funds and aid for former members of the Brigade and their relations, prisoners of war in France and North Africa, Communist control of the International Brigade funds.
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MSS.292/946/35
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War]: International Brigade, 1942-1954
Includes: correspondence; circulars from the International Brigade Association; 'The Volunteer for Liberty', vol.3, no.7, International Brigade Association journal, 1942; pamphlet, 'Is it subversive to be Anti-Franco?', published by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1954; reprint of article, 'Tooling up for mass repression: The Subversive Activities Control Board', by Laurent B. Frantz, reprinted from special civil liberties issue of the US journal 'The Nation', 1954;
Subjects include: appeals for aid, prisoners of war and refugees in France and North Africa, Communist control of organisation.
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MSS.292/946/36
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Spanish Rebellion [Civil War]: Voluntary Industrial Aid, 1937-1939
Voluntary Industrial Aid hoped to help the aid effort by producing goods required in Spain by the use of voluntary labour, thus reducing costs.
Includes: correspondence, circulars, leaflets, copies of articles (including one re air raid shelters, May 1939); interim memorandum to the Labour Party Committee on Spain submitted by Voluntary Industrial Aid for Spain, Jan 1938.
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MSS.292/946/37
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Spanish Conflict [Civil War]: Basque Children's Committee, 1937-1938
Includes: correspondence, leaflets, circulars; minutes of special meeting of National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and Basque Children's Committee, 28 Oct 1937; pamphlet, 'Youth unite for peace', British Youth Peace Assembly, 1937; report on the British centres for children by Leah Manning, 1937; estimated cost of running hostels and statement of accounts of Basque Children's Committee, Aug 1937; circular from Eleanor Rathbone re 'The refugee question at Santander', Jul 1937.
Subjects include: National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and Basque Children's Committee, fundraising, camps in Britain, provision of shoes and clothing.
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MSS.292/946/38
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Basque Children's Committee / Basque Children's Trust Ltd, 1937-1949
Includes: correspondence, circulars, leaflets; report of visit to Spain by R. West, Autumn 1947; National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and Basque Children's Committee / Trust reports, 1938/9, 1941, 1942/3, 1945/6; National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief receipts and payments account for 1938; minutes of meeting of Basque Administrative Sub-Committee, 13 Jun 1939; minutes of National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and Basque Children's Committee, 14 Dec 1937, 1 & 16 Jun 1938.
Subjects include: funds and fund-raising activities, homes and hostels, aid for refugees, repatriation.
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MSS.292/946/39
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Basque Children's Committee, 1937-1938
Minutes of the Basque Children's Committee Executive Committee and Basque Children's Administrative Sub-Committee (including some joint meetings with the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief), 1937-8.
Also contains agendas, circulars, accounts, memoranda, reports, leaflets and press-cuttings; including: National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief bulletins nos. 7, 8, 10, 11, Jun, Jul, Dec 1937, Mar 1938; summary of replies from centres to circular on repatriation sent in Oct 1938; 'Basque Children's Bulletin', no.2, Aug 1938; report on Father Gabana's repatriation list, 1937; reports on North Stoneham camp, 1937.
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MSS.292/946/40
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Basque Children's Committee, 1938-1939
Minutes of the Basque Children's Administrative Sub-Committee and Basque Children's Committee.
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MSS.292/946/41
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Medical Aid, 1936-1937
Correspondence, circulars, memoranda, reports, leaflets, press cuttings, etc.; including: reports of discussions between officials of the TUC and Labour Party, and representatives of the Socialist Medical Association, re medical and ambulance units being sent to Spain, 11 & 19 Aug 1936; Spanish Medical Aid Committee bulletins; report on the Scottish Ambulance Unit, 20 Oct 1936; report and accounts of Spanish Medical Aid Committee, 1936.
Subjects include: Spanish Medical Aid Committee, Scottish Ambulance Unit; provision of medical supplies, transport, staff and funds; fundraising for proposed Ray Cox memorial.
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MSS.292/946/42
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Medical Aid, 1937-1940
Correspondence, circulars, memoranda, reports, leaflets, reprints of articles, etc.; including: Spanish Medical Aid Committee bulletins; report of visit to Spanish hospital at Ontiniente by Dr H.B. Morgan, 4 Aug 1937; report on 'Blood transfusion in Spain', with accompanying photographs, 1938; report on International Conference for Medical Aid to Spain, Jul 1938; minutes of meeting of Spanish Medical Aid Committee, 29 Mar 1939; 'Despues', no.4, journal published in Madrid, May 1938 (in Spanish); photograph of field ambulance, 1937.
Subjects include: Spanish Medical Aid Committee, Scottish Ambulance Unit; provision of medical supplies, transport, staff and funds; fundraising for proposed Ray Cox memorial.
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MSS.292/946/43
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Spanish Medical Aid Committee, 1938-1939
Minutes, with related reports and circulars. Includes copies of letters from Nurse Madge Addy at Ucles, Jan-Feb 1939; bulletin for Feb 1939; report on personnel in Spain, Sep 1938.
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MSS.292C/946/1
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Spanish seamen, 1939-1940
Miscellaneous circulars and reports, lists of refugee Spanish seamen in British ports.
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MSS.292C/946/2
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Spanish Medical Aid Committee, 1935-1941
Correspondence, including re SMAC, the Anti-Fascist Relief Committee, the British Committee for Refugees from Spain, the Basque Children's Committee, the International Emergency Conference for Spanish Refugees (Paris, July 1939), Spanish Exhibition Committee and various other aid committees; journal, 'The Bedford Transport Magazine' (December 1937).
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MSS.292C/946/3
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Labour Party Spain Campaign Committee, 1937-1938
Minutes, reports and circulated papers; memorandum submitted to the committee by Voluntary Industrial Aid for Spain.
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MSS.292/808.91/4
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1936 People's Olympiad, Barcelona
Event organised in opposition to the Berlin Olympics, the outbreak of civil war meant that it didn't take place.
Correspondence, publicity material, etc.
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