| Description | Large folder of material relating to various labour issues in the Sheffield area, including many original flyers and publications issued by local branches of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. These papers have been roughly organised into chronological period by Bill Moore (white paper slips used as dividers), starting in the pre-1900 period and ending in the 1990s.
Subject areas include:
‘Federation: Amalgamation;
Syndicalism and Industrial Unionism’;
lecture notes on the rise and fall of the Sheffield Socialist Movement;
Infant mortality;
Sheffield Labour College;
Sheffield Communist Party in the late 1920s, in particular correspondence between central CPGB and Sheffield Communist Party Branch and Communist Party manifestos etc., also some trade union material;
A.J. Cook Special, newssheet issued by the Bradford Area of the CPGB, Feb 1928;
New constitution of the Sheffield Trades and Labour Council;
General Strike and the Sheffield Communist Party;
Speakers' notes for propagandists - Anti-War Week, 1914-1918;
1930s’ National Minority Movement, pamphlets and circulars;
Programme for Hillsborough Co-operative Institute, 1935-36;
National Unemployed Workers' Movement (NUWM) circular on the 'Strike of the Buffer Girls at Boswell and Naylors' and other related correspondence and material on this strike.
1940s Communist Party manifestos and propaganda relating to Sheffield;
Communist Manifestos for 1950s - 1960s;
Sheffield labour issues in the 1980s. |