| Description | Includes record of members completing apprenticeships and the names of their new employers; members starting work (date and employer); members' deaths; election of officers; propositions for new members; correspondence, circulars, receipts and minutes received; nominations for Branch officer positions; results of ballots; visiting speakers at Branch meetings and votes of thanks; (financial) support for workers involved in industrial disputes, and relatives of those killed in industrial accidents; financial support for members standing in municipal elections; wage rates.
Minutes also record donation and sick claims. Donation claims detail the member's name, employer's name, date of discharge/suspension from employment and the donation benefit to be given whilst signing the Vacant Book [the Branch had resolved at its first meeting that this book would be kept at the Hallamshire Coffee House, London Road South]. There is a significant increase in the number of such claims during the early 1920s.
Minutes for the following periods were missing at the time of transfer:
Jan 1911 - Jan 1914; Dec 1915 - Jul 1918; Sep 1921 - Apr 1923; Oct 1940 - Jul 1945; Apr 1949 - Aug 1952; Nov 1955 - Mar 1961; Nov 1972 - Aug 1976. |