General Election: 1929

Title

General Election: 1929

Shelfmark

CRD 1/7/1-4

Summary

Comprises file CRD 1/7/1. This file includes:

Memorandum from Sir RB Howorth, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, concerning the procedure for dealing with General Election questionnaires by the Emergency Business Committee, 30/05/1929

Printed index to questionnaires dealt with by the Emergency Business Committee during the 1929 General Election, with cross-reference to the date of the particular meeting at which the response was agreed, 09/10/1931

Conclusions of meetings of the Emergency Business Committee, and organisations from which questionnaires were received and discussed:

1st meeting: 02/05/1929

2nd meeting, 03/05/1929

3rd meeting, 09/05/1929:

National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship

Federation of Grocers' Associations (Burnley and District Branch)

National Union of Teachers

Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools

Canon of Truro Cathedral

National Association of Schoolmasters

Divorce Law Reform Union

Central Sunday Closing Association

Hemel Hempstead Ministers of Religion (re: Sunday opening of theatres and music halls)

The Rector of Holdenby, Northampton

Sir A Conan Doyle (re: prosecution of mediums)

International Order of Good Templars

Monmouthshire Brewers

4th meeting, 13/05/1929:

National Farmers' Union

British Legion

National Union of Women Teachers

Birmingham and District Tenants' Association (re: rent restrictions)

Liverpool Co-Operative Society Ltd - Women's Guild (re: rent restrictions)

National Federation of Professional Workers

Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association, Leicester Branch

Mr A Coates (re: importation of dyestuffs)

Merthyr Borough Club's Defence League

Mr BH Oates (re: life insurance)

Association of Officers of Taxes

Lady Rhondda (re: League of Nations Equal Rights Convention)

Mr EW Mantle (re: Voluntary National Health Insurance)

Allotment Holders' Association, Great Gonerby Branch

Town Clerk of Lowestoft (re: coastal erosion)

5th meeting, 16/05/1929:

The National Conference on Widows' Orphans' and Old Age Pensions

National Union of Agricultural Workers, Wiltshire Branch

Co-Operative Party, Birmingham Council

National Association of Navy and Army Pensioners

National Association of Retired Police Officers

National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen, and Clerks

Miss LM Packer (re: Equal Pay)

Miss Jannings (re: cruelty to animals)

Committe on Wage Earning Children

Constituent of Admiral Beamish (re: taxation of land values)

National Council of Women

Musicians' Union

Licensed Victuallers Trade Protection Society

Club Cricket Conference

Union of Post Office Workers, Dumfries Branch

Exeter Peace Conference

Insurance Parliamentary Association Ltd

Association of Headmistresses

Married Women Teachers

6th meeting, 22/05/1929:

National Federation of Merchant Taylors, Exeter Branch

Actors' Association and Stage Guild

Taxation of Widows and Orphans Funds

Constituent of Col. Burton (re: Unemployment Insurance Scheme)

National Association of Wholesale Stationers

National Federation of Retail Newsagents, Booksellers and Stationers

Co-operative Societies

National Federation of Property Owners and Factors in Scotland

Society for Lunacy Reform

"Off" Licences Association

Rent restrictions

This box also comprises:

CRD 1/7/2 - Cabinet Emergency Business Committee: Conservative Central Office memoranda submitted to the Committee containing draft responses to General Election questionnaires received [Memoranda nos. 1-22], 1929

CRD 1/7/3 - Cabinet Emergency Business Committee: Conservative Central Office memoranda submitted to the Committee containing draft responses to General Election questionnaires received [Memoranda nos. 23-44], 1929

CRD 1/7/4 - Cabinet Emergency Business Committee: Conservative Central Office memoranda submitted to the Committee containing draft responses to General Election questionnaires received [Memoranda nos. 45-76]

Date

1929-1931

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (4 folders)