Correspondence on labour

Title

Correspondence on labour

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 113

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-25: Correspondence with the Anti-Slavery Society about the British Government's proposed inter-departmental committee to consider the Slavery Convention, forced labour and related matters, with enclosures, 1926-1939.

File 2, fols. 1-124: Correspondence with International Labour Office and Colonial Office officials about the former's Report on Forced Labour and the proposed Convention, 1927-1930.

File 3, fols. 1-69: Correspondence and despatches about the request by the Colonial Office to colonial governments to make a general survey of labour conditions in their territories and about the attempt by the department to abolish penal sanctions for labour offences, 1932-1933.

File 4, fols. 1-30: Correspondence with W. Phelan of the Diplomatic Division of the International Labour Office about the minutes of the 1932 October-November session of the Committee of Experts on Native Labour, 1933.

File 5, fols. 1-38: Correspondence about the appointment of Major Orde-Browne as Lugard's substitute on the Committee of Experts on Native Labour, the work he did as such and his consultation of Lugard on the agenda, 1933-1934.

File 6, fols. 1-2: Correspondence with C.W.H. Weaver of the International Labour Office about the Portuguese Labour Code of 1928 and the Portuguese government's recent decree on its colonial empire, 1933.

File 7, fols. 1-12: Correspondence about renewal of Lugard's membership of the Committee of Experts on Native Labour, 1935-1938.

File 8, fols. 1-19: Memoranda by William Ballinger about the work of the Committee of Experts on Native Labour and a letter to Lugard about the International Labour Office Governing Body's appointment of three new representatives from government, employers and labour, 1936.

File 9, fols. 1-3: Correspondence about the Grey and Blue Reports of the Committee of Experts on Native Labour, 1938-1939.

Date

1926-1939

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box