Copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V including a report from the Chief Constable of Liverpool which describes the deterioration of the dock strike and the rioting in Liverpool. WSC includes details of the troops which have been sent to Liverpool and to areas close to Manchester and London. Typescript. Copy at CHAR 12/12/24. Draft at CHAR 12/12/30-34.

Copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V covering various subjects including: the restoration of order at Llanelly [Camarthenshire, Wales] and in South Wales; arrangements for a meeting of railway workers in London; preparation for the withdrawal of the troops and the settlement of the dispute between master lightermen and their employees. Typescript.

Copy of a telegram from [WSC] to King George V covering various subjects including: the restoration of essential services on the railway network; the numbers of railway workers still on strike; the refusal of offers of service by the railway managers; the continuing movement of the troops and enrolment of Special Constables and [WSC's] hopes of resolving the London docks strike. Typescript.

Copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V informing him of the improvement of the situation in London where railway and dock workers are returning to work; and describing the serious riots in Liverpool to which the troops have been called. Typescript with manuscript alterations.

Printed copy of the terms of the agreement reached [in the London dock strike] between the Port of London Authority, wharfingers, granary keepers, ship owners and the National Transport Workers' Federation.

Telegram from Sir Edward Troup [Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] to WSC concerning the movement of troops in a town [during industrial unrest]. Manuscript. Contains note by WSC on the dorse.

Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: discussion of the Army estimates introduced by [Richard] Haldane [Secretary of State for War]; WSC's approval of Haldane's army reforms; and a debate over the non-payment of trade union rates of wages in Government shops in the War Office. Includes manuscript corrections.

Admiralty minute to WSC, on a deputation of shipwrights to the House of Commons, complaining about wages in the outside yards on the Tyne, Clyde, Mersey and at Barrow [Lancashire].

Minute from [WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman], on the actions to be followed by the Navy during the threatened coal strike. [Typescript copy, with address to 1st Sea Lord struck through].

Minute from [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman, 1st Sea Lord] to WSC, on coaling arrangements for the Navy during the threatened coal strike.

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Director of the Intelligence Division, Admiralty [Rear-Admiral Alexander Bethell], asking for comment on a letter from "Captain" Tupper, one of the most violent and competent of the strike leaders in the ports in 1912, who had written to WSC about espionage in the ports. WSC asks Bethell to meet Tupper and not to hand him over to Commander Mansfield Cumming [of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6]. [Carbon].

Hints for speakers issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office on the Hours of Industrial Employment Bill.

Cutting from the "Daily Telegraph": letter to the editor from Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil] advocating copartnership between workers and employers as a cure for the country's current serious economic plight. Sent with CHAR 2/134/160.

Letter from F W Gregory (13 Grove Road, Hoe Stree, Walthamstow, [London]) to WSC arguing that a national co-operative system, whereby employers and workers shared in the profits of a business, would remove the root causes of Socialism.

Souvenir volume of the British Gazette in miniature comprising facsimiles of all editions of the British Gazette covering the period of the General Strike and giving information about the government's actions to counteract the strike. Printed.

Photograph of a luncheon party attended by those involved in the publication of the British Gazette [during the General Strike] including WSC. Annotated on the reverse "Miss [Clarice] Fisher to keep (British Gazette luncheon)".

Shops [H.L.] Bill to regulate the hours of employment of persons under the age of eighteen years employed in the wholesale or retail trade [printed].

Letter from Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association to WSC, commenting on Private Members Bill introduced by Frank Hornby MP to extend shop opening hours during the two weeks before Christmas, quoting Patrick Hannon MP "I can assure you that there is not the ghost of a chance of the Bill going any further in the House of Commons this session, and probably it will never be heard of again".

Letter from Violet Pearman, PS to WSC to J Tracy, Liverpool, on Private Member's Bill introduced to the House of Commons by Frank Hornby MP, proposing to extend shopping hours in the two weeks before Christmas, commenting that there was very little chance of the Bill going any further [carbon].

Letter from Violet Pearman, PS to WSC to Walter Rose, Early Closing Association, sending presscutting on Private Member's Bill introduced to the House of Commons by Frank Hornby MP, proposing to extend shopping hours in the two weeks before Christmas, asking for comments [carbon].

Presscutting from the Bolton Evening News on Private Member's Bill introduced to the House of Commons by Frank Hornby MP, proposing to extend shopping hours in the two weeks before Christmas.

Presscutting from the Bolton Evening News, letter from Walter Rose, Secretary, Early Closing Association, on Private Member's Bill introduced to the House of Commons by Frank Hornby MP, proposing to extend shopping hours in the two weeks before Christmas.

Presscutting from The Newsagent-Bookseller's Review and Stationers' Gazette, on Bill to extend shopping hours during the two weeks before Christmas.