Catalogue description This contains dockets for four file series and five odd files. FILE SERIES - The four...

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Details of LAB 7/295
Reference: LAB 7/295
Description:

This contains dockets for four file series and five odd files.

FILE SERIES - The four file series are as follows:

  • General Department 1921-1923, 1925 G. In this section there are nineteen docket sheets with the G code, covering the years 1921-1923. The files deal with arrangements for ex-servicemen and disabled ex-servicemen; results of cases of the General and Local Munitions Tribunals; consultation with the Treasury; transfer of the overseas section of the I&S division to Geneva; deputations from the Trades Union Congress; procedure for Parliamentary Questions; a query from an employment exchange manager re unemployment insurance; nightwork for young persons; minutes of the National Advisory Committee on War Output, 1923; statement for the Royal Commission on Local Government, 1923; protest about the interference of International Labour Bureau in question of liability of shipowners for transport of emigrants; copy of War Charges (Validity) bill; and need to reduce the weekly report and cut distribution list. Some of the files dealing with Parliamentary matters originated in the Parliamentary and General Branch. There is one GC file, possibly General Correspondence, from the Finance Department at Kew re a joint investigation at Port Talbot in 1925.
  • Industrial Transference Board 1928-1929 ITB. These eleven files deal with attempts to transfer miners, advance of travelling and removal expenses, co-operation with voluntary organisations, arrangements with Co-operative Societies, and arrangements to settle miners on forest holdings. Later files on transference are in the ET series, LAB 7/74-81.
  • Joint Substitution Board 1920-1932 SB. The seventeen files contain papers on the constitution and procedure of the Board, its various activities, and its winding up.
  • Unemployment Insurance Department 1930-1933 UI. This series contains nine files of the Unemployment Insurance Department. Three files in this section contain instructions for staff, three deal with the position of aliens, one with a question of scope, one with a prosecution involving Liverpool Dock Scheme records, and one on compensation for trade union officials attending Courts of Referees.

MISCELLANEOUS H, M, TI - The five odd files are as follows:

  • Correspondence with the Admiralty and Chairman of Liverpool Dock Labour Joint Committee re practice of 'subbing'. LAB 2/170/H7749/1915.
  • Deputation from Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers asking for three labour representatives as members of the Port Authority for London. LAB 2/1052/H6851/1908.

The above files originated in the Board of Trade Harbour Department whose records are now in MT 10. Some H files were incorporated in DPL files, LAB 7/25.

  • Demarcation dispute between workers employed on shipbuilding at Queenstown. LAB 2/96/M37336/1917.
  • New Zealand Labour Department asking for copies of Shipping and Seaman's Act and Board of Trade regulations. LAB 2/1543/L497/1902.

The above files originated in the Board of Trade Marine Department whose records are now in MT 9.

File taken over from the Ministry of National Service.

Date: [1920-1933]
Arrangement:

As there are not many dockets in each series there is only one docket for each file and they are arranged in file order.

Related material:

Provides index for PIN 6
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Administrative / biographical background:

The General Department:

Formed in 1920 by the merger of the Parliamentary and General Department, the Intelligence and Statistics Department, and the Trade Boards division of the Industries Department. Files dealing with the work of the Trade Boards and the I&S branches kept their own codes. The Parliamentary and General branch ended in 1921.

Joint Substitution Board:

Set up by the Treasury and the Ministry of Labour in September 1920. Its functions were as follows:

  • a. To co-ordinate activities of government departments in placing ex-servicemen and women in temporary posts in government service.
  • b. To find further temporary employment in civil service for ex-service personnel discharged from government service.
  • c. To fill all vacancies in temporary posts in civil service by ex-servicemen and women.

Clerical and messenger vacancies in the provinces were filled by Divisional Selection Committees operating at the six divisional offices. Applications for administrative or technical vacancies had to be made to the Joint Substitution Board in London. The Board ceased to operate as from 1 October 1932, and its functions passed to divisional offices. The SB files are in LAB 2/2118, 2119 and 2120. Minutes of the Joint Substitution Board, 1920-1922, are in LAB 2/1899/CEB 146/1922 and attached files, and in LAB 2/1542/ED 2696/1921. An account of its abolition is in LAB 2/2014/ET428/1937. For staff and organisation see LAB 2/1900/CEB1330/1929.

Unemployment Insurance Department:

Formed in 1930. Other files were transferred to the Ministry of National Insurance and later to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and are to be found in the PIN group; PIN 6, Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance, and PIN 7, Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance. A few UI files dealing with the setting up of the Unemployment Assistance Board have been re-registered with the Assistance Board papers in the AST group.

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