National Unemployed Workers Movement
TitleNational Unemployed Workers Movement
ReferenceORG/NUWM
Date
1920-1984
Production date 1920 - 1984
Scope and ContentCollection Book of a Miss [Edith] Stevens for a National Hunger March reception in Swindon, 1934
NUWM membership cards: E [Ernest] Faulkner (1923); Wal Hannington (1939); Lilian Pether (no year). Another for 1933/34.
Co-op Current Account book for the NUWM, Apr 1936-1937.
Speakers Notes:
- social services, expenditure on war, housing and slum clearance, Apr 1931.
- issued by Women’s department on; Maternity and child welfare services, contrast in the soviet union and the infant death rate, n.d.
‘Remember Birkenhead!’ Account of protest against the means test in September 1932, published 1982 by the Merseyside Socialist Research group
List of NUWM publications compiled by Edmund Frow and John Mahon March 1972.
‘Cash Book’ very lightly used.
Government Publications describing changes to unemployment assistance regulations 1934-1936.
Autobiographical:
- Sid Elias reminiscences 1911-1926: account of one of the NUWMs leading figures written in his later life.
- Accounts on Unemployment and the 1932 Hunger March by Alfred Jenkin
- Correspondence relating to NUWM 1930-39, including correspondence between Albert Hardman and The Unemployment and Advice Bureau as well as the decisions of the U.A.B in Mr. Hardman’s case 1937-1939.
- Notes by a benefit umpire on his decision regarding case of an S.T. Beattie in Ashington Date: 1930
NUWM Circulars:
- Liverpool Marchers Committee 1929, Salford NUWM branch 1933.
- NUWM National Administrative Council circulars on developing movement, ‘National Day of Struggle’, Marches, Conference. 1932-1933.
Newspaper cuttings:
Daily Herald on government unemployment policy 1921, Daily Worker on government unemployment policy 1927-1938, Manchester Guardian on Hunger Marches and other demonstrations (Including photographs) and articles relating to court cases of NUWM leadership 1931-1933.
NUWM membership cards: E [Ernest] Faulkner (1923); Wal Hannington (1939); Lilian Pether (no year). Another for 1933/34.
Co-op Current Account book for the NUWM, Apr 1936-1937.
Speakers Notes:
- social services, expenditure on war, housing and slum clearance, Apr 1931.
- issued by Women’s department on; Maternity and child welfare services, contrast in the soviet union and the infant death rate, n.d.
‘Remember Birkenhead!’ Account of protest against the means test in September 1932, published 1982 by the Merseyside Socialist Research group
List of NUWM publications compiled by Edmund Frow and John Mahon March 1972.
‘Cash Book’ very lightly used.
Government Publications describing changes to unemployment assistance regulations 1934-1936.
Autobiographical:
- Sid Elias reminiscences 1911-1926: account of one of the NUWMs leading figures written in his later life.
- Accounts on Unemployment and the 1932 Hunger March by Alfred Jenkin
- Correspondence relating to NUWM 1930-39, including correspondence between Albert Hardman and The Unemployment and Advice Bureau as well as the decisions of the U.A.B in Mr. Hardman’s case 1937-1939.
- Notes by a benefit umpire on his decision regarding case of an S.T. Beattie in Ashington Date: 1930
NUWM Circulars:
- Liverpool Marchers Committee 1929, Salford NUWM branch 1933.
- NUWM National Administrative Council circulars on developing movement, ‘National Day of Struggle’, Marches, Conference. 1932-1933.
Newspaper cuttings:
Daily Herald on government unemployment policy 1921, Daily Worker on government unemployment policy 1927-1938, Manchester Guardian on Hunger Marches and other demonstrations (Including photographs) and articles relating to court cases of NUWM leadership 1931-1933.
Extent1 box
LanguageEnglish
Persons keywordNational Unemployed Workers' Movement, Elias, Sid, Jenkin, Alfred, Hardman, Albert, Faulkner, Ernest, Hannington, Wal
SubjectUnemployment
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfonds
Normal locationAG National Unemployed Workers Movement Box 2 (Room 37)