File. 'Canada'. Papers, newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to the closure of Dunlop Canada Limited

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(a) Letters (5) from Gerry Huunius of the Praxis Corporation's Institute for Social Change Workers' Control Task Force to Tony Topham : - - concerning Canadian moves for industrial democracy and the Dunlop closure

(b) Correspondence with Phillip Japp of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America, representative of the Dunlop workers

(c) Copy. Letter from the Prime Minister of Ontario, John P Roberts, to Phillip Japp

(d) Copy. Notification of closure

(e) Details of the Institute for Workers' Control and British trade union support for the employees

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Archive Record|Table of contents

Papers of Tony (Anthony John) TophamU DTO

Educational/tutorial workU DTO/1

Hull Unemployed Education ProjectU DTO/2

Centre for Socialist EducationU DTO/3

Institute for Workers' ControlU DTO/4

Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation/Peace MovementsU DTO/5

Campaigns/Industrial ActionU DTO/6

Original bundle. Fishing Industry 1965 - 69. Papers, newspaper cuttings and correspondence : - - campaign for better conditions and safety for trawlermenU DTO/6/1

File. Fishing Industry 1975U DTO/6/2

Report. The Humberside Fishing Industry...for Her Majestys GovernmentU DTO/6/3

Newsletter. Fisheries Economic... November 1980U DTO/6/4

File. British TransportDock Board Council Inquiry Hull. Papers and newspaper cuttings : - - decasualisation and nationalisation of the port transport industry; London and HumbersideU DTO/6/5

Pamphlet. 'The Dock Labour Scheme', National Dock Labour BoardU DTO/6/6

File. Docks. Papers, newspaper cuttings and correspondence : - - dock closures, pay and conditions, and joint consultationU DTO/6/7

Original bundle. Newspaper cuttings: - - docks and government policy on the portsU DTO/6/8

Reprint. The Labour Government Versus the Dockers 1945 - 1951 (Solidarity, c1964)U DTO/6/9

File. Docks. Papers, newspaper cuttings and correspondenceU DTO/6/10

Pamphlet. Hull Dockland News: National Docks Delegate Conference Report Claim for Increase in Wages, Transport and General Workers' UnionU DTO/6/11

Artificial bundle. Newspaper cuttings : - - docks and government policy regarding the portsU DTO/6/12

Artificial bundle. Port companies : - - operating results; financial details and notes; privately owned ports in the United Kingdom. (pp17)U DTO/6/13

Article. 'Large and Small Units: Containerisation or Palletised Loads' (SEA Transport)U DTO/6/14

Original bundle. Newspaper cuttings : - - docks; industrial action; decasualisation; Merseyside and London ports; Frank Cousins of Transport and General Workers' Union and Jack DashU DTO/6/15

Newspaper cuttings : - - United Kingdom ports and the Devlin Report; Port of London; Upper Clyde Shipbuilders; containerisationU DTO/6/16

Artificial bundle. Newspaper cuttings : - - industrial action; Hull; the build up to and the eventual one day national dock strike, March 1970U DTO/6/17

Original bundle.U DTO/6/18

File. Newspaper cuttings: - - The National Ports Scheme for Humber reorganisation and subsequent inquiryU DTO/6/19

Journal. Record, 'Frank Cousins discusses new methods of cargo-handling with dock members', Transport and General Workers' Union, May 1967U DTO/6/20

Newsletter. The Green Hull, Ellerman's Wilson Line, number 9 (1967)U DTO/6/21

Artificial bundle. Papers and newspaper cuttings : - - British ports; productivity, modernisation, shipping and manpower planning; Devlin Report; wage negotiationsU DTO/6/22

Artificial bundle. Papers, newspaper cuttings and leaflets : - - freight; the National Freight Board; FreightlinerU DTO/6/23

Artificial bundle. The DispatcherU DTO/6/24

Circulars. Union Definition of dock work; containerisation; and employment opportunities, and Docks Officers; branches and national committee, Transport and General Workers'U DTO/6/25

Port employer statistics (pp2)U DTO/6/26

Newspaper cuttings : - - dock workers' industrial action and pay disputes; port safety; announcement of the start of Tony Tophams course for shop stewards; Russian ships import of wool in dispute with Australian tradersU DTO/6/27

File. Port Employers. John Ledden [dock course student]. Papers and correspondenceU DTO/6/28

Plan. Chief Engineer of the Port of London Authority: - - new Tilbury dock extensionU DTO/6/29

Paper. Vocational Education in the Port of Rotterdam, Port Transport College of the Educational Foundation for the Port Transport Industry, Rotterdam, HollandU DTO/6/30

Leaflet. Dont miss the boat! : - - nationalisation of the docksU DTO/6/31

Paper. Port Operations in Britains Nationalised Ports, by SA Finnis, Chairman of the British Transport Docks BoardU DTO/6/32

Pamphlet. How Much Docks Nationalisation, (Labour Research, 1969)U DTO/6/33

File. Newspaper cuttings : - - British docks, the Humber and shippingU DTO/6/34

Artificial bundle. Papers and newspaper cuttings relating to British docksU DTO/6/35

Newspaper cuttings : - - Australian wool trade and London docksU DTO/6/36

Artificial bundle. Productivity agreementsU DTO/6/37

Papers: - - the docksU DTO/6/38

Artificial bundle. The Port, independent port newspaper, 12 March - 3 December 1970; 24 February - 3 December 1972U DTO/6/39

Artificial bundle. News from OCL: Overseas Containers Limited, numbers 27, 29 - 30U DTO/6/40

File. Dock Strike 1970. Papers and newspaper cuttingsU DTO/6/41

File. Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. Newspaper cuttings, notes and minutes : - - Mersey docksU DTO/6/42

Artificial bundle. Papers, newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to The British Transport Docks Board and Humber Local BoardU DTO/6/43

Front page of The Port, an independent port newspaperU DTO/6/44

Memorandum. To the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries: British Transport Docks Board (1971)U DTO/6/45

File. BTDB [British Transport Docks Board] Documents February 1972. Papers newspaper cuttings and correspondenceU DTO/6/46

File. Docks 1972. Papers and newspaper cuttings : - - docks policy; containerisation and effects of new forms of cargo handling; port of RotterdamU DTO/6/47

Paper. 'Docks - Shut the Door on Unemployment Now!' [? Communist Party]U DTO/6/48

Minutes. Meeting of the Humber Local Board : - - GrimsbyU DTO/6/49

File. IR [Industrial Relation] Act / Dockers / NIRC [National Industrial Relations Court] Decisions, April - June 1972. Newspaper cuttings and notes (2)U DTO/6/50

File. Docks 1972 II file. Newspaper cuttings, correspondence and Department of Employment press releases (2) : - - industrial relations; lead up to national docks strikeU DTO/6/51

Report. From the First Select Committee on Nationalised Industry: British Transport Docks Board (HMSO, 1972)U DTO/6/52

File. Future of Ports. Notes and newspaper cuttings : - - port reorganisation; dock workers scheme; statistics of Hull voluntary severance scheme; international labour conferenceU DTO/6/53

Leaflet. 'Inward Cargo Hull 1980', British Transport Docks BoardU DTO/6/54

File. Free Ports: inc. [including] Hull, International Labour Reports.U DTO/6/55

Report. Ts. 'The Hull Docks Fight'U DTO/6/56

Original bundle. Articles: - - shipping, unitisation and the rationalisation of liner trafficU DTO/6/57

File. 'Imperials [? John Prescotts file]'. Papers and correspondence relating to the closure of Imperial Typewriters in Hull and LeicesterU DTO/6/58

Notebook : - - references to Imperial Typewriters and contactsU DTO/6/59

Pamphlet. Imperial Typewriters Company Wages and Conditions of Employment for Hourly Paid WorkersU DTO/6/60

File. 'Press cuttings computers, ICL [International Computers Ltd.], word processing etc.'U DTO/6/61

File. 'ASTMS [Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staff] Hull.U DTO/6/62

Copy. 'Submission by New Harmony Enterprises Ltd.' [a proposed workers' co-operative of the former employees of Imperial Typewriters Co. factory at Hull]U DTO/6/63

File. 'Imperial Typewriters (press cuttings)'U DTO/6/64

File. 'Imperial Typewriters (I) January 1975'U DTO/6/65

File. 'Imperial Typewriters (II)'. Papers and notes relating to the closure of factories in Hull and Leicester; Urwick, Orr and Partners; statisticsU DTO/6/66

Artificial bundle. Papers, notes, newspaper cuttings and correspondence [? John Prescott's papers] relating to Imperial Typewriters Ltd.U DTO/6/67

Artificial bundle. Papers, statistics and copies of correspondence relating to the closure of Imperial Typewriters Ltd.U DTO/6/68

Copy. 'First draft of the Department of Industrys Study of Imperial Typewriters Co. Ltd.' by Urwick, Orr and PartnersU DTO/6/69

Copy. 'Department of Industry Special Report Study of Imperial Typewriters Co. Ltd'. by Urwick, Orr and PartnersU DTO/6/70

Artificial bundle . Papers relating to Imperial Typewriters Co. Ltd. ClosureU DTO/6/71

Letters from Roger Simon of the Labour Research Department to Tony Topham : - - Imperial TypewritersU DTO/6/72

File. 'New Harmony Enterprises Prospectus, final draft and appendices May 1975' (pp16)U DTO/6/73

Copies. 'A Corporate Plan for New Harmony Enterprises Limited'U DTO/6/74

Original bundle. Figures and notes relating to New Harmony Enterprises Ltd. and Imperial Typewriters Co. Ltd.U DTO/6/75

Report. 'New Harmony Enterprises Limited Commentary and Financial Assumptions' (2)U DTO/6/76

File. 'Keyboard charts lists - S.[Steve] Hogg'.U DTO/6/77

Artificial bundle. Papers and correspondence relating to negotiations between the Transport and General Workers' Union [TGWU] and Reckitt and Colman to institute a participation agreement in response to the introduction of new technology and the possible consequences for employeesU DTO/6/78

Box File. 'R and C [Reckitt and Colman Co. Ltd.] Participation Project 1979'U DTO/6/79

Copy. Letter to the Transport and General Unionists of Reckitt and Colman Co. Ltd. via Peter Grant from Tony Benn MP : - - offering support for their strike actionU DTO/6/80

Papers: - - Electrical Trades Union Radio Rentals dispute over wagesU DTO/6/81

File. 'Seamens Strike 1966'. Papers, newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to the seamens strike action for shorter working hours and a fairer wageU DTO/6/82

Copy. Resistance, London Shop Stewards Defence CommitteeU DTO/6/83

File. 'General Electrical Company / AEI [Associated Electrical Industries] / English Electric'.U DTO/6/84

File. 'GEC [General Electric Company] Press cuttings / IWC [Institute of Workers' Control documents August - September 1969'.U DTO/6/85

File. 'Miners Strike 1969. Press cuttings 13 - 27 October 1969' : - - an unofficial strike of Yorkshire minersU DTO/6/86

File. 'Canada'. Papers, newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to the closure of Dunlop Canada LimitedU DTO/6/87

File. 'Rolls Royce Trade Union Committee Bristol 1969'. Papers relating to the introduction of a wages structure programme Bristol Engine DivisionU DTO/6/88

File. 'UCS [Upper Clyde Ship Builders]'.U DTO/6/89

File. 'Chile 1973 - 1974'. Papers, newspaper cuttings and correspondence relating to the overthrow of Salvador Allende by military juntaU DTO/6/90

File. 'Ross Foods Hull and Combine 1981' : - - proposed closure of Ross Foods, Brighton StreetU DTO/6/91

Papers relating to the sale of arms to South African Government and the implications for Brough Aircraft workers [now British Aerospace] who produced Buccaneer Aircraft for Hawker SiddeleyU DTO/6/92

Publications/BooksU DTO/7

Humberside VoiceU DTO/8

General: Correspondence FilesU DTO/9

General: Industrial Relations/Trade UnionsU DTO/10

MiscellaneousU DTO/11