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Bert Pearce (Welsh Communist Party) Papers Series
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Trade Unions

The series comprises papers relating to trade unions, including the Wales TUC, Amalgamated Union of Engineering workers (AUEW), National Union of Seamen, and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), with analyses of the occupations and union membership of Communist Party Wales members.

Financial ledgers

The series consists of financial ledgers detailing income from membership dues, branch contributions, donations, and sales of publications through the South Wales Bookshop, and the expenditure of the Communist Party on organisers' wages, and administrative costs.

Welsh language and culture

The series comprises newspaper cuttings, leaflets and articles on Wales, the Welsh language and culture, including a questionnaire on the Welsh language answered by the Welsh Committee of the Communist Party, 1957, notes on 'Problems of Welsh national development today', 1967, and typescript of 'Languages and the National and Colonial question' by W. B. Lockwood, 1955.

Miners

The series includes Communist Party policy and research documents on the mining industry, especially in South Wales, with papers relating to health issues including pneumoconiosis, and to the campaigns to stop the closure of pits. The series also includes material relating to the NCB, NUM, and trade unions; publications, leaflets, correspondence and newspaper cuttings.

Great Britain. National Coal Board

CPGB subject committees

The series consists of papers relating to the Midlands District committee, 1944-1958, Political Committee, 1965-1982, the Inner-party Democracy committee, 1979-1980, Congress appeals committee, 1983-1985, and to party unity, 1983-1985.

Minutes and papers

The series consists of files relating to the activities of the Communist Party in Wales, including Welsh Executive Committee minutes, papers relating to devolution, local government, industry, and miscellaneous material, 1939-1998. Most files include material on a range of different subjects. Dates are wide ranging in some cases, and appear to be files that have been gathered together for a certain meeting or other purpose. Further details of the contents of the files are noted on file level when of particular importance. Some files are specifically Young Communist League, Llanelli branch, North Wales area, Secretariat and correspondence files. The minute book of the New Era Union Class, 1916-1919, is also included.

Membership

The series comprises lists of names and addresses of members of the Communist Party and the Democratic Left, listed by branch and area, or as committee members and congress delegates. The files include membership cards, statistics and analysis, some financial papers, and the address book of the Llwchwr branch members.

Local election leaflets

The series comprises local election leaflets, 1946-1947, c.1950-1992, (with gaps, mainly 1960s and 1970s), relating to Communist Party candidates in South Wales. Files WE 5/3-22 also include election results, and papers relating to the arrangements of the campaigns.

Minutes and papers

The series comprises minutes and papers of the Democratic Left and the Democratic Left Wales, with some Democratic Left and Communist Party Great Britain conference papers, and Green Socialist Network papers.

Green Socialist Network

The series contains papers relating to the Green Socialist Network / Rhwydwaith Sosialaidd Gwyrdd, an environmental group which was affiliated to the Democratic Left, including the 'GreenSocs' magazine, newsletters, minutes and correspondence.

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