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825 INDUSTRIAL MANPOWER PAPERS Manuscripts & Archives University of Cape Town Libraries |
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A list |
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compiled
by |
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Jenith
Shannon |
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1992 |
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CONTENTS |
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INTRODUCTION |
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A |
SOURCE
MATERIAL |
A1-5 |
Industries
(Building, Engineering, etc.) |
A6 |
Industrial
and Agricultural Requirement |
A7 |
Board
of Trade and Industries |
A8 |
Social
and Economic Planning Council |
A9 |
Race
Relations |
A10 |
Director
General of War Supplies |
A11 |
Controller
of Industrial Manpower |
A12 |
Labour
in Industry |
A13 |
Strikes |
A14 |
Proclamations,
etc. |
A15 |
War
Committee Minutes and Correspondence |
A16 |
Reports |
A17 |
General
Newspaper Clippings |
B |
UNION
WAR HISTORIES DEPARTMENT |
B1 |
Correspondence
and Minutes |
B2 |
Professor
H.M. Robertson correspondence |
B3 |
Aims,
Progress Reports, etc. |
B4 |
Destruction
of War-time Documents |
B5-B7 |
Chronologies,
Indexes, etc. |
C |
NARRATIVES
AND NOTES |
C1 |
Control
of Various Industries |
C2 |
Trade,
Procurement and Economic Problems |
C3 |
Finance |
C4 |
Economic
and Social Control |
C5 |
Labour
Narratives |
C6 |
Civil
History Narratives |
C7 |
Miscellaneous |
BC 825
INDUSTRIAL MANPOWER PAPERS
The
Effect of the Second World War on the South Africa economy and the economic and
industrial control measures implemented as part of the war effort are the issues
covered in these papers. The
reactions of skilled and unskilled labour to these controls are reflected in
correspondence between the Controller of Manpower and various boards and
government officials. The
papers have been sorted into three sections, the first containing the source
material collected, to be used in the compilation of a civil and economic Union
war history.
Subsections
overlap, as much of the material dealing with particular industries - eg
official council and committee minutes, notices and correspondence, conference
and talks, surveys and statistics are interspersed with material from various
other sources, such as commission reports (eg The Native Wages Commission),
reports from Divisional Inspectors of Labour and Government Gazettes.
Defence matters are dealt with in the War Committee Minutes and in the
official war measures publications and proclamations.
Wage and Industrial Strike matters are discussed in reports,
correspondence and surveys.
The
second section deals with material from the Union War Histories Department and
includes correspondence with various writers, researchers and economic
historians who submitted contributions for publication.
Much of the correspondence and several of the contributions (manuscripts
and typescripts of which appear in the third section) have been written by
Professor H M Robertson, who was Assistant Editor for the work; a post he
relinquished on 31 December 1948, becoming instead, Advisor and Consultant.
The Editorship was undertaken by J A I Hamilton.
Finally,
there is a large section containing written contributions for the Union War
History. Certain papers deal
`with the early years'; for example, `Contemporary views of the economic
problems posed by the first Dutch settlement at the Cape', (written during the
1960s), and `notes on the history of the Union formed in May 1910'.
The
narratives cover control of various industries, trade, procurement, economic
problems, and controls, finance and exchange control, establishment of
government machinery dealing with economic and social control, labour and labour
disputes and civil history.
The
bulk of the material - particularly the source material - was deposited some
years ago, and recently supplemented with the incomplete drafts for the book,
and the Union War Histories Section's correspondence and reports.
It appears that the work was never published, although the material has
been used in certain theses.
SECTION
A |
SOURCE
MATERIAL FOR UNION WAR HISTORIES |
A1 |
BUILDING
INDUSTRY 1942-1949 |
A1.1 |
Building
Advisory Council - minutes and proceedings 1942-1946 |
A1.2 |
Building
Control Advisory Council Minutes 1946-1949 |
A1.3 |
Building
Control Department Proclamation 148 of 1942 and Regulation 1305 of 1942 |
A1.4 |
Materials
required for Defence, Building and construction Works 1942-1943 |
A1.5 |
Industrial
Council for the Building Industry 17.04.1944 |
A1.6 |
Building
Advisory Board Minutes July 1944-June 1947 (Incomplete) |
A2 |
ENGINEERING
INDUSTRY 1941-1945(See also
A8-A17) |
A2.1 |
Declaration
of Engineering as a controlled Industry and correspondence 1941-1945 |
A2.2 |
Apprenticeship
- correspondence, memoranda and agreement April 1944-October 1944 |
A2.3 |
Engineering.
Natal Engineers and Founders Association Minutes.
Correspondence 1941-1945 |
A2.4 |
Engineering
Industry - general correspondence 1941-1947 Also Industrial Conciliation
Act and Memorandum on labour policy in the Union |
A2.5 |
Labour
Control Board and Control of Amalgamated Engineering Union 1944-1946 |
A2.6 |
Engineering
Industrial Council Conference and Talks 1941-1945 |
A2.7 |
Industrial
Council for the Metal Engineering Industry Natal 1941-1944 |
A2.8 |
Labour
Control Board and Employment 1941-1944 |
A2.9 |
Engineering
and Metallurgical Industry 02.01.1944-29.03.1945 Labour disputes, reports,
minutes, memoranda and correspondence |
A3 |
STEVEDORING
AND SHIP REPAIRING 1941-1946 |
A3.1 |
Labour
Control - Stevedore Strike 1941-1945 |
A3.2 |
Ship
Repairing and Graving Dock Construction 1941-47 |
A4 |
DIAMOND
CUTTING INDUSTRY 1941-1946 |
A4.1 |
Memorandum
of Agreement, Memoranda, Minutes, Diamond Cutters Association 1943-1945 |
A4.2 |
Board
constitution, telegraphs, correspondence and memorandum 1944-1946 |
A4.3 |
Minutes
and Proclamations 1941-1945 |
A5 |
BOOT
AND SHOE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 1944 |
A6 |
INDUSTRIAL
AND AGRICULTURAL REQUIREMENTS COMMISSION MEMOS, CORRESPONDENCE,
NEWSCLIPPINGS 1940-1941 |
A7 |
BOARD
OF TRADE AND INDUSTRIES 1942 |
A7.1 |
Technical
Training, Wages and Statistics |
A8 |
SOCIAL
AND ECONOMIC PLANNING COUNCIL 1942-49(See
Race Relations) |
A8.1 |
Memorandum
and Survey |
A8.2 |
Wage
Board Reports etc 1942 |
A9 |
RACE
RELATIONS 1938-1944 |
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(includes
material from SAIRR) |
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(See
also Social and Economic Planning Council) |
A9.1 |
Race
Relations Reports (includes SAIRR and Witwatersrand Mine Natives Wages
Commission) November
1943-June 1945 |
A9.2 |
Race
Relations - General 1947-1949 |
A9.3 |
Race
Relations - Native Trade Unions, newsclippings, minutes, reports. March
1938-March 1944 |
A10 |
DIRECTOR
GENERAL OF WAR SUPPLIES 1940-1948 |
A10.1 |
Correspondence,
statistics etc 1940-1948 |
A11 |
CONTROLLER
OF INDUSTRIAL MANPOWER 1939-1948 |
A11.1 |
Applications
to commence business. Wages
and labour issues in different industries 1939-1947 |
A11.2 |
Engagement
of emergency workers 1942-1943 |
A11.3 |
Labour
control and information concerning various industries 1942-1945.
Includes memoranda in Industrial legislation (See A12) |
A11.4 |
Labour
Pool 1941-1948 |
A12 |
LABOUR
IN INDUSTRY (includes legislation) 1938-1952 |
A12.1 |
Industrial
Legislation Commission 1948-1949 |
A12.2 |
Hours
of Work and Industrial Action 1941-1944 |
A12.3 |
Cost
of Living Allowance Scheme 1938-1952 |
A12.4 |
Reports
of Labour Departments - Contributions by Divisional Inspectors of Labour
1948 |
A12.5 |
Wage
Act and Industrial Conciliation Act 1937 |
A12.6 |
Memoranda,
statistics, correspondence etc on labour and wages 1938-1942 |
A12.7 |
Reports,
memoranda, statistics, correspondence etc on Industrial Wages 1942-1943 |
A12.8 |
Wage
Board Reports 1941 (See Social and Economic Planning Council) |
A13 |
STRIKES |
A13.1 |
Lists
of Industrial Strikes and Agreements 1944, 1945 |
A13.2 |
Labour
Strikes (Cape Explosives Works and Timber Trade) 1945-1946 |
A13.3 |
Wage
Board Reports and Labour disputes September-December 1942 |
A13.4 |
Industrial
Strikes and Statistics on Wages, Retrenchments, Permits, Costs, Rates of
Growth etc 1944-1945 |
A13.5 |
Prosecutions
September 1941-November 1944 |
A14 |
PROCLAMATIONS,
WAR MEASURES AND GOVERNMENT GAZETTES |
A14.1 |
Index
of War Measures |
A14.2 |
List
of Proclamations p.10-31 |
A14.3 |
War
Measures 1941-1945 |
A14.4 |
Proclamations
September 1941-December 1945 - building and engineering |
A14.5 |
Government
Gazettes 1937-1941. Constitution
of Industrial Council for the Iron and Steel Industries. |
A14.6 |
Government
Gazette 1945 - Diamond Cutting Industry |
A14.7 |
Government
Gazettes 1937-1942 - Engineering Industry |
A14.8 |
Proclamations
July 1941-1945 |
A15 |
WAR
COMMITTEE MINUTES AND CORRESPONDENCE |
A15.1 |
War
Committee Minutes 1940-1941 |
A15.2 |
Action
taken on War Committee Meetings and Amendments to Minutes December
1940-October 1941 |
A15.3 |
War
Committee forwarding correspondence - Minutes to Members etc November
1940-March 1943 |
A15.4 |
War
Supplies Committee Meetings, Nos.11-15 |
A16 |
REPORTS
1936-1944 |
A16.1 |
Report
on a Tour of Industries in the Cape and Orange Free State 1943 |
A16.2 |
Report
on a Tour of Industries in the Transvaal and Natal 1944 |
A16.3 |
Reports
of the Department of Labour |
A16.3.1
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The
Wage Board, Chief Inspector of Factories, Central Authority, Unemployment
Benefit Act and Workmen's Compensation Commissioner 1938 (2 copies) |
A16.3.2-3 |
The
Wage Board, Chief Inspector of Factories, Central Authority, Unemployment
Benefit Act and Workmen's Compensation Commissioner 1939-1940 |
A16.3.4 |
Interdepartmental
Committee on Wages of Unskilled Labourers in Government Service April 1939 |
A16.4 |
Director
General of War Supplies. Report
on Organizations, Production and Principles of Purchase
1940 |
A16.5 |
Miscellaneous
Reports 1936-1944 |
A17 |
GENERAL
NEWSCLIPPINGS AND NOTES 1941-1945 |
SECTION
B |
MINUTES,
CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS ETC OF THE UNION WAR HISTORIES DEPARTMENT |
B1 |
CORRESPONDENCE
AND MINUTES |
B1.1 |
Correspondence
1947-1955 |
B1.2 |
Minutes
of the meetings of the Narrators and Research Assistants engaged on the
Civil History of the War, 2 August-23 September 1949; Correspondence August-September 1949 |
B1.3 |
Correspondence
and Memos, 1949-1950 |
B1.4 |
Correspondence,
Archives Commission Minutes 13 April 1950; Problems in writing an official
"Civil" History of the War; Index of Secretariat Files,
1948-1951 |
B1.5 |
Correspondence
and bibliography for Union War Histories 08.07.1949-05.12.1950 |
B1.6 |
Minutes
of the Archives Commission 21.02.1949; Annual Report for 1949,
Correspondence 05.03.1950-07.04.1950 |
B1.7 |
Minutes
of the Union War Histories Advisory Committee 03.04.1951 and 03.04.1952,
1956, 1957 & 1958 |
B1.8 |
Correspondence
1952, and drafts |
B1.9 |
Correspondence
and various contributions to the War Union's History 1955-1958 |
B1.10 |
Correspondence
and Contributions 1958-1959 |
B1.11 |
Information
and correspondence from Union War Histories Section (Scope of Civil War
Histories - 1939-1948) 1957-1958 |
B2 |
CORRESPONDENCE
BETWEEN PROFESSOR ROBERTSON AND OTHERS |
B2.1 |
Letters
to Miss Vivian 08.07.1958-03.06.1959 |
B2.2 |
General
correspondence in chronological order 13.09.1942-12.11.1948 |
B2.3 |
General
correspondence in chronological order 06.04.1951-22.12.1954 |
B2.4 |
General
correspondence and narratives in chronological order 07.01.1955-07.06.1957 |
B3 |
AIMS,
PROJECTIONS, PROGRESS REPORTS ETC 1948-1952 |
B3.1 |
1948-1952 |
B3.2 |
Progress
Reports, Correspondence and Library List |
B3.3 |
Correspondence
1955-1957 |
B3.4 |
Progress
Reports 1957 and 1958 and Correspondence 1957 and 1958 |
B3.5 |
Bibliography
1959 |
B3.6 |
Hints
to Narrators and Research Assistants |
B4 |
CORRESPONDENCE
AND LISTS CONCERNING DESTRUCTION OF WAR-TIME DOCUMENTS 1949 |
B5 |
CHRONOLOGIES,
INDEXES AND LISTS |
B5.1 |
Chronology
of Events 1939-1945 |
B5.2 |
Index
to miscellaneous files recovered from Commerce and Industry |
B5.3 |
List
of Publications, Articles and Files |
B5.4 |
Copy
of Index; Papers on War Supplies Board, confidential reports and indexes
of secretarial files |
B5.5 |
Index
of Narratives, Letters addressed to the South Africa Reserve Bank 1958 and
Index of Narratives |
B5.6 |
List
of source material in possession of the Union War Histories |
B5.7 |
List
of Narratives completed, in progress or planned |
B6 |
MISCELLANEOUS
NOTES |
B7 |
UNION
WAR HISTORIES - CARD INDEX |
SECTION
C |
NARRATIVES
AND NOTES |
C1 |
NARRATIVES
ON CONTROL OF VARIOUS INDUSTRIES |
C1.1 |
Agriculture
and Food Control - Robertson |
C1.2 |
Building
Material Control - B Johnson |
C1.3 |
Petrol
Control - M E Bekker |
C1.4 |
Rubber
Control - M E Bekker |
C1.5 |
Paper
Control - E Parkin |
C1.6 |
Textile
Control |
C1.7 |
Wool
Purchase Agreement and Conferences 1940 |
C1.8 |
Relations
with South America - textiles - L Fourie |
C1.9 |
Cotton
- Supplies from Great Britain |
C1.10 |
Brief
Chronology of 2PDR.AT ORDNANCE production.
October 1937 |
C1.11 |
Howitzer
Production in South Africa - IM Schonland 1948/9 |
C1.12 |
Food |
C1.12.1 |
Foodstuffs
in short supply - A P van der Post 1951 |
C1.12.2 |
Food
Control - L Vivian |
C2 |
TRADE,
PROCUREMENT AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND CONTROLS |
C2.1 |
Contemporary
Views in Economic Problems posed by the first Dutch Settlement at the Cape
- (ñ 1965) |
C2.2 |
Aspects
of the S.A. Economy before the War - J W Garmany |
C2.3 |
British
- S.A. Trade in transition etc (1934-1945) - A P van der Post |
C2.4 |
Civilian
Supplies and Commodity Controls - L Fourie |
C2.5 |
Procurement
of supplies from sources outside the Union |
C2.6 |
Procurement
in the United States of America |
C2.7 |
Purchase
under Government Guarantee of Essential Commodities in short supply. |
C2.8 |
Procurement
from Canada - M B Robinson |
C2.9 |
Imports
from neutral countries in Europe and from Liberia and Turkey - M B
Robinson |
C2.10 |
Economic
Warfare - M B Robinson |
C2.11 |
Procurement
- Government or Private Purchasing and Agents Commission - M B Robinson
1953 |
C2.12 |
Import
and Export Control. Civilian
Supplies Organisation - M B Robinson |
C2.13 |
Building
Materials. Import
Control and Procurement |
C2.14 |
Import
Control 1940-45 - M B Robinson |
C2.15 |
Export
Control - M B Robinson |
C2.16 |
Survey
of Export Control in the Union October 1939-September 1941 |
C2.17 |
The
Problems of a War Economy. 1950? |
C3 |
FINANCE |
C3.1 |
Exchange
Control during the War Years. (Includes
letter to Professor Robertson 01.08.1958) |
C3.2 |
Exchange
Control Policy, Index etc 1939-1945.
(Includes publication from the Union Office of Census and
Statistics, Pretoria - The Union of South Africa and the War.) |
C3.3 |
S.A.
War Budgets and War Finances - J W Garmany |
C3.4 |
The
Union Exchange Policy 1939-1946
(Includes - Has gold a future? 1937) |
C3.5 |
Defence
Authorities Committee, Statements of Receipts and Issues of War Expenses
Account 1940-1941 - 1945-1946, settlement of Union's Liability to United
Kingdom Government |
C3.6 |
London
settlements 1940-43 |
C3.7 |
London
settlements 1945 |
C4 |
ESTABLISHMENT
OF GOVERNMENT MACHINERY DEALING WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONTROL 1920-46 |
C4.1 |
Defence |
C4.1.1 |
Five
Year Defence Plan 1920s and 1930s - first carbon copy |
C4.1.2 |
Five
Year Defence Plan - Lists eg. Factories, experimental work, Memos etc. |
C4.1.3 |
Five
Year Defence Plan 1920s and 1930s - typed original |
C4.1.4 |
Control
of Defence Spending - J Marais 1955 |
C4.2 |
SAWAS
- I M Schonland 1954 |
C4.3 |
Combined
Planning - I M Schonland 1954 |
C4.4 |
Inner
Control Committee. Revised
issue - I M Schonland |
C4.5 |
War
Supplies Organization - I M Schonland 1953/54 |
C4.6 |
Boards,
Councils and Committees of the War Years |
C4.7 |
Central
Organization of Technical Training - M Smit |
C4.8 |
Central
Organization of Technical Training - Index and Narrative - M Smit |
C4.9 |
Board
of Trade and Industries - Technical Training - Notes |
C4.10 |
Trade
& Labour Council 1941-1946.
Constitutional Law and Industrial disputes |
C4.11 |
Industrial
Supplies Co-ordinating Committee and Engineering Supplies Co-ordinating
Committee - I M Schonland 1953 |
C5 |
LABOUR
NARRATIVES |
C5.1 |
Labour
disputes 1940-1945 |
C5.2 |
Notes
on Industrial Agreements 1938-1942 |
C5.3 |
Notes
on Industrial Agreements 1939-1948 |
C5.4 |
Industrial
Survey of the Union - Professor Leppan |
C5.5 |
Trade
Union attitudes during the war - Robertson? |
C5.6 |
Female
Labour - notes, Labour Departments attitude towards TUs |
C5.7 |
Labour
Narrative - Ms Schonland |
C5.8 |
Labour
War Measures 1937 - Plan of Chapter.
Industrial
Conciliation Act etc 1937 |
C5.9 |
Post-War
Labour Demands and Labour Advisory Committee, 1942 |
C5.10 |
Views
on Labour in South Africa - Agricultural and Industrial Requirements
Commission |
C5.11 |
Notes
on further Industrialization, Cost of Living, Settlement of Labour
Disputes, the Engineering Industry etc. |
C5.12 |
Shortage
of Labour in the Engineering Industry and other notes on the Engineering
Industry, 1958 |
C5.13 |
Labour
and Industrial Manpower, July 1942 - November 1947. Notes and Government Gazette Extracts |
C6 |
CIVIL
HISTORY NARRATIVES |
C6.1 |
Civil
History of the War - J F P Eve |
C6.2 |
Civil
History - War Years - Organisation of Work 1957 |
C6.3 |
Civil
History - Port Elizabeth 1948 - J G Pienaar (Divisional Inspector of
Labour) |
C6.4 |
Civil
Histories - Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, East London, Kimberley -
Labour Inspectors |
C7 |
MISCELLANEOUS |
C7.1 |
Incomplete
contributions - Industrial Development in the Union, The Union at War |
C7.2 |
Miscellaneous
notes and letters re Histories |
C7.3 |
Incomplete
Narratives |
C7.4 |
Incomplete
notes - Pool of Artisans 1941-1943 |
C7.5 |
Notes
on the History of the Union of South Africa formed in May 1910 |
C7.5.1 |
Focus
on the indigenous Africans and Europeans, Changes and Developments,
Social, Political, Economic and Cultural |
C7.5.2 |
General
Description of the Union of South Africa prior to the war |
C7.6 |
Incomplete
Narratives re Industrial Manpower Contributions etc |
C7.7 |
Incomplete
Narratives - Employment |
C7.8 |
Notes
for Official History |
C7.9 |
Notes
on Source Material |
C7.10 |
Material
submitted by J N Marais and Report on it
(includes correspondence) |