Hart, Richard (b 1917)

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): ICS 122

Title: Hart, Richard (b 1917)

Date(s): 1937 - 1964

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 8 reels

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Administrative/Biographical history: Hart Richard, born Jamaica, 1917; member of the National Reform Association, 1937; member of Norman Manley's Committee assisting W A Bustamante in the formation of trade unions, 1938; member of the People's National Party (PNP), 1938-1952, and a member of the Party's executive, 1941-1952; editor of the working class militant H C Buchanan's 'Jamaica Labour Weekly' when Buchanan was in prison, Dec 1938 - Apr 1939; co-founder and Chairman of the Jamaican Youth Movement, 1941; qualified as a solicitor, 1941; President of the Jamaica Government Railway Employees' Union (JGREU), 1942-1948; Assistant Secretary , Caribbean Labour Conference, 1945-1946, and General Secretary from 1947-1953; expelled from the People's National Party for 'communist' activity, 1952; Chairman of the People's Educational Association (PEO), and a member of the People's Freedom Movement, 1952-1962; member of the Committee for the formation of a Jamaican Federation of Trade Unions, 1953-1963; Legal Adviser to the [Jamaican] Sugar and Agricultural Workers' Union, (SAWU) 1953-1957; Treasuer of the Socialist Party of Jamaica, 1962-1963; editor of the progressive newspaper 'The Mirror', Guyana, 1963-1965; resident in England from 1965.

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Scope and content: Microfilm of papers of Richard Hart on political and trade union activities in Jamaica and the Caribbean, 1937-1964; including correspondence with Norman Manley on Jamaican politics, 1939; correspondence and papers on the People's National Party (PNP), 1940-1952 particularly Hart and Ken Hill's expulsion for 'communist' activities, 1952; correspondence and papers on Hart's detention under the Jamaican defence regulations, 1942-1943; correspondence and papers on Hart's work as President of the Jamaica Government Railway Employees' Union (JGREU), 1942-1948; correspondence and papers on Hart's work as Assistant Secretary , Caribbean Labour Conference (CLC), 1945-1946, and General Secretary from 1947-1953, including papers on CLC London Branch, 1948-1953; correspondence and papers on Hart's work as Legal Adviser to the [Jamaican] Sugar and Agricultural Workers' Union, (SAWU) 1953-1957; correspondence and papers on the [Jamaican] People's Educational Association (PEO) and the [Jamaican] People's Freedom Movement (PFM), 1952-1962, including PEO managing committee minutes, 1952-1955 and PFM committee minutes, 1954-1955, 1960-1962; papers on the Jamaica Youth Movement, 1941-1944; correspondence and papers on civil liberties, particularly on banned publications, 'Caribbean News' and 'Moscow News' and public meetings, 1952-1954; correspondence and papers on the Jamaian Federation of Trades Unions (JFTU), 1952-1957; correspondence and papers on the [Jamaican] Factory and General Workers' Union, (FGWU) 1953-1957; correspondence and papers on Hart's book 'Out of the House of Bondage', 1946-1961, including correspondence with Kwame Nkrumah on the possibility of Nkrumah contributing a foreword, 1952.

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System of arrangement: Chronological

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: A descriptive list is available in ICS Library

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Existence and location of originals: Originals now 'in the West Indies'

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002

Interest: Caribbean

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Subjects

Labour relations

Trade unions

Political science

Politics

Labour movements

Labour disputes

Personal/Corporate names

Hart, Richard, b 1917, Caribbean politican and trade unionist

Hill, Ken, fl 1952, Jamaican politican and trade unionist

Manley Norman Washington, 1893-1969, Jamaican politician

Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972, President of the Republic of Ghana

Caribbean Labour Conference

Caribbean News

Factory and General Workers' Union, Jamaica

Jamaica Government Railway Employees' Union

Jamaica Youth Movement

Jamaican Federation of Trades Unions

Moscow News

People's Educational Association, Jamaica

People's Freedom Movement, Jamaica

People's National Party, Jamaica

Sugar and Agricultural Workers' Union, Jamaica

Places

Caribbean

Jamaica