Ministry of Labour and National Service and successors: Welfare Department

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): LAB 26

Title: Ministry of Labour and National Service and successors: Welfare Department

Date(s): 1940 - 1956

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 298 file(s)

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Scope and content: These records comprise files relating to general welfare matters, covering a variety of subjects including accommodation (particularly for immigrant post war refugees and other foreign nationals), the recruitment of foreigners to work in Britain etc. The series also contains minutes of meetings of the Seamen's Welfare Board, 1940 to 1944, files concerning the Committee on Seamen's Welfare in Ports (the Graham White Committee), and a series of monthly reports from the regional welfare officers.

Subseries of note within LAB 26, include:

LAB 26/93 -138:

• Seamen's Welfare Board: Minutes 1940-1945
  
• LAB26/123-134: Committee On Seamen's Welfare In Ports1943-1949
  LAB 26/174-181: Seaman's Welfare Board: Papers And Progress Reports
  
• LAB 26/52-56: Technicians From The West Indies 1940-1945

Pieces without a sub-series parent

The subseries Technicians from the West Indies includes:

LAB 26/52 Billeting in hostels 1941-1942

LAB 26/53 Promotion to higher grade duties factories 1941-1942

LAB 26/54 Lecture and broadcast on welfare 1942-1943

LAB 26/55 Colour bar 1942-1945

LAB 26/56

Welfare arrangements for transferred skilled workers 1943-1945

The subseries Committee On Seamen's Welfare In Ports contains a file:

LAB 26/134 Coloured colonials demobilisation. 1943-1949.

Within the series named: Pieces without a sub-series parent is one file of note:

• LAB 26/226 Colonial Office working party on the recruitment of West Indians for United Kingdom industries. 1948-1949

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Language/scripts of material: English

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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: January 2002

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

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Immigration

Migration

Black and Asian seamen

Lascars

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United Kingdom