Fondo NUW - Records of the Yorkshire County Committee of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers

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Comprising administrative records of the Yorkshire County Committee of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, 1920-1965, including those created and compiled by District Organiser Bert Hazell. Also includes records of the North York District Committee, 1961-1983.

Records relate to the work of the union within the region, including: the establishment of wages and salary rates; equal pay discussions; working conditions; holiday rights; the employment of women in agriculture, especially during the Second World War, and the employment of Land Girls; and the employment rights of people with disabilities.

Many of the individuals involved in the running of the union were also active members of the Labour Party, and considerable crossover can be found in the content of the minutes, especially with respect to national movements and labour disputes.

Some of the administrative papers and correspondence relate to work with other unions and like-minded organisations in the areas, as well as to the relationship between the County Committee and the districts within the committee, and the central administrative of the union.

Since the early parts of the collection were deposited with the archive service in 1965, the collection has been through at least three processes of arrangement and description. These processes have made it difficult to understand the original order and provenance of the files. As a far as possible, arrangement has been made along the lines of the earliest arrangement to ensure that as much of the original context as possible has been preserved. This has meant that to some extent there is overlap between series in terms of content. These overlaps have been highlighted in the related material field in the relevant catalogue entries.

The collection has been arranged into the following series:
Records of the Yorkshire County Committee central administration: includes records which appear to have been created and kept centrally, and may have come from the County Committee Secretary
Records of Bert Hazell, District Organiser: includes committee and sub-committee minutes and papers, and correspondence and reports, which were created and compiled by Bert Hazell in his capacity as District Organiser
Records of the North York District Committee: minute book of the committee, which formed part of the Yorkshire County Committee, and later the Yorkshire Area Committee.

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The papers of Jack Brocklebank, a District Organiser within the North Riding of Yorkshire, are held at the Hull History Centre with the reference U DBK. This collections includes papers relating to the work of the Yorkshire County Committee, to various districts and subcommittees within the area, and to the Executive Committee of the central National Union of Agricultural Workers/National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.

Three volumes of income and benefits account books for the Yorkshire area of the NUAW, created by Bert Hazell, are held at the Hull History Centre, with the reference U DX246.

The archive of the headquarters of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers is held at the Museum of English Rural Life, with the references SR NUAW, SR 2NUAW, SR 3NUAW, SR 5NUAW, and SR 6NUAW. This includes the records of the predecessor and successor bodies to the National Union of Agricultural Workers.

Some further records of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers are held at the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick with the reference AAW (MSS.435, 1086, and 964). This includes copies of the journal of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers, 'The Land Worker', later 'The Land worker', or 'Landworker', 1919-1981. Editions between 1919 and 1950 have been digitised and can be accessed for free through the website of the Modern Records Centre.

The archive of the Transport and General Workers Union, the successor body to the NUAWW, is held at the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick, with the reference TGW.

Further records relating to the history of trade unions and the labour movement are held at the Labour History Archive and Study Centre, based at the People's History Museum in Manchester.

Other relevant collections held at Explore York Archives include the Records of the York and District Trade Unions Council (reference YDT) and the records of the York Labour Party (reference LAB).