These minutes include suggested amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Bill and the Rent and Mortgage Restrictions Bill, the Party's reaction to events of Bloody Sunday (1920) also features.

Date:1920-1920
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259B-07
First World War Transport Trade Unions Reports Europe Asia Northern Europe Western Europe South Asia Correspondence Eastern Europe Print Media Minutes Soviet Asia Southern Europe Registers The Balkans Western Asia Miners UK Schools Irish Home Rule Unemployment Ports and Docks By-elections William Adamson Dissolution of Ottoman Empire General Election

With peace secured, the Parliamentary Party's attention turned to working conditions, working hours and wages. The Profiteering Bill saw the Party work with co-operatives and consumers to target commodity price...

Date:1919-1919
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259B-06
First World War Housing Public Health Reports Europe Asia Northern Europe Western Europe Correspondence Eastern Europe Minutes Soviet Asia Conscription Miners Irish Home Rule Unemployment Income Tax William Adamson Women's Emancipation Bill Treaty of Versailles

These items include a conference motion upon the extrication of Labour parliamentarians from the Coalition Government, a memorandum calling for the introduction of industry-specific Trade Boards to decide on appropriate...

Date:1918-1918
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259B-05
Trade Unions Europe Northern Europe Western Europe Correspondence Print Media Minutes James Ramsay MacDonald Miners UK Schools Arthur Henderson Unemployment William Adamson

In 1917 The controversy over conscription continued and calls for electoral reform resurfaced; there was also a call to reduce legal working hours for children. In 1918 questions were beginning...

Date:1917-1918
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259B-04
Housing Trade Unions Reports Europe Asia Northern Europe Western Europe South Asia Correspondence Minutes Conscription James Ramsay MacDonald Miners UK Schools Arthur Henderson Irish Home Rule George Barnes Coalition Government William Adamson Propaganda

As the war raged, the Parliamentary Labour Party had to decide its position upon the Military Service Act of 1916 and the conscription which would result from it. This issue...

Date:1916-1916
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259B-03
First World War Reports Europe Northern Europe Western Europe Correspondence Minutes Electoral Reform Conscription Miners Arthur Henderson Unemployment George Barnes Pensions Child Labour Disabled Soldiers

The outbreak of war significantly changed the tone of these minutes, as Labour MPs served in the Cabinet. Unprecedented issues around war pensions, work for disabled soldiers and commodity prices...

Date:1915-1915
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259B-02
First World War Reports Europe Northern Europe Western Europe Correspondence Print Media Minutes Conscription Keir Hardie UK Schools Child Labour Ramsay MacDonald Coalition Government Death of Keir Hardie

These items cover a meeting with the East End Suffrage Deputation led by Sylvia Pankhurst, a statement by J. Ramsay MacDonald upon the outbreak of the Great War, and the...

Date:1914-1914
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259B-01
First World War Europe Asia Northern Europe Western Europe Middle East Correspondence Minutes Western Asia Electoral Reform Keir Hardie James Ramsay MacDonald Women's Suffrage UK Schools Arthur Henderson Irish Home Rule Pensions Anglo-Persian Oil Agreement Child Labour