South Wales Coalfield Collection

Claude Stanfield Collection

Personal Collections, 1938-59.

Personal Collections

Ref No. Description Dates
MNC/PP/27/1 Correspondence.
Five letters : The Rationalist Press Association, pledging support for his Civic Sunday campaign, two letters from private individuals, a letter from the Independent Labour Party concerning his withdrawal from the party, a letter from the Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers with attatched notes on the policy of mutualisation.
8.10.1947-20.2.1953
MNC/PP/27/2 Notes for an election speech.
Notes for a speech, written on postcards. Among the topics discussed are the Tory Party and the Labour Party, Peace or War, the standard of living, and the the economy in Wales.
1951 (?)
MNC/PP/27/3 Text of his Presidential speech to the 33rd National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers.
1952 (?)
MNC/PP/27/4 Notes of a speech entitled "Can we stop this drift to War ?".
Contains rough notes of a speech advocating the Pacifist approach and rejecting militarism worldwide.
1952 (?)
MNC/PP/27/5 Independent Labour Party General Election leaflet.
A copy of the leaflet from the General Election in which Claude Stanfield stood as the candidate for the Independent Labour Party giving his anti-militarism and pro-socialism views. It also presents his record as a councillor.
1938
MNC/PP/27/6 Notes of speech on Industrial Assurance and Nationalisation.
Contains rough notes on the subject of National Assurance, its size, statistics, and a brief history of the business. There are also notes on the proposed nationalisation of the industry and its effect.
nd (after 1947)
MNC/PP/27/7 Correspondence and papers regarding unity between the Life Assurance Unions.
Includes correspondence to Claude Stanfield concerning the issue of unity within the profession; copies of Unity Committee minutes principally between the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers and the National Federation of Insurance Workers, (1951-52); a copy of the proposed by-laws of the National Union of Assurance Workers; handwritten notes of a speech to other insurance workers executive committees; a copy of a speech to a conference concerning unity; typescript notes concerning unity by the Chairman of the unity committee, T. Scrafton, President of the National Federation of Insurance Workers.
4.1950-1.1959
MNC/PP/27/8 Miscellaneous papers, leaflets and newscuttings regarding Life Assurance.
Includes miscellaneous publications from the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, the National Federation of Insurance Workers, and the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers, being mainly copies of the rules of the unions; a copy of the NAULAW Annual report and Balance sheet (1948-49); his notes concerning nationalisation of the Assurance industry with accompanying newscuttings; a copy of The Economist (18.7.1953).
1940-1955 (c)
MNC/PP/27/9 The Assurance Agents Chronicle.
There are seven copies of the Chronicle covering the period.
11.12.1948-7.1957
MNC/PP/27/10 Merthyr Tydfil Corporation Act 1948.
1948

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