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EPH/EW/654
Organisation.
1st February, 1938.
Miss F. Hancock,
Transport & General Workers Union,
Transport Hall,
Taylor's Court,
Broad Street,
Bristol.
PERSONAL
Dear Miss Hancock,
BASQUE CHILDREN.
As you know the General Council are represented [on] the Basque Children's Committee, and the financial position of this Commitee is a very precarious one at the moment.
800 or 900 children have been returned to their parents. We may be able to send another 400 or 500 back in the near future. The Franco Authorities at Bilbao, however do not want them at the present time, and the parents are not very keen to have them. The position is further complicated by the fact that a number of the children are orphans; some have parents who are refugees in Republican Spain. We might, of course, return those whose parents are refugees in other parts of Spain, but as you know the food conditions are perfectly dreadful and they are also exposed to the very great danger of indiscriminate bombing, so on the whole it looks as if we shall have two or three thousand of these children in this country for a considerable time yet.
? The question of cash therefore arises. The real need is for a steady income particularly from those areas that are relatively well placed so far as employment is concerned. We are therefore writing to some industrial centres such as Bristol to enquire whether it is possible for Works Committees to organise regular 1d weekly collections
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Archive collection | Archives of the Trades Union Congress |
| Archive folder | Basque Children's Committee: Correspondence 1938-1949 |
| Document reference | 292/946/38/167 |
| Document title | Letter (copy) : Basque Children |
| Issuing organisation | Trades Union Congress |
| Author | Harries, E. P. |
| Recipient individual | Hancock, Florence |
| Recipient organisation | Transport and General Workers' Union (Great Britain). Area No. 3 |
| Document date | 01 February 1938 |
| Copyright status | Copyright: Trades Union Congress. Reproduced with permission. |
| Image number | 038-0167-001 |
| Date | 1938-02-01 |
Description
| Archive collection | Archives of the Trades Union Congress |
| Archive folder | Basque Children's Committee: Correspondence 1938-1949 |
| Document reference | 292/946/38/167(I) |
| Document title | Letter (copy) : Basque Children |
| Issuing organisation | Trades Union Congress |
| Author | Harries, E. P. |
| Recipient individual | Hancock, Florence |
| Recipient organisation | Transport and General Workers' Union (Great Britain). Area No. 3 |
| Document date | 01 February 1938 |
| Data protection | In order to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998, some names within this file have been redacted. While we have made every effort to comply with the Act, there may be other named individuals within this file who are still living. We will remove any names immediately we are made aware that this is the case or if any offence is caused to living relatives. |
| Copyright status | Copyright: Trades Union Congress. Reproduced with permission. |
| File size | 451 |
| Transcript | EPH/EW/654 Organisation. 1st February, 1938. Miss F. Hancock, Transport & General Workers Union, Transport Hall, Taylor's Court, Broad Street, Bristol. PERSONAL Dear Miss Hancock, BASQUE CHILDREN. As you know the General Council are represented [on] the Basque Children's Committee, and the financial position of this Commitee is a very precarious one at the moment. 800 or 900 children have been returned to their parents. We may be able to send another 400 or 500 back in the near future. The Franco Authorities at Bilbao, however do not want them at the present time, and the parents are not very keen to have them. The position is further complicated by the fact that a number of the children are orphans; some have parents who are refugees in Republican Spain. We might, of course, return those whose parents are refugees in other parts of Spain, but as you know the food conditions are perfectly dreadful and they are also exposed to the very great danger of indiscriminate bombing, so on the whole it looks as if we shall have two or three thousand of these children in this country for a considerable time yet. ? The question of cash therefore arises. The real need is for a steady income particularly from those areas that are relatively well placed so far as employment is concerned. We are therefore writing to some industrial centres such as Bristol to enquire whether it is possible for Works Committees to organise regular 1d weekly collections |
| Image number | 038-0167-001 |
| Date | 1938-02-01 |
