Letter ; Spanish aid (reprint) ; Letter (copy) ; Why only money? (reprint)

              p.c. receiving attention  12.4.37
VOLUNTARY INDUSTRIAL AID
FOR SPAIN
TELEPHONE: HOLBORN 6119
32, GREAT ORMOND STREET
LONDON, W.C.1
7th April 1937
ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
HARRY ADAMS, Chairman
(Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers)
ALFRED BARNES, M.P. 
(Chairman of the Co-operative Party)
A.C. BASSEBE
(Hydraulic Coupling Co., Ltd.)
H.G. BROTHERTON 
(Sheet Metal Workers Union)
A.W. COSTER
Electrical Trades Union)
J. DUNNAGE. A.M. Inst., T.
J. DAGGER
(Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists)
R.H. EDWARDS (National Union of Vehicle Builders)
LORD FARINGDON
BERT JOY
(Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers)
GEOFFREY PYKE, Hon. Secretary
J. REEVES (Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society)
JOE SCOTT, Treasurer
(Amalgamated Engineering Union)
J.R. SHANLEY
(Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers)
JACK TANNER
(Amalgamated Engineering Union)
Councillor D.C. WEBSTER, L.C.C. 
(National Union of Vehicle Builders)
A.M. WALL (London Trades Council)
BZ/GP
Mr. Tewson,
Transport House,
Smith Square,
LONDON, S.W.1.
Dear Mr. Tewson,
Thank you for giving me your time today. I appreciate it.
May I summarise: -
1) The making of motor transport, surgical instruments, boots, etc., made by voluntary labour, involves no question of political principle. These articles, made by voluntary labour, are politically no different from those bought commercially, for instance by the T.U. fund.
2) No Trade Union has even hinted at any objection on labour policy. The A.E.U. - letter enclosed is specific. The vehicle builders endorse the proposal, so do the upholsterers. I am told that in any case the principle is long-established, as labour buildings have been put up by voluntary labour.
3) In this proposal - set forth more fully in the accompanying reprints - there lies the possibility of substantially increasing the contribution of the British Labour movement to the International Solidarity Fund. Thus, valuing 3 to 5 hours' labour as low as 10/- a week, the work of only 2,300 volunteers, in 6 months, would double the value of the T.U.C. contribution.