VOLUNTARY INDUSTRIAL AID
FOR SPAIN
TELEPHONE: HOLBORN 6119
32 GREAT ORMOND STREET
LONDON, W.C.1
8th May 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)
GP/EC
Sir Walter Citrine, K.B.E.
The Trades Union Congress General Council
Transport House
Smith Square
London S.W.1.
Dear Sir Walter,
VOLUNTARY INDUSTRIAL AID.
I write merely to acknowledge your letter of the 7th May, with many thanks.
You will be glad to hear that we have been able to arrange that, should mattresses be needed for the refugee women and children coming to this country from Bilbao, two of the biggest and best firms will allow their premises to be used by voluntary labour, after hours, on a "no profit no loss" basis.
I understand too that the workers will be willing to give their services overtime for this purpose. But of course all this could be done on a bigger and much more variegated scale, and everything arranged much more quickly, with the help of the T.U.C.
Yours faithfully
Geoffrey Pyke
HON. SEC.,
VOLUNTARY INDUSTRIAL AID FOR SPAIN.
