| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the activities and marketing schemes of the Co-operative Union Limited (CUL) and branch sections including: the Annual Congress at Torquay; the formation of a National Co-operative Society for the purchase and sale of milk; and the bulk production of eggs. Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; F Greenwood, E Cooke, E Haskins, S Pope, CUL South-Western Section; J R Currie; K Walter, Horace Plunkett Foundation; G Walworth, A Whitehead, J Gill, and R Palmer, CUL; Sir D Hamilton; F Willis, Torquay Co-operative Society; E Fawcett, Paignton Co-operative Society; A Gittins, Enderby Co-operative Society; E Morris, National Farmers' Union; A Joyce, Kettering Industrial Co-operative Society; and Bristol Co-operative Society.
Additional material in this folder includes: a printed pamphlet 'Our Story, The Co-operative Movement' (1918); minutes from a meeting of the National Committee for Organisation of Milk Service (1930); printed leaflets for 'Co-operative Summer Schools' (1930 and 1931); and a proof for a proposed book by G Walworth 'Feeding the Nation in Peace and War'. |