| Description | Printed pamphlets:- 'Finance Bill' 31/10/55; 'Finance Bill [as amended in Committee]' 29/11/55; 'Supplementary Financial Statement (1955-56)' 10/55; Notice by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise on Purchase Tax 9/55; Newsletter for Labour Groups, annotated by Gaitskell 12/55
LP leaflet 'Free Gift' [10/55]
Treasury press release of an address by R.A.Butler to the National Production Advisory Council on Industry, annotated 1/7/55
'Bulletin for Industry' 10/55
Research notes: 'Balance of Visible Trade April - September 1955'; 'Payments on the American and Canadian Loans'; 'Fall in Small Savings' [1955]
Notes by Bruce Robertson on 'The Foreign Trade Position', 'Government Economic Measures since July' and 'The Credit Squeeze' and a covering letter from David Ginsburg (4) 10/55
Text of a speech by Gaitskell on the eve of the Margate Conference demonstration 9/10/55
Gaitskell MS notes 'Autumn Budget 1955' 1955
Paper 'Background to the Budget', annotated. Economic statistical date [1955]
List of quotations from R.A.Butler Feb-Oct 1955, annotated by Gaitskell [1955]
'News Chronicle' cutting on the London Conservative Union Women's Conference 15/11/55
MS outline for a Co-operative Rally ?speech [?1955]
Note on the imposition of 'Purchase Tax on Household Goods' in the Budget [1955]
Letters and statements to R.A.Butler and other MPs concerning Purchase Tax, from the Caterers Association, British Brush Manufacturers Association, Salford Town Clerk, British Pottery Manufacturers' Association, Lancashire Boot,Shoe and Slipper Manufacturers' Association (3 copies), 1 annotated, British Coney Fur Industry (7) 11/55
Retail Distributors' Association circular to its member firms on Purchase Tax changes 10/55
Statement by the Federation of British Industries on 'The Economic Situation' 11/55
Notes of trade reactions to the Purchase Tax Alterations (4) 11/55
Copy of Resolutions to be moved in Committee of Ways and Means by the Chancellor of the Exchequer 26/10/55
Correspondence with the PLP (Carol Johnson) and papers concerning the conduct of the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means over the Finance Bill, including correspondence with Hubert Ashton 11/55
PLP notes on the Finance Bill, prepared by John Diamond, annotated by Gaitskell 11/55. |