Details

Subject(s)

• Politics and government [Browse]
• Labor movement [Browse]
• Labor unions [Browse]
• Unemployment [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]
• Romania [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-128967. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-128967

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1953-1960: Module 1
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of correspondence and legal material on employment and trade unions in Romania. The file contains the translation of a decree from the Council of Ministers calling for state ministries and enterprises to dismiss any workers surplus to their requirements, beginning with those who had other forms of income such as pensions or private plots of land. The file notes the resentment caused by these measures -- rumours of arrests in response to threatened strikes -- and the fact that many Romanians needed to find supplementary sources of income to meet their cost of living. The file also discusses the visit of a group of Romanian trade unionists to the United Kingdom under the auspices of UNESCO and a group called the "Workers' Travel Association.".

Notes

• File date: 1957.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1987.

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