Series 02: Eleanor M. Hinder - professional files, ca. 1919-1963

MLMSS 770/Boxes 2-8
SAFE/MLMSS 770 (Safe 3/219)

series

ca. 1919 - 1963

153107

II. PROFESSIONAL FILES, ca. 1919-1963

A. Farmer and Company, Sydney, N.S.W., ca. 1919-1926

ca. 1919-Jan. 1926; 'Superintendent of Staff Welfare, Farmer and Company Ltd, Sydney' including text of a 'Pageant' written by Hinder and produced in the Staff Welfare Hall, Farmer's Building, Kent Street, Sydney (Call No.: MLMSS 770/2/1)
Between 1919 and 1926; The Coles' Girl, being a staff booklet written by Hinder for Messrs Coles, at the time only in Melbourne (Call No.: MLMSS 770/2/2)

B. Young Women's Christian Association of China, 1896, 1927-1937

25 Mar. 1930-23 June 1932; 'Business & other letters - service with Y.M.C.A....' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/2/3)
4 Dec. 1930-1931; 'Status of Chinese Women; legal, social and economic' including articles by Hinder analysing Chinese family law and printed material (Call No.: MLMSS 770/2/4)

C. Pan-Pacific Women's Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1928; 29 June 1928-5 Sep. 1929

Correspondence mainly with the Joint Committee of Shanghai Women's Organizations and the Pan-Pacific Union concerning the first Pan-Pacific Women's Conference, and Hinder's subsequent association with the Pan-Pacific Union (Call No.: MLMSS 770/2/5)

D. Employers' Federation of Shanghai, 1931-1945

15 Jan. 1931-27 July 1932; 'Papers pre-dating commencement of service of EMH with the Shanghai Municipal Council, including work with Employers' Federation', being correspondence concerning work of the Sub-committee on Factory Law established by the Employers' Federation of Shanghai and the subsequent offer to Hinder by the Shanghai Municipal Council of employment in connection with the regulation of industrial affairs within the International Settlement (Call No.: MLMSS 770/2/6)
1931; 'Articles and studies of EMH in 1931, working toward public understanding of the Chinese Government Factory Act' including reports by Hinder concerning industrial conditions in Shanghai (Call No.: MLMSS 770/2/7-8)
1933-1945; Printed material, including newscuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 770/2/9)

E. Shanghai (China : International Settlement). Municipal Council, 1933-1954

ca. 1933; 'Maps of the International Settlement, Shanghai, China', with newscuttings showing location of apartments in which Hinder lived in Shanghai (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/1)
10 Jan. 1933-4 Dec. 1935; 'Papers pre-dating commencement of service of EMH with the Shanghai Municipal Council, including work with Employers' Federation', being papers concerning Hinder's visit to the International Labour Office in Geneva, Nov.-Dec. 1932, and subsequent employment with the Shanghai Municipal Council (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/2)
13 Jan. 1933-23 Dec. 1935, 1942; 'SMC - Japanese Relations', being papers concerning industrial relations policies of Japanese businessmen and later occupation authorities (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/3)
1935-1 Sep. 1944; 'Work of the Industrial and Social Division, Shanghai Municipal Council in 1930s. Social and Economic', including reprints from annual reports of the Council (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/4-15)
1937; 'Annual report of the Industrial Section of the Shanghai Municipal Council', being a typescript report possibly compiled by Rewi Alley, Chief Inspector of Factories (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/16)
Aug. 1940-6 Apr. 1945; 'Life and Labour in Shanghai, published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, Shanghai, 1942, New York 1944', being papers concerning this publication (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/17)
1942?; 'Shanghai Municipal Council : Training of Chinese skilled workers. Technical teaching materials', being syllabus and teaching materials used in Shanghai Municipal Council's Technical training Schools for adult mechanics and electricians (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/18)
26 Feb. 1942-31 July 1943; 'Efforts at Price Control - Shanghai 1942 under Japanese occupation' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/18)
1943, 1946; 'Shanghai Municipal Council - work of the successor "Social Welfare Department", after repatriation of EMH in 1942' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/18)
1942-1945, 1949-1954; 'Efforts to have restored pension rights with the Shanghai Municipal Council' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/3/19)
1933-1945; Printed material concerning service with the Council (Call No.: MLMSS 770/4/1)

F. International Labour Office, 1942-1948

22 Dec. 1942-1945; 'Some papers prepared during the service of the International Labour Office 1943-1944. Office then in Montreal' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/4/2)
1943-1944; 'International Labour Office 1943-44. Unpublished text of study on nutrition in China : Dr Lu Gwei-djen and EMH' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/4/3)
6 Nov. 1946-1 Apr. 1948; 'Resignation of EMH from ILO 1948, on acceptance of second appointment of three years with U.K. Foreign Office' concerning her secondment from I.L.O. to Foreign Office, 1946, and resignation from I.L.O., 1948 (Call No.: MLMSS 770/4/4)

G. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1943-1952

'UNRRA in China', being papers arising from service with the I.L.O. and as U.K. representative on the UNRRA Committee of the Council for the Far East, 1943-1946. Also includes correspondence concerning the work of UNRRA. (Call No.: MLMSS 770/4/5)

H. Great Britain. Foreign Office, 1944-1954

27 Mar. 1944-1948; 'Letters leading to appointment with United Kingdom Foreign Office, and early work - UNRRA 1944' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/5/1 )
1944-1951; 'Financial arrangements and accounts as to service of EMH with U.K. Foreign Office (Call No.: MLMSS 770/5/2)
27 Mar. 1944-4 June 1951, 1954; 'Service with the United Kingdom Foreign Office, 1944-1951. On UNRRRA Committee for the Far East and Liaison with UN in the Far East', including two letters concerning the development of the Colombo Plan, Oct. 1954 (Call No.: MLMSS 770/5/3)
Jan. 1945-25 Feb. 1946; 'May-December 1945 Honorary Adviser to the Government of Burma. Advising the Colonial Office on relief matters in Malaya and Hong Kong' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/5/4)
7 Sep. 1946-15 Apr. 1947; 'United Kingdom Foreign Office. Visits to U.K. territories in S.E. Asia - Burma, Singapore, Malaya, Hong Kong' This file contained nothing on Burma when it was received in the Library. (Call No.: MLMSS 770/6/1)
11 Apr. 1946-1 July 1950; 'Papers relating to service of EMH with the U.K. Foreign Office' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/6/2)
17 Apr. 1946-17 Jan. 1947; 'Tour in China, Oct.-Nov. 1946 with Lady Cripps, Chairman of wartime British United Aid to China. File 1' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/6/3)
1947; 'Suggestion that EMH might be Deputy Executive Secretary of ECAFE', being correspondence concerning her work with UNRRA and the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, 16 June-17 Nov. 1947 (Call No.: MLMSS 770/6/4)
3 June 1948-26 June 1950; 'British United Aid to China. Post war proposals and efforts, File 2', including correspondence concerning the activities of other relief agencies, such as the Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, in China during 1949. File is marked 'Original file in Shanghai'. (Call No.: MLMSS 770/6/5)
12 Jan. 1948-2 May 1951; 'Service with United Kingdom Foreign Office - Liaison with ECAFE', being circulars and reports supplied by Hinder as a member of Foreign Office staff, including 'confidential' paper on the working of the Colombo Plan, 2 May 1951 (Call No.: MLMSS 770/6/6)
25 Apr. 1949-30 Mar. 1951; 'Cost of living index (Shanghai) C/5', being cost of living indices of British salaried employees in Shanghai, compiled for the Shanghai British Consulate-General and the British Chamber of Commerce anonymously by the statician T-Y Tsha. Includes correspondence with T-Y Tsha and Tsha's occasional notes on the activities of the Chinese Government (Call No.: MLMSS 770/6/7)

I. Board of Trustees for Rehabilitation Affairs, 1947-1950

9 Dec. 1947-25 Dec. 1949; 'Chinese Government Board of Trustees for UNRRA Affairs - EMH service in private capacity following closing of UNRRA operations in China' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/7/1)
26 Feb. 1949-31 Jan. 1950; 'Board of Trustees for Rehabilitation Affairs. China. Post-UNRRA period' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/7/2)
2 Feb.-30 Nov. 1950; 'Board of Trustees for Rehabilitation Affairs' (Call No.: MLMSS 770/7/3)

J. United Nations, 1937, 1949-1963

13 Aug. 1951-10 Aug. 1961; Appointment documents for service in various capacities within the Technical Assistance Administration and the Statistical Office of the Economic and Social Affairs Department (Call No.: MLMSS 770/7/4)
30 Sep.-23 Oct. 1961; Copies of letters sent by Technical Assistance Administrative Department (Call No.: MLMSS 770/7/5)
1951-1963; Papers concerning service in various capacities. Includes personal correspondence with associates as well as official correspondence, financial papers, reports in draft and final forms, copies of correspondence of others, visiting cards and printed material. Material was in files in a roughly chronological arrangement with some overlapping of dates. File titles by Hinder have been placed with the earliest of papers to which they refer.
1951-1954; (Call No.: MLMSS 770/7/6)
1955; (Call No.: MLMSS 770/8/1)
1956-1958; (Call No.: MLMSS 770/8/2)
1959-1960; (Call No.: MLMSS 770/8/3)
1961; (Call No.: MLMSS 770/8/4)
1962-1963; (Call No.: MLMSS 770/8/5)
1937, 1949-1959; (Call No.: MLMSS 770/8/6)