| Description | Irish Housewives Association, Correspondence
Submission and Campaigns with associated papers:
1941, original copy of Housewives' petition to the government on food production and prices. 'Memorandum on the Food and Fuel Emergency', with alphabetically ordered names and addresses, 1 folder
1941-1942, correspondence relating to the petition, with report on the formation and aims of the Irish Housewives Association, 1 file
1942-1955, milk supplies and Milk Tribunal, submissions and notes, with press cuttings and report of inquiry. Two editions of `Irish [Workers Weekly] Review' with articles by Hilda Tweedy relating to the Tribunal, 1 file
No date [1940s], memorandum of the draft Food Hygiene Regulations
1946, correspondence on the price of sanitary towels, 1 file
1946; 1952, summary of evidence to the Price Advisory Board on the price of eggs, 1 file
1947, Questionnaire on rent, fuel and food prices, Irish Housewives Association and Lower Prices Councils, 1 file
1947-1948, Memorandum for the Taoiseach on the high cost of living, 1 file
1947; 1951-1952, Price Advisory Board Inquiry on fuel, gas and coke, 1 file
1948-1949, meat campaign: correspondence with Dublin Master Victuallers, 1 file
1948-1950, investigation into the price of fish, 1 file
1948; 1959, memorandum submitted to the Commission of Inquiry into Emigration and Other Population Problems with a letter from the Working Committee on Emigration, c1959, 1 file
1950, inquiry into the price of meat: drafts, reports, notes, cuttings
1951, memorandum submitted by Irish Housewives Association Sub-Committee on Education to the Council of Education on the Function and Curriculum of Primary Schools, with a memorandum to the Minister for Education from the Irish Women Workers' Union on the needs of children in National Schools, no date, 1 file
1951-1952, Price Advisory Board, inquiry into soap prices, 1 file
1951, Price Advisory Board, inquiry into meat prices, 1 file
1951, Price Advisory Board, inquiry, notes and evidence on jam prices, 1 file
November-December 1954, Price Advisory Board, inquiry into pork prices margins, 1 file
1955, Price Advisory Board, inquiry into gas prices, Lower Prices Council and Irish Housewives Association evidences, correspondence and notes, 1 file
1955, Price Advisory Board, inquiry into the prices of newspapers
1955, Price Advisory Board, inquiry into coal prices, 1 file
1955, Submission to the Fair Trade Commission relating to the supply and distribution of grocery goods and provisions, 1 file
1955-1956, correspondence on the Flour and Bread Inquiry, with annotated copy of the Interim and Final Report of 1949 and press cuttings. Also notes and cuttings on the Oatmeal Prices Inquiry, 1 file
1956, Price Advisory Board, inquiry into the price of cocoa, 1 file
1956, Price Advisory Board, inquiry into the prices of fresh meat, 1 file
June 1956, summary of evidence on the increase in the price of electricity, 1 file
1956, Report of Inquiry into Proprietary and Patent Medicines, with press cuttings, 1 file
1959, memorandum on the treatment of proven youthful offenders, 1 file
1960, restrictive trade practices, notes and press and radio announcement, 1 file
1962, memorandum on law reform, response to the white paper, 1 file
1966, Price Advisory Board, inquiry into flour and bread, 1 file
1966, Electricity Price Advisory Board Inquiry into Electricity Supply Board prices, 1 file
1970, petition to the National Council for the Status of Women, 1 file
1971, further submission on the Restrictive Trade Practices, 1 file
1987, United Nations Conventions, articles 1/3 and 5, Discrimination against Women, 1 file
1991, submission to the Fair Trade Commission on restrictive practices in the Grocery Trade, 1 file
1945-1972, Associated papers, assorted campaigns on prices: letters, reports, cuttings, including material on import duty on oranges, 1945
1965; 1967-1969, monthly prices stabilisation orders [with gaps], 1 file
1950-1961, assorted press cuttings on prices campaigns, including:
butter, 1950
potatoes, 1950
fares, 1955
tea, 1955
fish, 1961
nylons, 1961
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