Southern African Collections : Excerpts and research notes

Southern African Collections

Excerpts from sources and notes collected by Hepple during his research including: Boydell, Thomas, 'My Luck Was In. With spotlights on General Smuts' (Cape Town, 1947); Copy and transcript of an indenture from 1868; Downes, J.A., 'Printers' saga: being a history of the South African typographical union' (Johannesburg, 1952); Forman, Lionel, 'From the notebooks of Lionel Forman: black and white in S.A. history' (Cape Town, 1960); Hockly, Harold Edward, 'The story of the British settlers of 1820 in South Africa' (Cape Town, 1957); Malan, D.F., 'Socialism: lecture delivered before the Graaf Rienet Literary Society' (1913); 'Manifesto of the Knights of Labour of South Africa''Natal Witness', 4 July 1916; National Joint Committee, 'The trade union movement in South Africa during the years following inception' (Johannesburg, 1939); 'Report of the Economic and Wage Commission' (1925); 'Report of the Select Committee on the Industrial Disputes and Trade Unions Bill' (1914); Venter, M.J. de la R., MP for De Aar, Speech from 10 March 1952; Wolmarans, H.P., 'Kommunisme en die Suid-Afrikaanse vakunies', (Johannesburg, 1938); 'What are trade unions?' the second in a series of lectures on the history of the South African trade union movement to the early 1950s; 'War on war', a study of the Labour party and the trade union movement during the First World War.This file forms part of a series of files, being material collected by Alexander Hepple while researching the history of the trade union movement, workers' organisations and industrial relations in South Africa. For material relating to Trade Union unity see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00002-00001'>RCMS 199/2/2/1</a>, for material relating to the 'Guardian' newspaper see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00002-00002'>RCMS 199/2/2/2</a> and for articles and pamphlets on this subject see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00002-00003'>RCMS 199/2/2/3</a>.Alexander Hepple (1904-1983) was born in Johannesburg on 28 August 1904. He was the leader of the South African Labour Party, 1953-1958, and founder and chairman of the Treasons Trials Defence Fund, 1956-1961, and of the South African Defence and Aid Fund, 1960-1964. With his wife Girlie he established the International Defence and Aid Fund's Information Service in London in 1967, which they managed together until their retirement at the end of 1972. Hepple was the author of 'Verwoerd' (Pelican, 1967) and 'South Africa: a political and economic history' (Pall Mall, 1966), as well as numerous pamphlets and articles on political and trade union affairs in South Africa. He died in Canterbury, England, on 16 November 1983.