Southern African Collections : Articles by Alex Hepple

Southern African Collections

Copies of articles written by Hepple, which should be read in conjunction with the bibliography of his writing in RCMS 199/1 'The South African Labour Party', pp. 475 to 501: 'The African worker in South Africa' (London, 1955);'All this and apartheid too', typescript of an article printed in 'Fighting talk' 24 Nov. 1950;'Apartheid and the African worker', typescript; BBC Africa Service broadcast notes, dated 20 Feb. 1969;'Blundering and unemployment', typescript dated 16 Feb. 1959;'Discussions with African trade unions suggested', 'Rand Daily Mail', 31 May 1958;'Failure of trade union confederation', typescript of an article printed in 'Sunday Times', 21 Sept. 1958;'The festering sores of South Africa's trade unions', typescript of an article printed in 'X-Ray', 1959?;'Industrial Conciliation Amendment Bill: stricter trade union apartheid and flexible job reservation', typescript dated 23 Feb. 1959;'The Industrial Conciliation Bill and trade union unity', typescript of an article printed in 'Forum', Feb. 1955;'Labour and labour laws in South Africa' in 'Africa South' 1, 1956;'Labour organisation and labour laws in South Africa', typescript dated 26 June 1956;'The Native Laws Bill and African trade unions', typescript dated 5 Apr. 1957;'Native trade unions: the case for their formation', typescript of an article printed in 'FCI News', July 1950;'Report on South Africa's white trade unions', typescript of an article dated 25 Aug. 1959, printed in 'X-ray'?;'Senator de Klerk woos the trade unions', 'Forum', Sept. 1955;'South Africa and the I.L.O.', typescript dated 28 June 1958;'South Africa and the trade unions' in 'Tribune', 26 July 1968;'The South African labour movement', typescript of an article printed in 'Labour Today', Feb. 1965; 'The South African trade union council (TUCSA) and African trade unions', typescript dated 8 Apr. 1969;'South Africa's changing labour pattern', typescript dated 25 Sept. 1953;'South Africa's growing conflict with the ILO', typescript dated 26 Sept. 1958 and 1962;'South Africa's racial remedy for unemployment', typescript dated 5 Oct. 1959;'South Africa's trade unions in the doldrums' in 'I.R.R newsletter', 1964;'South African trade unions: not illegal but nearly so', typescript dated 1962;'Trade union split', typescript dated 1958;'TUCSA: a bastion of trade unionism', 'The Crucible', Jan. 1965;'Unemployment: a big slump or a small slump?', typescript of an article printed in 'Fighting Talk', July 1959; 'Union Government cuts I.L.O. delegation', typescript of an article printed in 'Sunday Times', 22 June 1958;'What the IC Act is''What's cooking in the mineworkers' union', typescript of an article printed in 'Forward', 25 Aug. 1950;'What should workers talk about', typescript of an article printed in 'Forward', 28 Feb. 1948;'Wider unity needed to fight the I.C. Bill', typescript of an article printed in 'Fighting Talk', Jan. 1956?This file forms part of a series of files, being material collected by Alexander Hepple while researching the history of the trade union movement, specifically African and non-European trade movements. For excerpts from secondary sources see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00004-00003'>RCMS 199/2/4/3</a>, for excerpts from official documents see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00004-00004'>RCMS 199/2/4/4</a> and for correspondence on this subject see <a href='/view/MS-RCMS-00199-00002-00004-00005'>RCMS 199/2/4/5</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.