Manchester Branch
Minutes 3/10/1936 - 4/9/1971
Unemployment Benefit Ledger
(Ministry of Labour) 11/6/1938 - 5/3/1943
This volume also contains Manchester District
minutes in the back of the book. 23/3/1959 - 23/4/1966
Manchester District

Minutes. (Includes Jewish members meetings,
General meetings etc) 2/12/1945 - 6/3/1959

Manchester Branch (450)
Minutes 4/9/1974 - 5/9/1987

Almonds (Wythenshawe Branch)
Minutes 18/11/1967 - 6/9/1975

Bristol Branch
Minutes 20/3/1894 - 16/5/1899
30/5/1899 - 12/12/1905
Bristol Branch
Membership Register November1875 -Jan 1899

Preston District and North West Region
Minutes and Reports 23/1/1954 - 30/9/1976
(2 boxes)

Liverpool District
House of call Reports 24/8/1896 - 13/8/1906

The House of call register is a record of the union's efforts to control 'jobbing' bakery work. i.e. bakers employed on a casual basis for a few hours or days, and to provide for those members who were genuinely and unavoidably unemployed. The following extracts from the union rules give some indication of the elaborate lengths to which the union went to control 'jobbing' and eliminate abuse of the system established by the union for finding, and equitably distributing such work.

Here follows just three of twenty-nine rules from the jobbing section of the rule book.
19.1. The jobbing list is to be kept by the Secretary at the Central Office. All unemployed members shall attend between the hours of 9 and 12 a.m. Any member failing to answer and not signing before 12 noon shall be considered working and shall be deducted one day's pay from whatever benefits he or she may have to receive. They shall be ordered out to jobs in rotation if qualified. Jobbers already ordered out for that night shall be exempt. Any member having a valid objection to any particular shop shall, on establishing the bona fides of his or her reason previous to him or her being ordered to it, shall be exempt on giving notice to the first Branch or Committee Meeting.
19.3. Paragraph 2. Any member neglecting, refusing, or absenting himself or herself from a job, when ordered, shall be booked as working in addition to any fines ,which may be imposed. Habitual offenders to be suspended from all benefits subject to the Committee's decision. A member in regular employment stopping off work and neglecting to send a jobber in to his or her shop shall be fined 10s.
19.10. Members of this District not allowed to work in non-Society shops or with non-Society men under a fine of 5 shillings per day.

Liverpool No. 1. Branch
Subscription registers
Gives number; name arrears, proposition & entrance fee, grade of contributions, dates of meetings, fines, levies, magazines, strike and defence fund, management, total, sick, out of work, sick, general & funeral funds, arrears.
5/12/1903 - 2/9/1907,
11/12/1912 - 2/3/1913,
9/3/1914 - 28/8/1917,
4/9/1916 - 31/5/1920,
7/6/1920 - 5/9/1921,
5/12/1922 - 28/5/1923,
4/6/1923 - 1/12/1924

Liverpool District Committee Minutes
27/12/1902 - 2/9/1907
29/12/1909 - 26/4/1913
16/9/1914 - 13/3/1918
20/3/1918 - 15/10/1919
Executive Council Minutes
28/10/1950 - 11/12/1955
28/1/1956 - 13/10/1960
7/2/1961 - 9/ 2/ 1964
11/1/1964 - 29/4 1965
14/8/1965 - 12/8/1966
17/9/1966 - 14/12/1967
15/1/1968 - 11/4/1969
3/6/1969 - 9/2/1974
9/4/1974 - 11/5/1979
9 Volumes

The Executive Council minutes include papers from the following organisations.

Joint Committee of English, Scottish & Irish Bakers Unions
Biscuit workers sub-committee for the baking industry in England and Wales.
Rules. 1938: 36p. 1947: 31p. 1956: 24p 1958: 32p 1967: 38p
5 items.

Manchester, Salford and surrounding district rules
1931:34p. 1952:31p.
2 items.
Agreement between the Manchester and District Baking Industry Ltd and the A.U.O.B.
15/1/1940 - 15/9/1943. 11 p.

National agreements of the Baking industry in England and Wales between the Federation of Wholesale and Multiple Bakers and the A.U.O.B.
21/9/1955. 48p.
Conference agendas resolutions
1914-1916, 1918-1922.
8 items.
Membership/Contribution cards
1938, 1940-1953, 1957-1976.
13 items.

Blackpool Branch. Preston District
Agreement between Blackpool Cooperative Society Limited and A.U.O.B.
November 1937. 1p. (3fold).

The Journeyman Baker
1935-1937, 1961, 1964-1965.
6 volumes.

The Bakery Worker
1972-1973, 1975-1977.
5 volumes.

The Food Worker
1978, 1981, 1985, 1991-1996.
9 volumes.

'Free' membership card for 50 years continuous membership. 4th March 1916 - 6th December 1966. W. Schofield of Oldham Branch. 1966. 1p.