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  • Title
    Folder entitled 'Claim of Higher Staff of the Science Museum to Improve Salary Scales - History - Re-grading 1935' containing folders of memos and other papers relating to staff pay and museum administration between 1909 and 1935
  • Reference
    CORP/SCM/Z/167/01
  • Production date
    1909 - 1935
  • Creator
    • Science Museum, LondonBiography
  • Scope and Content
    File labelled "Claim of Higher Staff of the Science Museum to Improved Salary Scales - History - Re-grading 1935". Contains multiple subfolders: - Separation of Science Collections from V&A Museum 1909 and Regrading of V&A Museum 1921 - memo about stationery/headed paper; memo re annual corrections of descriptions of work and organisation, noting 1909 is the first year the Science Museum is separate from the V&A; memo re re-organisation of the establishment of Higher Technical Posts in the V&A and Bethnal Green Museums. - 1921 Regrading of Science Museum - Health Committee report on salaries 30 March 1921; correspondence between the Board of Education and Treasury on staffing re-organisation and observations on it by Sir Henry Lymes; correspondence relating to appeals against agreed salary levels; correspondence pertaining to separation of V&A Science and Art staff, their titles and conditions. - 1921 Protest by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (British Science Guild) - Science Museum salary scheme seen as inferior to those of V&A and Natural History Museum. - Support of Four Presidents 1921, 1932, 1924 - correspondence from F.H. Oates, Edward Wood, Charles Trevelyan, and E.G. Howarth [?] about salary levels for Science Museum Higher Staff; letter from Higher Staff themselves objecting to salary scales. - 1926 Case re-opened, Support of Secretary BoE, Treasury Refusal - correspondence re-addressing the salary scales of Science Museum Higher Staff. - 1927 Arbitration - documents relating to the Science Museum Arbitration Case before The Industrial Court for the Civil Service, including court decision. - Sir Henry Lyons memo Sept 1933, Staff memo 1934 - on the development of the Science Museum from 1920-1933. - July 1934 Minute to Secretary enclosing Staff Memo to Feb 1934 Treasure Refusal - relating to the ongoing dispute over salary scales for Science Museum staff compared to the V&A and Natural History Museum staff. - Negotiations Leading to Regrading 1 Oct 1935, Assimilation etc - correspondence and reports relating to the ongoing dispute over Science Museum salary scales, with particular reference to Assistant Keeper roles. - Director's Salary - correspondence dated 1935-1938. - Loose spreadsheet listing staff names and their pay levels from 1933 to 1965 and salaries on retirement. Handwritten document stamped with an official seal.
  • Extent
    1 folder
  • Language
    English
  • Level of description
    FILE
  • Repository name
    Science Museum, London
  • Associated people and organisations
    • Victoria and Albert MuseumBiography
  • Conditions governing access
    Material is available to researchers through the relevant Science Museum Group archive centre.
  • Conditions governing Reproduction
    Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.