University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: MS 90 Title: Madin Collection Scope: The papers of Joseph Madin, Sheffield trades unionist and Labour Party activist, and co-founder of the Sheffield Labour College, circa 1913 to 1959. The collection also includes his personal library of books and pamphlets. Dates: c. 1913-1959 Level: Fonds Extent: 14 boxes Name of creator: Joseph Madin Administrative / biographical history: The collection comprises the papers, including many press cuttings, of Joseph Madin, Sheffield trades-unionist and Labour Party activist, together with his personal library of books and pamphlets. Other ephemera such as election pamphlets are included. Joseph Madin (1892-1967) was a local trades unionist and co-founder of the Sheffield Labour College. He was born in July 1892 at Crookes, Sheffield, and after an education in Sheffield Council schools became a turner by trade. Brought up an Anglican, he moved away from the Church in his youth, becoming a socialist at the age of 14, soon following his two elder brothers into the Socialist Labour Party. In 1914 he joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (later the Amalgamated Engineering Union) and served as a shop steward at Hadfields, Tinsley, during the First World War. Subsequently he held numerous other posts in the AEU, serving as member of the District Committee, as Branch President and as District President, and serving on the Sheffield Trades Unionist and Labour Council over a period of 47 years, ultimately holding office as President from 1946 to 1960. As President of the Sheffield Trades and Labour Council he sat on the City Council Labour Group and Executive Committee for seven years, and was also a delegate from his AEU branch to the Park Constituency Labour Party, 1926- 1930 and 1947-1967. From 1949 he was an Executive Committee member of the Yorkshire Regional Council of the Labour Party, being appointed its Vice-Chairman in 1952. Madin helped to establish the Sheffield Labour College in 1919, becoming its organiser, and it was on the initiative of the Sheffield College, together with the Labour Colleges of London, Manchester and Scotland that the National Council of Labour Colleges was founded. From 1918 to 1934 he was a tutor and held classes in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and North 1 Derbyshire on Economics, Industrial and Social History, Social Development, Philosophy and Chairmanship, as well as delivering many lectures to AEU branches during the period. During the Second World War he helped to form the Sheffield Fabian Society, holding the office of President from 1957 until his death. He edited Sheffield Forward, the organ of the Sheffield Labour Party, and was on the editorial board of Socialist Commentary, the Fabian Society’s national publication. Apart from his Labour and Trade Union activities, Madin served on the Rent Tribunal from 1946, became a Justice of the Peace in 1947 and became a member of the Board of Governors of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in 1948. In 1952 he was appointed to the Court of Sheffield University, and his work on behalf of the Labour movement and his other activities were recognised in 1959 by the conferment of an honorary LL.M. degree by the University. In later life he returned to the Church and helped to found the Sheffield Industrial Mission. Madin died on 3rd February 1967 and later that year a Joe Madin Memorial Trust for educational work was set up. Source: Collection presented to Sheffield University on his death. System of arrangement: The Papers follow Madin’s own arrangement. The Books and Pamphlets are arranged in sections. Subjects: Socialism; Trade-unions - Great Britain - Sheffield Names: Madin, Joseph, 1892-1967; Sheffield Labour College; Amalgamated Society of Engineers; Amalgamated Engineering Union; Sheffield Trades and Labour Council; Socialist Labour Party - Sheffield; Labour Party - Sheffield; Fabian Society - Sheffield Conditions of access: Academic researchers by appointment Restrictions: Some papers are restricted Copyright: University of Sheffield Finding aids: Listed 2 NOTES ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF MADIN'S PAPERS, BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS The papers in sections 1 - 14 have been arranged according to the contents of the original packets in which Madin sorted them, while the original order of papers in his filing cabinet (sections 15 - 21) has also been retained. Madin's collection of books and pamphlets has been arranged into three sections (22 – 24) by publishers and chronologically by date of publication within sections. The three sections consist of: 1) Items relating to Sheffield 2) Items published by political parties; by publishing firms identified with a political viewpoint, e.g. the Socialist Labour Party; or by organisations which are non-party but which have a corporate viewpoint, e. g. the Engineering and Allied Employers’ National Federation. 3) Items referred to as 'General Books', the majority of which are political but published by commercial publishing houses. Items on the following list marked with an asterisk* will remain closed. Those marked with two asterisks** will remain closed until 30 years after their creation. Contents: 1 - 8 The Labour College 9 The Amalgamated Engineering Union 10 - 14 Biographical material and quotations 15 - 21 Madin’s Filing Cabinet: 15 Literary notes and press cuttings 16 Trade union and political 17 Literary press cuttings and political notes 18 General press cuttings 19 Labour College correspondence 20 Trade union and personal 21 General 22 - 24 Madin's Books and Pamphlets 3 THE LABOUR COLLEGE 1/ l Correspondence, papers, notes and press cuttings including 9 letters and 3 notes relating to the 'Horsefield affair' 1918-1921 Publications 1/2 Syllabus of Classes, Winter Session 1920-1921 (containing MS notes by Madin) 1/3 Syllabus of lectures on the Revolutionary Periods in History (MS notes on back) c.1920 1/4 Circular letter 1921 1/5 Application for Classes n.d. 1/6 Prospectus of Sheffield Labour College n.d. 1/7 Doncaster and District Trades and Labour Council. Syllabus of Educational Classes: Session 1920-1921 1/8 North-Eastern Labour College Handbook n.d. 1/9 Prospectus of the Labour College, 13 Penywern Road, Earl's Court, SW5 and leaflet stating objects and constitution n.d. 1/10 Scientific Socialism, Its Revolutionary Aims and Methods by Wm Paul (Glasgow, Socialist Labour Press) n.d. 1/11 Socialist Labour Party, The Bulletin No. l Dec 1918 Notes &Economic Lectures 2/1 MS. notes 'The Road from Capitalism to Socialism: A Marxist Analysis and Application. Tutor Joseph Madin' 1 sheet n.d. 2/2 Typescript with MS. additions for course of 12 lectures on Economics [Nos. 1-2 and 11 missing] 17 sheets n.d. 2/3 Typescript with MS additions, on 'Marxian Economics' n.d. 2/4 Sheffield Labour College Synopsis of Classes for the winter session. 10pp 2d 1919-1920 2/5 The Labour College, (13 Penywern Road, London SW5). Correspondence Department: Syllabus for Economics Course 4pp 4 2/6 'Glossary of Economic Terms' (Issued by the Labour College 13 Penywern Road London SW5) 5pp. n.d. 3 ‘Lectures on Elementary Marxism' by J Minsworth, Hon.Secretary of the Bury Branch of the Plebs. League, 36 duplicated sheets with covering letter, 22 February 1921. Lectures I – IX: 3/1 'Commodities and Money' 3/2 'Capital and Profit' 3/3 'General View of Capitalist Production' 3/4 'Dividing the Total Profit' 3/5 'Wages and the Working Class' 3/6 'Ringing the Changes on Wages and Profits' 3/7 'The Roots of Social Progress' 3/8 'The Basis of Thoughts' 3/9 'How Money Works' 4 Correspondence Course in Social History. Marked ‘Sent Dec 1927’. Lessons 1 – 12. 58 pp. duplicated 4/1 'Introduction: From Prehistory to the Roman Occupation' 4/2 'Mark and Manor' 4/3 'Feudalism' 4/4 'Towns and Guilds' 4/5 'The Renascence and the Reformation' 4/6 'Beginnings of Modern Capitalism' 4/7 'Commercial Expansion and Political Changes' 4/8 'The Industrial Revolution: Its Effects' 4/9 'Origin of Trade Unionism' 4/10 'Social History of the Nineteenth Century' 4/11 'Labour in the Nineteenth Century' 4/12 'Capital and Labour in the Twentieth Century' National Council of Labour Colleges. Broadsheets 5/1 Outlines - Industrial History Nos. 1-6. 16 duplicated sheets n.d. 5/1/1 'Pre-Feudal Britain' 5/1/2 'Feudalism in England' 5/1/3 'Decay of Feudalism' 5/1/4 'Beginnings of English Capitalism' 5/1/5 'The Industrial Revolution' 5/1/6 'Summary and the future' 5/2 'History Textbook' 4 duplicated sheets of historical notes. Stamped 'DIVISION NO.7. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LABOUR COLLEGES' and 'FRED SHAW, 35 Blacker Road, N. BIRKBY, HUDDERSFIELD' n.d. 6/1 'Freeman's Essay Lecture Notes' Rough MS. notes from lectures by Arnold Freeman at the Sheffield Educational Settlement: 'Class in Effectiveness for Public Work'. 52 sheets n.d. 5 6/2 Rough MS. notes on the Chartist movement and the Industrial Revolution 14 sheets n.d. 6/3 'Outline for N.C .L.C. class on "Modern problems" held on Sunday morning at the Trades Hall, Charles Street, Nr. Hippodrome. 4 copies of typescript sheet n.d . Original envelope for items 87P/4 - 6. 'Sociology Lectures' 7 Rough notes and press cuttings for series of 12 lectures n.d. 7/1 'Introduction' 10 sheets 7/2 'Social Institutions: Their Origin and Growth' 12 sheets 7/3 'The Family and Marriage Institutions' 14 sheets 7/4 'Evolution of Private Property' 16 sheets 7/5 'Art and its Evolution' 13 sheets 7/6 'Religion and the Church' 18 sheets 7/7 'Law, Crime and Punishment' 20 sheets 7/8 'Revolution and Counter-Revolution: (a) The French Revolution 1789-1914’ 26 sheets 7/9 'Revolution and Counter-Revolution: (b) The French Revolution, 1848' 16 sheets 7/10 ‘Revolution and Counter-Revolution (c) The Paris Commune, 1871' 17 sheets 7/11 'Revolution and Counter Revolution: (d) The Russian Revolution 1917' 16 sheets 7/12 'The State' 34 sheets Also press cuttings and incomplete newspapers including 'Militarism and Labour' from The Socialist March 1916 'Fiftieth Anniversary of the Commune' in The Communist 19 March 1921 'As I see Greece - 9 : Mystery Women of Ancient Athens' by H V Morton, from the Daily Herald 28 November 1935 7/13 Original envelope marked 'Sociology Lectures' 'The Class Struggle.