File contains a copy of a union agreement between the Contractors: the Sash Door and Blind Manufacturers and the Members of the Carpenters and Joiners Union No. 161; this agreement is for within the Belleville city limits and limits a work day to 9 hours and a half holiday on Saturday.
File contains newspaper clippings about G.A. Freeman becoming new president of the Stephens & Adam Co. and about the strike of Stephens & Adam Co employees.
File contains newspaper clippings about relocating the Unemployment Insurance Commission regional headquarters to Belleville and about building contractors vying for the job.
File contains a c.1960 newspaper clip on Belleville's unemployment rate, and a c.1961 newspaper clip on Hastings County opening a winter works program to reduce unemployment.
File contains c.1968 newspaper clips on the Belelville District Labour Council supporting Mayor Scott on the industry mission dispute, and other miscellaneous clips on the Ontario Regulations.
File contains a c.1877 copy of a telegram to Col.Powell in Ottawa, report of the Queen's Own suppressing railway mob in Belleville, c.1877 copy of telegram from Belleville City Council to Lt.Col. Durie of Toronto re military presence required to suppress uprising at Grand Trunk railway, and other miscellaneous documents on the c.1877 railway uprising of workers in Belleville.