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Cash book containing quarterly accounts showing income and expenditure of the MGEN Society. Includes breakdown of contributions from different departments within MGEN Ltd. After December 1941 the accounts relate to the Joint TA Chapels' sickness and benefit fund, and later to the company's own fund.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Contains:
1) Secretary's report and balance sheet for 1927. Includes report of the year 1927 by the Society's Secretary, Charles Whitmore; balance sheet for year ending 31 December 1927; agenda for the second annual general meeting of the Society, to be held on 28 January 1928; and details of proposed changes to the rules of the Society. Also inludes notice of the first annual general meeting of the Widows' Pension Fund.

2) Balance sheet for year ending December 1942, published March 1943.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

'Revised Proposals' of MGEN Ltd and the MGEN Society following a meeting of a special sub-committee formed to consider proposals made by the Company following the termination of the MGEN Society. Includes details of the following proposals relating to benefits which members would be balloted on: Society funds, incapacity benefit; retiring allowance, service allowance, sickness benefits, pensions, and the John Couper Fund.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Notice to members from the General Secretary of the Society, Charles Whitmore, regarding contributions and income tax allowance.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Records of the MGEN Society, including minutes of meetings, register of members rules of the Society, and material relating to the Widows' Pension Fund.

Administrative/Biographical history: The Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society was established in 1926 as the company union of MGEN. It acted as a intermediary in negotiations between MGEN and its employees and provided benefits such sickness benefits, pensions and other staff funds. During the Second World War the severe air raids in Manchester made it necessary for newspapers to have emergency plans to use other printing plants in the event of bomb damage to their own premises. However, no other newspapers were willling to make arrangements with MGEN because of hostility of the Typographical Association towards the Society, and MGEN took the decision to terminate its agreement with the Society in 1941. The Society was officially dissolved on 31 December 1941 and The Joint Typographical Association Chapels' Sick and Benefit Society was established on 1 January 1942 to take over from the MGEN Society with regards sick pay and some other benefits, whilst the administration of pensions was transferred back to the Company itself.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Collection of papers relating to the formation of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society, including:

• Draft typescript and final printed notice to all employees of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News from CP Scott, Russell Allen, JR Scott and ET Scott, outlining the proposal for the formation of the MGEN Society, covering the potential impact of the proposal on wages and conditions, the settlement of departmental disputes, pensions, sick pay, other benefits, the retiring fund, employment, apprentices and profit-sharing, and outlining the ballot procedure to follow (nd)
• A blank voting form (31 May 1926)
• A notice by JR Scott annoucing the outcome of the ballot (in favour) and calling for the appointment of departmental representatives to a provisional committee, to negotiate the terms of the new scheme (4 June 1926)
• Joint statement of resignation from 10 members of the Evening News staff [presumably opposed to the MGEN Society]: JR Smith, James McKay, RH Forrest, C Grindrod, AG Arundel, GR Walker, J Pollitt, Herbert Jones, William Baker and Charles A Chorlton (27 August 1926)
• Copy letter from W Hunt of the Manchester Typographical Association to the Father of the Chapel for the Manchester Evening News composing room, giving the Association's resolution that the new MGEN Society cannot be brought into line with the Association's rules, and so that Association members should tender their resignations from the company (28 August 1926)
• Copy of a letter sent to Mr Chorlton acknowledging his wish to retire (28 August 1926)
• Two copies of a printed notice to readers of the Manchester Evening News outlining the new scheme (stamped 6 September 1926)
• 11 pro-forma letters of resignation printed on cards titled 'Notice to Terminate Employment' [issued by the Typographical Association to its members employed by the Manchester Guardian amd Evening News]. The cards state conflict between the Association's agreement and the terms of the new MGEN Society as the reason for resignation, and have been filled out and signed by: Edwin Cade, William J Hollins, Stanley Carefull, WG Campbell, E Pritchard, Thomas Edward Armstrong, WR Hiles, H Sholtin, Joseph McCarthy, A Roberts and MJ Tanner (25 September 1926)
• An issue of the newspaper Labour's Northern Voice with a front page piece critcising the new MGEN Society (10 September 1926)
• Copy notice of from the proprietors of The Glasgow Herald, The Bulletin, The Evening Times and The Citizen stating that they will nolonger employ production staff who are trade union members and outlining their rates of pay and benefits (nd) and a typescript article and cover letter from Benn Brothers Ltd., publishers of trade and technical journals, expressing support for the new MGEN Society (23 September 1926)
• Two issues of the Typographical Circular, published by the Typographical Association, containing content relating to the new MGEN Society (October & November 1926)
• Members' leaflet from the Manchester Typographical Association announcing the next Quarterly Delegate Meeting and including a section entitled The Great Betraya, which includes a tribute to all Association members who have left their employment at MGEN and a list of the 'betrayers' - those who have left the Association to join the MGEN Society [November 1926]
• Letter from Charles Whitmore, General Secretary of the MGEN Society, defining the Society's rule for sickness notification in relation to a particular case (15 February 1927)
  Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Includes staff assurance scheme, August 1954. Also Includes staff assurance scheme master policy no 50794, 1970 with revised staff assurance scheme booklet 1967, and staff assurance scheme master policy no 1785, 1967. Contains staff list with staff salaries and yearly premiums relating to the pension fund.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Register of members of the MGEN Society, arranged by department. Includes details of name of member, date of birth, date of joining the company and date of becoming a member of the Society. Also contains a 'remarks' section which includes details such as date of resigning or retiring from the company and date of death. Includes details of those members who joined the society between its formation in 1926 and dissolution in 1941 but also contains additional notes on members up until 1947.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Rules of the MGEN Society and agreements between the Society and the Manchester Guardian & Evening News Ltd for the following dates:

Original rules of the Society, 1926 (2 copies)
Reprint of original rules, June 1933 (1 copy)
1933 reprint with amendments and additions passed at meetings between 1933 and 1935 included at the back of the booklet, nd c1936 (3 copies)
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society

Includes rules governing membership, benefits and contributions to the Fund, and copy of the Trust Deed between the MGEN Society and the MGEN Ltd.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited; Manchester Guardian and Evening News Society