Image from Glasgow Caledonian University Archives
The Artist, Miss Rebecca Gallie, in her cover design for this brochure depicts some of Scotland's principal industries - Engineering, Shipbuilding, Mining, Fishing, and Transport - superimposed on a map of Scotland. Dominating the design are symbolic representations of the workers upon whose energy, ability, and initiative the prosperity of Industry depends.
Scottish Trades Union Congress Souvenir 1938, p2
Empire Exhibition, Glasgow, 1938: Congress Souvenir
[Extract from 1939 STUC Annual Report,
pp66-67]
"....We published a Scottish Trades Union Congress Souvenir of twenty-four pages, printed in colour on art paper. The contents of the Souvenir were regarded by Trade Unionists in particular as being of current importance, historic interest, and, permanent value, with the result that the first print of 5,000 was soon exhausted and a second print of 3,000 was necessary.
The matters of current interest in the Souvenir dealt with Trade Union membership in Scotland (its growth being illustrated by diagrams in colour), organisation among women workers, wages, hours of work, and holidays with pay. The work of the Scottish Trades Union Congress and its General Council was described, and the value of Trade Unionism to the workers emphasised. Among the items of historical interest, which were for the first time brought together in one publication, were a coloured reproduction of the Congress Charter, showing the unique Congress seal of a crossed hammer and pen; the front page of the first issue of the "Scottish Worker" published during the 1926 National Strike; and photographs of Robert Smillie and Keir Hardie. A summary of the origin of Labour representation, Parliamentary and local, was also included. A specially produced cover design in the futurist style resulted in considerable interest and contoversy (image presented above).
The Congress Souvenir can be consulted in the University Archive.