Documents collected by Annie Adama van Scheltema for the period 1919-1939 and obtained from Walter Schevenels, secretary-general of the IFTU 1930-1945 and in charge of its liquidation 1945-1953. Documents relating to congresses 1919-1939: agenda, minutes, reports, lectures, resolutions and declarations; records of the General Council 1929-1937, 1945: agenda, minutes, reports, notes and circulars; of the Executive Committee 1941-1945: reports; of the secretariat 1940-1945, 1950: general correspondence, correspondence with affiliated and nonaffiliated organizations, with the International Trade Secretariats (ITS), trade unions and other organizations in various countries and circulars; documents on conferences and congresses organized by the IFTU: Peace Congress 1922, IFTU/ITS Conferences 1927-1939, Working Women Conferences 1920-1936, Economic Conferences 1933-1938, the USSR IFTU Conference (held in 1937) 1936-1939, the Emergency International Trade Union Council 1943-1945, the World Trade Union Conference 1943-1945 and other congresses and conferences: agenda, correspondence, circulars, reports, lectures, proposals etc.; files on educational work 1922-1935, 1942-1945; on aid to refugees 1940-1945, 1950; on propaganda and publicity 1940-1945 and on the liquidation of the IFTU 1945-1953.