Folder entitled 'Claim of Higher Staff of the Science Museum to Improve Salary Scales - History - Re-grading 1935' containing folders of memos and other papers relating to staff pay and museum administration between 1909 and 1935

File labelled "Claim of Higher Staff of the Science Museum to Improved Salary Scales - History - Re-grading 1935". Contains multiple subfolders:

- Separation of Science Collections from V&A Museum 1909 and Regrading of V&A Museum 1921 - memo about stationery/headed paper; memo re annual corrections of descriptions of work and organisation, noting 1909 is the first year the Science Museum is separate from the V&A; memo re re-organisation of the establishment of Higher Technical Posts in the V&A and Bethnal Green Museums.

- 1921 Regrading of Science Museum - Health Committee report on salaries 30 March 1921; correspondence between the Board of Education and Treasury on staffing re-organisation and observations on it by Sir Henry Lymes; correspondence relating to appeals against agreed salary levels; correspondence pertaining to separation of V&A Science and Art staff, their titles and conditions.

- 1921 Protest by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (British Science Guild) - Science Museum salary scheme seen as inferior to those of V&A and Natural History Museum.

- Support of Four Presidents 1921, 1932, 1924 - correspondence from F.H. Oates, Edward Wood, Charles Trevelyan, and E.G. Howarth [?] about salary levels for Science Museum Higher Staff; letter from Higher Staff themselves objecting to salary scales.

- 1926 Case re-opened, Support of Secretary BoE, Treasury Refusal - correspondence re-addressing the salary scales of Science Museum Higher Staff.

- 1927 Arbitration - documents relating to the Science Museum Arbitration Case before The Industrial Court for the Civil Service, including court decision.

- Sir Henry Lyons memo Sept 1933, Staff memo 1934 - on the development of the Science Museum from 1920-1933.

- July 1934 Minute to Secretary enclosing Staff Memo to Feb 1934 Treasure Refusal - relating to the ongoing dispute over salary scales for Science Museum staff compared to the V&A and Natural History Museum staff.

- Negotiations Leading to Regrading 1 Oct 1935, Assimilation etc - correspondence and reports relating to the ongoing dispute over Science Museum salary scales, with particular reference to Assistant Keeper roles.

- Director's Salary - correspondence dated 1935-1938.

- Loose spreadsheet listing staff names and their pay levels from 1933 to 1965 and salaries on retirement. Handwritten document stamped with an official seal.