File C 6. - Industrial relations,

Nos 1-56. Correspondence, memoranda and papers relating to industrial relations. The papers refer, in the main, to the conflicts in coal and transport. They include notes and jottings from Cabinet meetings as well as memoranda. NB: much supplementary material may be found, above all, in class Z. The more substantial items are: No. 1. Notes on the Coal Industry by the Mines Dept., 26 Jan. 1920; No. 2. Memo on the German Coal Industry under 'Socialization', [n.d.]; No. 4. Paper by A. H. Barnard on Factorialism and nationalisation of Mines, n.d. (Feb. 1920); No. 5. Coal Mines (Emergency) Act 1920, 31 March 1920; No. 6. Memo for French Government on measures taken by British Government to combat strikes, 2 June 1920; No. 9. Heads of an Agreement M.F.G.B. and Mining Association, Oct. 1920; No. 10. Report of Director of Distribution on coal supplies in South Wales during strike, 1 Nov. 1920. Nos 11-15. Papers relating to the South Wales Coal Supplies Committee, Oct.-Nov. 1920; No. 16. Balance sheet of the S.W.M.F., 1920. No. 17. Coal Mines (Decontrol) Act, 1921, 24 March 1921; Nos 19-33. Notes, memos, jottings, etc., from Cabinets and conferences, relating to negotiations with the miners, 5-9 April 1921; No. 36. Ministry of Labour memo on wages, 11 April 1921; No. 39. PM's reply to deputation of N.U.R. and Transport Workers Federation, 14 April 1921; No. 44. Memo on coal industry by R. O. Mennell, May 1921; Nos 45-51. Memos on negotiations and effects of coal stoppage, n.d. (May 1921); No. 53. Memo by H. B. Butler (I.L.O.) on ratification of Washington Convention on hours of labour, June 1921; and No. 54. Conversation H. B. Butler and M. Albert Thomas, 7 May 1921. Index: Addison, Dr, No. 23; Barnard, A. H., No. 4; Barnard, A. S., No. 3; Butler, H. B. (I.L.C.), Nos 52-54; Chamberlain, Austen, No. 19; Davies, J. T., Nos 12, 22; Gibson, Finlay A., S.Wales Coal Director, Nos 10, 13-15; Griffiths, W. T., Mines Department, No. 37; Hilton, John, No. 40; Hodges, Frank, M.F.G.B., Nos 21, 23-24; Hughes, Thomas, Welsh Board of Health, Nos 11-12; Ince, G. H., No. 35; Lloyd George, David, Nos 19, 23-33, 39, 56; Mennell, R. O., Nos 43-44; Thomas, Albert France, No. 54; Thomas, J. H., N.U.R., Nos 22, 24, 34.