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Correspondence between the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association and individual companies on questions relating to the payment of the 'war wage' to firemen (colliery examiners).

Material relating to proposed increases to the levy payable to the Miners' Welfare Fund, comprising letters and correspondence, memoranda, extracts of meeting minutes, and a copy of the Mining Industry (Welfare Fund) Bill and Act.

Material relating to coal dust research programmes and work in the district, and the work of the Committee on the Prevention and Suppression of Coal Dust and the South Wales Coal Dust Research Committee. Material includes memoranda, meeting notices, extracts of minutes, draft and final reports, and miscellaneous correspondence with the British Colliery Owners Research Association, the Mining Association of Great Britain, the Mines Department, Professor T. David Jones, and various colliery companies on the subject of local research programmes regarding mine dust in underground workings.

Material relating to the payment of a bonus turn to ostlers comprising letters and correspondence, and extracts of minutes of the Conciliation Board and Joint Standing Disputes Committees.

Material relating to the dissolution of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association, and the winding up of its business activities, comprising memoranda, letters, receipts, and news cuttings.

Material relating to the introduction of the Mines Eight Hours Act in South Wales collieries, the response of various coal companies and miners' organisations to the legislation, and the effects of the Act on the mining industry in Wales. Material comprises reports, counsel's opinions, Conciliation Board sub-committee minutes and extracts of minutes, meeting notes, owners' manifestos, circulars, letters and correspondence, newspaper cuttings, statistical statements and summaries, and some printed material.

Contains cuttings, chiefly from South Wales newspapers, relating to the unrest in the coalfield following the introduction of the new methods of working agreed in the Conciliation Board Agreement of July 1909. Also clippings concerning the test case fought to determine the ability of the employers to compel miners to work sixty hours per annum in addition to the normal eight hours per day. Included also are references to the colliers' strike in Scotland and the question of a national strike in support, the effects of the Act on trade and on colliers' wages, the sixty hours question, and deputations to the Home Secretary.

Letters of colliery owners regarding specific issues under the Eight Hours Act, including working conditions and payments for night shifts and overtime, and bonuses. Also includes drafts of amended clauses put forward by the Coal Owners Association's representatives during the negotiations leading to a revision of the Conciliation Board Agreement in July 1909.

Forms completed by Associated collieries on questions relating to the introduction of afternoon and Sunday night shifts at collieries, the nature of these shifts, and how workers were paid. Returns arranged by district.

Records of applications by various collieries, and colliery groups, to join the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association, including queries to the Secretary, procedural points, notifications of transferences of collieries and price-list details provide the bulk of the correspondence.

Records of a variety of conciliation boards, including the Board of Conciliation for the Coal Trade of Monmouthshire and South Wales and the National Conciliation Board for the Coalmining Industry, which were established to deal with disputes at the various collieries associated with the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association (MSWCOA). Also the records of the three district boards under MSWCOA (Cardiff, Swansea and Newport) as well as the records of the many committees which oversaw the activities of the MSWCOA.

Material related to the work of the Board of Conciliation for the Coal Trade of Monmouthshire and South Wales, comprising minutes of meetings, minutes of proceedings, applications for changes in wages, and Board Agreements and Awards.

Meetings (25 and 26 April 1901) discussing the arrangement of a Deputation comprising members of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association and representative members of other groups (including both the Cardiff and Swansea Chambers of Commerce, and also area shipowners) to visit the Chancellor of the Exchequer regarding the proposed Coal Tax.

Printed transcripts of 13 meetings discussing the Eight Hours Act and the revision of the 1902 Conciliation Board Agreement.

Minutes of meetings of the Conciliation Board for the Coal Trade of Monmouthshire and South Wales, meetings between representatives of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association and representatives of the South Wales Miners' Federation, and meetings of an appointed Joint Sub-committee. Discussions mainly concerned setting up the (1931) Conciliation Board, alterations to the 1926 Conciliation Board Agreement, and terms of the 1931 Agreement.

Minutes of 14 meetings of the Conciliation Board for the Coal Trade of Monmouthshire and South Wales, March through October 1934. Matters discussed include strikes at Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen Colliery, the Gresford Colliery Disaster, the position of the South Wales coal trade, and the settlement and signing of the new Conciliation Board Agreement. Also included is a separate Appendix of supporting material - in the form of graphs, memoranda and reports - presented at the October meetings before the Independent Chairman.