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Material relating to typical employment disputes at member companies, in which these companies sought the advice of the Association before submission to the Joint Disputes Committee. Material comprises mainly correspondence, usually between the company or colliery involved and the Association, and often with the South Wales Miners' Federation. Companies concerned include the Powell Dyffryn Steam Coal Co., the Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries, Evans & Bevan Ltd., the United National Collieries, the Brynhenllis Colliery, the Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., and the Thomas Merthyr Colliery Co.

Material relating to wage disputes dealt with by the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association. Material includes meeting notices; strike notices; summaries of claims for compensation owing to loss of output during stoppages; particulars relating to stoppages at specific collieries; and correspondence and papers relating to Conciliation Board negotiations, appointments, and joint recommendations and resolutions.

This series comprises volumes tabulating information on disputes dealt with by the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association between 1890 and 1946. Volumes D1/1/1-26 note the names of the collieries; the owners of the collieries; the subject of each dispute; the duration of the strike; when each dispute was discussed at Conciliation Board Meetings, together with their recommendations. Volumes D1/1/27-32 tabulate information on specific classes of workmen, and specific subjects. Volumes D1/1/33-35 tabulate information on Stoppages without notice. D1/1/36-37 deal mainly with wage disputes.

Material related to the work of several committees of the Mining Association of Great Britain including the Central Committee, the Coal Mines Act Committee, the Joint Standing Consultative Committee, the Transport Committee and the Council.

Material related to the work of many Coal Owners Association joint committees, including the following: Joint Sliding Scale Committee; Enginemen Wages Committee; Joint Standing Disputes Committee; Enginemen's Association; South Wales Coal Shipment Advisory Committee; South Wales Committee on Physical and Chemical Survey of the National Coal Resources; Joint Committee representing the Safety in Mines Research Board, Colliery Owners, Mining Engineers, Workmen, H.M. Inspector of Mines, Colliery Managers; South Wales Area Committee of the Coal Utilization Council; Disputes Finality Committee and the Joint Coal Production Committee. Material comprises mainly minutes of proceedings, résumés, notices and agenda.

Material related to the work of a number of Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association committees including the Joint Emergency Committee, Commercial Committee, Coal Cutters & Conveyers Committee, Coal Dust and General Research Committees, Anthracite & Steam Coal Collieries Committee, Eight Hours Committee, and the Education Committee, amongst others. Material comprises mainly minutes and reports.

Material related to the work of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association Transport Committee, comprising meeting minutes, agenda, notices and related papers.

Minute books of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association Finance Committee.

Minute books of the Swansea District Board of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association. The minutes cover a range of activities, such as the Board's considerations of claims for compensation made by members within the district; passing resolutions embodying its recommendations on these claims for the consideration of Association meetings; conducting preliminary hearings on individual disputes; pursuing investigations of disputes and agreeing on settlements; consideration of reports from members; preliminary consideration of applications to join, or leave, the Association; annual revision of Assurances of members; the election of officers and the implementation of Association policy within the district.

Minute books of the Newport District Board of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association. The minutes cover a range of activities carried out by the members of the Board, such as the Board's considerations of claims for compensation made by members within the district; the passing of resolutions embodying its recommendations on these claims for the consideration of Association meetings; conducting preliminary hearings on individual disputes and pursuing investigations of disputes (including stoppages at the mines); consideration of reports from members and external committees; preliminary consideration of applications to join, or leave, the Association; carrying out annual revisions of Assurances of members; the election of officers and the implementation of Association policy within the district.

Minute books, 1892-1947, of the Cardiff District Board of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association. Minutes for the period before 1892 are included in the Association's General Minute Books (A1/1-5). The minutes cover a range of activities, such as the Boards' considerations of claims for compensation made by members within the district; resolutions embodying its recommendations on these claims for the consideration of Association meetings; preliminary hearings on individual disputes; pursuing investigations of disputes and agreeing on settlements; consideration of reports from members; preliminary consideration of applications to join, or leave, the Association; annual revisions of Assurances of members; the election of officers and the implementation of Association policy within the district.

Material related to the work of the National Conciliation Board for the Coal Mining Industry comprising minutes of proceedings of the National Board for the Coal Industry, 1921, with awards, interpretations and the Constitution and Rules of Procedure of the Board; and minutes, agenda and papers for meetings of the Joint National Negotiating Committee, 1944-1945. Also included is an Agreement, 1943, between the Mining Association, Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the various owners' associations, and the various workmen's associations, to establish the National Conciliation Scheme.

Material related to the work of the Colliery Weighers' Conciliiation Board, comprising transcripts of meetings between representatives of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association and representatives of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Colliery Weighers Association. Discussions relate to disputes over wage rates at particular collieries.

Material related to the work of the Colliery Officials' Conciliation Board, comprising minutes of meetings of the Board of Conciliation for the Owners and Officials of Collieries in South Wales and Monmouthshire, and minutes of proceedings of meetings between the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association and the Monmouthshire and South Wales Colliery Officials' Association. Matters discussed relate mainly to the stabilisation of wages, holidays, payment of wages during illness and issues involving individual cases of dispute.

Material related to the activities of the Hauliers' Conciliation Board, comprising minutes of proceedings, résumés of meetings and agreements and awards.

Material related to the work of the Board of Conciliation for the Owners and Officials of Collieries in South Wales and Monmouthshire, or as it was generally referred to, the Joint Examiners' Conciliation Board. Material in this series comprises minutes of proceedings, résumés of cases, and agreements and awards.

Material related to the work of the Clerical Workers' Conciliation Board, comprising verbatim minutes of proceedings between representatives of the Coal Owners Association and representatives of the National Union of Clerks, and some meetings between the Coal Owners Association and the Mining, Clerical and Administrative Workers' Guild. Also included in this series are résumés of joint meetings of Owners and Clerks, which considered individual cases of dispute, and an agreement between the Coal Owners Association and the National Union of Clerks relating mainly to remuneration and conditions of employment of clerical staff at associated collieries.

Material related to the work of the Coke-Oven and By-Product Workers' Conciliation Board, comprising minutes of proceedings and awards granted by the Conciliation Board. The Conciliation Board meetings included representatives of the Owners' and Workers' sides of various groups, as follows: representatives from the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coke Oven and By-Products Works Association and representatives of the National Union of Cokemen and By-Product Workers; representatives of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coke Oven and By-Product Works Association and of the South Wales Miners' Federation; between representatives of the Disputes Committee of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coke Ovens and By-Product Works Association; the Monmouthshire and South Wales Cokeowners' Association and the South Wales Miners' Federation; and of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coke Ovens and By-Product Works Association and the South Wales Miners' Federation and the National Union of Cokemen and By-Product Workers. Matters discussed related to topics such as rates of pay and conditions of employment of coke oven and by-product workers in the South Wales coalfield, and also individual claims of workmen employed at various collieries.

Transcripts of Mechanical and Surface Workers' Conciliation Board meetings between representatives of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association and representatives of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Mechanical and Surface Workers' Union. Discussions mainly concerned the clarification of the different classes of workmen (for purposes of representation), the setting up of a joint committee, and a variety of disputes at numerous collieries.

Material related to the work of the Windingmen's Conciliation Board, comprising minutes of proceedings and agreements and awards.