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Material relating to the government's plans for the future of the mining industry, and also relating to schemes for the training of juvenile entrants in the coal mining industry and for training colliery firemen, and the nationalisation of the coal mining industry. Material includes responses to proposed policy by the Mining Association of Great Britain, the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association, the British Iron and Steel Federation, and the Joint Technical Advisory Committee, among others, and comprises reports, memoranda, draft policies, copies of addresses, circular letters and papers, some printed items.

Correspondence, circulars, statistics and printed items. Subjects include the grouping of collieries and the classification of coal, 1930-1943; proposed schemes for the regulation of the house coal trade in the counties of Glamorgan, Cardigan, Brecon, Carmarthen, Pembroke, Monmouth and Radnor, 1939; opinions and reports of W.H.F. Barklam, solicitor to the South Wales District (Coal Mines) Scheme; miscellaneous documents concerning the regulation and control of output, 1934-1936; circulars and reports regarding local collaboration between colliery and railway staffs and lists of marshalling yards, stations and depots, 1941; and notices and reports of Trade Committee meetings, 1940. Printed material includes a copy of the South Wales District (Coal Mines) Scheme, 1930, including amendments up to 1936; rules of the pension fund of the Scheme's Executive Board, 1940; district scheme for the production, supply and sale of coal in the South Wales District, 1930; list of owners participating in the Scheme, c.1932.

Copies of minutes relating to the House Coal Sub-Committee, and the War Emergency Committee set up by the South Wales District (Coal Mines) Scheme; reports, circulars, pamphlets and memoranda concerning the re-organisation of the house coal trade after the war.

Material relating to the South Wales Coke Sales Association concerning the Association's Constitution and proposed Tripartite Agreement between the Coke Sales Association, the British Iron and Steel Federation, the Producers of Pig Iron, and the Producers of Blast Furnace Coke, of the British Hard Coke Association, and of the British Coking Industry Association. Material comprises copies of the South Wales Coke Association Constitution, 1940; Deed of Association of the Monmouthshire and South Wales By-Product Works Association, 1917, amended up to 1940; copies of minutes, circulars and reports sent out by Finlay Gibson, as Secretary of the Association, 1945-1946; draft Tripartite Agreement with related meeting reports, 1940.

Printed copies of Deeds of Association of the Monmouthsire and South Wales Coke Ovens and By-product Works Association, 1916-1940, showing draft amendments, also reports of meetings and circulars concerning same.

Case for Counsel's Opinion, and other relevant documents, concerning the payment of a capital fund by the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coke Ovens and By-products Works Association to members of the Association. Case concerns the proportionate amount due in respect of the Ebbw Vale Coke Ovens to Messrs. Richard Thomas and Company, and includes case documents and correspondence.

Material relating to the Anthracite Owners Case in a claim made regarding the payment of equal wages for miners in the anthracite and steam coal districts including case statements; draft evidence of Finlay Gibson; statistics of wages and costs relating to the claim; copies of previous Sliding Scale and Conciliation Board Agreements and Awards; extracts of minutes of the Hauliers Wages Joint Committee; correspondence with the Board of Trade and the Industrial Commissioner, Judge O'Connor, Sir Laurence Gomme, Judge Lloyd Morgan, and Sir John Sankey; also miscellaneous correspondence with Messrs. Charles Renshole, Evan Williams, Thomas Griffiths, Fred L. Davies and Sir George Askwith, amongst others.

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.