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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 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.

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

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 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 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 relating to legal cases which affected the coal industry in general, and the business interests of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association in particular. Material includes minutes of proceedings, minutes of evidence, judgements, reports, counsel opinions, Enquiry and Committee reports, memoranda and statistical statements.

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 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.

Contemporary statistical reports on the Coal Industry and Coal Trade of numerous foreign countries, which were collated for the Mining Association of Great Britain, and bound as (Foreign) Bulletins. The weekly bulletins are compiled mainly from foreign, particularly Continental, sources such as newspapers, journals, and government reports. Information is given for Germany, France, Poland, Holland, Canada, Russia, Italy, Norway, Belgium, Spain, USA and others. Each volume contains an index which is arranged alphabetically by country, with a secondary classification under the following headings: coal production, costs of production, external trade, internal trade, transport questions, labour, miscellaneous and, where appropriate, iron and steel industries. Bulletins 600-603 were incorrectly numbered as 700-703.

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.

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.

Material comprises official press reports publicising meetings of various Coal Owners Association committees, and of meetings between the Coal Owners' representatives and representatives of several trade unions, including meetings with the National Union of Clerks and the Colliery Examiners Association.

Files created by the Pitwood Department relating to the supply and transportation of pitwood for use in Welsh collieries. Material comprises mainly correspondence, written between the Coal Owners Association and the Forestry Commission, the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Pitwood Importers Association, the Great Western Railway Co., the Ministry of Supply, and the Mining Association of Great Britain Timber Advisory.

Volumes of news cuttings relating to the coal and allied industries, mainly relating to production, miners' wages, labour disputes and mining accidents.

Material comprises mainly printed lists, which give the agreed prices for working a particular seam in a particular colliery in a given way (i.e. hand cut or machine cut). Some material includes statements by the Statistical Department giving additional information regarding proceeds, wages costs, and credit per ton for the periods specified (see S3/16).

Papers relating to the court of the Railway Rates Tribunals held under the Railways Act, 1921, and the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933. Later Tribunals were also held under the Local Government Act, 1929, the Railway Freight Rebates Act, 1936, and the London Passenger Transport Act, 1933. Proceedings involved a number of railway companies including the Great Western Railway Company; Southern Railway Company; London Midland and Scottish Railway Company; and the London and North Eastern Railway Company. Files may contain minutes of proceedings, notes on proceedings, judgements, schedules of standard railway charges, provisional proposals by railway companies, Railway Clearing House statements, reviews of the operation of the Railway Freight Rebate Scheme, and classification lists of merchandise carried by rail.

Statistical tables giving detailed information on the rates of pay for different classes of workmen throughout the South Wales coalfield. Schedules are given for associated and non-associated collieries in the Cardiff, Newport and Swansea districts. Classes of workmen include: Enginemen, Pumpmen, Company's Boys, Colliers' Boys, Timbermen, Assistant Timbermen, Rippers, Assistant Rippers, Blocklayers, Roadmen, Hauliers, Trammers, Riders, Hitchers, Labourers, Ostlers, Fitters, Electricians, Rope Splicers, Masons, Pitmen, Shacklers and Spragmen, Lamplockers, Lamplighters, Oilers, Coalcuttermen, Airwaymen, Watermen, Cogcutters and Timber Drawers.

Material relating to various aspects of coal mining in South Wales including the survey of coal resources, the formal inspection of mines and their activities, deputations to national representatives regarding coal mining issues, the attendence of special industry meetings and conferences, participation in trade schemes, and the promotion of coal research. Material includes reports, surveys, memoranda, competition entries and essays, pamphlets, marketing material and other printed items.

Material comprises forms filled out annually by Association Members, giving the names of the various pits which they wished to have assured under the rules of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association, together with the annual quantity to be assured and the rate per ton at which it was to be assured. Some volumes may include related letters and correspondence. Returns for 1888 are missing.