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Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association Records,
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Anthracite dispute 1915-16,

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.

Anti-breakage appliances,

South Wales Shipment Advisory Committee papers, 1929-1934, and material relating to the South Wales Trimming Board, and patented coal hoists and other devices, 1931-1933. Also reports on coal-loading plant at shipping ports (anti-breakage appliances) commissioned by the Clyde Navigation Trust, 1931.

Application of the 8-hour day to levels and drifts,

Replies to questionnaires sent out by the Coal Owners Association to its members requesting information concerning drifts and slopes at collieries, number of men employed, output, and methods of travel by miners to work, along with tabulated summary of the responses; printed correspondence between W.G. Dalziel and H.M. Inspectors of Mines concerning the application of the 8-hour day provisions of the Coal Mines Regulations Act 1908, and to levels and drifts; letters sent by colliery owners to W.G. Dalziel with information about the admission of H.M. Inspectors to the mines and the times allowed for lowering and raising men in drifts and slopes in the Newport, Cardiff and Swansea districts.

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