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Report of the Departmental Committee on the prevention of dangers in mines from accumulations of water or other liquid matter.

Correspondence and statistics of collieries with facilities for receiving wood by lorry and weighbridges, 1940, and replies from owners of collieries that are able to weigh inward traffic, 1943.

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 comprises cuttings from Welsh newspapers, including the Glamorgan Advertiser, South Wales News, Western Mail, Aberdare Leader and Merthyr Express among many others. The majority of articles are of a political nature.

Memorandum of Agreement, 1 Jan. 1915, between the Coal Owners Association and the South Wales Colliery Winding Enginemen's Association and correspondence between the Coal Owners Association and its members relating chiefly to this Agreement, including accounts of investigations of complaints by the workmen, and inquiries by members as to the effects of the Agreement on certain cases, disputes, and refusals by workmen to sign the Agreement. Also correspondence between members of the Association, the Enginemen Wages Committee, and representatives of the workmen concerning disputes arising at various pits regarding the Agreement and their settlement. The file also includes a copy of government regulations regarding the hours of work of winding enginemen (1913), and circulars calling meetings of the joint sub-committee set up to deal with questions arising from the 1915 Agreement.

Material relating to regulations governing the working hours of winding enginemen including reports, letters, memoranda and printed items.

Letters and statistics regarding the number of new winding enginemen employed at associated collieries just prior to 1913.

Material relating to the renewing of the 1910 Time Agreement for winding enginemen including statistical tables showing the relative wages of enginemen under previous general wage agreements, correspondence and letters regarding the reaction of enginemen towards the proposed Agreement and the efforts of some to avoid signing it, and memoranda from other coalfields reporting the wages and conditions of enginemen in those districts.

Letters from various collieries, and forms completed by them, in reply to a request by the Coal Owners Association for information regarding winding enginemen, such as the number of enginemen employed, the proportion working under a time agreement and its duration, their standard wage, the percentage paid on it, and hours of work.

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

Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the law relating to compensation for injuries to workmen, 1904; First and Second Reports of the Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases, 1907-1908; Minutes of Evidence, with index, of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the system of payment of compensation to workmen who have sustained injuries while in the course of employment, 1919-1920.