Sub-series BT4/1. - Joint Sliding Scale Committee,

Material related to the work of the Joint Sliding Scale Committee, comprising minute books of meetings and conferences, auditor's reports, and wage awards. File BT4/1/3 contains accounts of meetings of the owners' represenatatives on the Sliding Scale Committee, and also an account of the meetings which led to the establishment of a sliding scale in 1875. The remaining minute books contain details of the negotiations leading to the establishment of various Sliding Scales, together with summaries of the discussions of routine business and matters in dispute affecting the coalfield as a whole, and records of sub-committee reports. A few termination notices and some news cuttings have been inserted among the minutes.