Coal mining
Found in 308 Collections and/or Records:
Speeches: speech notes., 03 May 1946 - 31 May 1946
Speeches: Speech notes., 04 Oct 1946 - 28 Oct 1946
Speeches: speech notes., 14 Jun 1945 - 31 Mar 1947
Speeches: speech notes., 03 Jun 1947 - 16 Aug 1947
Speeches: speech notes., May 1945 - Dec 1947
Speeches: speech notes., 12 Nov 1948 - 11 Feb 1949
Speeches: speech notes., 04 Feb 1950 - 09 Feb 1950
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1984-04 - 1984-06
Subjects include: pit closures; the European elections.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1984-07 - 1984-09
Includes NK’s speech from the Trades Union Congress conference, Sept 84. Other subjects include: the coal industry and the miners’ strike; trade unionism; European policy.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1987-06 - 1987-12
Includes: speech for the G7 Summit, Venice [Italy], June 1987; speeches for the Scottish, Yorkshire and Durham Miners’ galas; speech for the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) conference (see also KNNK 26/2/50); speech to the Parliamentary party; speech to the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); Party Conference speech; speech to the British Institute of Management on the need to develop manufacturing industry.
Other subjects include: lessons from the General Election.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1989-01 - 1989-02
"The Coal Dispute", 15 Jun 1926
Draft statement to be made by the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] when announcing the decision of the government to legislate on Miners' Hours, covering miners hours and wages. Typescript marked "secret".
Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM), 1986-02 - 1986-12
(Untitled), [1909]
Report on the large ground rents and royalties received by landowners as a result of the development of the coalfield in the Rhondda Valley [Glamorgan, Wales]. Annotated typescript.
(Untitled), 09 Jul 1909
Notes by Crompton Llewelyn Davies on duties on minerals and on a call at the annual conference of the Scottish miners for the taxation of coal royalties received by landowners.
(Untitled), [Jul 1909]
Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] on the burden of royalties on the mining industry.
(Untitled), [Jul 1909]
Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] showing that wages of the entire stoke-hole crew of the "Lusitania" for two Atlantic crossings amount to less than the royalties received by the landowner for the coal consumed on the voyages.
(Untitled), [Jul 1909]
Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] on evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Mining Royalties of 1893 showing that royalties led to the depression of wages and the closing of collieries.
(Untitled), [1909]
Memorandum on the royalties paid on coal and iron ore in Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire. Typescript.
(Untitled), [1910]
Notes on the reduction of tea duty and sugar duty and the miners' eight hour day as much surer means of improving the condition of workers than a protective duty.
(Untitled), [c 1908]
Notes on the consideration of measures in 1892-95 to limit the working day in the mining industry to 8 hours.
(Untitled), 10 Apr 1911
Letter from C B ?Cranston [chairman of the Yorkshire Coalowners Association] to Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] complaining about having to rely on Conservative MPs to put the Association's case on the Coal Mines Bill and about the representatives of the miners dictating to the owners. Sent with CHAR 2/52/3.
(Untitled), 15 Mar 1912
Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] urging that the Government should not introduce a bill which, whilst coercing the coal mine owners, does not satisfy the miners or give the Government the necessary powers to end the strike. Two drafts in the hand of Edward Marsh, both annotated: "not sent".
(Untitled), [c 1910]
Notes on the work to promote safety in the coal industry done by W E Garforth of Snydale Hall, near Pontefract [Yorkshire], chairman of Pope and Pearson Ltd. On the notepaper of 28 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, [London).
(Untitled), 09 Sep 1926
Letter from CSC to WSC, commenting on the coal dispute.