Coal mining
Found in 308 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 10 Sep [1926]
Letter from CSC to WSC, on the coal dispute, also on WSC's meeting with Lord Beaverbrook and Beaverbrook's relationship with Jean Norton Part pub. CV V, Part 1, pp.823-824.
(Untitled), [Sep 1926]
Letter from CSC to WSC, on the coal dispute, passing on the views of Lord Ancaster, who felt that "mediation was a mistake".
(Untitled), 14 Aug 1925
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1940
Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on coal exports.
(Untitled), 17 Sep 1942 - 06 Oct 1942
(Untitled), 27 Oct 1902
Letter from Ernest Beckett, later Lord Grimthorpe to WSC, on Lancashire collieries.
(Untitled), 16 Jul 1921
Letter from [WSC] to the Maharaja of Alwar [India] on: the imminent acceptance by the people in Mesopotamia [later Iraq] of Emir Feisal; the efforts to secure a better recognition of the status of Indians in the British colonies and the particular difficulties this poses in South Africa; the defeat of the miners in the coal strike and the improving economic prospects for Britain; the good qualities of the Viceroy of India [Lord Reading, earlier Sir Rufus Isaacs]. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 1920
Notes by Lord Weir [earlier Sir William Weir] on the need for the Government to formulate a constructive industrial policy in order to reduce the influence of extremists over more moderate workers and trade unionists. Written at the request of Andrew Bonar Law and WSC. Appendices include two printed letters to the Times on the threatened coal strike and the attempts of trade unions to bring about the complete break-down of the current industrial system.
(Untitled), [1920]
"Perils of coal nationalisation". Pamphlet issued by the Employers' Press Department.
(Untitled), 13 Apr 1921
Letter from [WSC] to Sir Sydney Chapman (Board of Trade) asking if it is true that France is obtaining large quantities of coal from Germany for nothing and then exporting it to neutral countries at prices fatal to Britain's coal export trade. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 14 Apr 1921
Letter from Sir Sydney Chapman (Board of Trade) to WSC explaining that the fall in the prices of exported British coal is due to the coal strike and the consequent large increase in the imports of coal from the United States into France and elsewhere rather than the movement of coal from Germany under the reparation agreements.
(Untitled), 30 May 1921
(Untitled), 21 Apr 1903
Memorandum by the Mining Association of Great Britain, opposing the Trades Disputes Bill [printed, 2 copies].
(Untitled), 05 May [1913]
Letter from R G Hickling (79 Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk]) to WSC on the influence of astrological conditions on the search for a settlement of the Balkans question. Also refers to the settlement of the coal strike.
(Untitled), 26 Aug 1920
(Untitled), 03 Nov [1920]
Letter from Neston Diggle [naval attache] (British Embassy, Rome, [Italy]) to WSC asking him to support his claims to be promoted to captain, expressing relief at the end of the coal strike in Britain, in which the Italians and Balkan peoples have taken a great interest, and reporting that extremists have been defeated in municipal elections in Rome and Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia].
(Untitled), [Dec 1935]
(Untitled), 24 Aug 1910 - 26 Sep 1910
(Untitled), 27 Sep 1910
(Untitled), 25 Oct 1910
(Untitled), 22 Dec 1910
(Untitled), 26 Mar 1910
Letter from Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] to WSC enclosing a letter to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] concerning proceedings in South Wales [see CHAR 12/6/2-3]. He warns that to settle the dispute between mine owners and miners it may be necessary to alter the Eight Hours Act to accommodate a half day holiday for miners on Saturdays. Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), [Mar] [1910]
(Untitled), 09 Nov 1910
Letter from Sir Arthur Bigge [later Lord Stamfordham, Permanent Secretary to King George V] (York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk) to WSC expressing concern on behalf of the King at reports of riots in South Wales and requesting a report of events from WSC. Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 10 Nov 1910
Letter from Alexander Murray [Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury] to WSC marked "confidentially dictated" enclosing newspaper cuttings [concerning the miners' strike at Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales] and commenting "the principal Liberal papers...are backing you" Signed typescript. See CHAR 12/6/30 and CHAR 12/6/31.