Coal mining
Found in 308 Collections and/or Records:
(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), 27 Oct 1902
Letter from Ernest Beckett, later Lord Grimthorpe to WSC, on Lancashire collieries.
(Untitled), 09 Sep 1926
Letter from CSC to WSC, commenting on the coal dispute.
(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), 05 Jun 1936
Letter from Henry Woodall, Chairman, Tottenham and District Gas Council on the Coal Mines Bill and the proposed coal sales monopoly.
(Untitled), 08 Jul 1936
Letter from Lt-Col Norman Thwaites, British Smokeless & Oil Fuels Ltd to WSC, on the production of smokeless fuel and fuel oils by the low temperature carbinisation process.
(Untitled), 09 Jul 1936
Letter from WSC to Lt-Col Norman Thwaites, thanks for letter on the production of smokeless fuel and fuel oil by low temperature carbonisation of coal [carbon].
(Untitled), 14 May 1936
Resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the Federation of British Industries on The Coal Mines Bill: Compulsory Amalgamations.
(Untitled), Dec 1935
(Untitled), 6 Aug 1925
Speech notes for WSC's statement on the coal subsidy, the crisis in the coal industry, the alternative risk of a strike, and hopes of a settlement.Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style", annotated by WSC, and manuscript notes [?in the hand of Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC].
(Untitled), 18 Mar 1911
Letter from Lord Knollys [Private Secretary to King George V] (Buckingham Palace) to WSC congratulating him on behalf of the King for the carrying of the second reading of the Coal Mines Bill, which the King hopes will be passed in the present parliamentary session. Signed manuscript.
(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.
(Untitled), 09 Nov 1910 - 10 Nov 1910
Newspaper cuttings relating to WSC's decision to send re-enforcements of police to the riots and miners' strike at Tonypandy [Glamorgan, Wales] instead of the military force requested by the Chief Constable. Cuttings from: the Daily News, the Daily Chronicle, the Morning Leader and the Manchester Guardian. Covering letter at CHAR 12/6/29.
(Untitled), 10 Nov 1910
Transcript of a newspaper article from the Liverpool Daily Post relating to WSC's decision to send re-enforcements of police to the riots and miners' strike at Tonypandy [Glamorgan, Wales] instead of the military force requested by the Chief Constable. Typescript. Covering letter at CHAR 12/6/29.
(Untitled), 10 Nov 1910
Telegram from King George V (Sandringham) to WSC thanking him for his report of the riots [at Tonypandy, Glamorgan] Wales and hoping that the news that horses have been lost in the mines is not true. Manuscript.
(Untitled), 10 Nov 1910
Letter from Thomas Rees, editor of the Cambria Daily Leader (Leader Buildings, 151 Fleet Street [London]) to WSC congratulating him for his decision to delay the military troops sent to [the riots] at Tonypandy [Glamorgan, Wales], as "the sacrifice of life" which would have resulted could not have been rectified. Signed manuscript.