Records of the General Committee of the Coal Masters of Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

• Reference:GB 248 UGD 158
• Dates of Creation:1894-1895
• Name of Creator:
  General Committee of the Coal Masters of Scotland (employers' association: fl.1894-1895: Scotland)
• Physical Description:
  0.02 metres (1 volume)
  There are no physical characteristics or technical requirements that affect the use of this material.

• Scope and Content

  Minute book 1894-1895

• Administrative / Biographical History

  On 6 June 1894  , a meeting of coal masters was held in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss a threatened general miners strike. The meeting was attended by representatives of Coal Masters' Associations from Lanarkshire, Stirlingshire, Aryshire, Fife and Clackmannan, and the Lothians. This meeting led to the creation of a general committee, which held its first meeting on 20 June 1894  . The Committee was responsible for co-ordinating the management response to the strike and it was resolved to resist the calls for higher wages. The committee appears to have continued functioning after 1895, the last minuted meeting in this minute book.

• Arrangement

  The arrangement of this material reflects the original order in which it was received

• Access Information

  Open

• Acquisition Information

  Deposit: William Baird & Co Ltd, coal and iron manufacturers, Glasgow, Scotland

• Other Finding Aids

  Digital file level list available in searchroom

  Manual file level list available at the National Register of Archives in London (NRA21083)

• Alternative Form Available

  No known copies

• Conditions Governing Use

  Applications for permission to quote should be sent to the University Archivist

  Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use & condition of documents

• Appraisal Information

  This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 248 procedures

• Custodial History

  Held by William Baird and Co Ltd

• Accruals

  None expected

• Related Material

  See source lists on Employers, Business and Trade Associations and Mining available via Glasgow University Archive Services homepage at http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk

  Material in other repositories: no material related by provenance

• Bibliography

  Church, Roy,The History of the British Coal Industry, Vol. 3 1830-1913: Victorian Pre-eminence(Oxford, 1996)

• Additional Information

  This material is original

  Revised by David Powell, Hub Project Archivist, 7 May 2002

• Subjects

  Coal mining

  Employers

• Corporate Names

  General Committee of the Coal Masters of Scotland 1894-

• Geographical Names

  Scotland