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

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

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Acquisition Information

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

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Custodial History

Held by William Baird and Co Ltd

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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

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