Note 615 — Chapter IX

For the history of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain and the contemporary District Unions, we have drawn on the voluminous printed minutes of proceedings and reports which are seldom seen outside the Miners’ Offices; the various publications of the Labour Department of the Board of Trade (now the Ministry of Labour) and the Home Office; The British Coal Trade, by H. Stanley Jevons (1915); The British Coal Industry, by Gilbert Stone (1919); Labour Strife in the South Wales Coalfield, 1910-11, by D. Evans (1911); The Adjustment of Wages, by Sir W. J. Ashley; Miners’ Wages and the Sliding Scale, by W. Smart (1894); Miners and the Eight Hours Movement, by M. Percy; History of the Durham Miners’ Association, by J. Wilson (1907); A Great Labour Leader[Thomas Burt], by Aaron Watson (1908); Memoirs of a Miners’ Leader, by J. Wilson (1910); Industrial Unionism and the Mining Industry, by George Harvey (1917); A Plan for the Democratic Control of the Mining Industry, by the Industrial Committee of the South Wales Socialist Society (1919); the Reports and evidence of the Coal Industry Commission, 1919, and the voluminous newspaper discussion to which it gave rise, together with Facts from the Coal Commission and Further Facts from the Coal Commission, both by R. Page Arnot (1919).