| Description | Original folder inscribed 'Mr Adkins Letters July 1945 - June 1946'.
Mr Bernard Adkins was the General Manager of Collieries for the United Steels Companies Limited. He had been Manager of Treeton Colliery between 1918 and 1922.
Folder contains correspondence between Mr Adkins and Colliery Managers from various coalmining companies within South Yorkshire. Among the topics discussed are a course on Continental Mining Methods at Sheffield University, the increase in bus fares for workers travelling on Sheffield United Tours Limited buses, the number of men enlisted and demobilised from Treeton Colliery in 1946 and issues raised at the Pit Production Committee. There is a small amount of correspondence re an underground fire at Treeton Colliery on 30 March 1944. The folder also contains questionnaires from the Mining Association of Great Britain on manpower, earnings and absenteeism. There are also questionnaires from the Ministry of Fuel and Power in Leeds re mining machinery and equipment required, outputs and first-aid.
Correspondence and questionnaires from the South Yorkshire Coalowners' Association re annual holidays, hours of work, wages, Essential Work Order payments, Emergency Work Agreement, and the return of ex-miners from the Forces. Correspondence from the Ministry of Labour and National Service requesting information on the dispute which occurred at Treeton Colliery between 29 May 1943 and 1 July 1943.
List of Bevin Boys received at Treeton Colliery between February 1944 and January 1945. List of accident statistics for the period 30 June 1943 to 31 December 1943. Letter from the British Colliery Owners Research Association, London, re investigations carried out by collieries on their own initiative. The findings were to be published in their new Quarterly Bulletin. Includes examples of research carried out by collieries in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Scotland. |