THE MINERS - In Crisis and War - A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1930 Onwards

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1961. Book. Illus. by A. Mendoza;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 451 pp. Please note, this is a somewhat heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal. Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and small chips around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. Colour frontis painting of Robert Smillie - President - Miners' Federation of Great Britain 1912 - 1921 - by A. Mendoza. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: ONE: WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS: Foul Weather; The Owners of the Coal Mines; Crisis and Unemployment; Fallen on Evil Days; M.F.G.B. Ends the Spread-over; To Amend the Minimum Wage Act; Dialectics at Downing Street; Arthur Henderson Gets a Joint Committee; Discussions with the Owners; The Coal Mines Bill; Annual Conference July 20 - 24 1931; The Miners and Unemployment; and Appendix: Labour Party Election Manifesto. TWO: THE DEBACLE: The Gathering Storm; The Financial Crisis; The Dilemma - and its Outcome; The General Election of 1931; New Officers; Hours but not Wages; The Coal Mines Act 1932; Retrospect and Outlook in Mid-summer; Reorganisation; and Appendix: General Election 1931: Results of the Voting in Mining Areas. THREE: UNDER THE COALITION GOVERNMENT: A Long Correspondence; Hunger Marches; Ebby Edward's Programmatic Speech; Correspondence with Ramsay MacDonald; Time-honoured Tactics; A Lively Conference; Rueful Conclusions; Gresford Colliery Disaster; Reports and Debate in Commons; The Prosecutions; Royal Commission on Safety; and Appendix: Principal Colliery Disasters 1914 - 1942. FOUR: THE WAGES CAMPAIGN: Before the Campaign; The Campaign; Action to Enforce Our Demand; The Commencement of Negotiations; The General Election; The Strike Ballot and its Result; Meetings with the Owners; Higher Prices for Coal; The Final Phase; Scarborough Annual Conference 1936; The Wages Problem 1936 - 1939; and Appendices: General Election 1935: Results of the Voting in Mining Areas; M.F.G.B. Statement to the Press - December 9 1935; Statement by the Government - December 19, 1935. FIVE: THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST COMPANY UNIONS: The Fascist Danger; The Struggle Against Spencerism; Past History of the Nottinghamshire Dispute; The Dispute at Harworth Colliery; Special Conference of January 20 1937; High-handed Action by the Police; The Delegates insist on a Ballot; Breaches of the Peace at Harworth; Repugnance to Fusion; Baldwin's Swan Song; Negotiations for Fusion; Harsh Prison Sentences; and Appendix: Terms for the Amalgamation in Nottinghamshire - May 26 1937. SIX: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM AND WAR: The Asturias Miners of Spain; Fascism and Spain; The International Brigade; Non-intervention; Non-intervention Denounced; Extraordinary Measures Demanded; The Resolution of the Special Conference; At the Miners' International; Spain and Ourselves; The Orphans of the Spanish Miners; The Miners Support China; Munich; Swansea Annual Conference July 3 1939; and Appendix: List of Resolutions Passed at the Swansea Annual Conference 1939. SEVEN: THIRTY MONTHS OF WAR: The First Effects of the War; A Cost of Living Formula; Output and Man-power; Blackpool Annual Conference 1940; The Growth of the Coal Crisis; M.F.G.B. Plans for the Coal Crisis; Compulsion over Mine-workers; The Attendance Bonus; Climacteric of the War; Nationalisation and/or Control; Non-Unionism; and Appendix: War Additions Agreement March 1940. EIGHT: THE GREENE BOARD: Set-backs at Home and Abroad; The White Paper of June 1942; A Wages Demand; The Award of June 18 1942; The Dual Control of the Industry; The Organisation of the Mining Unions; The Second Front - and India; Further Work of the Greene Board; Fifty Years of Conciliation; and Appendix: Appointment of Board of Investigation. NINE: THE DILEMMA OF DUAL CONTROL: The First Award - Boys' Wages; The Fall in Man-power and Output; Difficulties of Dual Control; A Critical Debate in Parliament; The Porter Award; The Four-year Agreement of Apri.