... 000 damages for coal ripper Arm caught between roller and belt Yorkshire Post reporters Mr. Justice Pilcher awarded damages of £2,000 and costs at ths Yorkshire Summer Assizes in Leeds yesterday, John Worthington (42), coal ripper. Third Avenue, Woodlands ...

... or anyone who can help in the investigations, get in touch with Leeds City Police. Coal rippers’ strike ends From our Mexborough correspondent About 100 coal rippers who staged a strike at Barnburgh Main Colliery, near Mexborough, last Thursday over a price ...

... cent, of the total man-power of more than 3.000. Another 25 per cent, work at the face on other shifts, chiefly rippers and cutters. The rippers rip a way through the rock to the coal face and the cutters cut the coal loose In readiness for the shot-firing ...

... TWO FIT Two Mien were one fatally, Woolley Colliery, near last night. IHtul man was Ben .Marshall (39). ripper, lftarugh. About n»en working in the seam were withdrawn. The the pit was not affected. V.s. POWDER PLANT EXPLOSION explosion -.hook powder ...

... continue their unofficial strike. They will meet again on Sunday. The strike started on Tuesday, when about 100 coal fillers and rippers were involved hi a wages dispute. CORN LOUTH.—Wheat from 21s. 6d. to 225. per J™'' 1 -. grinding barley 255.. oats 235. to ...

... Street, Barnsley, against the National Coal Board. Davles claimed damages far burn In the small of his back while working as a ripper at Mitchell Main Colliery on December 2 last year The burn was caused alkaline fluid from a battery connected to the miner's ...

... idle at pit Silverwood Colliery, Rotherham, was again partly Idle yesterday because of a pay dispute Involving a number back rippers. About 500 men were not working The grievance Is over payment for men transferred to other work In the pit. A report is to ...

... arising out of an accident at Lofthouse Colliery (reported in The Yorkshire Post yesterday) in which Neville Senior, aged 41, ripper, of Walnut Avenue, Peacock Estate. Wakefield* was awarded £1,294 damages and costs, counsel appeared as follows: Mr. R. Withers ...

... Colliery strike ends After meeting, yesterday, 150 rippers at Kilnhurst Colliery, near Mexborough. who have been on strike for two days over a pay grievance, decided to resume work. More than 2,000 tons coal were lost because of the strike, the ninth ...

... work. France recharged and restemmed the hole after having tested for gas. He posted sentry and told a chargehand and other rippers that he was about to fire shot. Most unhappily soon as plaintiff coupled up the face end of the firing cable to the detonator ...

... Too much procrastination Referring to the recent strike over back shift work for rippers and other workers, the Yorkshire Miners’ president, Mr. J. R. Alwyn Machen, told me that miners were protesting about the delay of managements in dealing with these ...

... his voice. Out the pit, he operated a pneumatic drill factory and later worked a bricklayer'a labourer. He is training be a ripper the Prince Wales Colliery, and there are two things which please him—more mechanisation with fewer horses down the pit, and ...