... conditions. Adequate safeguards will arranged, so as to permit of the retention in the mines of persons who are considered indispensable tor the safe working of the mines. Applications for the renewal personal grounds tiie exemption withdrawn the Decertification ...

... Miners’ Federation, which met in London jesterdaj receive the result of the ballot on the question of taking oat of the coal mines a further 50,000 men for military service, was faced with a difficulty its own creation. The men have declared plurality of ...

... within those ages men employed in the production of steel, in the occupations covered the trade card scheme and in agriculture, mines and quarries, railway shops, transport work, and shipyards. COMBING OUT THE COLLIERIES The South Wales Miners’ Executive Onuncil ...

... ballot not showing twothints majority recommend the conference to advise the men not resist the taking 50,000 men from the mines for the Army. Previous the passing of the resolution Mr. Smillie informed the delegates that the committee’s interview with ...

... the collieries in the South Staffordshire and Bast Worcestershire area for the purpose examining men who have entered the mines August, 1915. Quite 85 per cent of those examined have, it is stated, been found fit for active service. The bulk the men op ...

... impossible for anyone who knows nothing about miners to state truthfully that the loss created by taking so many from the mines has been compensated for by those who been' allowed to remain and those who have been sent back to the collieries.” , Mr. Winston© ...

... as to provide that there shall be exempted classes; and, further, that all those men of military age who have entered the mining industry since the outbreak, of war and have been found medically fit and eligible should the first be combed out.” HONOUR ...

... conference the coal-mining industry, convened the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, will be held in London Thursday to consider the man-power proposals the Government. Under the last comb out further men were recruited from the mines, and Sir Auckland ...

... the history of the Mormon Church that that body has invested money outside the Church’s own interests. COMBING OUT IN THE MINES SOUTH WALES TO BALLOT DOWN TOOLS’' POLICY. The South Wales miners, in conference at Cardiff yesterday, declined to support ...

... certain the South Wales oollieriee owing a portion of the examiners and firemen not going work yesterday. the Controller of Coal Mines states that after protracted negotiations he obtained the consent of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners' Association ...

... unemployment benefit will be 20b. for the first eight weeks. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE MINES DRAINAGE COMMISSION. NEW RATE FOR TIPTON DISTRICT. meeting of the South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Commissioners at Dudley, yesterday, was decided that in accordance w ...

... ciallield on the scheme agreed upon between the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain and the Government for the combing out from mines of young unmarried men between the ages of 18 and 25. The form of ballot paper was agreed to at a meeting of the Executive ...