... GOVERNMENT AND WELSH MINES. The *‘ Combing- out Process. COALOWNERS AND THE FOoIXiON. The members of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coaiowners’ Association isaUtri statement regarumg tue comb-out in tne Uk.>:i mines, declare mat tneir request ior uetween ...

... to the districts regarding the modified scheme recruiting. The president further reported that the ‘‘combing out” from th© mines men who had gone into them since August, 1914. was to proceeded with vigorously, and completed before the new scheme took effect ...

... you in faymr a down tools policy in South Wales the event of the Government proceeding with their combing-out scheme in the mines? There was also a long discussion on the position of miners in regard income-tax, and the conferenco decided in favour of the ...

... rights. MINERS AND THE COMB-OUT. The Durham Ifullot rraulted aa follows: Shall Miners' of Grsat Bnbsui agrro to the fifty from mine* i-'r mililarj - service? f'*r .X3.&76 27,178 If m Che Vce u«td for the purpose finding Ui© reipiired ...

... to passed resolution in favour of taking ij , h°lo co»-Ufield as to what action should be taken any men are taken from the mines, contrary iho resolution passed earlier tho lay. The peace resolution, which aims at getting oiganised labour ;n nil belligerent ...

... the'adjourned confererice on 26th inst. should move that the miners take no part in recruiting from the mines until all men who entered the mines since the beginning of the war have been combed out. RELEASED FROM THE ARMY. 20)000 Men fop Shipyards. A ...

... Medical Board visited Poutyprkid and examined nearly one hundred men employed at the Maritime Colliery who have entered the mine since August, 1915. It was staled that a good percentage of tne men were passed for general service. Later in the day about ...

... committee, placed before the Prima Minister the result of the oallot just taken on the question of supplying- 50,000 men from the mines for military service. The figures were as follow; For the comb-out 221,152 Against the comb-out . 250,722 Majority against ...

... the Allies to throw into the defence every available man. This meant a sharp combing out all round, including the coal mines, which yielded, a further 75,000 men. And so the menace was averted, and the tide of battle ultimately turned, bat not before ...

... rimc MiSf J his straight t, the miners i enuaH-.-Tr. phoable to the engineers. It is proposed to tafc, S 0,0(» men from the mines, and maioritv voted against the. comb out, hut, «nl,»»h that trade conld claim a privileged no-itrio The men who are to taken ...

... pushing the have now headquarters established a point miles stream, enemy has retired point about miles where hits blot and mined the river. The defeat suffered by him September 14th wa» very complete. Four were sunk, Iwo hundred men were killed, wounded ...

... Wales Coalfield on the scheme agrsed upon between the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain and Governm nt for the out frrm mines young unmarried men between eighteen and twenty-five The form of baHct paper was agreed to a meeting the Executive Coa oil ...