... Colliers” Comb-Out. Events are moving rapidly in connection with a further comb-out of men from the coal mines. Fifty thousand are required from this source, and the Tribunals in this district have this week had before them some really pathetic cases ...

... black and white; and we do not agree with taking men on the border line of forty years, even if there has been a break in their mine work, while younger, unmarried men are allowed to continue in civil employment. { § v ] £ o 4 ...

... Single Men in Coal Mines, | At Monday night's sitting of Bulkington Military Tribunal a local publican named Josiah Sewell (34), married, appealed for exemption. He stated that he had been 3 miner practically the whole of his life. Mr. P. Dewis said he ...

... columns of the Graphic,” we called attention to a probable coal shortage, and emphasised the fact that too many men from the mines had already been called to the colours, and to take more would be suicidal. What we said last Spring is now being said by the ...

... what begins to appear as the irreducible minimum. It is now stated that many miners are to be sent_from the Army back to the mines, but how true it is we cannot say. We do know, however, that in the local districts of the Warwickshire coalfield there is ...

... economise their own consumption and increase their output. Some of them believed in State control or ownership of the coal mines; and it was their duty to show that under Btate control a miner put more heart into his work and got out a larger quantity ...

... further combing-out, we come to the conclusion that those who are making it are hardly acquainted with the industry of coal-mining. Time was when the miner was the most despised of any class of worker, but in the past generation he has come in for some ...

... mumber of men from the mines, The Miners’ Fe«lfiralion’ol Great Britain held a ballot on these ‘proposals. They eubmitted two Questions to theip members: (1) Shall the Miners' Federation azree to the withdrawal of 50000 men from the mines for military service ...

... reserved disposition. They are so very soon dead—and so thoroughly, too. Blasting operations have been successful in a new ore mine in Cornwall. Unable to buy a box of matches the other day a man in a tobacconist’s shop tried similar operations, but without ...

... terrible price to the enemy. In June, the capture of the Messines Ridzes by General Plumer, after the explosion of a series of mines on an enormous scale, finally removed the German threat to Ypres. This made possible an important attack on the high ground ...

... which have been made, and when I see sug- Blown in the air on ground where it was gcstions to the contrary, there is nobody mined; more indignant than I, sitting Were on the Bombed iron their dug-outs, caught on every watch tower. This is the only country ...