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l-'OR MINE-SWEEPERS

... D.S.M. Christmas-box. Today have been warning shipping the war channel of mine* adrift: what with wind and sea, you can guess has been cold on deck. one allowed below when mines are about. Just at Christmas I had 36 hours on tho bridge. We've just got ...

NEW COMB AT MEN WHO HAVE ENTERED MINES SINCE WAR COMM . _ Further consideration was given tions of recruiting

... obtained from those gone to the mines since August, 1914. tive Committeo to report to a furtb®* ence.” . ,•> It was also decided to “recommend make arrangements with the empl°lf which volunteers may be obtained 11 mines to fell timber, prepare it. and ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1917
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE COST OF LIVING

... the comb-out. Down tools would only lead to disruption and anarchy, and he had the utmost contempt for those who entered the mines to escape military service. ...

Published: Tuesday 23 October 1917
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OPPOSITION STRONGEST IN WALE*

... are announced the Miners' Federation ballot question whether the Federation should agree to the withdrawal of men front the mines fur military service:— For the Against tlto Comb-out. Comb-out. Northumberland Miners . 14,083 8,349 Northumberland and Firemen ...

MINER AND KHAKI

... (miners’ official’s exemption bas resulted the extraordinary fact that the largest pitstead in Yorkshire, the Manvcrs Main Mines, with a daily output 5,000 tons, was set down yesterday by the men in order force a miners’ leader into the Army. The man in ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FREEDOM 01' ACTION TO DISTRICTS

... were from districts as the comb-out men from th© mines for military Mr. Robert Smillie, President, was the chair. wo© decided that the au national organisation should taka no part in tlte matter, each mining district being given freedom aoiicr. to decide ...

MINERS AND MAN-POWER

... Derbyshire Miners’ Association is against the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain agreeing the withdrawal of 50,000 men from the mines for military service, there a substantial majority in farour of using the Federation machinery for the purpose of finding the ...

Published: Tuesday 19 March 1918
Newspaper: Sheffield Evening Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

YORKSHIRE VOTE, ar ■

... sham attßmpt to comb out of the mine men who -entered since August, 1914. • . ■ - One largg colliery, Monckton Main, had stopped that day, the young men saying that they were determined that men who have entered the mine since August, 1914, should be combed ...

Published: Tuesday 07 August 1917
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 328 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EARL'S RESIDENCE ON FIRE

... have formation to recruiting -authorities for clearing been requested to co-operate in furnishing in- poet-war mep out of mines. Strawberries are in flower in the open ip ® ra ...

Published: Friday 22 February 1918
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

YORKSHIRE MINERS' QUESTIONS. Home Coals Trouble at South Kirkby and Hemsworth. More Recruits from the Mines. Mr ..

... YORKSHIRE MINERS' QUESTIONS. Home Coals Trouble at South Kirkby and Hemsworth. More Recruits from the Mines. Mr. H. Smith presided over a special naset- 1 • ing of the Council of the Yorkahire Miners' Association at Ba.rnaley on Tuesday. A vote of sympathy ...