... Yorkshire Mineritouncil The Council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, at Barnsley on Monday, dis,eussed the proposals affecting mine workers in relation to military service. Mr. Berbert Smith tpresident) said as an Association they they should have been !consulted ...

... 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 ...

... trongly urging that the men who have entered the mines during the war in order to evade military F.* , rvl ce should be combed out hciore any more of the young men who were regularly engaged in coal mining hetora the war, are taken for service with the ...

... in the chair, the man-power position was put before the Council, showing that 50,0400 more bona-fide mine workers were asked for from the coal mines of Great Britain. We were sorry to learn at headquarters, said Mr. Smith, 'that the 1914 comb-out was ...

... the powers that beought to take the names of men under military age employed in the mines since August, and that such men shoukl be called npnn to their practical mining experience prior to that time. branch grievances were dealt with, and in several cases ...

... the - under -side of the clean cut. and they .were not dealt with. There were also several cases of men combed out of the .mines and . now appealing on the ground of domestic hardship Three men fron't Grenoside claimed exempt ion on that ground, and when ...

... Miners Aseociation, at Bartv.ley on Friday. It was decided by a large majority that al men M miitary who had entered the mines ailice the 4th of Atignet, 1914, must Fe combed out, , i-re ,. pective cf mcdiral class:fi. cation, before and Coma-ride inembcr ...

... managers, under officials, (tepid lee. hauliers. putters. t MMlllerP, and drawers. Recruiting from men who hive en. tered the mines dance the outbreak of war will continue. - im — ilar report made to the. Northumberiaind Miner's Association. In the Castleford ...

... has suffered similarly. THE COMB IN THE MINE. * * 0 no more popular cry has been raised during the war—at any rate, since the death of the volontary recruiting systemthan the demand for the combing out of the mines and munition works. The munition works ...

... to work the following morning. Some of the men who hail entered the mine' during the war spoke of their position, and claimed that they were practical miners, haying worked in the mines (some of them' stated , for seventeen to twenty-fire years. It was ...

... Tank - ersley district. 'A Wortley farmer asked for the exemption of his son, who some time _ago left the farm to go into the .mine, and having been combed out returned to the farm. The Tribunal expressed disatisfaction with certain features of this case ...

... children, passed tor general service, who had also been combed out, hay- Mg been previously a footman before he went into the mine. was refused exemption. A Cumberworth mall, aged 27 years, passed 81, employed as a foreman a Denby Dale woollen will, appealed ...