... 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 ...

... caiting-up period from 14 to 7-days. Further comb-out of essential more including the taking of Civil Service. men from the mines, 2 md of the and Tribunals to be reconstituted. ...

... COLLIERY WARNING. The situation as now exists over the mining districts Britain one which demands the closest attention of all persons proceeding below ground. Escapes of firedamp from the strata even in small quantities, should be carefully observed ...

... to work for entered the mines since 1914 practically nothing, just as much as the miner who has served his time.” “LG.-P. argument is not very logical. There is not much patriotism on the part of such men who rush into the mines, and sti there in the face ...

... of Sacrifice Sir,—There is a great deal of talk about the combing out of men eligible for the Army from munition factories, mines, ete. ow, sir, we are all expected to be making some kind of sacri- fice in this great crisis, and while this combing out business ...

... combing out Against . . Northumberland miners hate voted in favonr of the Government's proposals to comb 50,000 men from the mines. . A mass meeting of engineers at Newcastle, on Saturday, adopted the delegates' report on the Government's modified Man-Power ...

... Medical Board visited Ponty- pridd, and examined nearly a hundred men employed at the Maritime Colliery Lies who have entered the mine since August, It was stafed that a good percentage of the men were passed for general service. Later iu the day about 150 cligibles ...

... Government. MINERS’ “COMB OUT” VOTE. majority 52,615 Welsh miners have voted favour of the comb-out of military eligibles from the mines. TEXTILE WORKERS’ WAGES. \SED PAY FOR WEST RIDING INUi p ER ATIVES. nw-ird issued the result of an arbitrar the West Riding ...

... Bradbury. The honeymoon win spent in North Wales. EXTENSION OF COMB-OUT HOPE ABANDONED. Nineteen Lives Sacrificed in a Scottish Mine. Water and moss having, according to j latest nows, filled the workings the re' suit of the Airdrie (Lanarkshire) Colliery ...

... presenca of the latter class which is resen- ted by the other workmen employed in the mining In the present combing- out process it has been suggested that the coal-mining industr might give 20,000 further men to the Army, and the natural course has heen ...

... Matter for Coal Experts. In any case the time in which the Allies rould get the mines effectively to work again will depend very much upon their own P rations. In this regard it is to be ho peal that the Allied high command have conferred with coal experts ...

... premises—wmch they had protested against for a considerable time in the county—and also that surfacemen who had worked the mines previous to August, 1915. had, at the request of the Miners’ Federation, been granted two months’ extension before being called ...