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THE COMB-OUT IN THE MINES

... Committee's scheme of Mining Mobility Bureaux. Under this scheme miners may be voluntarily removed from a district where work is slack to districts where miners are requited. was reported that the combing out of men who had entered the mines since the commencemant ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1917
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Miners and the Rew

... district and lodge meetings, demanding that the proposed:' strike ballot on the question of resistance to the new comb-out from mines for the Army, should at least be postponed pending a - further coalfield conference. It was decided by the Executive, however ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1917
Newspaper: Thomson's Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE SUOTSIffiH EDIN-BURGH j Saturday , April 21 , 1917 . Sux . jMoox ( Kevr , 3 . 1

... Conference in London on the question of the comb-out in mines expressed the opinion that the minimum of dislocation to trade could only be obtained by recruiting from those who had entered the mines since the outbreak of war . ( p . 10 . ) Ax Order in Council ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1917
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 626 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LLOYD GEORGE AND MAN-POWER

... LLOYD GEORGE AND MAN-POWER. COMB-OUT IN MINES 00 ON. The Daily Mail political c°r roS f 'fgin a deputation from the eTi waited on the Prime Minister 0> noon to discuss the result of Government's combing-out Cfi The delegates found 0 ■ greatly moved by ...

Published: Friday 22 March 1918
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A STRONG REPORT

... Anderson, considers the salient points of disaffection, an i decides how far he can go to meet them. THE COMB-OUT IN FIFE MINES. The registration of miners’between the ages of 16 end 65 is going in the Fife collieries, and arrangements are being made ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1918
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 461 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

in the Cathcart district. In the present great •ar Scotsmen are in the forefront in many of the must responsible

... householders will bring home to many the necessity of exercising . more careful control over supplies. The comb-out in the mines, tembined aid( the essential national requirements. are the causes for the proposed restrictions, but the curtailments which ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1918
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COMB-OUT OF ARMY FOR THE MINES

... from diluted labour that had entered the mines after the war was started—and these have been rejected for the present owing to the fact that the Miners' Federation will not agree to their employment in the coal mines. Of. the 10,000 applications which came ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1918
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 424 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MINERS' COMB-OUT

... likely supply of these—more than double our proper proportion. Their action does credit to the patriotism and spirit of our mining neighbours. ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1918
Newspaper: Fifeshire Advertiser
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COMB-OUT

... About one hundred thousand grade 1 men had been taken from munition works. call of fifty thousand men had been mad© the coal-mining industry, and another call of equal number would be made. The transport services had been called on to supply fit men, well ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1918
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 107 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE COMB-OUT VOTE

... THE COMB-OUT VOTE. The Lancashire and Cheshire miners' vote on the comb-out of 50,000 young men from the mines resulted:-— For 14,340 Against 30,369 ...

Published: Tuesday 19 March 1918
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 24 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Miners' Comb-Out

... conditions. Adequate safeguards will arranged as to permit of the • retention in the mines of persons who are con' sidered indispensable for the safe woxking of the ' mines. Applications for tlie renewal personal grounds the exemption withdrawn by the de ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1918
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COMBING OUT IN THE MINES

... COMBING OUT IN THE MINES. Mr John Robertson. President of the Scottish National Union of Mine Workers, addressing the Gartshore and District Miners at Croy, saTd that although nearly 300,000 men had gone from the mines to join the Army, the output of ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1917
Newspaper: Hamilton Advertiser
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 715 | Page: 4 | Tags: none