... done, you do well.—Mr. Holt: ! Other firms in the district have got their men otf, but they took them singly, while I took mine in a body.—Judge Mellor: No two cases ! are exactly identical and you don’t know all the facts that came out. —Mr. Hudson: ...

... The “combing out” process had been failure, for in tho mines of his area Lancashire 5,000 unmarried men between 18 and 41 bad sought refuge from, military service, though they bad never been in a mine in their lives before, and not one had been combed out ...

... value one may judge from spirit tone of the great conf rence repre-1 elsewhere By tradition No 10 Downing- sentatives of the mining industry which Jlr Asquith addressed this afternoon anxiety by the Government regard to production of coal will soon be removed ...

... shed their eligible* except few ca«e*. even when they have experience got .1 pretty intimate knowledge the hooks. And t.he mines should yield the slightly skilled workers who have’ entered recently. should replaced by skilled miners from the front, War ...

... (From London Opinion) Although hot potato stands may do busmen after 8 p.m., the trade is at a stand at 1L Men who enter coal-mines in war time are surely pitting themselves against the war. The Government has been accused of pueil• lanimity in the mattes ...

... ever be—Where is a man most useful, If a men who happens to be a footballer is best meeting the necessities of the hour by mining coal, by working with skilled hands in metal, by doing heavy munition work which neither women nor, older men can perform ...

... But temptation is strong, and where the choice is between a duffer and a good man human nature usually triumphs. A friend mine tells the case of his own groom, a good horse master and good soldier, who has been for many months employed as groom by Commanding ...

... with vigorously, tut in district not a single person hail been gut out iho mines. He was told that his district there were 3.0C0 men between and 41 who wore escaping service the mines, and he believed the same thing applied other districts the Miners’ Federation ...

... with various important interests, has produced the impression that he has been appointed to arrange for the taking over the mines the State. whole question is present in the stage of consideration. The Government lias formulated no definite policy, but ...

... first ease taken was that in which Frank Wilmo (191, of Cecil Road. Eccles , . who co Friday was described as an assistant to a mine hall artiste. The Chief ConAable said the military authorities were under the impr..ssiou that the prisoner was serving with ...

... owners’ profits should frankly faced end courageously solved. That is an essential to any measure of success for Statecontrolled mines. There prevails throughout the Soufh Wales coalfield the belief that the owner* are making excessively large profits out of ...

... discipline is splendid. They behave always as gentlemen should behave, and they fight with fine hearts. These London boys of mine had one of the hardest tasks Friday, and they carried it through with a most gallant spirit.” MEETING WITH GAY GORDONS. Another ...