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Dean Forest Miners and the Comb Out

... Comb Out. MEETING AT CINDERFORD. A further meeting of miners in connection with the combing out of young men from the mines was held Cinderofrd on Monday. Mr. M. H. Perkins, ex-President of the Miners Association, presided, and was supported by the ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1917
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LOCAL SITUATION

... being agin the Government inded It is not as though they were in vet ed on company, for there is good grounds for b that the Mine Federation of Great Brit fences hold on to their compact to heip the | being wet the number of men asked for, and f Dis- Sergt ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1917
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 791 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DEAN FOREST MINERS AND THE

... rect lated hear). He pointed out The authorities had been unable to get the men asked for out of the mines from thos COrge who had rushed to the mines to escape arner ment, because of the fact that so many of elves Mr. were either too old or physically ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1917
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Drybrook

... against stone wall to bear it in mind that every man was a soldier by law and the military would have their quota from the, mines. Of the new hands who had been taken on since 1913 only 30 per cent, were eligible for the army. It having been ascertained ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1917
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Galling up the Halt and the Blind

... aggravated wv the | 7 knowledge that these unfit and prey iously _ our | young unmarried men are skulking in n cither factories, mines, and in Government ments. These shirkers- for no cligible your should accept the protection of a badge | able to fight--are ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1917
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SljiutStrrs|i«(£ci)o

... Great Britain ''here “Pacifist” ideas were supposed be uppermost among any considerable body working men 'fas the South Wales mining district. The anti-patriotic party had captured the leadership of the miners organisation there, and having got their hands ...

Published: Tuesday 06 November 1917
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 402 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DRYBROOK

... heads nst a stone wall, to bear it in mind that every man wjis soldier law and the mil it ary would have their quota from the mines. Of the new hands who had been taken since only per cent, were eligible for the army. having been ascer.ained that at a meeting ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1917
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 362 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALIEN SOLDIERS

... after member rose his experience or tho working of medical boards. Late m the sitting Mr. Clom the Liberal member for a Welsh mining division, broke in with an argu*. tut adding to. not subtracting from, our man-power in the field. He called attention to ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1917
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 781 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE WATCH TOWER.—A Weekly Survey of Current Events

... any case be insufficient, and therefore expedient which is being adopted is to comb-out the Governing. Departments, the mines, the teaching profession and the cultural industry. But the intake from these sources is also scope. The funk-holes the Civil ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1917
Newspaper: Cheltenham Looker-On
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2414 | Page: 6 | Tags: none