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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

MINES*’ rOMB-OUF

... ition of these men being thit all men of age whbd bave entered Id be combed out mines since Aug., 191, Mr. Herbert Smith, of it of the Miners’ Federation and a of the Mines’ Control Board, attended stati the metting, and read a te! from Gen. Geddes the ...

Published: Monday 13 August 1917
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

COMBING OCT THE MINES

... COMBING OUT THE MINES conference of delegates from alj the coalfields was held m yesterday to discuss recruiting and the combing cut of the miners ment, sgroement Te recentl: st wit the ‘crence we entil late in the aftermoon and ‘adjourned until to- “AT ...

Published: Friday 20 April 1917
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CORNISH & OTHER MINING NOTES

... Aitken, mining and . mechanical engineers, specialists in wolfram and tin mining. '1 he Lon°n representative of the firm is Mr. O. J. Stan- M.lnst.M.M., 65, London-wall, E.C. —The lining News (London). The latest report from the Basset mines shows 4 ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1917
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1281 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SOUTH WALES MINERS

... question voted on was whether a strike should be declared if the Government proceeded to comb-out all men who have entered the mines since August, 1914, and in the event of the South Wales quota of 4,000 men asked by the War Office not being obtained in that ...

WELSH

... question, as against favour. Yesterday practically all the Welsh pits producing Admiralty coal wer9 at work, notwithstanding the mine examiners' strike. ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1917
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE MINERS' COMB

... coalfield the Schema agreed upon between the Miners' Federation of Great Britain and the Government for the combing out from mines of young unmarried men between 18 and 25. The ballot was fixed for August 22 and 23. The question recruiting at collieries ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1917
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

South Wales Miners to Take a Ballot

... Executive have made arrangements for taking a ballot the coalfield scheme for the combing out young unmarried miners from the mines. ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1917
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 32 | Page: 4 | 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