... raising the blockade some arrangements may lie possible to relieve the immediate of the poorer classes of the poi>ulstion. MINES “COMB-OUT.” Federation and Home Office. (BY oril PRIVATE WIRE Until late hour night members the Executive the Miners’ Federation ...

... nulitary recruiting within j ages, men employed the steel, in t|u‘ occupations covered bv the Trades Card Scheme, and j ture, mines, and quarries, railway shops. I transport work, ann shipyards. evelop into rea.. will tone up the rciistive powers against ...

... Yorkshire Mineritouncil The Council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, at Barnsley on Monday, dis,eussed the proposals affecting mine workers in relation to military service. Mr. Berbert Smith tpresident) said as an Association they they should have been !consulted ...

... out of men employed in and about the mines for military service. Sir George Cave, in Ins reply, informed the deputation that the Government had come tho conclusion that a further 20,000 men could taken from the mining industry for active military service ...

... the provence of the latter class which is resented the other workmen employed in the mining ln the present coiubingout process it has been suggested that the coal-mining industry might give 20,000 farther men the Army, and the naturaj course lias been taken ...

... 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 ...

... hursdav. The attack was made on Iront two. kilometres, and the fighting was extremely fierce. Favoured the explosion of several mines, the enemy succeeded penetrating our works in tlie’lirst line, hut the machineguns reinforcing the. light artillery, they executed ...

... yrstercUj welted upos the Home Secretary (Sir George Care* at the Bom# Oftic*. with teierecco the combing out of men and about the mines for military tcrTio©, Tfie interview the question combing out s the request tile Home Secra. tary. who dodrcftiF full understand>ng ...

... association,” said Air. Smit! think that surfacemen have been combed out a fe much as possible, and care should taken to see that'mines are not interfered with these men being taken away.” resolution was passed asking the Miners' Federation to persist in their ...

... meeting of the Council the York* shire Miners' Association was held at Bornsley, . Saturday. The recent propivuU relating to mine workers and military service wore discussed, and Mr. I H. Smith president), who occupied the cbair, said the were g'.ad heat ...

... the Courts ahall held some place fwa? from the mine, convenient the workmen. Passers off Mananara f2) The action certain managers requiring men hand their certificates of exemption to the management the mine was unauthorised. Mon attending before the Colliery ...

... shall be held some place away from the mine, convenient to the workmen. Powers Managers. (2) The action of certain managers in requiring men to hand their certificates of exemption to tho management of the mine was unauthorised. Men attending before the ...