... was. Mr. Thomas said he did not know. Appeal dismissed. The military' representative criticised the methods of comb-out of mines, saying ■ could not understand what those responsible could bo thinking about Simply because men happened have been working ...

... think that as yet there had neon' a !utile:dent response on the part of the trade. I coma Nor FirsouT 'THE COMB-OUT IN THE MINES. Young Man Question Again Before Stoke Tribunal. Lieut. Cowlishaw's Statement. Acoilier applying fox oataiption on personal ...

... case wns that of a married man, with one child, who had only worked in the mine about four months. He claimed that ke was in a certified trade, and had worked in the coal mining industry before the war, but had to leave owing to his health snffering. He ...

... thought of more am to the country in ths mine than M the Army. He was one of the most perienced motors in Warwickshire. and had worked for them 30 years. and his father 40 years. He could do any kind of work in the mines, and was really a most valuable , man ...

... Single Men in Coal Mines, | At Monday night's sitting of Bulkington Military Tribunal a local publican named Josiah Sewell (34), married, appealed for exemption. He stated that he had been 3 miner practically the whole of his life. Mr. P. Dewis said he ...

... FRENCH CRUISER MINED ‘Sunk Off Brest with Loss of 38 Lives ‘CAPTAIN ON BRIDGE TILL LAST ] Paris, Friday (received Sunday). The French cruiser Kleber, from Dakar for Brest, struck a mine on the morning of June 27 off CaEe St. Mathieu (near Brest) and sank ...

... At the rriment time, this m•n had a doctcr's bill of fifteen guineas to pay. He was a collier before the war, and left the mine on account of ill-health. He had again been working in the pit, but had been combed out with that history What this man said ...

... COMBING OUT THE MINE! At @ meeting of the Western Miners’ at on the agents reported that it was to comb out mimers between 19 and 25 who were in Class A. -ubject to certain conditions approved the inchiding consideration of the mumber the family eerving ...

... PEACE. IMPORTANT ACTION BY SOUTH WALES. A LABOUR REFERENDUM. The scheme of recruitment of miners for the army, approved by the Mining Association of Great Britain and the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, was considered yesterday hy the South Wales Miners' ...

... Derbyshire Colliery Recruiting Court sat at rher-terlicld today, under the cDairmanship Mr. H. A. Abbott, lI.M. Inspector Mines. About thirty appeal* uere heard from mitten who had been combed out the ground that they had entered the pit since the outbreak ...

... proiessional foot! years, afterwards returning to the pit, where e had worked since. The Chairman (Mr H. A. Abbo! bly have Mines Inspector): You would proba remained a footballer if professionalism had not been stopped? elwavs an ahout it. Applicant: \ ...

... It was most important work was engaged on—repairing tube—and especially so now, when there was comb-out of young men in the mines, was it imperative that the older men slmuld keen to their work. Defendant had been before Colliery Court several times, and ...