... particular Mr. Bevin instances shipbuilding as an industry where a large number of women could fill the places of young men. Coal mining he hopes to leave for some months, at any rate, untouched by such comb-out as it underwent in the latter part of the last ...

... minimum figure of 720.000 men in the mines would have to maintained. It is clear that voluntary recruitment will not of itself produce the numbers required. It will now be necessary to call up men for the coal mines in the same way as for the armed Forces ...

... all appearance, is generally accepted. How, then, do Mr. Bevin’s proposals bear upon the coal-mining situation ? He is proposing to take more men from the mines. To be precise, he is proposing to raise (by three years) the reservation age for coal hewers ...

... or 2.7 per cent.; 12,586 in shipbuilding, or 7.6 per cent.; and 50,570 in the mining industry, or 6.9 per cent. Employers and trade unions were co-operating in the mining industry to arrange for the transfer of men if they could not be absorbed locally ...

... before the war, had mobilised all their man-power, and this was a challenge to as a democracy. We had idle men and idle land, mines and factories. There was a shortage of shipbuilding workers in some places, but in others there were men and yards not being ...

... ASSESSORS TO ADVISE ON CALL-UP QUESTION Proposals for the future of the coal-mining industry were discussed by the National Executive of the Mineworkers Federation in London yesterday. The Secretary for Alines (Air. D. R. Grenfell) gave a confidential ...

... MORE CIVIC CENTRE IDEAS CALL-UP OF MEN IN INDUSTRIES FOR FORCES, MINES AND MERCHANT NAVY With a view to providing men for the Forces, coal mining and the Merchant Navy (the Ministry of Labour and National Service announces) the Government has decided ...

... to him. We were told that there were some owners who obstructed the workings of the best seams to prolong the life of their mines after the war. Not in one single case has this charge been made good. The Minister is perfectly free to make example in any ...

... that for farming any sort of labour will do? Or is he prepared to apply to farming the principle he has already applied coal-mining and engineering When he comes to look over his combed-out industrial material, will he be prepared to seek for men w ho were ...

... be produced. It was the unanimous desire of all in the House that men should be released from the Services to work in the mines. Also, far too many miners at present were working in the factories. ...