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RESERVATION COMB-OUT

... over military age and of women will help in providing the substitutes. Special treatment is provided for agriculture and coal mining, so as to retain their present man - power until the early winter. All women in certain occupations. including the laundry ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1941
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 159 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEW COMB-OUT OF INDUSTRY I''HERE is to be a new A comb-out of industry to provide men for the Forces, coal ..

... NEW COMB-OUT OF INDUSTRY I''HERE is to be a new A comb-out of industry to provide men for the Forces, coal-mining, and the Merchant Navy. The Ministry of Labour and National Service announces that in future deferment cannot be allowed for men in certain ...

Published: Tuesday 22 February 1944
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Over Mines

... Over Mines made it plain that they thought he had been “done down,” that forces in the Cabinet had more or less dictated his colourless speech. Opening the debate Major Lieyd George said one heard a good deal of ill-informed talk about mining. If he defended ...

Published: Wednesday 13 October 1943
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1041 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NINE DIED IN `MINED' SHIP MYSTERY

... NINE DIED IN `MINED' SHIP MYSTERY F IRST reported to be carrying a cargo of slag and to have struck a mine, the British steamer Viceroy, 824 tons, which blew up off the Belgian coast yesterday, was later said to have had a cargo of ammunition. She was ...

Published: Sunday 13 April 1947
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1284 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MINE DETECTORS IN PALESTINE HOUSE SEARCHES: The British Army's New Technique in the Combing of Suspected Areas

... reported to be using mine detectors on an extensive scale, and in the settlement of Rehovoth, not far from the home of Dr. Weizmann, the Sappers discovered in a deserted house two pistols, 255 rounds of ammunition, and three road mines. In itself this was ...

Published: Saturday 25 January 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 391 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

What's the Remedy?

... ones must be shamed to stop absenteeism. The public must economise more. Yes, such talk is easy. But until the mines are reorganised and the mine owners made to co-operate with the men, there will be suspicion and resentment. And, consequently. less coal ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: John Bull
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CARELESS BOSSES TO GET SHOCK

... offictal E word’to those who write detatls issued yesterday of the in- anonymous Ictters asking for vestigation in the coal mining and action. dustry. i it ts a waste of time to post them. must gire thetr There the present position fs tm sorne districts ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Midnight

... last night decided to call in War Office help in their search for the weapon which killed Leonard Warrens in Putney. S.W. Mine detectors will be used today new comb-out of the allotment in WesUelgh-avenue, near which the body Warrens, shot twice through ...

Published: Tuesday 20 August 1946
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 135 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

'KEEP MEN FOR THE PITS'

... available for present and future coal trade needs has been reduced to ‘danger point.” This is what Mr. D. R. Grenfell. Minister of Mines, was told when he met representatives of owners and workmen at Cardiff yesterday. An official statement said: It was pointed ...

Published: Tuesday 25 February 1941
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Civil Defence and the Call-Up

... Blamed flr soldiers are culty in getting a taxi in London as a letter reeenUy get.tvd may I say that some A.T.S. friend , of mine make im:lar complaints so as _ . . netting is concerned. When entering a well-known ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1941
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 224 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Telling Employers

... s are not announced, but it is stated that occupations which are covered b: special schemes—such as the cultural and coal-mining industries —remain unaffected by the new de- cision. The comb-out 1s stage in the movement of men of military age out of all ...

Published: Friday 07 November 1941
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 4 | Tags: none