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Colliers” Comb-Out

... Colliers” Comb-Out. Events are moving rapidly in connection with a further comb-out of men from the coal mines. Fifty thousand are required from this source, and the Tribunals in this district have this week had before them some really pathetic cases ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1918
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Not to Resist the Comb-Out

... not showing a two-thirds majority, we recommend the conference to advise the men Dot 'AO resist taking 50,000 men from the mines for the rmy. ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Combed-out Miners

... black and white; and we do not agree with taking men on the border line of forty years, even if there has been a break in their mine work, while younger, unmarried men are allowed to continue in civil employment. { § v ] £ o 4 ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1917
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Combing Out from the Munlion Works

... the Minister to expain in detail the measures which are t be taken to * comb cut” young and fit wen frora munition works, mines, and railwavs. It should be recognised that there is no aiternative to this “ comb™ but the ruste of the millary age and a ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MINERS' COMB OUT. 1 - ——— - —— Federation Resolution At To-day’'s London Conference At a conference to-day in ..

... showing & two-thirds majority, we recommend the conference to advise the men not to resist tak. ins Gfty thoussnd men from the mines for the Y it HALIFAX BOROUGH COURT, _—— . TO-DAY. Before Sir George Fisher Smith (chairman) end Mr. W. C. Hebden, The Cha.rman’s ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 218 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A ’ r A CAPTIVE’'S THANKS MINERS' COMB OUT. I —_———— —— Federation Resolution FOR THE PRISONERS. e At To-day’s

... recommend Contributiors to *Guardian”™ Fund the conference to advise the men not to resist tak. ing fifty thoussnd men from the mines for the — A:imy.” - Appreximate Gest per Wask ..£420 pa;/iFAX BOROUGH COURT Parcels sent par Fortnignt .. 1,860 e R . Just ...

Published: Friday 22 March 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 481 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Single Men in Coal Mines,

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1917
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 378 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The Coal Shortage

... columns of the Graphic,” we called attention to a probable coal shortage, and emphasised the fact that too many men from the mines had already been called to the colours, and to take more would be suicidal. What we said last Spring is now being said by the ...

Published: Friday 13 September 1918
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONSCRI!PTION TO BE EXTENDED TO IRELAND

... Service of fit men Below 25 years of age, and a * comb-out ™’ beyond that age. Fitty thousand more men to be taken from the mines. Fssential industries to be ‘“very gricdy” combed. Trmsi:;:: services to release ghe greates: possible num of picked men. his ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CURRENT TOPICS

... what begins to appear as the irreducible minimum. It is now stated that many miners are to be sent_from the Army back to the mines, but how true it is we cannot say. We do know, however, that in the local districts of the Warwickshire coalfield there is ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1918
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 886 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SLE Vil Red Cross,

... AND THE COMB-OUT. The Bristol miners, voting by ballot, have decided to support the proposal to comb out 50,000 men from the mines, A TWO-MILLION SUBSCRIBER. The Trafalgar Square tank raises its total from £500,00 to xo,ouu,ob, an anonymous subscriber c ...

Published: Friday 08 March 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: 3 | Tags: none