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... civil employment, taking due account of all other possible measures for carrying the work which is being done by him.” ALL MINES TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ARMY. TRIBUNAL’S STRONG DEMAND FOR COMB-OUT. The further comb-out ...
... at the adjourned Conference the 26th inst. shonld move that the miners take part in recruiting from the mines untjl all men who entered the mines since the beginning of tho war have been combed out. ...
... 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 ...
... The adioarMd conference Sonth Wales miners delegates, held Cardiff yesterday, consider farther the question combing out the mines, decided a large majority to accept the recommendation of the Miners’ Federation Great Britain— namely, that in calling men ...
... conditions. Adequate safeguards will arranged, so as to permit of the retention in the mines of persons who are considered indispensable tor the safe working of the mines. Applications for the renewal personal grounds tiie exemption withdrawn the Decertification ...
... Miners’ Federation, which met in London jesterdaj receive the result of the ballot on the question of taking oat of the coal mines a further 50,000 men for military service, was faced with a difficulty its own creation. The men have declared plurality of ...
... 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 ...
... within those ages men employed in the production of steel, in the occupations covered the trade card scheme and in agriculture, mines and quarries, railway shops, transport work, and shipyards. COMBING OUT THE COLLIERIES The South Wales Miners’ Executive Onuncil ...
... ballot not showing twothints majority recommend the conference to advise the men not resist the taking 50,000 men from the mines for the Army. Previous the passing of the resolution Mr. Smillie informed the delegates that the committee’s interview with ...
... the collieries in the South Staffordshire and Bast Worcestershire area for the purpose examining men who have entered the mines August, 1915. Quite 85 per cent of those examined have, it is stated, been found fit for active service. The bulk the men op ...
... 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 ...
... impossible for anyone who knows nothing about miners to state truthfully that the loss created by taking so many from the mines has been compensated for by those who been' allowed to remain and those who have been sent back to the collieries.” , Mr. Winston© ...