... COLLIERS IN WESTPHALIA. An official report upon the strike of the coal minert in Westphalia contains some details which will be of interest to this district. The claims made by the men were as follows :— Increase of w ages and contracts to all minen of ...

... this manncr-it has also become one of the great sources of consumption of coal. H-ence, although the number of coal miners is not so great as the number of workmen employed in some other industries, yet it is perhaps the most imnportant of any. And more ...

... no mcessnty that the colliers should perform their washing with such barbarous publicity. In most cottages there are at least two, and often three rooms on the ground floor of their h-uses, but if they had three times the number of rooms many of them ...

... f colliery Ilabouir, andi any cesstionfromworkby ven a, 0oisiiterable number, of colliers boas not, therefore, been macis felt. 'Thle toasters are resolved t neot to (employ, collier's who belong to tbe union, antI ?? is thle great cause of con'tenition ...

... MEETING OF COLLIERS. On Monday one of the largest meetings of colliers which has ever been held in any part of the country took place at Darnsley. To make the demonstration in every way imposing, special trains were run from various parts of South Yorkshire ...

... A PUBLIC MEDTING of Colliers was held at Andley, on Friday, at the Bull's Head, when a good number of Colliers were present, who were highly delighted with the addresses of Messrs. Swallow and Lomax. A PUBLIC MEETinG of Colliers was held In the Cheadle ...

... INTIMIDATION BY COLLIERS ON STRIKE. On Monday afternoon, the vilage of Esbro Dale, situated about 20 miles from Barnsley, was in a very highly excited state, owing to the introduction of a number of men from a distance, who came by railway, as was supposed ...

... WITH THE COLLIERS IN THE MIDLANDS. (FROM A DAILY NEWS CORRESPONDENT.) The term I ?? War, first applied to lhb colliers' strike in a figurative sense, has grown into a stern reality. The Midlands are a vast military caump, even London centibuting her ...

... THE ENTOMBED COLLIERS. Cardiff, Friday night.— A telegram, dated half-past four, from Forth, contains the welcome intelligence that the entombed colliers have been rescued, and are now at the pit’s mouth. A hole was made this morning, when a man got through ...

... TIHE STAFFORDSHIRE COLLIERS. - s r I . I I1 _eA IP - S A 1- A rt WE are sorry to find that the strike of colliers ski in South Staffnrdshlre is by no means at an end. wo On the contrary, it has assumed a more virulent at form, and is now accompanied by ...

... require enlightenment as to the phrase Colliers' Tub.' The tub in ques- tion has been much written about because of the too frequent opportunity which it gave of study- ing the nude during a walk down some colliers' row on a fine summer evening aboul6 or ...

... VAST PLOODS IN XORPOLK. ItNtUNDATION OF THOus.'NIDs OF ACS.ES OF LAND.- During the last few days, the bantis of tie Rivers-Wen- sum, Yare, Waveney, and Bure have overflowed, and laid Isnder ,Tvter vast tracts of meadow and arable land, sweeping asay ttackp ...