Labour Strife in the South Wales Coalfield, 1910-1911: A Historical and Critical Record of the Mid-Rhondda, Aberdare Valley and Other Strikes

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Educational Publishing Company, 1911 - Coal miners - 257 pages

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Page 39 - A person, who willfully and maliciously, either alone or in combination with others, breaks a contract of service or hiring, knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, that the probable consequence of his so doing will be to endanger human life, or to cause grievous bodily injury, or to expose valuable property to destruction or serious injury, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 39 - Where any person wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
Page 233 - That the Federation take immediate steps to secure an individual District Minimum Wage for all men and boys working in mines in the area of the Federation without any reference to the working places being abnormal. In the event of the employers refusing to agree to this then the amended aist Rule of the Federation be put into operation to demand the same.
Page 44 - Their best friends here are greatly distressed at the trouble which has broken out, and will do their best to help them to get fair treatment. Askwith, Board of Trade, wishes to see Mr. Watts Morgan with six or eight local representatives at Board of Trade, two o'clock to-morrow (Wednesday).
Page 43 - All the Cambrian collieries menaced last night. The Llwynypia Colliery savagely attacked by large crowd of strikers. Many casualties on both sides. Am expecting two companies of infantry and 200 cavalry today. Very little accommodation for police or soldiers. Position grave. Will wire again. — Lindsay Chief Constable of...
Page 218 - ... hereinafter described. The cutting prices to be paid to the collier shall be the several standard prices prevailing and paid at the collieries of the owners respectively. Such standard cutting price shall be paid upon the weight of the large coal, to be ascertained in manner hereinafter appearing, and includes all services in respect of the small coal necessarily produced in filling the large coal, in conveying it from the working places to the screen at the surface, and in the process of screening;...
Page 44 - But rioting must cease at once, so that the enquiry shall not be prejudiced, and to prevent the credit of the Rhondda Valley being injured. Confiding in the good sense of the Cambrian Combine workmen we are holding back the soldiers for the present, and sending police instead.
Page 169 - make common cause with the workmen, by declaring a general stoppage throughout the Federation, for the purpose of securing for all colliery workmen a definite guaranteed minimum wage...
Page 115 - Subject as aforesaid the Owners and Workmen at the respective Collieries shall be bound to observe and fulfil and shall be subject to all customs, provisions and conditions existing in December, 1899, at the Collieries respectively, and no variation shall be made therein by the Owners or workmen except by mutual arrangement at the Collieries respectively, or by a decision of the Board after a reference thereto in accordance with the provisions of Clause 5 of any proposal for a variation.
Page 26 - I would like to say that if there is going to be blacklegging over this, there is going to be murder. By God, I mean it!

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