RESTRICTIONS ON BRITISH MINERS MAY BE ENDED
(11 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 2. Threatened with a new man-power crisis in the mining industry, the Government is considering the removal of the restriction which ties a man to pits from the time he has completed his initial three months’ training until he is 50. Mining experts have suggested that this restriction deters young men wno might otherwise become coal miners. The situation is being examined by the Ministry of Fuel and Power. Befoie the war there were 778,000 workers in the British mines and now there are 709,000-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23092, 3 November 1949, Page 5
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96RESTRICTIONS ON BRITISH MINERS MAY BE ENDED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23092, 3 November 1949, Page 5
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