HOLIDAY GIVEN UP
BY BRITISH MINERS. TO INCREASE OUTPUT. (Received March 19, 5.5 p.m.) • RUGBY. March 18. A meeting of ten thousand coal miners employed by the Bolsover Colliery in Nottinghamshire unanimously agreed to forego a large part of their holidays in order to increase the British production of coal. The men agreed to a reduction of their Easter holidays by half,, and also to forego part of their summer holidays of one week, and also to work on alternate Saturdays. In return the colliery company guarantees that there will be no lowering of the basic wage rates during the war, and the men will receive the same amount from the summer holiday savings fund as if they had taken full holidays.
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Grey River Argus, 20 March 1940, Page 2
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