BRITISH COAL MINERS
, RUGBY, April 29. The Secretary for Mines (Mr. D. R. Grenfell) told the House of Commons that a certain number of men serving in the Army in the British Isles were now being released to return to the coal mines. _ I't was hoped to secure a further increase m manpower by the return to mining of a number of former miners employed in other industries. Fifteen hundred miners at Gresford colliery. North Wales, struck because steel props have replaced wooden ones, which tare difficult to obtain. The miners . assert that steel props take longer to fix in position, resulting in a reduction in earning capacity on tonnage rates.
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Grey River Argus, 2 May 1942, Page 1
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