We have a colliery in the same district where the men have been receiving unemployment benefit for 13 weeks.
We want information as to the position of the whole of the collieries.
There is hardly a colliery company in the country that is not working at least one day a week short, entirely due to this reason.
The colliery company have a gang of men at work on temporary remedial measures, and there appears to be no danger to life.
Government had originally proposed to simply extend the jurisdiction of colliery regulation to the non-ferrous sectors, as they had done previously with ironstone, rather than enact fresh legislation.
In the old days, an individual miner could save a few dollars, lease an outcrop from a landowner, drive his own drift, and become a colliery operator.
Roseman argues that the colliery managers were restrained mainly by the political priorities of the mines' central co-ordination board.
A self-taught artist, who worked in a colliery for only a short period, his experiences there were seared indelibly on his memory.
