Transactions and results ... Leeds ... 1863 |
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accidents Act of Parliament agent Alexander McDonald amendment appointed Association attend Barnsley Bryan Smith butty bye-laws carried Chairman coal mines coalowners committee Conference coroners Corves Tons Cwt Darlaston David Thorp delegates district duty Edmonds education clauses employers employment evil examination Executive Council explosions fact Federal Council funds grievances Hards to boats Inspection Act inspector of mines ironstone John Towers labour liery loss Magistrates masters McDonald meeting miners Morton motties moved Name of Colliery National operation opinion owner paid Parliament pit banks Platts practical president proper proprietors Rawmarsh Richard Mitchell safety lamp Scotland seconded the motion secretary Slack from coal Softs to boats South Staffordshire South Yorkshire special rules sub-inspectors Thomas Hickman tion truck system tubs union ventilation viewer W. H. Miller wages Wales Warren Vale Warren Vale Colliery weeks weighing clause weighman workmen
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第 131 頁 - Majesty, it shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or in Ireland for the...
第 128 頁 - An adequate amount of ventilation shall be constantly produced in every mine to dilute and render harmless noxious gases to such an extent that the working places of the shafts, levels, stables, and workings of the mine, and the travelling roads to and from those working places shall be in a fit state for working and passing therein.
第 vi 頁 - many colliers, coal-heavers, and salters, are in a state of slavery or bondage, bound to the collieries and salt works, where they work for life, transferable with the collieries and salt works when their original masters have no use for them...
第 xii 頁 - ... course ; and then diminished production and profits are inevitable. Reduction of toil, and consequent improved bodily health, increases production in the sense of profit ; and limits it so as to avoid overstocking ; better wages induce better habits, and economy of working follows. . . . The evil of overtoil and .over-supply upon wages, and upon the labourer, is therefore a fair subject of complaint ; and, we submit, as far as these are human by conventional arrangements, are a fair and proper...
第 36 頁 - ... charcoal that burned without flame, was blown up to whiteness by an explosive mixture containing the fire-damp, without producing its inflammation. An iron rod at the highest degree of red heat, and at the common degree of white heat, did not inflame explosive mixtures of the firedamp ; but, when in brilliant combustion, it produced the effect.
第 59 頁 - The check weigher shall not be authorised in any way to impede or interrupt the working of the mine, or to interfere with the weighing, but shall be authorised only to take such account as aforesaid, and the absence of the check weigher shall not be a reason for interrupting or delaying such weighing.
第 59 頁 - Act of that year the right for the miners in a mine "at their own cost to station a person (being one of the persons for the time being employed) to take account of the weight, measure or gauge of coal".
第 xii 頁 - produces over-supply ; low prices and low wages follow ; bad habits and bad health follow, of course ; and then diminished production and profits are inevitable. Reduction of toil, and consequent improved bodily health, increases production in the sense of profit ; and limits it so as to avoid overstocking ; better wages induce better habits, and economy of working follows. . . . The evil of overtoil and .over-supply upon wages, and upon the labourer, is therefore a fair subject...
第 vii 頁 - ... implicitly to accept their figures. Against this contention the Trade Unions have persistently and successfully struggled. In all the cases in which the operative is unable easily to check the computation, it is obvious that such an arrangement left the Standard Rate entirely at the master's mercy. " In weighing how was the collier to obtain justice ? He was at the bottom of the pit, and could not see the master's nominee at the top — and so again there arose the cry of being cheated in- weight....
第 167 頁 - Fourth (chapter seventyone), and in the session of Parliament held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of her present Majesty (chapter...