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NEW MINES AND HIGH WAGES.

YORKSHIRE "SHOWS THE WAY.-

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KEY TO THE FUTURE

[BY TUS DAILY EXPRESS " TRADE ·

COMMISSJONER.]

The common opinion is that, whatever else is flourishing, or is about to flourish, English coal mining is undoubtedly

**done.""

My reply is that I have just seen the finest coal mines in the world, the nest mining machinery in the world, and the finest coal-mining villages in the world Even in these admittedly hard times the men employed in these mines camp the best wages in Europe, while the mine. owners admit with a smile that they are not thinking of filing à petition ja bankruptcy,

HOUSING IN GREAT BRITAIN. MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN ÖN HIS POLICY.

180,000 HOUSES ERECTED THIS

YEAR..

There was a general debate on the hous. ing question in the House of Commons on December 18th.

Questions were raised by the Liberal. Party, one of whose members, Mr. Trevelyn Thompson, stated that although hall-million houses had been erected. since the Armistice, a "further million were required to remedy the deficiener. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who is res ponsible for housing, declared that al- though difficulties had been encountered in many quarters, including the Building Trade Unions, the erection of houses and At the moment these mines, are, excepinereased rapidly during the last twelve.

months. tional. In the future they should be the rule. They are proof of the fact that the way out of the coal dibeulties is

New Mines for Old.”

It was an undesigned coincidence that on the day I went down the Brodsworth Main, Mr. Charles Markham, the pre- aiding genius of accessful coal mining, gave evidence before the Coal Commis. sion!

[Mr. Markham declared in bir evi- dence: The collier works under con- ditions which he has no right to have when you consider the people in other industries. I suppose there is not a collier's house that does not spend 83. to 103. a week on cinemas."} The Brodsworth Main is his special triumph. Every minute, when winding coal, six tubs containing four to five tons hetween them flash up to the top of each

of the two shafts. Five thousand tons n day. 30,000 tons a week-there is nothing like it in the world. Out of every 100 tons of coal brought to the pit-head in Great Britain Markham mines bring four ton-one twenty-fifth of the total output

ILOME AND ABROAD.

The coal ands its market at home and abroad. Over a million tons were sold abroad by the group last year, mainly through the great new coal-ports of Hull and Immingham...

To and the secret of the present and the key to the future it is necessary to consult a geological map.

A few miles south-east of 'Leeds, the famous Barnsley Bed of coal comes up to the surface, and its outcrop ruas in a wavy line due south into Nothing hamshire East of this runs the outcrop of the newer Permian coal-less measures, and the older coal mines are clustered between the two outcrops, most of them close up to the first.

There were 159,000 houses erected this year, which was far exceeding any num ber erected before and since the Armistice: Had it pot been for the opposition of the Unions and employers to the so-called Weir type of steel framed houses, with which experiments had been made, it would have been possible to provide more accommodation at a quicker rate

Mr. Neville Chamberlain admitted that people preferred brick or stone houses, to which they were accustomed, but that preference involved waiting a longer period for houses. Nevertheless, arrears were being quickly overtaken at the present rate of construction.

In regard to sluin areas, in twenty-four- years from the passing of the 1880 Act," only seventy-one schemes for alum clear- once had been advanced in the succeeding

six years.

Ninety-two schemes were put forward and sighty-three confirmed. Meanwhile an enormous amount of repairs and renewals had been going on all the time during 1923.

In urban areas alone 258,000 houses were made habitable after statutory notices demanding, repains had been issued, while a further 253,000 were rendered it in consequenes of notice given by the urban authorities of the district. From the statutory notices a further 40,000 houses were made habitable rural areas during the same period.

THE SLUM PROBLEM. Referring to the slum problem, fr Neville Clamberidin said it was not only a building but a social problem, and he thought might be desirable for local authorities to have power to acquire compulsorily and to hold such property until they were ready for reconstruction on carefully thought out lices.

Mach interest had been roused by a fresh experiment being undertaken by the Government for the provision of. house accommodation.

Heckleton Main, one of the collieries of the Doncaster Collieries Association, is close to the second. Brodsworth Main The Premier, three months ago, at- is four miles cast of Heckleton Main, and tempted to encourage local authorities in well across the Permian, outcrop. Mark Scotland to increase building by a bam Main is ten miles east of Hackleton special subsidy of £40 for every house of Main. It is a lonely cobiory-the out-alternative type, but little advantage post of the coming army of victory.

had been taken of the offer and conse quently the subsidy now lapses and the Government has decided to build 2,000 houses of an alternative type in Scotland.

Scottish National Housing Company The work will be done through the and it is hoped that the effort will prove

The Markham Main has proved that the famous Barnsley Bed has lain concealed beneath the modern measures, and can be got at by newer mining methods. Baring was started here in 1913, suspended during the war, and resumed in 1922. They began to turn coal on May 24th, 1924, by which time $1,200,000 had, been spent, and, though it now "turns 15,000 tons a week, it is still losing money. That loss, however, is believed to be only temporary.

In the Premier's view time is the The future of coal mining depends on essence of the problem, and these houses bringing the whole of this hitherto can be erected more quickly than orthodox "concealed " extension of the Barnsley | types.

stimulus to local authorities and private enterprise.

Half of the houses will be of the steel framed Weir type.

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Bed into full and successful operation. The Government finances this develop How far east does it extend Thement and will take every step necessary Barnsley Bed, six feet thick of the best to secure its accomplishment, coal, has within the last ten weeks heen tapped at Ollerton, which is about as far cast as the Markham Main and twenty two miles south of it. The eastern limit of boring is at Harey-on-the-Idle; a few miles from the Trent, which is about six teen miles east of Markham Main Here they have reached the Barnsley Bed at a depth of 1,034 yards.

But this is only half the story. These new pita lie in opes, agricultural country. Armthorpe Village, where the Markham Main is situated, was in 1813 a cluster of old-time cottages round an ancient village

church.

At each of the pits I'visited I saw a model moden garden village for miners. Mr. Markham and those with whom he is associated have built 4,000 houses in

The prevailing scientific opinion is that the line of the Trent marks the eastern limit of the Barnsley Bed, and boring is in procces at Newark, on that river. Others think that the coalfield stretches, the last two years, and the layout of the across the river towards the sea, and at villages is splendid. Here are no miser- workable depths. That it goes up to the able" but and ben" hovels, but neat Trent is now proved, and a vast and roomy cottages with gardens back and prolific source of new wealth from coal front, club houses, shops, cinemas, appears to be in prospect.

churches, and chapels.

CHEAP RENT

It is fortunate that the enormous asset should have become available, first, as the older pita were becoming unremunera The company lets the houses at 48, tive, and, secondly, as the country was below the economic rent, and each miner. burdened with war caused poverty. Now is, entitled to a ton of coal every four mines for old-involving the large-scale weeks for the cost of carriage from pit

igration of miners from worked out pits head to cottage door. in the older coalfields is the way out of I was asked to choose a cottage. I the coal crisis.

pointed to one, and my guide went up and tapped at the door. I was at once welcomed by the housewife, and found her husband in the living-room. He had only just got in from the mine, and a blacker blackness than his I cannot

the

At Markham Main I was conducted out to the working face of the mine. I had been shown a plan of the mine, with all

stalls

marked, and was asked to choose where I would like to go. I was then to be shown the last pay sheets of imagine. Yorkshire-like, his first words

the stalls I selected.

were "It's a pity the cakes anna done:" There were four on the hearth ready for the oven.

"It's the best pit I've ever worked in,” be said. His one complaint was that he could not get enough tube

I watched the bowers at work, in the selected stalls. They were naked but for "shorts" and boots, and the swen, pour- ed in rivulets down their sooty bodies.

Back in the office the pay-sheets showed that last week the men in these three I've filled in five this shift," he stated, stalls earned on an averago 14s. 8d., 198 and could have filled eight easily." sd., and 19a 1d. respectively per seven The problems are very great, but at hour shift The weak before they took least my visit has convinced me that if 178. 10d., 20x. 3d, and 20s. 6d. Turning, the mine-owners and the miners work over the leaves I came across a week in together with the fullest expenditure of May when all the men at the coal face brains and courage and muscle there is averaged 138. 8d. per shift, and the miner no reason why the coal industry should can work six shifts a week it be chooser. not share in the trade revival that is

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