South Yorkshire Times, May 30, 1942
Marconigrams
Wath Grammar School A.T.C. Squadron have this week been in camp under canvas at an R.A.F. Station.
The Rt. Hon. Tom Williams, M.P. for the Don Valley and Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, will be the speaker at Mexborough Secondary School speech Day on Friday next, June 5th, at 7 p.m.
If absenteeism were reduced even to the pre-war level the production of the group would be increased by over 300,000 tons per annum.” —Lord Aberconway, chairman, speaking at the annual meeting of the Yorkshire Amalgamated Collieries, Ltd., on Wednesday.
There has been an outbreak of lightning strikes In the South Yorkshire coalfield within the last ten days due to dissatisfaction over wages and in many cases apparently provoked by the disparity in the wages of munition workers and mine workers.
Contributions to the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund have now reached an average of (45,000 a week. This represents an increase of (15,000 a week since the beginning of the year and is nearly one-halt of the present requirements of the Red Cross and St. John.
Arthur Wheater (34), a soldier of South Street, Hemsworth, who was sentenced to death at Leeds Assizes for the murder of Harold Smith, a neighbour, has been reprieved by the Home Secretary.
A petition of 11,500 signatures was sent to Mr. Morrison last week.
An anonymous sympathiser has sent thirteen pound notes to Mr. McKenzie, of Goldthorpe, for the thirteen miners rescued in the recent Barnburgh Colliery disaster. The men have been having a short holiday at Lytham, and the money was sent as “a little extra spending money.”
Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries have declared a dividend of 4 per cent. (same), with net profit £234,006 (against £247,598).
The National Executive of the Mineworkers’ Federation have decided to place before the coal owners a request for a substantial advance in wages, with a guaranteed minimum wage of 14 s. a week.
The Frickley Colliery Band are giving an open air concert on Sunday evening at the Mexborough Athletic Field commencing at 7.15. The proceeds are for the Montagu Hospital.
At the end of April some 350,000 railway workers had contributed £124,337 to the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund. The contributions of the four groups were as follows: L.M.S. £52,801; L.N.E.R. £41,503, G.W.R. £15,741, S.R. £14,292.
The Rev. G. Needham was on Wednesday instituted and inducted Vicar of Conisbrough. Mr. and Mrs. Needham were on Tuesday recipients of a cheque and desk from the churchwardens of St. Philip’s and St. Ann’s Church, Sheffield, of which Mr. Needham has been Vicar. Mrs. Needham was presented with a teapot by members of the Mothers’ Union.
Fourteen Goldthorpe women, five of them wives and nine of them mothers of men in the Forces, have sent a letter to Mr. Churchill stating that they “are prepared to make any sacrifice demanded of them for the opening up of a front in Europe at the soonest possible moment because we believe a front in Europe can, alongside our brave Russian allies can smash German Fascism in the shortest possible time.”