Mexborough and Swinton Times, December 12, 1902

Resultant on The Strike.

Damages Obtained From More Miners.

J.W. Pidgeon, Rotherham; Joe Stephenson, Wath-on-Dearne; George Walton, Denaby and James Fossett, Mexboro’; miners, were summoned by the Denaby And Cadeby Main Collieries Company, under the Employers and Workmen’s Act, for leaving the company’s service without notice.

Mr. W. M. Gichard, who prosecuted on behalf of the company, said that the claim against each of the defendants was for £6 damages, sustained, he said, by reason of these men having absented themselves from work, without leave, from June 30th to July 12th.

Walton and Fossett being employed at the Denaby Colliery, and Stephenson and Pidgeon at the Cadeby.

The Chairman: Are these the same as the previous applications?

Mr. Gichard: Exactly.

Continuing, Mr. Gichard said that orders for the recovery of £1,685 had been granted in respect of the Denaby colliery, where the damage sustained was £1702, which left £11 still to be recovered.

The Chairman: Will this be the last application?

Mr. Gichard: I believe so; these are men who have had summonses issued against them three times, but could not be served, as they were difficult to trace.

The Bench granted the applications, each defendant to pay £6 with costs, at the rate of £1 per month.

Mr. Gichard stated that, inclusive of the orders just granted, orders for the recovery of £1554 had been made, the total damage sustained at the Cadeby mine being £1872.