checkweighman

When a man asked for a checkweighman, in the language of the super he was getting too smart.

He then resumed his career in the coal mining industry as a Checkweighman.

In 1922 he was promoted to the position of checkweighman at Cwm-parc.

After working at the coalface for several years, he was promoted to be a checkweighman.

He returned to the coalfields where he became a checkweighman.

Being a forceful union official he represented the miners as checkweighman and compensation secretary.

He returned to Wales in 1925, but was unable to find work, other than a short spell as a deputy checkweighman.

He was elected checkweighman, and worked with William Brace to campaign against the sliding pay scale.

Hall began working at a coal mine at the age of ten, becoming a checkweighman sixteen years later.

He became a hewer that year, working at the coal-face, and within a few months was elected as an assistant checkweighman.

The state argued this violated a state law that granted miners the right to an independent checkweighman.

Smith became active in his union, being elected to the branch committee at the age of seventeen, then in 1894 becoming a checkweighman.

He was elected to Durham County Council, then as a checkweighman for his pit.

He was then elected as checkweighman at Wingate four years later, but gave up the role to travel to South Africa in 1896.

Out of work for some months, he spent the time learning to read and was soon back at a different mine, where he was elected checkweighman.

A company's weighman and a miners' checkweighman read the loaded skip weight on a large clock face dial Avery scales.

He was a checkweighman at the Hemsworth Colliery, Yorkshire, for 25 years.

He was subsequently promoted to the job of checkweighman, and studied at Coatbridge Technical College.

This dissolved two years later, but Ashton re-established it in 1873, facing victimisation, but also being elected as checkweighman.

He was soon after elected to the committee of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, and in 1917 became colliery checkweighman.

Active in the South Wales Miners' Federation, he was eventually promoted to the job of checkweighman, away from the coal face.

They elected notable communist Arthur Horner as checkweighman, earning the town the nickname Little Moscow.

In 1872 he became the first checkweighman elected by the miners of Good Hope Pit, Normanton Common.

George Henry Hirst was a checkweighman, and a member of Yorkshire Miners' Association.

John Potts, checkweighman at Hemsworth Colliery, also supported Walton, although with some reservations.