i Workmen's compensation had become a very serious, matter to colliery proprietors,'said, the chairman, at the annual meeting of Andrew Knowles and Sons in Manchester. Last year they had had to pay £6691 in this way—an increase of £1700 on the previous year, and more than enough to pay the shareholders an additional dividend of 1 per cont. Situations were found for about IfJOtJ men during the first eight working days that the labour exchanges Were open in the Manchester district; A large number of men, says the divisional superintendent, came: expecting free drink aud tobacco, and when they' found there was nothing but work for them, they did not come again. Quite 500 of the men who registered were unemployable.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 7
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121Untitled Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 7
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