Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 03 January 1879
Denaby Main Dispute.
The strike still continues, and distress in some families is very severe. The men still receive their tickets for groceries to the amount of eight shillings weekly, with one shilling for each child under thirteen years of age, but this amount is not even sufficient for food; therefore they have to go without coal and clothing, which are almost as much required as food, during this severe weather.
It will undoubtedly surprise many of our readers that coal is a necessity in a place where nothing else is obtained, but such is the case, and many have therefore to go without, while the few, who are able to buy, have to obtain them in three-penny baskets, from hawkers of coal and coke.
