Yorkshire Factory Times — Friday 15 May 1903
The Denaby Main Miners’ Dispute.
The Denaby Main miners’ dispute is over, but the after effects are still there. A hundred of the men are still out of work and wanting it. The housing problem is also still a difficulty in the district.
On Saturday application was made to the Doncaster magistrates for orders against twelve of the strikers to abate a nuisance.
Some of the men and their families, when evicted owing to the strike, went into tents in Clayton-lane, Mexborough, and they are now called upon to vacate these tents as being a nuisance.
In the eyes of the law (from a sanitary point of view) the tents are a nuisance.
In the eyes of the law, perhaps, the men are a nuisance also.
Still they are God’s creatures.
What is to be done with them?
Where are they to go when turned out of their tents?
They were turned out of their homes, and now they are to be further driven.
They have my sincere pity.
There are several hundred miners still unemployed who need keeping, and I don’t think it would hurt the Yorkshire Miners’ Association to take a ballot vote as to giving them £1,000 from the funds as a distress grant.