South Yorkshire Times June 28, 1958

Cadeby Main Concern
At Proposed Rent Increases

Cadeby Main Colliery branch are to advise their members who are affected by the proposed NCB house rent increases to make full use of the Rent Act.

The matter is to be discussed at the branch meeting on Sunday

County Coun. J. Prendergast, N.U.M. branch Secretary; told “South Yorkshire Times reporter this week that the branch feeling was “one of great concern.

They were sending a protest to the N.C.B. and they were taking up the matter at N.U.M. headquarters in Barnsley.

He said the branch was greatly concerned by increases on widows’ houses. Many widows had recently moved out of large houses into small houses to overcome the overcrowding problem and thus their houses had become decontrolled under the Rent Act.

Mr. Prendergast said the increases affected about three quarters of the men who worked at Cadeby. He said the branch would, on Sunday, advise the men to serve Notices of Disrepair where houses were in a poor state of repair, and in all cases if necessary,

One old age pensioner to be affected by the proposed increase is Mr. John Creasey, of 68, Warms-worth Street, Denaby, whose rent is to be increased from 12/1d. to 17/3d. Mr. Creasey, who worked at Cadeby colliery as a miner for 37 years and has lived in his present home for 36year s, said, “I must have paid for  the house over and over again.”

The proposed increase comes into effect on September 13th.