Local Effects of Coal Strike – Works Closing

April 1921

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 12 April 1921

Unemployment—Works Closing.

Unemployment in the Mexborough district is steadily growing. The total number of unemployed on the Mexborough Employment Exchange register is 721, this figure being made up of 520 men, 125 women, 35 boys, and 41 girls.

Messrs. Kilner’s Glassworks, Conisborough, have closed down one of their shops, throwing 100 employees out of work, and Messrs. Barron’s Glassworks, which re-absorbed all its hands after Easter, will exhaust its present stocks of fuel this week-end.

The Wath Oil Works (Messrs. Stanleys) have for a long time been affected by the slump in the woollen industry, and have now closed down altogether, nearly 300 hands being affected.

The Marmion Soap Works, Wath, are carrying on as usual, though under great difficulties, being dependent for a great deal of their power upon one of the local collieries.

There has been so much short time in Nottingham industries this year that coal stores have been accumulated, but if the dispute goes on much more than another week many places will prepare to close down. The factories were closed at Hucknall yesterday, owing to the deficiency of electric current, which is derived from the Sherwood Colliery’s plant.