Leeds Mercury – Friday 30 December 1938
Mutual Help for Miners Pioneers
Don Valley M.P. and Denaby Scheme
Colliery company representatives and miners’ leaders joined at the Welfare Institute, Denaby, tonight, in praising the Denaby and Cadeby Main Colliery’s Mutual Help Fund —a pioneer organisation in industrial pension schemes.
The occasion was the annual treat to the pensioners and their wives and the attendance of 390 constituted a record.
Mr. B. H. Pickering, general manager of the Denaby, Cadeby and Maltby Main Collieries, presiding, said that altogether grand total of £62,288 had been disbursed. In addition, a total of 10,310 loads of coal had been distributed to the pensioners.
Mr. Tom Williams, M.P. for the Don Valley, said it would be interesting to find out what effect the pension scheme at Denaby had on the lives of the men. The absence of anxiety for the men in their old age must have prolonged their lives for a number of years. They had started a scheme at Denaby which had had its repercussions in various parts of the country, and from the result of the schemes already in operation he was quite convinced that the conscience of the nation, and finally, that of the Treasury, would be touched and a national scheme forthcoming.