Provision For Aged Miners.
Manager’s Appeal at Opening of Conisborough “Welfare.”

The desire to see included in the Miners’ Welfare Scheme an old age pension for miners was expressed by Mr. J. Walker, manager of the Yorkshire Main Colliery, when on Saturday he opened the Conisborough Miners’ Welfare pavilion and sports ground.

“I should like to see the Welfare Scheme embody an old age pension for every miner over or 65 years of age,” he said. “We know that in these days there is not much chance of saving, and it does seem hard for the miner to work out his life in the pit and nave to finish up in the workhouse.

“An old age pension would give him a feeling of safety and would take lot of the bitterness out of life. I trust the time will not far off when the Welfare Scheme will include an old ago pension.”

The money for the Conisborough scheme is the allocation of the Welfare fund to those miners working at the Yorkshire Main (Edlington) Colliery who live at Conisborough. The scheme cost £2,598, including land charges, pavilion, lay-out of tennis court and bowling green. Three more tennis courts and another bowling green are to be laid out.

Provision For Aged Miners. Manager’s Appeal at Opening of Conisborough “Welfare.”

Provision For Aged Miners.
Manager’s Appeal at Opening of Conisborough “Welfare.”