Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 08 September 1894
Strike at Denaby Main Colliery.
The whole of the miners employed Denaby Main Colliery struck work yesterday under peculiar circumstances.
The lads employed at the colliery struck work a few weeks ago the wages question, and the pit was set down days. After lads had returned to work the management gave notice to of the men leave, and men took the view that this notice was given because the man in question had interested himself in the lads’ strike, and because, as they put it, the management thought this man had caused the lads’ strike.
However this may be, the man worked his notice and apparently finished his work at on Thursday. Yesterday the whole of the men who should have gone to work refused to descend pit, and demanded that the man referred to should reinstated in his work.
The pit was laid idle yesterday, and in the forenoon meeting was held to consider the question, and deputation was appointed wait the management on the matter.
Some 1,500 men are employed.