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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Coppice Colliery miners were the highest paid colliers in the N.C.B. number 5 area. I don't positively know why, or how, but i believe it was to do with the original Union and Management agreement which was set up around the time of the Nationalisation (Hear Hear!)of the coal industry. We also had a strong Union man and membership and this agreement was never allowed to slip. No matter how the cash arrived at the wages department, as Phil describes, or any other method, the amount of cash would have been phenomenal for that time period. Azzabuv.[/quote]
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Azzabuv

This message was updated on 4/1/2005 9:50:11 PM by Azzabuv

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replied on: 3/31/2005 3:58:13 PM

Coppice Colliery miners were the highest paid colliers in the N.C.B. number 5 area. I don't positively know why, or how, but i believe it was to do with the original Union and Management agreement which was set up around the time of the Nationalisation (Hear Hear!)of the coal industry. We also had a strong Union man and membership and this agreement was never allowed to slip.
No matter how the cash arrived at the wages department, as Phil describes, or any other method, the amount of cash would have been phenomenal for that time period.
Azzabuv.

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