- A
checkweighman (occasionally
checkmeasurer or checkweigher) is a
person who is
responsible for
weighing coal or
another mined substance, and thereby...
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Williams (3
February 1897 – 12
September 1972) was a
Welsh miner and
checkweighman who
became a
Labour Party Member of
Parliament (MP).
Williams was born...
- Born in Blyth, Northumberland,
Taylor became a coal
miner and then a
checkweighman. He
became active in the
Labour Party,
serving on
Blyth Council from...
-
activist D. J.
Williams (politician) (1897–1972),
British miner and
checkweighman who
became a
Labour Party Member of
Parliament D. J.
Williams (actor)...
- [citation needed] Once back at the pits, he
became chairman and then
checkweighman of the
Cambrian Lodge of the
South Wales Miners Federation. Although...
- Colliery, just over the
border in Derbyshire. He was
elected as the pit's
checkweighman, and also
became active in the
South Yorkshire Miners' ****ociation (SYMA)...
-
British politician. Born in Elsecar,
Hirst became a
miner and, later, a
checkweighman at the
Dearne Valley Colliery. He
joined the
Yorkshire Miners' ****ociation...
- for his
release and to this end
secured his
election in
absentia as
checkweighman at
Mardy Colliery, one of the most
militant collieries in the Rhondda...
- the coal-face, and
within a few
months was
elected as an ****istant
checkweighman. He had no
ambition for work
beyond being a hewer, but he did want to...
- Valley.
Grundy worked as a coal
miner before winning election as a
checkweighman. He
became active in the
Yorkshire Miners' ****ociation, and also in...
