Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 01 March 1892

The Crisis in the Coal Trade

Mexborough District

The last of the notices for a week’s stoppage at the collieries in this neighbourhood were affixed yesterday morning at Manvers Main.

Thrybergh Hall put theirs up on Saturday, Denaby Main the previous day, while Mitchell Main were first in the field, the notice there been put up last Thursday.

It will be seen that as these days differ, so will the stoppages, and while at Mitchell’s the men will come out on March 8, Manvers will then have four more days work to do, and Thrybergh and Denaby Main two.

It seems most not unlikely that these date differences may cause differences of another sort in the colliers camp, for there is no doubt that those who have to work up to the later date, will be urged to the utmost in getting out the coal – urge, almost, to pull the pit bottoms out.