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The act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 151, sometimes called the Mines Regulation Act 1860, [3] the Mines Act 1860, [4] the Inspection of Mines Act 1860, [5] the Regulation and Inspection of Mines Act 1860, [6] the Coal Mines Act 1860, [7] the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1860, [8] the Inspection and Regulation of Coal Mines Act 1860, [9] or the Inspection of Coal Mines Act, [10] is an Act of the Parliament of ...
A hurrier and two thrusters heaving a corf full of coal as depicted in the 1853 book The White Slaves of England by J Cobden. The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 99), commonly known as the Mines Act 1842, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act forbade women and girls of any age to work underground and ...
The Regulation and Inspection of Mines Act of 1860 therefore required coal mines to have an adequate amount of ventilation, constantly produced, to dilute and render harmless noxious gases so that work areas were – under ordinary circumstances – in a fit state to be worked (areas where a normally safe atmosphere could not be ensured were to ...
Industrial Structure, Union Strategy and Strike Activity in Bituminous Coal Mining, 1881 - 1894 Social Science History 26 (2002): 1 - 32. Roy, Andrew. A history of the coal miners of the United States, from the development of the mines to the close of the anthracite strike of 1902, including a brief sketch of early British miners (1907) online
An Act to amend the Coal Mines Act, 1911. Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1914. 4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 23. ... An Act to extend the Metropolitan Police Act, 1860, to Scotland.
The prohibition of employment of women and of boys under ten years underground in this class of mines, as well as in coal mines, had been effected by the Mines and Collieries Act 1842, and inspection had been provided for in the Mines Act 1860; these were in amended form included in the code of 1872, the age of employment of boys underground ...
A product of this period of his leadership was the Mines Act of 1860, which allowed for election by miners of a checkweighman at each pit to ensure fair payment of wages. [ 5 ] Macdonald's efforts to unify the miners bore fruit in November 1863 when at a meeting in Leeds workers formed the Miners' National Association and elected Macdonald as ...
More broadly, influenced by the number of children killed in the disaster, the Mines Regulation Act 1860 prohibited employment of boys under twelve years of age, unless they could read and write and were attending school for at least three hours a day on two days a week. [3] Two-shaft mines were made compulsory by 1865.