The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-01 00:00:00

4 TRADES UNION DISPUTE.

A dispute has broken out at the Denaby Main Colliery.
near Mexborough, very similar to that which was fought
at Staveley some time ago. The proprietors refuse to
employ men who are connected with a trade union, and up
to a short time ago their colliers complied with this demand.
They number about three hundred, and during the last
month about one-third of them have joined the South
Yorkshire Miners' Association. As soon as the proprietors
heard this they gave the union men a month's notice to
leave their employment and a week's notice to quit their
cottages. Three new non-society men who were taken on
were not very cordially received, indeed a number of the
old hands refused to work with them. This was on
Wednesday last, and on Thursday morning lamps were
refused to the unionists, those only being supplied who
declared they did not belong to the association. On Friday
a meeting of the miners was held, when they were ad-
dressed by Mr. Pope, the managing proprietor. He with-
drew the notice previously issued, but expressed his inten-
tion of posting another, giving a month's notice to all the
workmen, both unionists and non-unionists, and at the
end of that time only those not belonging to the Miners'
Association, and who will sign a declaration that they will
not join it, are to be continued in the firm's employ.
Those who continue to occupy their cottages after the ex-
piration of the week's notice are to be charged double rent.
The affair looks like one that will not be got over without
the display of much bitterness.

NEW BAILWAY SCHEMES FOR THE

SESSION.

Every new session brings its new railway schemes, and
this year the number of plans and projects was greater
than usual. In 1864 a Parliamentary committee reported
that the new railways proposed to be made in London
extended over 174 miles, involved the raising of nearly
fifty millions sterling, and interfered with a vast
amount of property and many public thoroughfares.
Parliament, therefore, was very chary of giving its sanc-
tion, and since then the new schemes have been less
'ormidable in number and extent. This year about
twenty miles of new railway are proposed within the
metropolitan district, the greater number of the proposed
railway bil:s having been withdrawn and these projects
liaving fallen through from copies of the bills not being
duly lodged. The only schemes remaining are
the London and North-Western Omnibus Bill, the
London, Chatham, and Dover Company's Bill for
station works in Farringdon-street ; the Metropolitan, for
enlargement of the Gower-street Station ; the North
London, for works near King's Cross ; and the Metro-
politan District Company, for stations at Westminster and
Brompton. There are also four tramway schemes,
by which it is proposed to lay 71 main and
branch tramways of 106 miles aggregate length.
One of these schemes has, however, fallen through, and
there only remain the Metropolitan, the Metropolitan
Street, and the Pimlico, Peckham, and Greenwich. These
three bills propose to give about fifty miles of street tram-
ways in the metropolitan district, though how many of
these plans will receive the Royal assent is as yet doubt-
ful.