Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-09-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CLEVELAND MINERS' ASSOCIA TION.  RESIGNATION OF THE SECRET A R, Our tumbrel:: 7.-:..7ee'ere—espeoially the miners and mine-owners—will learn with regret that eta meeting of the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Miners' Council held on Monday—Mr Joseph Toyn, president, in the chair—it was intimated that Mr Thomas Dime, the muoh-respeoted secretary of the Association, had given the Council three months' notice (as required by the terms of engagement) to maye their eer!iee: This sten has not been taken by Mr names Dunn without a sacrifice on his part; he bass deep interest in the work in which he has been engaged, and warmly reciprocates the confidence and kindness with which be has been treated by all sectioes. One reason why he seeks a change is because be halt found that addressing so many open-air meetings and meetings in small rooms is acting prejudicially upon hi health. He has, theretote, found a situation more fitted for hie state of health, and, at the same time, in harmony with his literary tastes. Mr Donn entered the mines at tee age of nine years, and ball worked in and about them until he _mime to Saltburn four years ago to occupy the office the duties of which he has discharged with so muoh zeal, fairness, and efficiency. The Association at that ticue was at a low ebb, the membership being only about 1,100. There is now upwards of 5,000 names on the books, and the Association is in a better position than at any period during its history. For the attainment of these objects the secretary has kindly co-operated with his able col'estAue, the president, and with the members of the Council for the time being. Believing for many years past that wages could be best legulated automatically, Mr Dunn has Sites be occupied the office worked with a view of doiug away with the old and exploded sy stem of strikes, and, though good and evil report, has advocated the slicliag scale which is now regulating the wages of the Cleveland miners; and to-day the miners stand indebted to that agency for an advance of 121 Der cent, on the wages of 1879, with a prospect of advance in the immediate future. It is also worthy of note that since Mr Dann took office there has Only been one strike ; and the regularity of work has been an incalculable boon both to employer and employed. Whilst personally attending to hie duties as an officer of great organization, be has not neglected the cultivation of his own mind. He has been for ten years an acceptable looal preacher in c.mneietion with the Primitive Methodist Society; and he was among the first to welcome—and take full advantage of—the University Extension lectures when establihed at Middleebrough. In 1879 he took the secoud prize in the examinatima on political economy after Mr Moorsom's course, and at the Durham University examination on the same subject be secured a certificate of the third class. In the spring of the tel. lowing year he passed the testing Univers t) examination in astronomy—on which Mr Morton lectured—for which he holds& thirdclass certificate. Bince then he has studied nut:ler...Professor Roberts, Mr Teal, and Mr Attwater, of Cambridge, in Pnysical Geology, Geology, and in Englith History—in each Case pa-sing the University examination in the first class, on the last two subjecte obtaining the mark of special distinction.  There were last year 1,001 attempts al suicide against 966 iu the year before. In the ycar ending the 29th of September the lumber charged and detained as criminal lunatics in Eneland and Wales was  Madame Sarah Bernhardt had to appear in Blackpool Winter Gardens on Monday night. After taking part in one sot she left the Pavilion, saying she was unwell. Three !oval medical gentlemen offered their at rvices, but the actress went away without seeing them. Exix.tOßD