- 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...
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early age. He was
elected as a
checkweighman at
Lintz Green Colliery in 1897, then in 1907
moved to
become checkweighman at
Ouston E. He also
became involved...
- [citation needed] Once back at the pits, he
became chairman and then
checkweighman of the
Cambrian Lodge of the
South Wales Miners Federation. Although...
- 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...
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activist D. J.
Williams (politician) (1897–1972),
British miner and
checkweighman who
became a
Labour Party Member of
Parliament D. J.
Williams (actor)...
- the
branch committee at the age of seventeen, then in 1894
becoming a
checkweighman. In 1896 he
became Chairman of
Castleford Trades Council, and in 1906...
- 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...
- 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...
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Bamfurlong coal mine at the age of eleven. At the age of
thirty he
became a
checkweighman at the mine,
having also been
elected to the
Wigan Rural District Council...
