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- A checkweighman (occasionally checkmeasurer or checkweigher) is a person who is responsible for weighing coal or another mined substance, and thereby...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...