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RHYMNEY VALLEY MINERS J The monthly meeting of the Rbym- ney Valley District of the S W.M.F. was held at the Federation Offices, Bargoed, on Friday evening. Coun W. Mark English, New Tredegar, presided and there were present to- gether with delegates representing ever 10,000 federationists. the follow- ing officials Mr John Jones, Pen- gam (vice president), Coun Edmund Jones, Bargoed .treasurer),. Alderman Albert Thpmas, J P., New Tredegar (assistant agent and secretary) and Mr Walter Lewis, J.P. (agent). An official report states that it was reported from the Britannia, Rhym- nev and P.D. Collieries that the com- panies were refusing to give coal to widowed mothers who had sons working in the pits and who were householders. Great indignation was felt at this, and it was suggested that a case should be taken to court. On the advice of ithe agents, however, it was decided to refer the matter to the Joint Disputes Committee. A deputation from the New Tre- degar P.D. Colliery reported that they had failed to negotiate a price list for the Lower 4 ft. Seam and that several men were working for the minimum wage and certain men for less than the minimum. The District having heard that no improvement had taken place in this matter instructed the agents to immediately see the agents of the Company with a view of getting the grievance remedied, and failing, that they declare a stoppage at the colliery. Things had gone so bad, added the report, that they could not be allowed to go on any longer, The colliery in question employs about 1000 men.

ALLEGED PERSISTENT CRUELTY. MAINTENANCE ORDFit GRANTED. At, the Bargoed court on Friday Joseph Uommins (34), a collier, of Ystrad Mynach, was summoned by his wife, Olive Commins, for persistent cruelty on the 13fh iust. Mr Thomas appeared for the complainant and Mr Harold Lloyd defended. Mr Thomas said that the parties were married in 1916, and there were two children. For the first two months of their married life they lived happily, but since that time he had frequently slapped her face, kicked her, given her black eyes, and had threatened to finish her with a razor. Eventually, last Saturday, she left him, following a quarrel on the Friday night, She was afraid to live with him. This was the third oocasion on which she had left him. It would be suggested, said Mr Thomas, that the house was not in as clean a state as it might be. It had been kept clean until a month ago, when she bad an operation on her wrist, and since that time she bad not been able to do any housework. She engaged a girl to do the work, but the girl was not a very satisfactory worker. The wife could not be held } responsible for that. If the wife succeeded in her case he (Mr Thomas) would ask for the maxi- mum order,gas the man was earning good money. Mrs Commins, in corroborating Mr Roberts's statement, added that her husband on one occasion tried to strangle her in bed, and she threatened to throw hex self out of the window. Replying to Mr LhVrl, complainant said that her husband was a widower, with two children, when she married him. She admitted that he was a steady workman, and had given her E3 or 2.4 per week. She denied spend- ing a considerable time reading novels and visiting her mother's house. She also denied that her hoase was in a terribly dirty condition. She strongly denied that the trotible was due to her laziness or to the condition of the house. N either were her children in a dirty condition. Mrs Parfitt, mother of the complain- ant, said that two months after the marriage her daughter complained to her of being struck by the defendant. Upon a few occasions after this she had come home, crying bitterly, and complaining of her husband's ill- treatment. Two days prior to her daughter going away for the operation, she (witness) called at the house. Everything was then quite clean and comfortable. So far as she was aware her daughter was a clean and in- dustrious girl. Prior to the marriage she was healthy and robust, but since had been failing in health, which wit- ness attributed to the treatment of the husband. Cross-examined If was in"re than a surprise to her to I hear- that the hoase was In a dirty slate. defendant had not corn- plained t > hur about the state of the house. Jostpij Commins said he was a collier, and his earnings averaged ZI per day. He had been married four vears, and there wero two children. On Saturday last, when he returned home after work at 10 p.m., the house was in a dirty state. Riff wife was in the kitchen reading a novel. There weri, three cold faggots on the table and he told her that was not good j enough after working three #tiris. They had some words, and he struck j her on the arm with a brush. The bedrooms were in a filthy state and ¡ the bed-clothes dirty. He gave her an average of 94 to 25 per week, and he expected her at least to keep the house clean. When his wife went to the Infirmary he stayed home three I days in order to clean it up a little. The state of tha hoase had beon in j this condition f it '<ve[' t ?h?e mont h. j The only cause fo; complaint ag?in? I his wife was the neglect of the horn j I In cross-examination he denied that I his story wa* grossly exaggerated or < th?t his wife's health was undermined -in conseqnenc; of his condact towards her. Stephen Arthur Lewis, a next door I neig-bbonr, Raid defendant was a re- spectable and havd working man. He was called in last Sunday by de- I feudant to see the house, the down- I. d' d stairs was very dirty and the upstairs filthy dirty. The Bench made a maintenance order of 40/- per week and allowed I two guineas advocate's fee. I

I BAROOED POUCECOUKT. I I Friday, before Mr K R'chards and i Mr W. H. M-.t'naf. Catherine .Ion (30). nr.rr • worniln, of Gi!f »H?. was, on tho t.-vi- j deuce of P.S P' Ilatid, fined 20s. for being drunk and oij»orderl?.<—George Thomas (4 :). >» .-oilier, of GHilfaoh, pleaded not guilty 'o a similar offence. I p F 011 a t1 d s ri that at 10-15 prri. he saw the defendant in company with ¡I another man. They "tood there talking up to 11 p.m. then went to Thomas- stieet. He followed them and asted 1\ them to go home. Defendant then became abusive. He was obliged to take him home.—Corroborative evi- I dence having been given, defendant called Fred H\rris, who denied that Thomas was drunk, although he ad- mitted having had a few drinks at the Gilfach Club.k fine of 308 was imposed.—Henry Warran (42), a collier, Ystrad Mynach, was fined 10s. for a similar offence. —For using II obscene language David J Richards (34), blacksmith, Ystradmynach, was fined 20s. Thomas Yoxall (19), Joseph Walls (17), Idris Joseph (18), Edward Sulli- van (19), Brinley Roberts (17), Thos. Parsons (17) and Griffith Evans (17). all colliers, of Treharris, were sum- moned for jostling pedestrians on the footpath at Nelson.-P.C. Thomas Croker said that on the evening of the 11th inst he saw all the defendants outside a chip shop at Nelson, each holding a bag of chips. They were jostling each other. He ordered them off. Later, he received a complaint from a lady of having being struck on the face with a chip. He went after the defendants and obtained their names and addresses.—The Chairman cautioned the defendants as to their conduct and fined each one 10s. Thomas Lynch (5i), a haulier of Bargoed, was fined 10s for allowing his horse to be unattended outside the Capel Hotel. Frauklyn Williams (24), a haulier, of Aberbargoed, wag fined 5s. for driv- ing a van without a near side light on the 14th inst.

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PAYMENT OF TRIBUNAL MEMBERS. Some of the Labour members com- mented strongly on the amount allowed for expenses to members at a meeting of the Wandsworth. Profiteering Committee on Tuesday Mr EN-er(itt said if the Government were only going to pay Is. an hour they might as well keep it to subsidise the jerry builders. Councillor Humphries said if mem- bers were not paid adequately he would go to the extent of resigning as a protest A man was entitled to recover what he could have earned at work. If the tribunal did not pay for actual time lost, no working man I would be able to sit on the tribunal. Alderman Mathias was against the 'I suggestion, taking the view that the glory of England all along had been that local affairs had been conducted I by men who gave their services voluntarily. Mr Everett intimated that he would move a resolution at the next meeting condemning the amount as in- i adequate. 41 A