Mexborough and Swinton Times May 13 1927

Kilnhurst Collieries

180 Men Paid Off

About 180 men employed in the Haigh Moor seam of the Kilnhurst Colliery, Stewarts and Lloyds, have receive notice to cease work today.

Interviewed yesterday, Mr William Barr, the manager, declined to make a statement on the subject, but the miners officials were more communicative.

They take the view that reduction in employment in this seam is partly due to the introduction of coal cutting machines, which have displaced a certain amount of manual labour.

The coal on the Haigh Moore seen is of relatively inferior quality, and the men have been informed that the Company has been incurring a considerable loss and this, for some time.

The machines produce a considerably greater output than the manual workers, and the view of the management apparently is that this is the only way to secure a market for the coal and keep the seam open, and to retain the remainder of the men in employment.

It is understood that an effort is being made to find work for some of the displaced men in the Barnsley seam.