Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer – Tuesday 25 May 1948

Wages Grievance

Fifty-two underground, workers at Kilnhurst Colliery, near Mexborough, came out on strike yesterday over a wages grievance, causing coal output loss of 650 tons.

The men, “who claim higher pay for working on Whit Tuesday, are employed the Silkstone Seam. The remainder of the colliery is not affected

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer – Wednesday 26 May 1948

Miners’ Strike Ends

Fifty-two coal-face workers whose strike has caused a two-day stoppage of work among 600 men in the Silkstone seam at Kilnhurst Colliery, near Mexborough, agreed at mass meeting Kilnhurst last night to resume work to-day.