Word: pithead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Way to Shakespeare. When Aneurin (rhymes with a fire in) Bevan was a boy in Tredegar, South Wales, sickness and disaster were never far from the pithead. His father had been one of the founders of the Tredegar Workingmen's Medical Aid Society. Each member contributed three pennies out of every pound earned; in return, the society hired doctors and dentists to treat the miners or their families when they became...
...went down into the pit. Carrying his "snaps" (miner's lunch), he rode to the pithead with his mates in the special streetcars reserved for the miners -so that they would not dirty other passengers. He found that miners lived in a segregated world of their own. He began to carry a big chip on his shoulder. Once a supervisor asked him why he did not take off his jacket while he worked. "There's nothing in the Mine Act that says I have to," snapped Bevan...
British coal production was off about 55 million tons since 1937; in many old mines, the coal face was three miles from pithead...
...miners refused. Quite rightly, said Lloyd George, because the miners wanted the mine own ers to bear the full cost for installing the baths. "I've always heard," said the Duke seriously, "that the miners' wives didn't want baths at the pithead because washing their husbands' necks is one of their special prerogatives. They enjoy it, and they expect to do it every evening. They didn't want to be robbed of the privilege...