Workforce - stoppages
Records:
Below are transcriptions of 24 newspaper articles, all relating to the shale miners' strike in 1887 at the Broxburn Oil Company (and other Scottish Shale Oil Companies).
Each article is introduce…
BURNTISLAND OIL WORKERS. The strike of the Burntisland oil work employees continues. A meeting of the workmen was held on the Links in the forenoon on Thursday, when the deputation which waited on th…
- Read moreSHALE MINERS' STRIKE AT WEST CALDER.
The shale miners of the New Hermand Oil Company have struck work against a reduction of wages. The mining is paid per fathomage in the company's mines, a…
Source: The Scotsman. - Read moreCrisis at the Hermand Oil Works,
The stoppage of Linlithgow Oil Company and the low prices being realised for crude oil has produced a crisis at the New Hermand Works at West Calder. Linlithgow Oil Co…
Source: West Lothian Courier. - Read moreBelow are a number of transcribed newspaper articles relating to the 1925 miners' strike at the Scottish Shale Oil Companies.
A few of the below article are (or will be) introduced with a short s…
Source: various newspapers. - Read more