Bank Holiday, 318 Banking account, 18 Benefits, reduction of, 199 Blagdon, Rev. M., 26 Bond, yearly, 17, 47, 49 Boys' wages, 309, 324 Broken price agreement, 325 Brown, W., 8, 35 Building, the, 16 Bunning, T. W., 47 Burt, T., 8, 20, 103, 182 C Cairns, A., 23, 26, 32 "Caller, First," 59, 337 Candymen, 96 Cann, T. H., appointed treasurer, 276 Care for life, 341 Changes, 337 Checkweighmen, 73, 338 Clerk, first appointed, 105 Coal-drawing agreement, 323 Coal Owners' Association formed, 46 Coal Tax, 310 Commission, Royal, 86 Committee, 1879, 160 Compensation Act 1897, 291 Conciliation Board, 263 -- first members of, 266 -- renewed, 294, 331 Co-operative colliery, 90, 110 -- Committee, 110 County Council, 209 Crake, W., 7, 13 Crawford, W., 6, 9, 23, 26, 31, 33, 37, 103, 109 -- attack on, 80 -- censure on, 84 -- candidature of, 88 -- death of, 215 D Dale, D., Sir, 103, 109, 157 Dark Days, 197 Deputies' basis wage fixed, 301 -- difference as to, 120 -- hours, 1870, 121 -- wage, 1870, 121 -- wage, 173 Derby, Lord, 160 Desire for better houses, 343 E Educational benefit of Union, 340 Emigration, 131, 165 Employers' Liability Act, 172 Entrance fee, first, 18, 121 Equality, 339 Evictions, Wheatley Hill, 96 Ex-Committee condemned, 145 -- expelled, 114 -- rules, 114 F Federation Board formed, 140 -- condemned, 145 -- first members of the, 141 Federation, Miners', -- Durham miners and the, 251, 256 -- expulsion from the, 259 -- refuses Durham, 277 Fillers' agreement, 333 Firemen's week-end shifts, 316 Five days per week, 183 Forman, J., 36, 38, 103, 105, 119 -- death of, 302 Forsters', W. E., award, 109 Fowler, J., 61 Franchise Association, 88 -- extension of, 191 G Gala, first, 31-34 -- first on the race-course, 59 Galbraith, S., appointed, 305 Golightly, W., 105 Gordon, W., 114, 118 Graham, Coroner, 298 Gurney's, Russell, award, 103 Guthrie, R., 207 H Hall, the new, 82, 118 Hand putters' basis wage, 324 Heath, Mr, 337 Hewers' datal wage, 306 Homes, Aged Miners', 297 Hopwood's, C. H., award, 113 Hours arbitration, 132 Hours', arrangement, ten, 214, 217 -- eight, 199 -- ballot on, 248 -- second ballot on, 321 -- of boys, 32, 48, 74, 77, 83 Houses and house rent, 307 Housing condition, 104, 110 House, W., appointed to Joint Committee, 292 -- appointed President, 305 I Imprisonment of Messrs Cann, Jones, and Forbes, 244 Increased knowledge of the miners, 343 Industrial Remuneration Conference, 190 Isaacs, Mr, 336 J