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Jim Slaughter's Narrative History:Working on the Heap
"We just referred to it as 'working on the heap', which meant the surface. Screens, actually the letter I sent you
was describing the screens, and how I went from the screens into the token cabin, and onto the weigh and then I went
to what they call the 'plumb job' for laddies, it was called the 'stop cabin' and it was a cabin where the three shafts
were. The coal used to come up and you had to record every stoppage and the reason for it, and every hour I had to
phone the manager in the main offices and give him the tonnages of the three pits and the reason for any stoppages,
and eventually he took me into his office, and that was when I was referred to the colliery school, two days a week,
you know.
Funny, I was kind of proud of that because I was the only actual working miner that went through that system.
They were all apprentices: electricians, fitters, you know, and they...it worked out alright�but never mind, we'll
get back to that...long story once I start rambling on!"
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