13 JANUARY 1923, Page 3

The Times reports that several new coal-pits are being sunk

in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, notably near Clipstone and at Thoresby. The Thoresby pit is going to be run entirely by electricity, which will make it possible to eliminate chimneys, boilers, and smoke, while at Clipstone the most modern pit bank and shaft equipment is being introduced. The Bolsover Company, which controls the pits, has acquired Edwinstowe Hall for its employees. It is in these new undertakings, which are unhampered by the horrors which nineteenth century industrialism thought necessary to money- making, that the capitalist system must justify the belief that it can and will provide human working conditions for labour.