170th Anniversary Of The Husker Pit Disaster
EDM number 1827 in 2007-08, proposed by Michael Clapham on 17/06/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Coal, Industrial health and safety and Industry.
That this House welcomes the Awards for All Grant and all other contributions that have made possible the staging of a play by local children at All Saints Church in Silkstone village to commemorate the 170th anniversary of the Husker Colliery disaster which happened on 4th July 1838 when 26 children were drowned, causing Victorian society to examine its laissez-faire attitude, leading to a national enquiry by the Children's Employment Commission of 1840 and to the first Mines Act of 1842 which prohibited females and boys under 10 years of age from working underground.
This motion has been signed by a total of 82 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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