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  <dc:title>Durham Coal Trade Arbitration</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Proceedings and award in arbitration between Durham Coal Owners' Association and Durham Miners' Association over proposed reduction in wages of miners Jan-Feb 1876.

Underground workers' wages were cut by 7% and surface workers' wages by 4% by the umpire Charles Hopwood.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1876</dc:date>
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