Robert Smillie
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Robert Smillie
Source: The Miners (R. Page Arnot)
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| 20 Feb 1908 |
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Attendance at the Washington Glebe disaster inquiry |
| 15 Apr 1910 |
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Newspaper article (The Northumberland Coal Trade) |
| 18 Nov 1915 |
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Newspaper article (To Prevent Colliery Explosions) |
| 29 Apr 1919 |
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Newspaper article (Letters to the Editor) |
Guest Speaker at the
41st Durham Miners' Gala
Guest Speaker at the
44th Durham Miners' Gala
Guest Speaker at the
45th Durham Miners' Gala
Biographical Notes
Smillie, Robert President of Miners' Federation of Great Britain, 1912-21 President Scottish Miners' Federation since 1894.
Source: 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
Guest Speaker at the
48th Durham Miners' Gala
- 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- The Miners, A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (1889-1910) by R. Page Arnot, published in 1949
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