... brought in line with each other. If the government nationalised the mines then it would have to set up a department for mines and would have had to pay for a whole new department. Also there were many wealthy land and mine owners and they would have not liked to see the nationalisation of the mines as this would have led to a loss in profit for them and they could have applied pressure on the government not to nationalise. The government did give the miners one thing, the Coal Mines Act of 1919, a six hour day which meant miners only mined for six hours a day, but the reality was different as this did not include the time taken to travel from the surface to the mine face and the way back up, this would have varied from mine to mine but the average time added to a ...

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