On Thursday 14 February 1929 the mine employers gave Giving their 9,750 employees 14 days ' notice , that they ( the miners ) should accept Agree_or_refuse_to_act the following new conditions : A wage reduction of 12½ per cent on the contract rates , one shilling ( $ 0.10 ) a day on the `` day wage '' rate ; all Lodges must give Giving the colliery managers the right to hire Employment and fire Process_end without regard Know to seniority ; all Lodges must agree Agree_or_refuse_to_act to discontinue Process_end pit-top meetings Social_event and pit stoppages .

A subsequent Board of Inquiry found Know that Watson had completed Process_end only 75 per cent of his training Education_teaching before he had been sent Sending to sea .

For more than ten days , 40 per cent of its population were without running Motion water after a treatment plant Building was affected Influence by several metres of flood water .