Strikes & Court Cases

27 February 1903

Hutch Pinning In A Fife Pit - John Auld, miner, Sixth Street, Bowhill, admitted, at the Dunfermline Sheriff Court yesterday, having been guilty of what is known among miners as hutch-pinning. He had removed the tally, or pin, from a hutch filled with coal, gotten by another miner, and put on a tally, or pin, belonging to himself, with the object of defrauding the other miner of wages amounting to 1s. In passing sentence of twenty-one days' imprisonment, and ignoring an appeal for a fine, Sheriff Gillespie said that if such a serious offence were overlooked confidence in the working of the pits would be destroyed. [Scotsman 28 February 1903]