Still Acute. the English Coal Strike 2,500,000 Persons Idle. the Minimum Wage. London
The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 26 March 1912 · page 3
Mr. J. Keir Hardie says that the circumstances do not point to the miners being starved into submission. They were quite able to cope with any distress…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Entombed
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2
Seventy men were entombed in a mine in Virginia. Ten were rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Aggregate Meeting. Portion of Agreement Considered
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2
The adjourned meeting of members of the Western Miners' Association was held in the Trades Hall last night. More than half the clauses of the proposed agreement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Lumpers' Resolution. Against the Labor Council Executive
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2
Yesterday afternoon, at the meeting of the Sydney Coal-lumpers' Union, the following motion was carried:--"That this union endorses the action of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Coal Strike. Nearing the End: London
Leader · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2
It is generally believed a breakaway of miners is imminent in Scotland, 10,000 men at Be[?]shell, Lanock, and other places having signified…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Territory. Mining Possibilities. Melbourne
The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2
The Minister for External Affairs has appointed Captain Mathews (Chief Inspector of Mines in South Australia) to visit the Northern Territory and report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Minimum Wage. English Coal Strike. Further Negotiations. London. Monday Evening
The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2
Further consideration of the Minimum Wage Bill by the House of Commons has been postponed until to-morrow, as negotiations are still…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day's Cables. London, Wednesday. the Coal Crisis. a Serious Position
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2
The newly formed Free Speech Defence Committee in the House of Commons, protested against the prosecution by the Government of Tom Mann, who admitted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Coal-miners' Strike. London
Leader · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 3
Matters seem to have reached a deadlock. The extremists among the miners swear that the strike will last another month. Among the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lucknow Goldfield. to Be Revived. Famous Bonanza Mine
Leader · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 2
The purchase of the old historic Lucknow mines, including the Aladdin's Lamp and Wentworth Proprietary, and all the freeholds, plants,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The English Coal Strike. Government Forces Bill Through. Miners to Take a Ballot. London
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 20
The Coal Mines Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons by 213 to 48. Members of the Labor pary opposed the measure. The…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Coal Strike. London
The Bathurst Times · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 4
Several of the men's leaders, addressing meetinges in different parts of the country spoke more encouragingly regarding the prospects of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Austrian Miners Coming Out. Vienna
The Bathurst Times · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 2
The miners in the Aussig district, Bohemia, have resolved upon a general strike for to-morrow. About 36,000 workers will be affected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seventy Miners Entombed. Welch (West Virginia)
National Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 3
An explosion in a mine owned by the Jed Coal-Coke Company entombed 70 miners. Ten were rescued alive, and one was brought to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eighty Miners Entombed. the Majority Perish. New York
The Bathurst Times · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 2
An explosion occurred yesterday in the Yed mine, at Welsh, in Virginia. Of 80 men entombed 65 are believed to have perished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Huge Chunk of Gold The Latest Merrendee Find. Weighs 131bs Troy
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 18
Yeserday morning Mr. Endacott. a member of the mining party of Messrs. Endacott and Blane, sit Merrendee, brought into town the huge…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The End in Sight. the Great Coal Strike. Minimum Wage Bill Through the Commons
The Bathurst Times · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 2
To-day was a fateful day in the history of British trade struggles. It closed early this morning with the passage by a large majority of the Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Cooks a Dog on the Verge of Starvation. Effect of the Coal Strike. London
National Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 5
As a result of the coal strike, a hundred thousand, out of a population of a quarter of a million in five towns, are receiving free meals daily, chiefly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Old Goldfield Lucknow to Be Revived
National Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 4
The purchase of the old historic Lucknow mines, including the Alad-din's Lamp and Wentworth Propriet-ary, and all the freeholds, plants,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Only Just Commencing" the British Coal Strike. Opinion of Miners' Leader. London, Wednesday evening
National Advocate · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 2
The Miners' Federation has decided to hold a ballot as to whether to resume work. "The Times," in commending Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →