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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

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Wool Trade Seriously Affected. Plenty of Wool But No Coal. London, Monday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 13 August 1919 · page 3

A hundred thousand wool workers are now-unemployed in Yorkshire owing to the coal shortage, yet the "Drapers' Record" states that there is…

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British Strikes. Bakers To Resume Work. Legislation Regarding Night Work. Recommendation to Miners. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 August 1919 · page 5

The London bakers have agreed to arbitrate on the question of wages and hours, and will resume conditionally on eleven strikers being reinstated. The…

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Yorkshire Miners Defeated. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 August 1919 · page 3

The Yorkshire. Miners' Association has been compelled to admit defeat. The expenditure of three hundred thousand pounds sterling as strike pay was…

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Yorkshire Miners' Strike. a Losing Proposition. London, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 15 August 1919 · page 3

The Yorkshire miners lost £5,000,000 in wages and only received £380,000 in strike pay, out of the total available fund of £700,000…

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Yorkshire Coal Strike. Men's Council Favors Resumption. London, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 15 August 1919 · page 3

The Council of the Yorkshire Miners Association has decided to recommend to the men a resumption of work…

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Nationalisation of Mines. Industrial Horizon Black. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 August 1919 · page 5

Mr. Smillic, (T.) speaking at Ayr said if the Government refused to nationalise the mines, the miners must use their industrial power to force their hands. The…

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Reimposition of Coal Restrictions. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 August 1919 · page 2

The uncertainty of the strike situation has resulted in the reimposition of the Melbourne coal restrictions. At the beginning of the week the restrictions were…

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Nationalisation of Mines. a New Zealand Request. Wellington

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 August 1919 · page 3

A deputation, representing the New Zealand Alliance of Labor, asked the Prime Minister to nationalise the coal mines. Mr. W. F. Massey, in reply, said…

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The Coal Shortage. German Quota Reduced. Belgium Helping Italy. London, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 18 August 1919 · page 3

A message from Berlin says: The inter-Allied Commission, finding that Germany is unable to deliver to the Entente forty million tons of coal, has…

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An American Disaster. Colorado Colliery Explosion Twenty Men Killed. Vancouver

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 August 1919 · page 2

A message from Trinidad, Colorado, says: Twenty men-were killed by an explosion at the Oakdale Coal Company's mines…

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Fires in Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 August 1919 · page 3

At the inquest concerning the recent fires at the South Broken Hill mine, evidence was given that the cost of repairs would be £70,000. The manager stated…

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Unrest Among the Miners. Displacements for Returned Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 August 1919 · page 1

Mr. Willis, the secretary of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, said that considerable unrest exists in some of the coalfields owing to the…

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State Politics. the A.W.U. and the Miners. Mr. Lambert Replies to Mr. Willis. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 August 1919 · page 3

Mr. Lambert, president of the New South Wales branch of the A.L.P., referring to Mr. Willis' assertions, says the mention of coal barons and racecourses is…

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The Miners and the Government. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1919 · page 5

The strike agitators had an interview with the Labor member. Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, who said the Prime Minister had surrendered to the reactionaries. Every…

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Coal Famine in Silesia. Express Trains Cancelled. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1919 · page 5

Reuter's Vienna correspondent telegraphs that owing to the coal famine resulting from the miners' strike in Silesia, all the express trains in German-Austria…

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British Parliament. Mr. Lloyd George's Speech. Nationalisation of Mines. Fostering Imperial Trade. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 August 1919 · page 5

The Prime Minister denied that he had committed the Government to accept every recommendation of the Sankey report. However, the Government had…

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District's Coal Resources

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 2

Mr. Harper, an officer from the Mines Department, was in the district last week inspecting some coal prospects. He visited Sherwood, Glenreagh and Nymboida, and…

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Miners' Strike Ended. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 3

THE YORKSHIRE COAL MINERS STRIKE HAS ENDED. Such of the cable news on this page so headed has appeared in "The Times" (London), and is…

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Strikes in Silesia. Destruction of Coal Mines. Allies Sending a Commission. Spartacists Behind the Movement. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 3

The Allied representatives in Silesia have telegraphed that the strikers were destroying the coal mines in Upper Silesia. The Peace Conference is despatching a…

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Nationalisation of Mines. Men's Leaders to Meet. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 3

The Miners' Federation Executive on August 29 meets to decide its future policy in view of the Government's anti-nationalisation of mines decision…

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