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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

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N.s.w. Mines

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 October 1919 · page 3

Aggregate meetings of miners around Newcastle have resolved to urge the Premier to hear their grievances. The meetings also adopted resolutions endorsing…

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Another Floating Mine. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1919 · page 2

A [?]ting [?] sighted off Cape Everard. It was destroyed with rifle and revolver fire…

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Co-operation in Mining

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 October 1919 · page 3

The Bendigo Amalgamated Goldfields Co-operative Alliance, which is an organisation of the employees of the company, held a picnic at Marong recently. The…

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Another Floating Mine. Off Cape Everard. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 October 1919 · page 4

A floating mine was sighted from the steamer Tarcoola, off Cape Everard. The vessel stopped, and the mine was destroyed with rifle and revolver fire. This…

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Industrial. Collieries Commission. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 October 1919 · page 5

The Treasurer announced that Mr. Flannery barirster, has been selected as chairman of the Collieries Commission…

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Inclusion of Coal Miners. Closing Up Unprofitable Concerns. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 October 1919 · page 2

Mr. Willis, secretary of the coal miners, says that the inclusion of the miners in the Cost of Living Bill appears to be beneficial to a great many…

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Industrial. Conditions at Broken Hill. Unemployed Soldiers. Inquiry Into Miners' Phthisis. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 5

The Government has granted £1000, and the mining companies £5000, for relief work for unemployed soldiers at Broken Hill…

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Coal in Riverina. Likely Seam Discovered Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 October 1919 · page 2

A coal seam has been discovered in the Riverina, handy to Wagga and Albury, and is being developed, with every promise of success…

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Industrial Calamity. Threatened in America. Bitumenous Miners to Strike Foreign-born Dictation. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

Apprehension is growing throughout the Eastern United States regarding a threat ened bitumenous miners strike. Senator Frelinghuysen (New Jersey),…

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News of the World Tragic Mining Disaster. Biggest in Cornish History. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

It is feared that 40 were killed in a mine at Penzance. One hundred men were descending in an old fashioned cage, which collapsed. It is the biggest disaster in the…

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American Labor Troubles. Mining Differences Unsettled. Government Mat Take Over Mines. Montreal, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 3

The New York "Times'" Washington correspondent says: The bitumenous coal operators and the miners have failed to settle their…

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Northern Miners' Aggregate Meeting. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 3

The committee of the Mechanics' Association of the Maitland Coalfields decided to call an aggregate meeting at Weston and Newcastle on Monday to…

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Cornish Mine Accident. Ten Bodies Recovered--21 Missing. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 3

Further particulars of the Penzance mine accident show that the cage fell 300 fathoms. The sides bf the shaft collapsed and mingled with the wreckage. Ten…

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Earlier Cables. British Coal. Rise in Prices to Be Reviewed

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 3

The "Labor Gazette," reviewing the coal output from week to week since June, shows that between August 23 when the coal strikes were over, and…

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Paul Freeman. Question in Queensland Assembly. His Mining Interests. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 3

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Pollock desired to know from the Minister in charge of the Mines Department what action had he taken, or did he…

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Sydro—Electricity and Coal

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 4

"What is the greatest invention in engineering?" was a question once [?] to the late Professor [?]ernot of the Melbourne University, and his…

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Labor in America. President Wilson' S Anxiety. Big Coal Strike Probable. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 5

Out of the wreck of the National Industrial Conference, President Wilson to-day sought to build new machinery to bring about industrial peace. In a…

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Industrial. Colliery Mechanics. Development of Militancy. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 October 1919 · page 3

The decision of the Colliery Mechanics' Association to hold stop-work meetings at Newcastle and Weston on Monday is evidence that a militant spirit is…

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Cornish Mining Catastrophe. a Fearful Fall

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 27 October 1919 · page 4

It is feared that 40 miners have lost their lives, and many have been injured in the Levant Mine, near Penzance, Cornwall, owing to the collapse…

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British Miners. a Militant Conference. Campaign for Nationalisation. Reduction in Cost of Living London

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 October 1919 · page 3

The Miners' Conference is in a militant mood. Mr. Robert Smillie, presiding, announced plans for a general propaganda…

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