French Coal Strike. Protest Against Unemployment. Foreign Importations Resented. Paris
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 December 1921 · page 3
A general coal strike throughout France begins to-day as a protest against unemployment and also a demand tor the utilisation of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Crisis Coming. Owners Resent Curtailment of Output. Men Will Get Fight If Looking for It. Sydney
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 December 1921 · page 3
The decision of the Newcastle and Maitland coalminers to only work nine days per fortnight, from January 10, is likely to create a crisis in the New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INDUSTRIAL. Coal Miners' Demands. for Shorter Working Hours. Rejected by Proprietors. Newcastle
Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1921 · page 5
The demand of the northern miners for a reduction in the working for night was rejected by the mine proprietors. The contention of the miners is that a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Trade. a Rush of Orders. Welsh Prices Stiffening. London
Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1921 · page 4
The Scottish coal owners are loading night and day to cope, with the rush of orders, which are unequalled since before the war. The South Wales prices are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal From Abroad. Cheaper Than Newcastle. Large Supplies Arriving. Sydney
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 December 1921 · page 3
Coal is being landed in Australia from Great Britain cheaper than it can be obtained from Newcastle. It is reported in shipping circles that further…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Amazon Army. Pittsburg Miners Attacked. Men Compelled to Cease Work. New York
Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1921 · page 5
Pittsburg, the centre of the coal mining industry, was the scene of operations of a remarkable amazon army throwing bricks, stones and coals. They mobbed five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Industry. Adjustment of Wages and Conditions. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 5
The critical period through which minding in Australia is passing was referred to at the annual meeting of the Australian Mines and Metals Association. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →INDUSTRIAL. Coal Miners' Manifesto. Allegations Against Proprietors. Goading the Men to Fight. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 5
An official manifesto was issued to-day by the coal miners' union which stated the coal owners of New South Wales, if their propaganda indicated anything, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Miners' Threat. Newcastle
Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 5
The northern miners threaten they will not work more than nine days in any one fortnight. A special meeting of the council of the Miners' Federation will be held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Manifesto. Owners Said to Be Forcing a Strike. Men Not Looking for It. Sydney, Friday Evening
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 5
An official manifesto was issued today by the Coalminers' Union, wherein it is asserted that the mine-owners are using every endeavor to precipitate a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Upheaval Threatened. by Seamen and Miners. Ships Held Up by Firemen. Miners' Challenge to Owners Sydney, Saturday Night
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 2
The seamen, on the one hand, and the coal miners, on the other, seem to be intent on precipitating another industrial upheaval and dislocation of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Synthetic Gold. Made in Germany. Professor Fisher's Announcement. London
Daily Examiner · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 5
Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale University, lecturing at the London School of Economics, startled his audience by announcing that he had been credibly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Coal Trade. Importations From England. Prime Minister's Observations. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 5
Recently steamers arrived in Australia bringing cargoes of English and Welsh coal which it was stated could be landed here more cheaply than the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Synthetic Gold. Made From Baser Metals
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1921 · page 3
Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale University, lecturing at the London School of Economics, suggested as a serious possibility that German chemistry may…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Miners' Grievance
Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 5
Prominent members of the Coal Miners Federation realise the enforcement of the nine days a fortnight scheme will lead to serious friction with proprietors, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Big Wages
Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 5
Big wages are being earned by the miners at the Metropolitan colliery at Helensburgh. At the last fort nightly pay £30 per man was drawn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rand Mining Crisis. Miners' Ballot Favors a Strike. an Overwhelming Majority. Capetown
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 2
A message from Johannesburg says: The miners' ballot in the Transvaal collieries on the dumber of Mines' proposals for lower wages has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Industry
Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 5
Mr. Just[?] powers made an award in the mining industry on the basis that companies paying dividends or making profits would be requred to pay what other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Industry
Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 5
Major-General Hughes speaking at the general meeting of the Chillagoe Limited. Mount Mulligan, said we hear a great deal about unemployment, but in every…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Synthetic Gold. "Somebody's Leg Pulled."
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 4
Expert opinion in Melbourne discounts the German claim to have evolved synthetic gold. "Somebody, seems to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →