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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1927

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Nationalisation British Coal Mines Ramsay Macdonald's Speech. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 October 1927 · page 5

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, Deader of the British Parliamentary Labor, party, made a remarkable speech in moving a motion at the Labor Conference to-day deploring…

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9000 Miners Return to Work. New York

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 October 1927 · page 5

A message from Des Moines (Iowa), states that the coal mines have reopened, following the settlement of the dispute regarding wages, and 9000 miners have…

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Mining Co,'s Burden £12,000 Under Endowment Act. Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 October 1927 · page 5

The annual report of the Broken Hill South Mining Company shows the mine must pay £12,000 under the Family Endowment Act…

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Cranbourne Gold Cup. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 October 1927 · page 7

The race for the Cranbourne Gold Cup to-day resulted:--Tullius 1; Honeysuckle 2, Chickling 3. Winner 21…

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Owners and Miners Further Dispute Likely. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 October 1927 · page 5

Close on the heels of a suggestion from a section of coal owners that there should be a reduction of the miners' minimum percentages and subsistence wage, owing…

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Fall of Coal Mine Deputy Killed Mate Seriously Injured. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 October 1927 · page 5

Two men, were buried beneath 100 tons of coal, in Mount Pleasant mine yesterday. One, John Ashmore, was killed,…

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Mining on Beaches

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 October 1927 · page 2

With a view of exploiting the Monazite beach sands on the South Coast of Queensland a company is being formed in Brisbane with a capital of £15,000, and at…

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Drake Goldfields Will They Come Again? Present Shafts

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 October 1927 · page 8

Like most other Australian goldfields, Drake, near Tenterfield, had its heyday, rose to prosperity, and was a flourishing centre for a while, with a population of…

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Miners International Poland Objects to Cook. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 October 1927 · page 5

Poland refused to visa the passports of the British miners secretary, Mr. A. J. Cook, to permit him to attend a meeting of the executive of the Miners'…

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Coal Strike 6000 Colorado Miners Out. Denver (Colorado)

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 October 1927 · page 5

Although 6000 Colorado coal miners affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, responded to the latter's strike order, only part of the state's coalfields…

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British Mine Manager Captured by Bandits. Washington

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 October 1927 · page 5

Mr. W. E. Mitchell, the British manager of a copper mine, is being held to ransom by bandits at Mayaritt. The bandits threatened, in five days, to shoot him,…

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Mine Worker Killed Run Down by Two Skips. Kurri Kurri

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 October 1927 · page 5

Henry Champion, 63, employed as a road layer at Richmond Main colliery, was killed instantly to-day. He was working on the bottom deck when a cage…

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Ugly Situation Twenty Men Severely Handled Cadia Miners Resent Tactics. of Communists. ORANGE,Saturday

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 October 1927 · page 5

There is considerable unrest amongst men employed in the iron mine at Cadia. During the week a large body of men opposed to Communism and…

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Colarado Coal Strike Forty-seven I.W.W. Men Arresttd. New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 October 1927 · page 5

A Walsenhurg (Colorado) message states that deputy sheriffs made a surprise attack on I.W.W. pickets at the coal mines in this district, and arrested 47…

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German Coal Strike Settled. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 October 1927 · page 5

The coal strike, involving 70,000 men, has ended. The Government appointed an arbitrator, who awarded the miners 11½ per cent. increase in wages…

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Miners Talk Strike Ultimatum to Owners. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 October 1927 · page 5

A meeting of nearly 400 miners employed at the Coalcliff collieries decided to-day to give fourteen days' notice to the colliery proprietors that work will…

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More Women Arrested Colorado Coal Strike. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 October 1927 · page 5

A Ludlow (Colorado) message states that, following on recent industrial trouble in this district, two guards were pushed into a creek and 28 men and seven women…

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More Gold £42,500 Shipment From Edie Creek Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 October 1927 · page 4

The steamer Montoro, which arrived at Sydney to-day from New Guinea, brought 17,000 ounces of gold, estimated to be worth £42,500 from Edie Creek and…

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Local and General Mining Lease Application

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 October 1927 · page 4

Attached to the notice board outside of the Grafton Courthouse is an application signed by E. H. Everingham of Wooli, for a mining lease of 50 acres of…

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Hill End Gold Find Four Ounces to the Ton. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 October 1927 · page 5

Highly payable gold has been discovered in an old shaft, abandoned 45 years ago, on Hawkins' Hill, at Hill End. A local miner formed a syndicate to seek…

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