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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1912

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Work Resumed at Abermain Colliery. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 4

The Abermain colliery resumed work yesterday morning after being idle since Christmas. Everything has been fixed up satisfactorily…

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Mining. London Market. London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 4

The following are the latest london share quotations:—British (old), 53/; North, £5 16/3; South,£7 11/3. Ward and Co. (per White and…

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Labor Unrest. Strike at the Corrimal Mine. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 4

A strike has occurred at the Corrimal mine owing to the manager giving certain instructions as to the working of the mine. Three hundred and seventy…

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The Coal Strike. an Important Bill to Be Introduced. Price of Coal on the Increase. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Evening

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 8

In the House of Commons to-day the Prime Minister stated that he would introduce a bill to-morrow of a highly important character, which would be…

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Labor Shortage. Northern Territory Wants. Chinese Controlling Mining

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 7

Mr. William Lawrie a resident of Port Darwin, who recently arrived in Sydney says that he has had 30 years' experience in the Northern Territory,…

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Late Mining. Adelaide Share Market. Additional Morning Quotations

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 8

Ward and Co.(per White and Hosier) supply the following additonal morning quotations of the Adelaide share market:—…

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The Coal Vend Case. Supplementary Completed Motions Lodged. for Appeal to High Court. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 1

The supplementary completed motions of appeal to the full bench of the High Court have now been Iodged against the coal vend judgment. The colliery…

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The Coal Strike. Trouble Spreading in Germany. Strikers Threatened with Short Terms of Imprisonment. [Reuter's Message.] Berlin

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 4

The strike has become stagnant at Ruhr, and is spreading to Saxony. There is unrest at Hanover and Silesia. The authorities threaten the strikers…

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U.S. Navy Coal Supply Threatened. Washington, Wesdnesday

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 2

The coal shortage threatens, the navy supplies The Secretary of the Navy has arranged a conierence with the bituminous coal operators, with a view of…

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The Coal Strike. Strike Funds Exhausted. Minor Riots in Several Districts. [Reuter's Message.]

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 2

A week's atrike pay to 4000 miners at Westlothian has exhausted the funds of the union there. Miner riots have occurred at Rells…

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The Coal Strike. Advancing Loans to Nonunionists. Two Pits Permanently Closed at Swansea. [Renter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 4

The Wakfield Board of Guardians is granting non-unionists 5s per week, repayment of the amount being expected…

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Accident at Proprietary Mine

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 4

Mr. J. Relin, employed at the Proprietary mine, at about noon to-day sustained bruises and abrasions to the back as the result of a fall of stone…

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The Coal Strike. the Coal Mines Bill. Mr. Balfour to Move Rejection of the Bill. Starving Men March to Grimsby for Food. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

The Miners' Federation's attitude is causing Ministerialists grave anxiety as to the fate of the Coal Mines Bill. The owners all seek drastic…

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Accident at Proprietary Mine. Miner Seriously Injured

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 5

Mr. charles Mullins, a miner, while working at the 1200ft. lovel in tim Proprietary mine this afternoon, was struck on the head by some falling…

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Entombed Miners. Hope of Rescue Abandoned. Seventy-eight Miners Entombed. [Reuter's Message.] M'Curtain (Okla.)

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

All hope to rescue the imprisoned miners, in the mine at which a gas explosion occurred yesterday, has been abandoned…

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The Coal Strike. an Important Bill to Be Introduced. Price of Coal on the Increase. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Evening

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 4

In the House of Commons to-day the Prime Minister stated that he would introduce a bill to-morrow of a highly important character, which would be…

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Action by the Miners' Federation. Contrary to Executive's. Advice. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 5

The Miners' Federation at the conference, contrary to the executive's advice, passed a resolution that the bill was not acceptable unless it…

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Dispute in America. Proposal to Close All Bituminous Mines on April 1. Cleveland

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

The bituminous coal operators have conferred with representatives of two hundred thousand mines in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois…

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Surfacemen Ask for Minimum Wage. Doukers Refuse to Unload German Coal. London

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 5

A conference of surfacemen employed at Yorkshire and Derbyshire, representing 10,000 employees, resolved that unless the bill includes a minimum wage…

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Miners Entombed. Eighty Lives Supposed to Have Been Lost. [Reuter's Message.] M'Curtain (Okla.)

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 5

A gas explosion occurred here to-day, entombing eighty men. It is believed that they are all dead…

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