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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1920

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Coal Shortage Delivery of Sugar Stopped. Raw Supplies Limited. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

Through the shortage or coal having caused the Glanville refinery to shut down, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company is informing the trade that it…

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Mining Price of Silver ("The Times" Message.) London, January 27

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 2

Silver is now quoted at 6/9½ [?] ounce…

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The Idle Mines Mr. Brookfield Replies to Minister Fitzpatrick Hopes for the Future Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 1

Mr. P. S. Brookfield, M.L A., writes to the morning papen in connection with relief at Broken Hill, and financial assistance to the Broken Hill…

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Coal Miners' Claims New Proposals Drafted Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 1

The coal miners have drafted new claims demanding a six hours working [?] five working days a week…

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The Idle Mines a Quiet Day

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 3

Matters were quiet at the Trades Hall to-day, mainly because of the fact that a number of union officials were busy at the various municipal…

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The Idle Mines a Quiet Day

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 1

Matters were quiet at the Trades Hall to-day, mainly because of the fact that a number of union officials were busy at the various municipal…

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Coal Miners' Demands Explained by Smillie Warning to the Government Nationalisation Struggle Believed to Be Imminent (Reuter's Message.) London, January 29

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 1

At the conference of miners' delegates Mr. Robert Smillie amplified the statement he made previously and declared that the miners' demand for…

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Coal Miner's Claims New Proposals Drafted Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 3

The coal miners have drafted new claims demanding a six hours working day and five working days a week…

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Coal Shortage Delivery of Sugar Stopped. Raw Supplies Limited. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 8

Through the shortage of coal having caused the Glanville refinery to shut down, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company is informing the trade that it…

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Barrier Miner. Monday, February 2, 1920. Coal Miners' Levy Is Doubled

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 2

IT is really very difficult to know what to believe of the contradictory statements in connection with the strike that are made by the officials of the…

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The Idle Mines No Change in Position

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 2

Mr. C. J. Emery, president of the Mining Managers' Association, to-day informed a "Miner" reporter that there was no change in the strike…

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COAL & Shale Employees Council of the Federation Concludes Its Sittings Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 2

The Council of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation concluded its sittings in Sydney on Saturday afternoon…

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Famed City of Ypres Receives Croix De Guerre Belgium's Coal for France (Reuter's Message.) London, January 31

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 4

Reuter's Ypres correspondent says that after M. Poincare had presented the Croix de Guerre to the town he, King Albert of Belgium, and their…

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New X-ray Plant for the Hospital Demonstration at South Mine Watching the Heart Beat

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 2

The new X-ray apparatus which, recently arrived as a gift from, the Broken Hill mining companies to the Hospital is at present housed at the…

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Paris in Darkness Owing to Coal Shortage Lighting Restrictions ("The Times' Message.) London, February 2

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 1

"The Times" Paris correspondent says that owing to the shortage of coal the streets are almost unlit. Household lighting has been drastically…

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South Coast Collieries £54,891 in Wages Lost Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1920 · page 2

It is estimated that £54,891 was lost in wages, last year, in the South Coast collieries through strikes…

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Shortage of Coal. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1920 · page 1

The only way the tramways can conserve coal is to shorten the time between the first and last cars. The trams now have four weeks' supply. The Gas…

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Barrier Miner. Wednesday, February 4, 19[?]0. Miners and Their Mates

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1920 · page 2

A[?] the conference of coal miners' delegates in England the other day, Mr. Robert Smillie, President of the Miners' Federation, said to the…

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Fire at South Mine Wood Found in Tunnel

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

A fire which occurred in No. 5 shaft at the South mine shortly after 10 o'clock this morning damaged a small wooden tunnel, a passageway leading…

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Mining Companies' Relief Contributions the Amounts Given

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

During the recent municipal election campaign a letter appeared in "The Miner" which referred to the fact that the contributions of the mining…

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