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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

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The Latest. SYDNEY, Tuesday. Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 3

There is a suggestion that the Arbitration Court should sit at once Newcastle and determine the amount to which the wheelers are entitled before next pay day…

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Coal-Trimmers' Holiday Pay

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 2

Newcastle, Monday.—A the Police Court today Mr. Love, P.M., delivered his reserved decision in the case of James Comerford versus the Newcastle Stevedoring Company, Limited,…

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Gold Discoveries in South Africa. London, Jan. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 4

Reporting upon the recent discoveries of gold, the resident engineer of the British South Africa Company describes the alluvial deposits at Victoria, Masbonaland, as patchy, and chiefly shed gold. It…

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The Newcastle Mines

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 2

PROBABLY none will be found to heartily agree with the present Industrial Arbitration Act. Some think it based on wrong principles; and some disapprove of its details…

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Bridegrooms Who Cannot Face the Altar. One Who Hid in the Coal Cellar

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 4

IT must be very disconcerting to a bride to find on her wedding morn that the man who has been brave enough to lay siege to her hand and heart lacks the necessary…

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Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1905 · page 2

It is expected that the miners at Newcastle will bring pressure to bear on the wheelers to induce them to resume work before the end of this week. The men are likely to accept the…

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Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1905 · page 4

Mr. Wade has offered that if the men on strike at Newcastle will return to work the Arbitration Court will sit at once to hear the dispute. The colliery proprietors are prepared to allow the…

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The War. London, Tuesday. Coal Steamer Captured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1905 · page 1

The Dutch steamer Wilhemina, carrying Cardiff coal to Vladivostock, has been captured by the Japanese in Tsu-shima Straits. RUSSIA'S DESIGNS…

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Colliery Trouble

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 20 January 1905 · page 2

MR WADE has offered that if the men on strike at Newcastle will return to work the Arbitration Court will sit at once to hear the dispute. The…

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Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 4

There is a general feeling in Newcastle that the strike will have an early termination. A delegate meeting of the Miners' Federation on Thursday decided to ask the owners to…

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Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 2

The Newcastle colliery owners have declined the request of the men for a conference. The owners justify their notion on the ground that they have simply taken a step sanctioned by…

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The Coal Trouble

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 2

The signs of an early ending of the coal trouble in Newcastle are more promising than they have hitherto been; partly because tradespeople themselves under…

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Cable News. the German Coal Strike. London, Jan. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1905 · page 2

The strikers at Dortmund are terrorising the non-unionists The police in protecting the non-unionists. were stoned and used their swords to disperse the crowd…

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Newcastle Mining Strike the Situation Worse

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 23 January 1905 · page 2

Every indication points to the failure of an early settlement of the Newcastle mining deadlock, unless some unforseen circumstance suddenly develops to end…

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Northern Collieries' Trouble

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 24 January 1905 · page 2

THE Newcastle colliery owners have declined the men's request for a conference. The owners justify such action on the ground that they have…

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Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1905 · page 2

There were a number of developments in the Newcastle coal strike on Monday. Work was resumed at Pelaw Main, but there was a cessation, of operations at the Abermain and…

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Telegrams. SYDNEY, Monday. Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1905 · page 1

The position at Newcastle is unaltered. The Attorney-General has not yet arrived at a decision as to a change of procedure. PLAGUE…

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Cable News German Coal Strike. London, Jan. 21

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 24 January 1905 · page 2

IN the Reichstag last night the Imperial German Chancellor referred to the coal strike at Westphalia, where the number…

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Cable News. German Coal Strike. London, Jan. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1905 · page 4

Count von Bulow, German Imperial Chancellor, speaking in the Reichstag yesterday in reply to an interpellation from a socialist member about the coal strike in the Ruhr district, Westphalia,…

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A Gold Medal for an Aggressive Nose. Some Remarkable Competitions

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 January 1905 · page 1

PARIS, we learn, is in a “ferment of anticipatory excitement” over the forthcoming cock-crowing contest. “Cocks from all countries will compete in a [?]owing contes[?]…

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