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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines
205 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 11
Mr. Asquith in introducing the Minimum Wage Bill said that long before the acute stage had been reached the Government had carefully considered the question of legislative action…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Times" states that the Government bill Will be merely to meet the present special emergency, and that it will not deal with any future strikes or embody the principle of compulsion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In regard to the explosion of gas in a mine here 20 bodies have so far been recovered. They are blackened beyond recognition. It is now certain that 25 of those who were in the mine at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South Wales miners are dissatisfied with the Minimum Wage Bill. The Engineering and Shipbuilding Employers' federations, representing 1000 firms employing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The House of Commons was packed this evening when the Premier formally moved the second reading of the Minimum Wage in Coal Mines Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five hundred pickets while endeavouring to prevent a hundred non-unionists from working the Kirconnel pits overpowered the police with sticks and stones. Reinforcements, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Addressing five thousand miners at Castleford, Mr. Herbert Smith, president of the Miners' Association, said that no Tory Government could introduce a worse bill than the one now before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir William Ramsay, Professor of Chemistry at the University College, in the course of a lecture before the Smoke Abatement Society, said that it was possible to sink a shaft on to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transport Workers' Federation and the Sailors and Firemen's Union are being urged to a general strike in retaliation of Tom Mann's arrest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the House of Commons this afternoon discussion in committee on the Wages in Coal Mines Bill was continued. The amendment moved by Major-General Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No. 5 level.--Winze east has been sunk a further 6½ feet making a total depth of 23 feet. The face assays 7s 9d per ton over a with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday Mr. Asquith made a strong and passionate appeal to both sides to come to an agreement, but without result, and Sir Edward Grey's diplomatic pleading was equally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Miners' Federation has decided to take a ballot to decide whether to resume work or continue the strike. The Times, commenting on Mr. Lloyd George's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is profound disappointment at the failure of the latest conference. The coalowners complain that the Government invited them to Downing-street, and there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The purchase of the old historic Lucknow mines, including the Aladdin's Lamp and Wentworth Proprietary, and all the freeholds, plants, buildings, etc., in connection with the above…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since the beginning of the 16th century 21,424 tons of gold have been dug from the mines of the earth. Their value is over £2,520,000,000. Of this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A nugget of gold weighing lllozs., and valued at about £400 has been unearthed in a claim in an old orchard at Merrenderee, Mudgee district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Minimum Wage Bill has received the Royal assent. Mfr. Pointer, the Labour Party's junior Whip, nays that the Premier was extremely weak and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Warwickshire miners' executive has ordered the men not to wait the result of the ballot, but to return to work immediately. The "Times" states that there is a split…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The latest reports in regard to the mine disaster show that the death roll exceeds 80. Ninety-three men were involved in the explosion, but 11 reached the surface alive. Six…
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