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

Mining & the mines, 1921

238 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 12

British Coal Crisis

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1921 · page 1

The miners' conference rejected the Government's offer as failing to concede the fundamental principle for which they stood. This makes it…

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Scottish Miners. Still Possibilities of Strike. London

Young Witness · Tuesday 3 May 1921 · page 2

The Scottish dockers have appealed to the transport executive to convene a meeting immediately of the Triple Alliance delegates to…

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Coal Crisis. (United Service Message.) LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1921 · page 4

The week-end brought no change in the coal deadlock. Owners and miners are both sitting tight, waiting for the other side to make the next move. There is a…

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Goulburn Racing Club. April Meeting Closes. Gold Toy's Handicap. Final to Charninon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1921 · page 4

Goulburn Racing Club concluded its April meeting on Saturday in glorious weather and before a good crowd. Gate takings amounted to £121, and the…

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Coal Crisis

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 4

There is no settlement of the British coal strike in sight, and hardships are increasing throughout the country. In East Lancashire coal is exhausted. Street…

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Alluvial Gold

Young Witness · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 2

The days of alluvial mining in these old historic alluvial fields are gradualyl slipping by. There was only one application on Tuesday morning to the…

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Late Cables Coal Strike. Unemployment Increasing. Handling of Foreign Coal London, May 4

Young Witness · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 4

Unemployment duo to the coal stoppage is increasing by leaps and bounds. Over 400,000 were idle [?] month owing to the coal strike. A…

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Coal Crisis. (Published in "The Times.") LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 2

It is confidently predicted that the coal dispute will end within a week…

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Coal Crisis. Effort to End It. (United Service Message.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 4

A new move to end the coal deadlock has been set afoot by the Parliamentary Labour Party and the Parliamentary committee of the trades…

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Wages Should Follow. Cost of Production. Downward As Well As Upward. Mines Minister's Opinion Sydney

Young Witness · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 4

The Minister for Mines, Mr. Estell. returned to-day from a visit to Broken Hill, where he made important investigations into mining matters. The…

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An Old Mining Shaft

Young Witness · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 2

While sinking a well at a residence on the outskirts op Young recently, the men put the pick Into an abandoned drive, which opened and…

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Gold and Diamonds. Applications for Binda Areas

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 4

Prospects are stated to be very good for gold and diamonds just the other side of Crookwell. A number of applications have been lodged with the…

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British Miners. Strike Still Unsettled. Rioting Continues. London May 6th

Young Witness · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 2

The miners marked to-day by a recrudescence of rioting in the strike areas. The miners at the Hill of Beach…

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Mount Mobgan Mine. a Loss of £2000 a Week. ROCKHAMPTON

Young Witness · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 2

Delegates from the various unlong connected with the Mount Morgan mine, whereon it is stated that 17,000 people are dependent, met to-day and…

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Cable News. Japan and America. Wool Sales. Russia's Position. Coal Crisis

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 4

The Government is taking measures to counteract the refusal of the transport workers to handle foreign coal. Official's o[?] French mines are visiting London to…

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Late Cables British Coal Contentions Plea for Wider View. London

Young Witness · Tuesday 10 May 1921 · page 1

Lord Weir, in a memorandum to the Government pleads with both parties to abandon the present contentions and re examine the whole coal…

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Coal Strike A Serious Outlook. LONDON

Young Witness · Thursday 12 May 1921 · page 2

The coal situation has reached such an acute stage that, the Australan Press Association learns, on high authority, it may be necessary to…

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Gold at Coolac. Results of Assay

Young Witness · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 2

The Minister for Mines has received a report on the Sandy Falls Gold Mines, near Coolac, on the Gundagal line, by L. F. Harper. senior…

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British Coal Crisis

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 May 1921 · page 2

Reuter's Antwerp correspondent reports that the dockers have decided to resume in view of the passivity of the Dutch and French lockers towards…

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Mining at Adelong

Young Witness · Tuesday 17 May 1921 · page 2

Mining operations have started at the old Gibraltar Consolidated. Captain Daniels is superintending the dismantling and re-erection of a new…

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