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

Mining & the mines, 1922

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Literary Gold Mine Discovered in Goulburn. Mechanics' Institute Possessions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 2

Thanks to the recent overhaul of the library of the Goulburn Mechanics' Institute, the committee have discovered that the institution is far richer…

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Coal Strike Possible. WASHINGTON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 2

The possibility, of a national coal strike was increased to-day, when President Harding's suggestion for a joint conference before April 1 fell…

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Germany Pays 6,487 Million Gold Marks. Paris

Young Witness · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 1

The Reparations Commission report that on December 31, Germany had paid the Allies on account of reparations 6487 million gold marks,…

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Dispute Over Mining Tenement. Application for Forfeiture Refused

Young Witness · Thursday 16 March 1922 · page 2

Albert Molloy made application to Mr. Williams, mining Warden yesterday that the mining tenement No. 79, Young, held by Thomas Arthur…

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Miners Will Fight. Wage Reductions. NEWCASTLE

Young Witness · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 1

Alderman Rees, president of the Mining Department of the Industrial Union of Australia, speaking yesterday, said: "I don't know anything…

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Rebellion Suppressed. Six Thousand Prisoners. Miners Return to Work. Leaders Suicide. Capetown

Young Witness · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 1

The South African Government announces that the striker's rebellion is now entirely supressed, 6000 prisoner being taken. A Johannesburg message says the mines' managers have…

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50,000,000 Gold Marks. Security for German Purchases BERLIN

Young Witness · Tuesday 21 March 1922 · page 1

Reports-from Frankort state that the fifty millions of gold marks, almost the whole of the reserves of the [?] Bank, will be shipped to…

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Industrial Upheaval. 1917 Strike to Be Eclipsed. Coal Miners v. Coal Owners. Sydney

Young Witness · Thursday 23 March 1922 · page 1

It is stated that a well organised plan has been made by the Seamen's and Miners' Unions for a big. strike to take place, which will probably eclipsw the 1917 upheaval in order to deter the employers from reducing wages. The miners…

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Threatened Mining Strike United Service. VANCOUVER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 March 1922 · page 2

President Harding is considering a public appeal to the miners' operatives before the threatened strike on April 1. Meanwhile the United Mineworkers'…

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Wages in Collieries

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 March 1922 · page 1

The coal owners recently wrote to the Miners' Federation suggesting a conference to consider the question of a reduction in wages. The owners contend…

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The Latest U.S. Mining Dispute VANCOUVER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 March 1922 · page 2

The miners are proceeding to call out their members, and as for as surface indications go the strike will be complete on April 1…

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Big Coal Strike. CHICAGO

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 2

Coal production stopped to-day in approximately six thousand U.S. mines. The Government Is not expected to interfere until the 65,000,000 tons of…

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U.S. Mining Trouble. WASHINGTON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 2

Mr. Lewis, president of the mine-workers, who is appearing before the Congress Labour Committee, advised that nationalisation was the…

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Shocking Mining Disaster. Serious Casualty List

Young Witness · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.—A message from Berlin stages that at the fire at the Anslem mine, in the Ratisbon district, 16 were found dead and 36…

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U.S. Coal Strike PITTSBURG

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 April 1922 · page 2

A new move in the coal strike war was made to-day, when the American Steel Co., giving as a reason the shortage of coal, closed two big plants,…

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Old Araluen Mines. Dredging Held Up

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 April 1922 · page 4

Many old Goulburn residents remember the palmy days of the Araluen gold diggings. Dredging at Araluen, says the Braidwood Dispatch, is now…

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Safety Foe Miners. Firedamp Device Being Tested. London

Young Witness · Saturday 22 April 1922 · page 2

The Home Office is testing a device for attachment to miners' electric lamps which regsters the amount of firedamp present and sounds a bell…

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Broken Hill Miners and Mr. Catts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 1

The Broken Hill Miners' Union carried a resolution repudiating Mr. Catts and his fellow parliamentarians at the Brisbane A.L.P. Conference…

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Coal Seam. Rich Discovery at Muswellbrook. Sydney

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 1

It is reported that a syndicate work ing at Gyarran, Muswellbrook, has struck a seam of coal of the thickness, of about 25ft at a depth of 19ft…

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End of a Gold Mining Company

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 April 1922 · page 4

In the Equity. Court in Sydney last week, before Mr Justice Street, there was a petition by Mr Nicholas (instructed by Messrs Abbott…

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