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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Stanford-merthyr Miners' Lodge. Fining Members for Working

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 January 1910 · page 3

The Stanford-Merthyr Miners' Lodge held a meeting near the Station Hotel this morning, at which Mr. H. Gunther presided. The acting-secretary of the federation (Mr. B…

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The Strike. Strikers' Mines Idle. Newcastle. Monday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 January 1910 · page 3

The strikers' mines at Ebbw-Main and Young Wallsend were idle again this morning, and have not struck a blow for over a week. Instead of calling the miners out of those two mines, the…

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The Miners' Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

Mr. Lee, the Acting State Premier, has made a statement. concerning by the Government for coal taken from Eddw-Main and Young Wallsend collieries…

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Balmain Colliery. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

It is believed that work will shortly be resumed at Balmain Colliery…

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Japanese Coal

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 2

The first shipment of Japanese coal reached Melbourne on Saturday. No labour difficulties are expected. The losses in cargo at Newcastle by…

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Labour's Discontent. English Collieries Idle. London. Dec. 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 5

The eight hours' system in Northumberland collieries has evolved some dissatisfaction in regard to the shift system. Ten thousand miners are idle in Northumberland, and 5000 in…

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Welsh Mining Trouble

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 2

The Welsh Miners' Federation . has given consideration to the claim of the colliery proprietors for damages amount ing to £960,000, on account of the…

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The Coal Strike. Conspiracy Charges

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 4

Notwithstanding the committal of the accused, Bowling, Burns, Brennan, Lewis, and Gray to the next sittings of the Newcastle Quarter Sessions, upon the…

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Alleged Coal Contract. Writ for £2000

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 4

Mr F. G. Clark, solicitor, has made a further statement regarding the letter which he received on. behalf of Mr H; M. Moore, of Kethel and Co, Ltd., from…

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The Coal Strike. Mr Wade on the Situation

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 2

Mr C. G. Wade, Premier of New South Wales, interviewed on his arri val at Auckland (N.Z.), on Sunday, said that the prolonging of the…

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Calcutta Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 5

No time was lost by the steamer Irish Monarch in berthing. alongside the railway wharf in Melbourne, to unload her cargo of Calcutta coal, comprising 6184 tons for the Railway…

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General Cable News. London, Tuesday afternoon. Colliery Unsettlement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 5

Upward of 20,000 miners are now idle in the Northumberland and Durham collieries…

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The Coal Strike. Secret Meetings. The Police Baffled

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 2

"The new Act is all very well so far as it goes," said a prominent police officer to an Evening News reporter on Monday morning, " but I am losing…

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Coal-mining Conditions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 2

During the currency of the present colliery strike, a great deal has been said about the unhealthy and unpleasant conditions under which coal-mining is carried on. The conditions no…

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The Coal Strike. the Strikers' Mines

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 4

The strikers' mines, Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend, have not struck a blow for over a week. Instead of calling the miners out of these two mines, the…

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The Coal Crisis. Western Collieries' Wages Board. (By Telegram). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 2

The Western Collieries' Wages Board held a meeting in camera this morning to discuss the award to be delivered. Judge Scholes was unable to say when…

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The Coal-mining Strike Reduced Postal Service. Maitland Mining Towns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 3

The reduced service will interfere with the outward mails from Kurri. The midday mail will have to be cancelled, as there will be no train to convey it. The acting postmaster at…

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Miners and the Wages Board. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 3

Although, outwardly, the miners are maintaining a dogged determination to stand out for an open conference with the proprietors. there is a feeling amongst a certain section of…

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Western Collieries Award

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 5

The following award of the western Collieries and shake Mines (Coal Mines) Beard, constituted for the industries of coal miners wheelers, surface hands and other…

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Strike Nearly Over. Miners Mines Cease Work. Supposed Preliminary to Peace

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1910 · page 7

It is now definitely announced that no more work will be done at the Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend mines during the continuance of the…

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