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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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Forty thousand miners in Durham, and 20,000 in Northumberland, are idle owing to a dispute with reference to the shift system. The miners repudiate the conditions which their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.H.R., arrived at Fig Tree yesterday, and addressed a meeting of miners, over which Mr. F. Dunleavy, the president of the Southern Colliery Employees'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The serious question which the miners in the North have now to consider is whether it is not wisest in their own interest to accept the wages board, and give it a chance of bringing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There [?] 7000 miners idle in Northumberland and Darham Coal in small quantities is dribbling to shipping ports. Owners expect a speedy settlement, but the union executive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The special Wages Board will meet at Newcastle on Monday. Mr. Patterson declares that the board is going ahead. The miners had come to a mountain, and they must either go over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of the Neath miners' lodge was held yesterday afternoon, at which Mr. F. Stanley presided. Mr. Roche, of Hebburn lodge, and Messrs. Teece, Munition, and Brown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A mans meeting of coal-lumpers, at which members of the Wharf labourer and Seamen's Unions had been specially invited to be present, was held in the Protectant Hall, sydney, last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN view of the impending prosecutions against Peter Bowling and three of his colleagues, permission for which was granted by Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Lee, the Acting State Premier, has made a statement concerning payment by the Government for coal taken from Ebbw-Main and Young Wallsend collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great importance is attached to the mass meeting of unionists that is to be held to-night from the Grand Hotel balcony under the auspices of the Labour Council. The Miners' Federation has…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first shipment at Japanese coal reached Melbourne on Sunday when the steamer Zambesi brought 5260 cons from Moji, consigned to James and Alexander Brown, New South Wales colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Bucknall liner Baralong, which is at present running under the auspices of Crosby's South African line, arrived at Sydney on Sunday from Durban, via Albany and Melbourne, to discharge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A large meeting of the Greta Miners' Lodge was held in Guest's Hall last night. The chairman (Mr. J. Redgrove) presided. After the roll was called several matters were faid before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A serious difficulty has occurred, in South Wales owing to the decision of the High Court, that the men are liable to work 68 extra hours yearly. The owners claim…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Stanford-Methyr miners lodge was held yesterday afternoon, at which Mr. H. Gunther presided. The meeting was called principally to hear a report…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend were idle again this morning, and have not struck a blow for over a week. Instead of calling the miners out of these two mines, the federation has achieved the same end, by different…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In view of the impending prosecutions against Mr Peter Bowling and three of his colleagues, permission for which was granted by Judge Heydon on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The directors of Block 10 Company, Broken. Hill, have decided to shut down the mine to-night (Saturday), owing to the shortage of coal. About 500 men…
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