Pelaw-main Fatality. Mine Manager Prosecuted. Kurri Kurri
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 May 1911 · page 5
A case of considerable interest to the mining community was opened at the Kurri Kurri Police Court this morning, before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, P.M., when Robert Scott,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Collieries Idle
Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 3
All four collierics of the Teralba series are" idle again, and are likely to remain so, as the Proprietors Association has by resolution declined to pay the men a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Movement
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 5
A conference of representatives of the Miners' Unions in the several States commenced in the Trades Hall, to-day, the object being to devise a scheme for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Miners' Lodge
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 4
The Cessnock Miners' Lodge has tabled notices of motion to be forwarded to the delegate board that the district officers, Messrs. D. Watson and A. Lewis should be censured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Vend Case
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 5
Mr. Edden, Minister of Mines, has been subpoenaed to give evidence in the coat Vend case before the High Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Conference at Pelaw-Main
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 4
A conference was opened at the Kurri Court House this morning in connection with the Pelaw-Main colliery trouble, the parties being the management of Pelaw-Main colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welsh Coal Disputes. Owners Decline Arbitration London, May 3
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1911 · page 5
The coal-owners of South Wales nave declined the proposal of the Miners' Fedoration at Britain, that the Cambrian disputes should be referred to arbitration, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 5
The Maikop Orient, Oil Company, which has a capital of £250,000 is to absorb the Victorian Deep Leads, Limited, and the Mooriot Goldfields, Limited…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pelaw-Main Miners' Lodge. Colliery Still Idle
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 14
The Pelaw-Main colliery is still idle, and the horses have again been sent away. The Minors' Lodge discussed the trouble on Friday, when the lodge officers reported having…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Newcastle Collieries Idle. the Coal Owners' Vend. Newcastle
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 13
All four collieries of the Teralba series are idle again to-day, and are likely to remain so, as the Proprietors' Association has by. resolution declined to pay the men a higher scale…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal Vend Prosecution
Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 4
During the hearing of the coal vend case on Wednesday a witness, F. H. Lloyd, stated that he had been a coaldealer, but had gone bankrupt, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welsh Colliery Strike. London, Friday evening
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 5
Renewed disturbances have occurred in the Rhondia Valley. The strikers clothe non-unionists in white shirts and mob them until the police interfere, and then stone the police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Disaster. Michigan, U.S.A.
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 5
Fire has occurred at the Negannee Colliery. Five miners are known to have perished, and others have been entrapped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death of a Miner. Case Against Mine Manager
Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 7
At Kurr Kurrl Police Court on Wednesday before Mr Fltzhardinge, P.M., John Thomas Tennant, Government Inspector of Collieries, proceeded against…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Waihi Mine. "Enormous Potentialities." London, May 2
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 3
The report of the directors of the Waihi Gold—mining Company, Limited, emphasises the fact that no more bodies below the No. 9 level have been tested; nevertheless, though…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Over a Thousand Miners Idle. a Serious Situation. Newcastle
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 5
A serious condition of unrest is rapidly making itself manifest in the coal mining industry. Yesterday out of a pay drawn for a small fortnight's work, all members…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal for Alaska. Dumping It Into the Sea. Vancouver, May 6
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 May 1911 · page 3
Threats are openly made at Cordova, Alaska that when a steamer arrives with coal it will be dumped into the sea. The Mayor is telegraphing for troop to be sent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Mine on Fire
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 May 1911 · page 3
Vancouver, Saturday.—A mine at Negaunce, in Michigan, United States, is on fire. Five men are known to be dead, and others are entrapped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welsh Coal Strike
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 May 1911 · page 3
London, Satuday.-Renewed disturbances have occurred at Rhondda. Some of the strikers mobbed the non-unionists, and dressed them in white shirts, until…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pelaw-Main Miners' Lodge
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1911 · page 4
The Pelaw-Main miners met yesterday afternoon, when arrangements were made in regard to securing the names of those entitled to victimised pay. The chairman said that no news had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →