The Coal Miners' Trouble Big Struggle Possible. (By Telegraph.) London
Messrs. H. C. Asquith (Prime [?] tor), Sydney Sydney, and Lloyd George Sir G. R. Askwith, and Sir Edward [?] had a two-hours' conference mil…
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Mining & the mines, 1912
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The Coal Crisis in England. a Million Miners Involved. London, Friday evening
The vast majority of miners have handed in notices that they will cease work on the 29th instant. The English Coal Conciliation Board…
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The National Federation of Enginemen has decided to cease work in the event of a strike, except to keep water out of the collieries…
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On the ground of the possibility of falls of stone or the flooding of the mines, the Northumberland mine owners have rejected the deputies' and enginemens' application…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Restive German Miners. Berlin, Feb. 23
The minors on the Ruhr coalfields are demanding a 15 per cent, increase in wages the introduction of an eight-hours day, exclusive of the time spent in going to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Coal Ordered. London, Feb. 21
The Admiralty has ordered 10,000 tons of American steam coal for Gibraltar. OWNERS TERMS REJECTED. The owners representatives on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Crisis in England. Conference Adjourned. London, Feb. 23
The conference has been adjourned till Tuesday, when representatives of the Miners' National Conference will be invited to join in the negotiations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Mining Disaster. 40 Men Entombed. Coalgate (Oklahoma), Feb. 23
A fire broke out in the Western Coal Company's mine, and 80 men were cut off from the shaft. Many dashed for safety, and escaped just in time. There bodies of six…
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The executive of the Lancashire and Cheshire miners have instructed their delegates to Tuesday's conference to refuse to suspend the operation of their notices…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Storage Fatalities
The storing by the Electric Lighting Company, Southwark, of 1000 tons of coal in view of a possible strike, caused a wall to collapse, and the coal fell into an alley, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Miners. General Strike Possible. Angers, Feb. 24
The Minors' Congress at Angers has declared for a 24 hours' strike on March 11, with the object of influencing Parliament to grant its demands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Crisis in England. Works Closing Down London, Feb. 24
The Prime Minister has submitted to the coal owners and miners important proposals in connection with the present industrial crisis, requesting an answer on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oklahoma Mining Disaster. Eight Bodies Recovered. Oklahoma, Feb. 24
Eight bodies have been recovered from the Western Cial Cos mine, where 80 men were cut off from the shaft by a fire. The mine is being flooded to extinguish…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mulbring Collieries Company
The prospectus of a new colliery company to be called the Mulbring Collieries, Limited, is published in this issue. The capital of the Company is £80,000 shares of £1 each…
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Twenty meetings, representing 370,000 miners, in the Runr coalfield, have passed resolutions affirming that the recent increases in wages have not been sufficient to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hebburn Colliery Fatality. Inquest at Weston
An inquest was held at the Criterion Hotel yesterday, before the district coroner, Mr. G. Brown, and a jury of six, upon the death of Henry Bayley, who died on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coalminers' Trek. Colliery to Be Deserted
The Colliery Employees' Federation has an ingenious method of escaping from an awkward situation. Such a situation occurred recently at Northumberland Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Accident Relief Fund
Individual calls for charitable assistance in mining communities under present circumstances are by no means inconsiderable, but they would be much more series and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Miners' Attitude. Berling, Feb.26
A manifesto just issued by the Christian Miners, deprecates a sympathetic strike, both on political and national grounds, it states: "The British miners, by their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Coal Crisis. a Feeling of Dread
London, Saturday.—There is a general feeling of dread in regard to the threatening coal strike. It is feared that tbere must be…
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