Shortland Colliery
Shortland Colliery resumed work yesterday, after being idle for the [?] part of a year. The machine men went in to cut the herds. The fillers will make a start without delay,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1912
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German Coal Miners. Essen Strike Probable. (By Cable). Berlin
The threatened strike at Essen, in Rhenish Prussia, seems certain, as the miners have carried away their working clothing. A conference is being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Collieries Deadlock. NEWCASTLE, Sat
The meeting of the conciliation committee, called by the chairman, Mr. C. Hibble, was opened this morning, and kept going until 2 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northern Coal Trouble Maitland Miners [?] Afternoon Shift. (By Telegraph). Sydney
The coal miners' strike [?] afternoon in the Maitland district The men employed at three of [?] gest mines have intimated to [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Maitland Mines
All the collieries on the Maitland field were idle yesterday afternoon, but not for strike purposes, the object being to secure representative meetings of the various lodges to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Situation
The sudden stoppage of work in the many and large mines working the [?] afternoon shift; which many feared as a result of the proprietors' representatives on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northern Coal Trouble. SYDNEY
The coal miners' strike begins this afternoon in the Maitland district. The men employed at three of the largest mines have intimated to their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pelaw-main Miners. Pelaw-main
A special meeting of the Pelaw-Main miners was held last evening to consider the suggestion made by the chairman of the joint committee (Mr. Hibble) in regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Crisis. Delegate Board Meeting
A special meeting of the delegate, board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held yesterday at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, to consider the proposal that had come from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Mining Situation. Conference Recommended
The joint committee, which has in hand the consideration of disputes between the colliery proprietors and the miners throughout the Newcastle and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What Coal Trimmers May Do. Newcastle, Tuesday afternoon
A new development has arisen to affect the strike question independently of both owners and miners. It transpires that the executives committee of the Newcastle Coal-trimmers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last Hope of Peace. Authorities Commandeering Coal. London
Despite Mr. Asquith's optimistic predictions as to an early settlement of the coal crisis, hundreds of factories closed down on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British Coal Strike. Alarming Conditions. London. March 11
The "Morning Post" estimates that the unemployment in connetion with the coal strike ar 1,039,000 miners and 661,480 others, including 228,000 steel, iron, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed Amending Mining Bill. Newcastle, Tuesday afternoon
It was learned in the city to-day Unit Immediately the strike begins a member of the Labour party will ask leave to introduce a Bill to amend the Coal Mines Regulation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Coal Contract. Brown Bros. v. the King. Melbourne
Judgement was given to-day in the appeal from the decision of the State Chief Justice in the action in which Messrs. J. and A. Brown, of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The British Coal Strike. The Minimum Wage Bill. (By Cable). London
It is rumored that the Government will introduce a Minimum Wage Bill on the 14th inst., if necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Valedictory
About 20 officials of the Stanford Merthyr colliery assembled at the kurri Hotel on Saturday evening to say farewell to Mr. w. Linsly. who has been an underground official…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Troubles
The miners' meetings at Newcastle and Maitland last night were unanimous in agreeing to a conference with the proprietors on the lines…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Strike in Germany
The Westphalian miners are on strike. In effect 65 percent.—350,000—obeyed the fall of the lenders. But in some districts only 30 per cent, ceased work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Indignant Miners at Kurri Kurri
Considerable surprise and even indignation has been expressed throughout the Maitland mining district, (says the Mines' Representative), at the publication of the…
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