The Great Coal Strike. Minimum Wage Demands. London, March 15
The conference between the Government and the owners, and the miners, sat for four hours, and afterwards the bald official announcement…
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Mining & the mines, 1912
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British Coal Strike. Conciliation Fails. Government Decision. Special Legislation. London
The negotiations for a settlement of the great coal strike being carried out by Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, and the representatives of the owners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Coal Trouble the Minimum Wage Bill. 250,000 Men Idle. (By Cable.) London
Reports form the mining districts are unenthusiastic concerning the proposed Minimum Wages Bill. It is said in official circles that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Coal Strike. Minimum Wag Hill. London, March 19
The "Times" states that, the Government bill will be merely to meet the present special emergency, and that it will not deal with any future strikes or embody the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Satisfied Miners
Many miners regard the bill with satisfaction, especially in North Wales, where there is much distress…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Uncompromising Miners
A conference of Yorkshire and Derbyshire surfacemen, representing 10,000 wage workers, resolved that, unless the bill includes a minimum wage for surfacemen the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Divided Opinions
The Miners Federation Conference, contrary to the advice of the executive, carried a resolution that the bill would be unacceptable unless it provides for a minimum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hebburn Miners' Lodge
The following officers of the Hebburn Miners' Lodge have been elected for the ensuing quarter:—Chairman, T. Dunn; secretary, T. Hadfield; treasurer, E. Peters;…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →German Coal Difficulty
MiGGlesborough is importing German coal for its relief committee. The dock labourers refused to unload it. and the corporation is divided on the question of what to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Coal-owners's Views
Mr. D. A. Thomas, chairman of the Cambrian Coal Combine, in an Interview in regard to the Government bill, declared that it did not deal with the underlying cause…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal for American Navy. Washington, March 20
The navy is threatened with a shortage of coal supplies and the Secretary of the Navy has arranged a conference with the hituminous coal operators with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Governor-general at Newcastle. a Word for the Miners
Last evening their Excellencies Lord and Lady Denman were entertained at a banquet tendered by the citizens of Newscastle in the Masonic Hall. The Mayor presided, and there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Coal Trouble. Minimum "Wage Bill Interoduced London
The Prime Minister (Mr H. H. Asquith) has introduced the Coal Miners' Bill, embodying a minimum wage for underground workers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Coal Strike. Minimum Wage Bill. London, March 20
The House of Commons was crowed when the Prime Minister Introduced the Minimum Wage In Coalmines Bill. He said that the Government had decided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Coal Trouble. Opening of the Conference. (By Telegraph). Sydney
The joint committee on conciliation in raining disputes sat at Newcastle to-day, and had before it for consideration the question of the proposed abolition of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal From Abroad
The German coal at Middleborough has been unloaded. The first shipments of Canadian coal, 1250 tons, has arrived at Millwall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Colliery Trouble. Cleveland, March 21
The bitummous coal operatives have conferred with the representatives of 200,000 miners in Pennsylvania, Chio, Indian, and Illinois, in regard to the existing wages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The British Coal Strike
The difficulties, and one might add the impossibility, of setting industrial disputes by legislation, unless both parties are seeking a settlement on reasonable terms, are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cables. the Coal Strike. London
The leaders of the British Miners' Federation, are annoyed at the Premier's statement that it would not be fair to embody a schedule in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Coal Strike. Minimum Wage Bill
In a packed House of Commons, the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith formally moved the second reading of the Minimum Wage in Coal Mines Hill…
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