Colliery Troubles. London, Wednesday evening
Two thousand coliers have struck work in South Staffordshire. The Scottish Coal Conciliation Board has considered the miners' demands for an…
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Mining & the mines, 1912
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South Wales Miners
Mr. W. Brace, Labour member for Glamorgan South, succeeds Mr. W. Abraham, M.P. ("Mabon") as president of the South Wales Miners' Federation, defeating Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Marvellous Escape From Death. Beneath 40 Tons of Coal
On Thursday a coal lumper named John Case was buried for 35 minutes beneath 40 tons of coal, which was being unloaded from a collier at Darling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fight for a Mine. Americans v. British. Gatling Gun Used. San Francisco, June 8
A light took place for the possession of a radium claim near Monroe Luke, Nebrit Island. A syndicate of English capitalists…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortland Colliery
Shortland Colliery was idle yesterday. The cause of the stoppage was that when the miners went to their places in the morning it was found that the bord in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal and Colliers
It would greatly surprise the average Londoner to-day to hear that, by a proclamation of 1306, the use of coal in the Capital was forbidden, so little was it liked. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maitland Coalmines. Pelaw Main Colliery
A ballot of the employees of Pelaw-Main colliery for the election of lodge officers for the ensuing quarter resulted as follows:—Chairman, R. Herron; secretary, E. Thompson (re-elected); delegage, G…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold at Parkes
A report from Parkes states that Mr. W. H. Haselhurst, who made a considerable fortune from the Phoenix mine about thirty years ago, has struck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Showers of Gold in the Street
A sudden outburst of generosity which prompted a strangely-dressed young man, whose name is given as Charlie Green, to throw handfuls of gold and silver to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Mining Matters. the Second Shift
At the meeting of the joint committee on mining disputes in Newcastle yesterday, Mr. C. Hibble, chairman, presiding, details of the claim of the Colliery Employees'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shortland Miners
The question of tonnage and yardage rates for machine-men at Shortland Colliery came before the joint committee yesterday. The management and the men were mutually…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pelaw-main Colliery. Treatment of Horses. Pit Thrown Idle
The Pelaw-Main colliery was idle yesterday afternoon (says our mines correspondent), the reason given by the men being that the police had pronounced some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident in a Colliery
James Warby, an unmarried man, 49 years of age, who is employed in a colliery at East Maitland was admitted to the Maitland Hospital this afternoon, suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners. V. Doctors' Trouble. Hospital Committee's Decision
At last evening's meeting of the Kurri District Hospital management committee there was a discussion in regard to the doctors' trouble that led to an important…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Buried Under 40 Tons of Coal. Coal Lumper's Awful Experience
John Case, 22, a coal lumper, of 101 Kippax-street, Sydney, but at present an inmate of Sydney Hospital, had an awful experience at Darling Island. He was burled for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Welsh Gold. Revived Industry
It is reported by recent London papers that gold in payable quantities is at last being mined in the Welsh hills. Many yours ago, Mr. Pritchard Morgan, ex-M.P., conceived the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Showers of Gold in the Street
A sudden outburst of generosity which prompted a srangely-dressed young man, whose name is given as Charlie Green, to throw handfuls of gold and silver to passers…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fight for a Mine. Americans v. British. San Francisco, June 8
A fight took place for the possession of a radium claim near Monroe Lake, Nebrit Island. A syndicate of English capitalists…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Upton Sinclair. Views on the Coal Strike. England Five Years Hence
Mr Upton Sinclair arrived in England a week ago. and on Thursday I saw him in the House of Commons under the pilotage of Mr John Burns (said a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Greta Miners
Dissatisfaction, which has given rise to unrest, exists amongst the South Greta miners with regard to certain matters in connection with the working of the colliery. The principal…
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