Miners' Wages Board
Despite the fact that the miners of the Maitland field have often expressed themselves strongly against the wages board system, it is noticeable that there is a…
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Mining & the mines, 1913
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A Shower of Gold
Paris, Monday.—A-carriage, in which £120,000 "in gold was being conveyed, overturned in a collision with a tramcar in the Bonlevard, Sebastopol, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Horrors on the Gold Coast. Cannibalism Practised. (By Cable.) London
Tales of horror have been published from the Gold Coast, where cannibals murdered their victims to obtain human fat for use in medicine. Many were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Matters. Pelaw-main Colliery
Mr. W. Brennan, the general secretary, acting on behalf of the Colliery Employees' Federation, has given notice that application will be made to Mr. Justice Heydon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Departure of Miners
It is said that several miners and their families will be leaving the district as the result of the arrangements for the installing of cutting machines at the local mine…
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Canterbury, of [?] places, proposes to begin a new life as a mining town. Time was when, as befitted [?]habitants of a quiet cathedral city, Canterbury folk were content…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners' Wages Boards. Opening Proceedings at Newcastle. Newcastle Wednesday afternoon
The first sitting of the Miners' Wages Board (Judge Edmunds chairman, and Messrs. N.J. Clarke and E. Peters, representing the mineownners and Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Work at the Collieries
Operations at tho collieries of the Newcastle and Maitland districts have been fairly brisk during the past fortnight, and out of a total of 42, concerning which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Disaster. Explosion of Gas. Pottsville (Pennsylvania). Aug.3
An explosion of gas wrecked a mine property of the Philadelphia and Reading Mining Company. Thirty-six miners were caught in the workings, and only six were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Wages Board. Small Coal Case. Evidence Begin. Newcastle
The Miners' Wages Board (Judge Edmunds, chairman, Mr. N. J. Clarke, proprietors' representative, and Mr. E. Peters, representing the Miners Federation)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nationalisation of Mines
Mr. Stephen Walsh, M.P. (Lab.) proposes the nationalisation of mines, and estimates the purchase price at £135,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maitland Coalmines. Pelaw-main Colliery
After the adjournment of the Pelaw-Main miners' meeting on Sunday, a deputation from the men, accompanied by the president of the federation, Mr. D. Watson,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stanford-merthyr Miners' Lodge
At a special meeting of the Stanford-Merthyr miners' lodge held on Sunday, the delegate, Mr. Hudson, explained the delegate board minutes of July 17 and 18. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Colliery Disaster. Twenty-three Lives Lost. London, Aug. 4
A fire broke out in the Cadder colliery, Makis Valley, Glasgow, and as a result 23 miners were entombed. The outbreak was discovered just as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →France Short of Gold Coin. Paris, Aug, 4
Owing to the searcity of gold coins the Bank of France is converting its gold reserves into 20 franc pieces. London has only one mile of tramways to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Demands. Mr. Keir Hardie and the Day's Work. London, Aug. 4
The Lothian miners have decided to urge the Scottish Federation to secure a minimum wage of 7s per day. Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., in course of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Disaster. Pathetic Pithead Scenes. London, Aug. 5
Further nows regarding the disaster at Cadder colliery, Makis Valley, Glasgow, indicate that the outbreak of fire was due to the fusing of an electric cable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Wages Board. Continuation of Evidence Newcastle, Wednesday afternoon
The wages board resumed the hearing of evidence this afternoon on the miners' claim for 1/6 a ton small coal. The first witness was Benjamin Rees, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Federation. the Trouble at Pelaw-main. Newcastle, Wednesday afternoon
There was no sitting of the Minors' Wages Mount this morning, the board adjourning till this afternoon owing to the delegate board of the federation holding a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Pelaw-main Colliety. Objection to Injunction
Mr. Justice Heydon listened to arguments in the Industrial Court, Sydney, on Tuesday, regarding the injunction which he grim tori against Edward Thompson,…
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