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Mining & the mines, 1913

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Coal Miners Advance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 5

The Northumberland coal owners have advanced wages 3¾ per cent., an increase of 25 per cent. in the last two years…

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Mining Matters. the Small Coal Question. Newcastle, Monday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 5

The Miners' Wages Board to-day resumed the hearing of evidence bearing on the miners' claim for [?]6 for small coal. William Lawson, manager of Seaham No…

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Struck Gold. Boy's Find at Bathurst

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 2

The discovery of a rich shoot of gold has caused considerable excitement at Trunkey. A parcel of 50 tones of ore taken from the newly-discovered Kemfield mine near the…

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Miners' Wages Board. Wages in Maitland Collieries. Newcastle, Tuesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 5

At the Miners' Wages Board sitting to-day the miners' case was conducted by Mr. Teece, in the absence of Mr. Lewis, and, therefore, evidence win directed to the…

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Mining Matters. S.m.u.l. Coal Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 3

The Northern Miners' Wages Board (Judge Edmunds chairman) continued its sitting at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, when the following additional evidence was given…

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Labor Unrest. Canadian Mining Strike

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 2

Vancouver, Saturday.—The strike, of the Nannimo miners has been practically suppressed. The military effected 150 arrest's the men apprehended…

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Labour Troubles. Suggested Miners' Strike. London, Aug, 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 5

The delegates of the North Staffordshire Miners' Federation, at the Labour Conference, have given notice that there should be a strike at the end of September unless all…

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Mining Matters. Delegate Board Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 4

The adjourned meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at Newcastle yesterday, Mr. D. Waston, the district president,…

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Miners' Wages Board. Mr. John Brown in the Box. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 5

The Miners' Wages Board (Judge Edmunds presiding). resumed the hearing of evidence this morning. Walver [?] Cogley, clerk at Seaham No. 1…

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Aberdare Colliery Doctors

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 2

A ballot of the employees of the Aberdare Extended colliery, Cessnock, for the election of two medical officers had resulted in favour of Dis Chauncey and Huglies, who will work…

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Hebburn Colliery Picnic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 2

The Hebburn colliery employees are making arrangements for their annual picnic, which is to be held at Toronto in October. The committee is engaged drafting the sports…

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Two Miners Buried. Fall of Earth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 5

Two miners, Burns and Green, were burried by a fall of earth at Kilmore (Vic.) Gangs of men were put on to extricate them, and after eight hours work found…

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Angry Miners. Attack on Mr Justice Heydon

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 2

At Tuesday's meeting of the Newcastle miners' Delegate Bound, the following motion was received from Abermain lodge, and carried unanimously:—…

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Miners' Wages Board. the Propreitors' Case. Newcastle, Thursday. [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 5

The Miners' Wages Board to-day [?] the hearing of the proprietors' evidence re the demand of the miners for one and six for small coal…

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Mining

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 2

The Boranel syndicate are actively engaged in mining operation at the Boranel Mine the other side of Rawdon Vale, Mr Uren is the manager…

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Colliery Wages Board. Further Evidence. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 5

The sittings of the Colliery Wages Board presided over by his Honor Judge Edmunds, heard further evidence yesterday afternoon on behalf of the proprietors…

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Coal in Panama

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 9

A discovery of millions of tons of high grade anthracite coal has been made near Colon, Panama, within eight miles of deep water transportation. The coal was found…

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Two Miners Buried. Fall of Earth

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 8

Two miners, Burns and Green, were buried by a fall of earth at Kilmore (Vic.) Gangs of men were put on to extricate them, and after eight hours' work found…

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Struck Gold. Boy's Find at Bathurst

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 13

The discovery of a rich shoot of gold has caused considerable excitement at Trunkey. A parcel of 50 tons of are taken from the newly-discovered Kempfield mine near the…

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Panama Canal, Influence on Newcastle Coal Trade

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 8

Giving evidence before the Miners' Wages Board at Newcastle, Mr, John Brown, member of the firm of J. and A. Brown, said that the miners at…

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