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Mining & the mines, 1913

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Riotous Miners. Damage to Railway. Calumet (Michigan. U.S.A.)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 October 1913 · page 3

A renewal of strike disorders is raging throughout the district. The miners on strike attacked a special railway car containing strike-breakers, broke the windows, and…

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South African Miners. Johannesburg, Oct. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 October 1913 · page 5

The Trades Federation has rejected the resolution which a special meeting was convened to consider, namely, "That the Government has trumped up the labour…

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Coal Miner's Escape. After a Week's Burial

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 October 1913 · page 2

Contralia, Pennsylvania, Saturday Afternoon.—After being imprisoned for a week beneath l00ft. of coal, the result of a cave-in in a mine where he was…

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Abermain Colliery Grievance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 October 1913 · page 4

Not a few former employees of Abermain Colliery, who were recently displaced owing to the abolition of the afternoon shift are complaining that the arrangement. made for…

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Miners' Wages Board, Resumes Sittings To-morrow. Newcastle, Wednesday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 October 1913 · page 5

The Miners', Federation's protests against the Miners' Wages Board being hung up through Judge Edmunds being temporarily taken to Sydney to do duty in the industrial…

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Big Coal Contracts. Secured by Newcastle Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1913 · page 6

Two coal contracts have been secured lately by which the Newcastle oversea trade should receive an [?] The contracts are for 90,000 tons and 100,000 tons of Australian…

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Maitland Coalmines. Pelaw-main Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1913 · page 4

The Pelaw-Main Colliery was idle yesterday afternoon, in consequence of the miners on the afternoon shift holding a meeting near the pit top to discuss the price of explosives…

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Southern Miners' Union. Mr. Bowling's Position in Jeopardy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1913 · page 5

Great interest is centred in the ballet for the executive officers of the Southern Miner's Union, which is now being counted at Wollowgong…

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Miners' Wages Board. Evidence Continued. Newcastle Thursday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 October 1913 · page 5

Proceedings at the Miners' Wages Board were resumed to-day under the chairmanship of Judge Edmunds. Further evidence was given in support…

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Big Coal Contracts. Newcastle Regains Lost Ground. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 October 1913 · page 2

Two coal contracts have been received by Newcastle collieries amounting to 190,000 tons for Java. It was reported earlier in the year…

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South Miners Union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 6

The final result of the ballot for district officers in connection with the Miners Union was made known on Thursday. For secretary, Mr. A. C. Willis obtained 915 votes,…

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The Gold Fever

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 4

Few who have heard or read of the time when the gold fever raged in Victoria, and infected the rost of the world, realise the amount of wealth it has been…

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Miners' Wages Board. Evidence for the Employers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 6

The sitting of the Northern Coalminers' Wags Board was continued ut Newcastle yesterday, when the hearing of evidence in favour of the employers' contentions was…

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Mining Matters. the Dudley Award

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 6

Mr. James Hardle the arbitrator recently appointed to adjudicate upon the dispute concerning work in wet places in the Dudley Colliery, has completed his award, and…

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Scramble for Gold. Capital Strikers for Higher Wages. London, Oct. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 October 1913 · page 5

Lord Milner, in an address at the Birmingham Institute on "The Scramble for gold," said that the decline in gilt-edged securities should that capital was striking for higher…

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Big Coal Contracts. Secured by Newcastle Collieries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 7

Two coal contracts have been secured lately by which the Newcastle oversea trade should receive an impetus. The contracts are for 90,000 tons and 100,000 tons of Australian…

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Colliery Machanics' Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 6

The matter of resuming the week of the Coliery Machanics' Wages Board was mentioned by Mr. Justice Edmonds yesterday during the sitting of the Coal Miners's Wages…

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Miners' Conference Business

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 5

The Miners' Federation Conference by 335,000 to 291,000 negatived a resolution for a five days's week for all coalfields. The mover declared that statistics showed only…

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Rand Miners. Johannesburg

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 3

The Central, District Miners' Association unanimously opposes the proposal of the Federation of Trades Unions with regard to a strike as a protest against the conviction of…

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The Gold Fever

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 11 October 1913 · page 4

Few who have heard or read of the time when the gold fever raged in Victoria, and infected the rest of the world, realise the amount of wealth it has been…

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