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Mining & the mines, 1915

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Mine-sweeper Sunk. One Hundred and Fifty-five Missing. London

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1915 · page 2

The Admiralty reports that the auxiliary mine-sweeper Hythe, in charge of Commander Bird, sank on Thursday night, after a collision…

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The Mining Situation. Seriousness of the Position. Compulsory Conference Asked For

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 November 1915 · page 3

An important meeting of the council of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation was held at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, yesterday, Mr. J. M. Baddeley…

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Cokeworkers' Strike Over. Wollongong Mines Idle

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 November 1915 · page 2

Sydney, Wednesday.-The Wollongong coke workers have resumed work, but some mines in the nothern end of the district are idle again. It is stated that…

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Mine Exploded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 November 1915 · page 5

The Turks exploded a mine under a British trench. The occupants had withdrawn, and five miners working underneath were buried. They were rescued three days inter…

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Sidney Coal-lumpers. Trouble Settled

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 November 1915 · page 7

An the result of the conference between representative of the Sydney coal-lumpers' Union and of the Steam Collier Owners, and Coal Stevedors' Association the trouble…

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Situation in Mining Districts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 November 1915 · page 4

The liquor trades strike has affected the Mines district hotels (Writes our Mines representative). They do not expect to get any further supplies of beer or cordials until…

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Another Welsh Coal Strike. 50,000 Rhonda Men to Come Out. The Federation Question

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 November 1915 · page 2

London, Tuesday Night.—A Cardiff message states that the Rhonda coalminers to the number of 50,000, have decided to give notice of their intention…

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Germany's Urgent Need of Gold

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 November 1915 · page 5
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

There has been no gold visible in Germany for some months past. What has not been yielded up to the Government has been hidden under mattresses and…

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The Mining Situation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 November 1915 · page 4

The trouble in the coal-mining industry in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and West Australia was the subject of discussion at the adjourned…

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Germany's Urgent Need of Gold

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 November 1915 · page 5

There has been no gold visible in Germany for some months past. What has not been yieldod up to the Government has been hidden under, mattresses and…

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The Mining Situation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 November 1915 · page 4

Representatives of the coalmine owners and the Australian Colliery Employees' Federation' on Saturday resumed their conference, before Mr. Justice Higgins, the President of…

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Mining Matters. the Compulsory Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 November 1915 · page 2

When the compulsory conference between the representatives of the Colliery Proprietors and the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation adjourned on…

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German Trenches. Mine and Bomb Warfare

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 November 1915 · page 7

At four in the morning it is bitterly cold in the Argonne. We drive, Wrapped in our cloaks, into the blackest night. Cannon fire with a hollow sound. Worl is carried on…

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Mining Matters. the Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 November 1915 · page 2

Tho compulsory conference with regard to the coal dispute was continued in Melbourne yesterday. It was subsequently announced that an…

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Hospital Ship Strikes Mine. London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 2

The British hospital ship Anglia, struck a mine in tho English Channel and sank. Of 375 aboard, 300 were saved. Another mine sank a ship which went to the rescue of…

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Cessnock District News. New Colliery Line

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 November 1915 · page 3

"The clearing of the route of the proposed railway from Cessnock to the Great Northern Coal Mining Company's property at Ella-long has been completed, and a start is to…

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The Mining Situation. Agreement Arrived At. Subject to Confirmation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 November 1915 · page 2

The conferences summoned by Mr. Justice Higgins, the President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, was concluded in Melbourne…

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Work at the Collieries. for Fortnightly Pay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 November 1915 · page 3

The Newcastle and Maitland collieries had, all things considered, a satisfactory run of work during the past fortnight ending Saturday, eleven getting in full time…

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The Wise Guy. (Written Expressly for "Coal Age" by Bert[?] Braley)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 November 1915 · page 4

"You can's tell me nuthin'," the pit-boss, he says; "You can't tell me nuthin' a-tall, I don't need advice from no hunkies like…

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