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Mining & the mines, 1919

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Coal Land at Lithgow. Leases Applied For

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 6

G. and C. Hoskins, Ltd., have applied for leases of about 3000 acres of coal land in Lithgow. The ground was originally part of an area reserved for a State coal…

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Big Coal Strike, America's Disaster. Vancouver, October 31

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 2

The union loaders expect that the coal miners' strike will centre in the coalfields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The most powerful organisations are in Illinois, and…

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America's Coal Trouble Production Entirely Ceased. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) Washington, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 6

Coal production has ceased throughout the United States. The railway trains are discontinuing running…

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Gold From the Sea Bullion Wrested From Sunken Liner. Bid to Reclaim Ingots Value £6,000,000

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 7

Modern science has triumphed over almost insuperable difficulties and wrested a colossal fortune from "Davy Jones's locker," with the possibility of…

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Big Coal Strike. Great Liners Affected. London, November 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 5

The ltinerary of the great liners is badly affected by the American coal strike. The Adriatic (24,500 tons) is expected at Plymouth at midnight on Thursday after a…

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Colliery Mechanics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1919 · page 4

An aggregate meeting of members of the Colliery Mechanics Mutual Protective Association will be held in the Olympia Hall, Weston at 9.15 a.m. to-morrow (Wednesday)…

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Colliery Mechanics. Conference with Proprietors

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1919 · page 4

The adjourned conference between representative of the Northern Colliery Prop[?]tors. Association and the Colliery Mechanics Association was held in Sydney…

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British Coal Prices

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1919 · page 5

The leaders of the coal miners contend that the Government's coal calculations are incorrect and they are confident that they can persuade the Prime Minister that large…

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District Collieries. Hebburn Idle. Wheelers at Rothbury. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1919 · page 5

Hebburn Colliery was idle to-day the men having decided to have a day off to celebrate armistice day. All the Aberdare Collieries were at work…

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Big Coal Strike. Judge Orders Cancellation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1919 · page 5

A message from Indiana polis states that Judge Anderson ordered the mine-workers to cancel the strike. He held that Congress had the right to declare war and to feed…

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Turmoil in U S.a. Serious Coal Strike

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 November 1919 · page 2

Washington, Saturday.—The Government has ordered the strike leaders to annul the coal strike. A report from Indianopolis states that…

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Big Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 November 1919 · page 5

At Indianopolis, Judge Anderson in ordering the miners to cancer a strike order, said: "This is the most lawless thing I ever saw) I consider this a rebellion. The…

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Goldfields Trouble. Fourteen Men Arrested

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 November 1919 · page 2

About midnight on Monday eleven unionists, including C. Callanan, secretary of the Goldfields Council of the A.L.P., who it is alleged, were prominently associated with the…

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Coal Industry Royal Commissioner's Report

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 November 1919 · page 2

The report by Mr J. L. Campbell, X.C., covering 10 of the 12 questions on the coalmining industry of the State submitted to him for inquiry by Royal…

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Colliery Mechanics. Aggregate Meetings Consider Proprietors' Offer. Terms Accepted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1919 · page 2

Aggregate meetings of members of the Coliery, Mechanics' Mutual Protective Association, Hunter River District, were held at Weston and Newcastle, when consideration…

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Big Coal Strike. Case for the Miners. Vancouver, November 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 November 1919 · page 5

A message from Washington reports that everyone is asking to what extent the miners will obey the agreement of their leaders to cancel the strike…

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East Greta Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 November 1919 · page 4

A meeting of the East Greta Miners' Lodge will be held at Capper's Hill to-morrow (Saturday) morning, at 11 o'clock…

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Work in Mines

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 November 1919 · page 3

Mr. J. M. Baddeley told a Cessnock meeting of soldiers that the engagement of so many returned men was having its effect upon other miners,…

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British Coal Prices

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 November 1919 · page 2

The leaders of the coal miners contend that the Government, and they are confident that they can persuade the Prime Minister that large…

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Big Coal Strike

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 November 1919 · page 3

At Indianoplis, Judge Anderson, in ordering the miners to cancel a strike order said: "This is the most lawless thing I ever (saw) I consider this a rebellion. The…

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