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Mining & the mines, 1921

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Coal Position. South Australian Minister's Views

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1921 · page 6

Mr. Hague, South Australian Minister for Public Works, returned to Adelaide from a visit to the eastern States, with the opinion that the outlook has…

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Coal Strike. Government Proposals. London, May 28

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1921 · page 2

The Prime Minister had a conference, lasting an hour and a half, with the Miners' Executive this morning, but without result. It is…

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Mining Industry. the Tasmanian Position

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1921 · page 13

A representative compulsory conference was held on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Powers, in the Federal Arbitration Court, to discuss the…

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Coal Strike. an Exhausted Treasury. London, May 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1921 · page 16

The financial secretary of the York shire miners, announcing the impossibility of issuing credit notes, says that the indebtedness of the union is…

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Coal Stoppage. Statement by the Owners. to Promote Socialistic Control

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1921 · page 12

In an official statement on [?] the northern colliery owners the [?]ion was expressed that the miners [?] embarked upon a deliberate c[?]…

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Coal Strike. Cost to Nation. Another Strike Threatened LONDON, June 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1921 · page 5

The coal strike is now costing directly and indirectly as much as the great war in its early stages, but as if the strike and the general trade slump is…

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Mining on the Rand. Wages Reduction. Capetown, May 28

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1921 · page 16

A Johannesburg, message says: An important conference was held between the Chamber of Mines and the South African Industrial Federation on the…

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Coal Strike. Derby Men Resume. London, June 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 June 1921 · page 5

The Swanwick collieries, in Derbyshire, normally employing 1000 men, reopened this morning, the men having accepted a flat rate reduction of…

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British Goal Miners a Deadlock

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 June 1921 · page 2

London, Saturday.—Mr Lloyd George, referring to the miners' rejection of the Government's terms for settling the strike, declares that the Government has…

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Coal Strike. London, June 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1921 · page 5

The Prime Minister has replied to the miners' executive that the Government; has nothing further to propose than its offer of May 27, and…

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Mining Explosives

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1921 · page 4

Representatives of the colliery proprietors and the miners conferred in Sydney on the question reducing the price of explosives. The three…

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Another Conference. Miners Optimistic. London, June 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1921 · page 5

The conference of coalowners and miners adjourned to enable both sides to consider the situation separately. Questioned after the meeting,…

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Working in Wet Weather. Clams by Colliery Hands. Pits Must Work First

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1921 · page 4

A sitting of the Coal Tribuual, presided over by Mr. C. Hibble, was held in Newcastle yesterday. A claim had been lodge by the…

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The British Coal Strike Financial Aid From Soviet

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 June 1921 · page 4

The Petrogard journal "Machovile" announces that the Central Council of the Soviet trado unions is sending £20,000 to the English miners…

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Mining Deadlock. Favourable Turn. London, June 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1921 · page 5

The mining deadlock has at last taken a definitely, favourable turn. The miners' executive sat for three hours to-day. It decided to ask the…

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Coal Production. Comparison of Outputs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 June 1921 · page 3

The Minister for Miners (Mr. Cann) directs attention to fisures reproduced in the "Monthly Labour Review" for September with regard to the mining…

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New Colliery Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 June 1921 · page 4

Attention is drawn to an advertisement, in another column regarding applications for shares in a company which is being formed to take…

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Coal Strike. London, June. 5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 June 1921 · page 2

The Prime Minister has replied to the miners' executive that the Government has nothing further to propose than its offer of May 27, and…

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Sport Before Work South Coast Mines Idle

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 June 1921 · page 1

Bulli and Coalcliff collieries were idle on Wednesday, owing to the Queensland footballers visiting the town to play against a South Coast team…

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Coal Industry. Award for Drivers and Firemen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 June 1921 · page 2

The final award of the special tribunal appointed, under the chairmanship of Mr. Charles Hibble, to consider the claims of the Federated…

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