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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

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South African Miners. Strike or Lockout? Capetown, Aug. 22

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1921 · page 3

A message from Johannesburg states that the National Board of Building Trade Employees. representing all the unions concerned in the…

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South Wales Miners. Improved Conditions Recommended. London, Aug. 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1921 · page 3

A sort of Miners' Utopia is recommended by a committee of the Ministry of Health in a report with regard to housing in South Wales…

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Coal Depression. Limiting Working Period. Conference of Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 August 1921 · page 2

Representatives of miners' lodges in the Newcastle district met in conterence at the Trades Hall on Saturday for the purpose of considering the…

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Riverina Coal. an Important Discovery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 August 1921 · page 6

Mr. Kilpatrick , M. L. A. who lives near the recently discovered coal field at Gourabiu. in Southern Riverina. during a visit to Alltury stated that…

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Pooling the Coal. Views of Mr. Estell

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 August 1921 · page 2

Speaking at a social gathering of mining officials at Newcastle on Saturday evening. the Minister for Works (Mr. Estell) referred to the conference…

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Gravest Danger. Coal Industry Situation. "Bolshevism Making Through Miners,"

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 August 1921 · page 6

"The situation developing in the coal industry is fraught with the gravest danger to the community; all- the, more dangerous because the…

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Chichester Mines. Work at Walsh Island

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1921 · page 3

The preparation of the 44 miles of of steel mains for Chichester gravitation scheme In connection with the water supply for the Newcastle and…

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Martial Law in America Troops to Check Miners

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 August 1921 · page 4

New York, Friday.—A message from Charleston (West Virginia) states that the Governor has requested the War Department to rush a thousand troops to…

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Coal Mining Industry. Increased Restrictions Proposed. Is It Common Sense?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 August 1921 · page 4

At a meeting of miners of the Newcastle district on Saturday to consider a proposal to limit the number of days per fortnight for collieries to be worked to a maximum of nine instead of eleven, the chairman of the meeting called for an avoidance of bitterness" "and a display of common…

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American Miners' Riot Vancouver, August 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 August 1921 · page 5

President Harding has declined to interfere in favour of the miners in Logan County West Virginia where trouble has been threatening for some…

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The Coal Miners a Strange Cause for Striking

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 September 1921 · page 2

Despite the complaints that they lack employment owing to shortage of trade at the collieries, the coal miners continue to manufacture reasons for striking…

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Coal Industry a Dangerous Situation

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 September 1921 · page 3

The secretary of the Northern Collieries' Association, Mr C. M. M'Donald, on Monday made the following official, statement on the position in the coal…

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Riverina Coal an Important Discovery

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 September 1921 · page 4

Mr Kilpatrick, M.L.A., who lives near the recently discovered coal field at Coorabin, in Southern Riverina, during a visit to Albury stated that the discovery…

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White Damp in Mines Appearance in Queensland

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 September 1921 · page 2

The Queensland Department of Mines has received a telegram from the inspector of mines in the Dawson Valley, stating that an outbreak of white damp…

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The New Collieries

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 8

Kalingo Colliery, or rather the property at Ellalong on which the colliery to be known as Kalingo is to be situated, seemed to have been marking time…

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Miners' Gallantry

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 4

Details of a terrible midnight ordeal experienced by five miners were narrated at an inquest at Middletown, near Welshpool (says an…

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All About Coal

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 September 1921 · page 3

There is a New York scientist who is greatly interested in coal mining. He decided to subscribe to a press-clipping bureau, to get every new slant…

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Coal Depression. Limiting Working Period. Conference of Miners

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 14

Representatives of miners' lodges in the Newcastle district met in conference at the Trades Hall on Saturday for the purpose of considering the…

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American Coal Miners Guerilla Fighting. Vancouver, August, 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 5

A message from washington says that, despite president Harding 's announcement that martial law would be proclaimed in the virginia colliery…

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Colliery Trouble

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 September 1921 · page 4

Trouble has occurred at south greta colliery in regard to the cavil. There are ceriain workings which the employees state are deficient places,…

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