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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

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Coal Strike. Nearing the End. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 3

The deputies at the Pelaw Main and the Pelaw mines returned work this morning. The proprietors hold the opinion that…

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Bupied Under Coal. an Extraordinary Fatality Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 3

At two o' clock this morning a donkey man noticed a free laborer named Thomas Heaver, who was assisting to load the…

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The Coal Strike Charges Against Four Leaders. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 3

The hearing of the cases against the four strike leaders. Bowling, Hutton, But her and O Connor. who are charged under the Industrial disputes Acts, was…

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The Coal Strike. Another Alleged Scheme for Settlement. The Ballot in the South. An Indecisive Result. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 2

It is freely stated that Mr Peter Bowling has another scheme for bringing the strike to an end, and that he will launch it as soon as the…

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Coal From Calcutta. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 2

The steamer Quitto, with the first shipment of Indian coal for the N.S.W. Government left Thursday Island this morning. Under ordinary conditions she should…

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The Coal Strike Prosecution of Leaders. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 2

The prosecution of Peter Bowling, Daniel Hutten, James Butler, and William O'Connor, prominent figures in the coal strike, was continued in the Industrial Court this…

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The Newcastle Miners' Responsibilities. (To the Editor of the Recorder.)

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 4

SIR,—Seeing that the coal miners of Newcastle are grown men and responsible to their wives and children, to the community and to their fellow…

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Eight Hours Tn Mines Effect on German Trade. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 2

The application of the eight hours' system in English mines is viewed with equanimity in Germany. In an article on the subject the "Berliner Tageblatt," a…

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Gold Stealing at Chiltern Three Men Convicted

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 January 1910 · page 3

At the Chiltern Police Court on Tuesday, before messrs. J. O'Grady and R. J. Burrowes, J s.P., Wm. Hall, Jas. O'Brien and Edward Milligan on remand were…

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The Coal Strike More Trouble with Wharf Laborers. Non-unionists Objected to Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 20 January 1910 · page 2

A gang of wharf laborers, which, numbered 200, which was employed on the Oceanic Steamship Company's steamer Jason, stopped work this afternoon. The…

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The Coal Strike Non-union Coal and the Jason. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 3

The wharf-laborers who came out of the steamer Jason yesterday because she was being coaled with the aid of non-union labor, refrs[?]ed to return to work this…

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Gold Stealing at Chiltern

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 23
Also in The Corowa Free Press

At the police court, Chiltern, before Messrs. O'Grady and Burrows, J's.P., W. Hall, E. Milligan and Jas. O'Brien were charged by the police with having…

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The Coal Strike. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 19

The old and new strike congresses have come to an agreement in one matter, that is in regard to finance, and the fact seems to bode well for a further rapprochement…

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The Coal Strike. No Important Developments' SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 1

The Hetton lodge colliery has carried a resolution against the Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend collieries resuming work until the ballot is…

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FELL 1800 Feet Eight Miners Crushed to Pulp. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 2

A shocking disaster has occurred in a coal rains near Coalbridge. A cage containing eight miners was being hauled up the shaft, when the chain…

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English Coal Strike. Tuners Returning to Work. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 2

the coal strike in Durham and North-umberland, which resulted in 100,000 men being out of employment, is "fizzling out." The cause of the trouble was the…

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English Coal Strike. Crippling Iron Trade. London, January 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 42

The extensive strike of coal miners in Northumberland and Durham, due to the night shift of eight hours which has been introduced as one result of the operation…

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The Coal Strike. Suggestions For Settlement. Owners to be Approached. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 January 1910 · page 2

The new congress has decided to put a certain proposition before the proprietors, but it is first necessary to obtain the concurrence of the southern lodges which are…

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Western Collieries Award

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 5

The award of the Western Collieries and Shale Miners was gazetted to-day. The award includes the adoption of the principle of eight hours from bank to bank,…

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