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Mining & the mines, 1910

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The Coal Strike Sentences on Leaders. How They Are Regarded. Kurri Kurri

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 2

The news of the sentences of 12 and eight months respectively imposed upon Peter Bowling and bis three fellow prisoners for advocating a strike, has been…

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Coal Strike Practically Over Miners Approach the Owners. Asking for a Conference. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 31 January 1910 · page 3

The Delegate Beard of the Colliery Employes' Federation, met yesterday. The chief matter dealt with was the recommendation by the Advisory Committee to…

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English Coal Trouble Riots at West Hartlepool. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 31 January 1910 · page 2

The trouble in the English coal-mining industry, chiefly over the working of the Eight Hours in Mines Act, is being marked by very bitter feeling among the men…

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The Coal Strike. The Miners More Conciliatory. Settlement Believed to be Near. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 2

The miners' delegate board on Saturday passed the following resolution:—"That we recommend that the colliery proprietors be asked to meet us in…

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The Coal Strike Preparations for Resumption of Work. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 2

There are indications that the colliery proprietors on the Maitland field are anticipating an early settlement of the coal strike. The horses which have been out…

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The Coal Strike the Carters and "Black" Coal. Sydney

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

The coal carters, who on Saturday refused to cart coal which they, considered "black," have changed their minds, and started work noon the insulted mineral…

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Alleged Coal Conspirators. Bowling and Four Others on Trial. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 5

The trial of five of the coal strike leaders on charges of conspiracy on which they were committed at Newcastle in December last, was entered upon this…

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Two Shipments of Bengal Coal. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 2

The steamer Den of Airlie. from Calcutta arrived in the harbor this morning bringing 4000 tons of the best Bengal coal for the use of the State Government…

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The Coal Strike Compulsory Wages Board. Growing in Popularity. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 2

Despite the fact that opposition to the Wages Board is being persistently fomented by men who are opposed to any and ever form of industrial arbitration, the…

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Two Mining Tragedies Great Disaster in Colorado. 94 Bodies Recovered. London

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

Further news is to hard regarding the dreadful disaster at the Colorude Iron and Coal Companys mine at Primero. The first intimation of the disaster…

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Coal

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 6

The coal shipments during the first nine months of the year exhibited a falling off of 1,100,207 tons, and £516,635 in value, when compared…

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Brocklesby. the Coal Strike Southern Miners Wish to Resume. Bull[?]

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 3

Wheat [?] has new [?] what though a considerable quantity of wheat is yet to come in. The grain [?] is full and there are several [?] The Bulli Coal Miners' Ledge to-day unanimously carried a motion instructing the district executive officers to convene an aggregate meeting of the Southern…

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No Coal

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 6

Advocates of the strike are tauntingly asking the Government whether, by the P[?] of their anti-strike policy, they have succeeded in opening the mines and…

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Coal Lumpers Strike Fizzling

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 3

There are indications that the Coal Lumpers' strike will soon be over, this happy state of affairs being brought about by a split over money matters between…

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A Gold-lined Well

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 4

At Ni[?]hima, in Japan, there is, it is said, a wonderful castle possessing a goldlined well, which affords the garrison an [?]bundant water supply. Not only does…

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Non-unionists Unloading Foreign Coal

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 3

The steamer Den of Airlie, with a large cargo of coal from the Bengal pits, was berthed at Walker's Wharf this morning. Shortly afterwards 100 non-unionists were…

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The Coal Strike. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 21

The conviction and imprisonment of Messrs. Peter Bowling, David Hutton, J. Butler, and W. O'Connor was responsible for a full muster of delegates to the New…

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British Coal Industry. a Big Trouble Possible. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 2

The position in the British coal-mining industry is still giving rise to serious anxiety. THe masters in South Wales claim…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) Another Colliery Explosion 68 KILLED; 50 Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 2

The third great mining disaster in America within a week was reported yesterday from Las Esperandas in Mexico. It appears that an explosion was caused in a…

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Outrage on a Coal Railway Concrete Culvert Blown Upkurri Kurri

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

A diabo[?]cal outrage was perpetrated on the Aberdare Colliery Company's line of railway early this morning, when a concrete culvert situated between the Neath…

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