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Mining & the mines, 1910

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The Coal Strike Request for a Conference. Proprietors Stand Off. Sydney

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

The Northern Collier Proprietors' Association, at a meeting to-day, considered the request from the Miners' Delegate Board for a conference to settle the strike. In…

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The Coal Strike a Settlement Close at Hand. Bulli

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 February 1910 · page 3

A meeting of the Ilawarra Colliery Employers' Union was held at Bellambi yesterday to consider the question of resuming work. After a lengthy discussion a…

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Colliery Explosion. Eleven Men Killed. a Week's Grim Record. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 February 1910 · page 2

Still another fatal colliery explosion is reported from the United States. The scene of the latest tragedy was the Earnest coal-mine in Pennsylvania. The brief…

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The Coal Strike Conspiracy Cases Adjourned. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 February 1910 · page 2

When the cases against Peter Bowling and the other strike leaders who are charged with conspiracy were called on at the Criminal Court this morning it was…

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The Coal Strike. The Southern Men Disposed to Return. An Important Resolution. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 February 1910 · page 3

The South Coast miners decided at a general meeting to-day to leave the settlement of the strike in the hands of the Amalgamated Council, which…

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Waterview Gold Mining Syndicate Most Encouraging Prospects

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 5

Developments in the small reef prospected by Rumble and party in a hill behind Mr. Scholz's Waterview Estate, about two miles from the Na[?]can Hill in a direct…

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The Coal Strike the Conspiracy Charges. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 5

Brennan, who with Bowling and others is charged with conspiracy in connection with the coal strike, but who had been too ill to appear previously, was able to appear…

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Eight Hours in Mines Act Causes Disappointment. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 2

Sir William Bull, Unionist member for Hammersmith, has written a letter to the newspapers denouncing the Eight Hours in Mines Act, which, he claims,…

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Coal

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 5

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

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Colliery Explosions. Colorado Disaster. London, February 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 43

The victims of the disaster at the Colorado coal mine, in the United States, were all foreigners—Slavs, Italians, and Hungarians…

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The Gold Watch Competition

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 5

The Principal of Bexley Ladies' College, Sydney, received a large number of paper? on arithmetic for the gold watch competition, the sums of which…

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The Coal Strike. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 28

A mass meeting of miners, convened by the executive of the Illawarra Colliery Employers' Association, was held in the open air at Russell Vale, near Bulli,…

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The Coal Strike. Practically Ended. Judge Scholes Acting as Mediator

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 2

The Delegate Board met at Newcastle on Wednesday. After a somewhat lively discussion the following motion was carried:—"That Mr…

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Tee Coal Strike Compulsory Wages Board. Mixers' Counsel Retires. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 3

When the Compulsory Wages Board met this morning Mr. Charlton stated that the miners' delegates had empowered him to prepare a ease for hearing before the…

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Country Edition. The following appeared in our country edition of Wednesday:— the Coal Strike. The Position in the South. Reported Breakaway of the Mt. Keira Miners. A Socialists' Procession of Protest. Ends up at Darlinghurst. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 1

A largely attended meeting of the South Bulli miners has demanded that a ballot should be taken on Monday. Failing this being done it is believed…

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English Coal Strike Men Displeased with Officials. Anti-strike Advice Resented. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 2

The Northumberland coal-miners having persisted in striking because of their dissatisfaction over the working of the Eight Hours' Act. are inclined to be bitter against…

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The Coal Strike Is the Strike Lasting Too Long? the Strikers Anxious to Know. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 5

The various miners lodges here Lave decided to take a ballot of the men to decide the question whether work is to be resumed not later than Monday week…

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Northumberland Coal Miners Ballot Opposes Strike. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 2

The result is announced of the ballot taken among the coal miners of Northumberland as to whether they should go out on strike or not…

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The Coal Strike Southern Miners at Work. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 2

The Southern coal miners who had been on strike for 13 weeks resumed to-day, with the exception of the Metropolitan and South Clifton men…

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Ironworks Trouble with Miners. Lithgow

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 2

Trouble arose at the Oakbank Iron Works on Saturday morning, when the men employed in the colliery did not go to work, it being pay Saturday. Mr. J. C…

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