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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Cablegrams. Big-trouble in Coal Mines an Important Decision. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 5

A conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, held at Southport, in Lancashire, this week, resolved to support the demand of the Northumberland miners…

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The Old Brass Knocker. Phenomenal Gold at Pambula

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 October 1911 · page 6

The story of the discovery of a rich find of gold in the "Old Brass Knocker" shaft, which has been regarded for years as being valueless, has a sound which…

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Conference on Miners Wages

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 October 1911 · page 2

The Northumberland Miners Federation at its sitting on Friday, resolved to endeavor to secure a minimum wage for all district, irrespective of abnorn[?]…

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Miners and Minimum Wage

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 3

Thirty Durham miners lodges have pledged themselves to support the Miners Federation in its efforts to secure a minimum wage…

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General Cable News Cage Falls Down a Mine. Berlin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 3

A serious mine accident. involving the less of several lives has occurred at Dort[?] in the Prussian Province of West[?] 20 miles from Essen. Through…

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Is Coal Contraband? Rome

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 October 1911 · page 2

Italy has notified that she does not consider coal as contraband of war…

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Britain's Vanishing Coal Supply. Sir William Ramsay's Prophecy

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 October 1911 · page 4

A grave warning as to the nation's coal supply was delivered by Sir William Ramsay in his presidential address to the British Association meeting at Portsmouth…

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Mining the Bosphorus

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 2

Advices from an apparently trustworthy source state that the Turks, fearing an attempt to force the Dardanelles, are putting down submarine mines…

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Coal and Foodstuffs Not Contraband

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 2

The Turkish Foreign Office has advised Italy that Turkey Trill not treat coal and foodstuffs as contraband of war, whatever may be their destination…

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Labour Unrest Miners Agitation Costs £100,000. LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 17 October 1911 · page 2

Mr. Fenwick. Liberal member for the Wansbeck Division of Northumberland, and a member of the Northumberland Miners Trade Union, made an…

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England Without Coal

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 October 1911 · page 6

The available quantity of coal in the proved coalfields as very nearly 100,000 million tons; it is easy to calculate that if the rate of working increases as it is doing…

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Coal Miners Troubles. the Delayed Conference. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 3

At a meeting of the local Miners' Delegate Board to-day a letter was received from the Colliery Proprietors Association stating that the association hoped it would…

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Mining at Wyalong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 35

A development of some importance has taken place at Harry Nelson and party's prospecting claim on Marshall's special lease. The party have followed a small…

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Further Coal Troubles in Wales

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 3

In accordance with notices previously tendered [?]000 men at Bar[?] (Wales have struck in connection with the non[?] question. The trouble it is…

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Mine Flooded; Twelve Drowned. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 October 1911 · page 2

The mine of the Wharton Steel Coy, [?] Hibernia, in New Jersey, was the Seen[?] of a shocking disaster on Friday. Blasting operations were being carried on, when a…

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Italy Orders Welsh Coal

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 October 1911 · page 2

The Italian Government has ordered 150,000 tons of Welsh coal for war purposes…

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Forty-four Lives Lost. Sicilian Mine Disaster. Rome

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 October 1911 · page 2

News has been received here of the occurrence of a sad mining disaster in Sicily. Through an explosion of gas in one of…

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Miners' Minimum Wage

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 October 1911 · page 2

The executive of the South Wales Miner[?] Federation has submitted a revised demand for a minimum wage. The alteration provides for a minimum wage in…

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News From America Colliery Diaster. Men Killed and Imprisoned. Harrisburg (Penn)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 October 1911 · page 2

A serious mining accident has occurred here. A keg of powder exploded in a collieryy, causing part of the mine to cave in Nine…

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German Miners May Join British in General Strike. Berlin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 26 October 1911 · page 3

At a meeting of the miners' union at Bothnia, the speakers declared that if there was a general strike in England the German, miners would consider the…

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