Miners Return
The strike of 2000 miners at Treorchy, in Glamorganshire, has been settled, the non-unionists who were objected to having joined tho union…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Mining & the mines, 1912
436 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 22
Strike in Belguim. 25,000 Miners Out. Brussels
Twenty-five thousand miners struck work at Borinage, in the Province of Hainaut, yesterday. The strike was due to the masters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advice to the Miners. by Mk. Thos. Burt, M.p
Mr. Thos. Burt, Liberal M.P. for Mor-peth, who has been secretary since 1865 of the Northumberland Miners' Mutual Provident Association, has sent a circular…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Labor Upheaval. Miners Begin Ballot on Minimum Wage
The English coal miners have begun a ballot on the minimum wage question. The question at issue is whether there shall be a national stoppage of work with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Labor Upheaval. Threatened Coal Strike. London
The result of the ballot being taken among the miners of Great Britain to decide whether a general strike shall be proclaimed, with the object of enforcing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Proposed State Mine
Though his officers suggested the advisability of making three bores in connection with the search for coal at the proposed Lithgow mine, the Minister for Mines (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Fatal Mine Accident in N. Z. Two Lives Lost. Auckland
A sudden rush of gas in the May Queen gold mine, Waihi, caused a scramble among the miners for life. Two men, James Williams and Thomas Gray, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poisonous Gas in a Mine. Two Men Succumb. Brave Comrades Carry them Out. Sydney
A sudden and unexpected rush of gas occurred in the May Queen Gold Mine, in the Waihi district, New Zealand, this morning while the men were at work. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. the Labor Upheaval: the Threatened Coal Strike. Men Carried Away by Mere Phrases. London
Mr. Charles Fenwick, Liberal member for the Wansbeek division of Northumberland since 1885, who was a working miner for 25 years before entering the House…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Standard of Primary Education. Qualifying Certificate Questions of Public Schools. Gold Watches for the Best Paper on Arithmetic
Recently over 12,000 boys and girls attending the Public Schools were examined in arithmetic, dictation, English, geography, and history, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Labor Upheaval. Coal Miners' Dispute. Possibility of Peaceful Solution. London
Nothing of importance transpired yesterday in connection "with the dispute between the coal mine owners and the men regarding the granting of a minimum wage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rise in Price of Coal
The prospect of approaching trouble in the coal mining industry has had a hardening effect on prices, and quotations on the Coal Exchange to-day had advanced 3/…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Conference on the Coal Strike
It is estimated that, by a majority of to 1, the coalminers will decide to hold a conference on the strike. The proposal is that the conference between the masters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundaga[?]s Wonderful Gold. Sydney
The clean-up of the Long Tunnel mine at Gundagai was performed on Saturday. Eighty-five tons of stone, half of which was second grade, was crushed for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Disaster at Wyalong Five Men Poisoned by Foul Gas. Sydney
A disaster, caused by foul air, occurred at the Barrier mine at Wyalong on Saturday, when there were killed five men, viz., Frank Maguire. Jack Navin, Bert Navin,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Price of Coal. Tremendous Public Demand. London
It was slated on Friday that the price of coal rose 3/ per ton according to Coal Exchange quotations, on account of the threatened strike…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Disaster at Wyalong Six Men Lose Their Lives. SYDNEY
A terrible mining fatality occurred at the Barrier mine, West Wyalong, on Saturday. At 4 o'clock the manager discovered that seven men who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Labor Upheaval. Threatened Coal Strike. Scotch and Welsh Miners Ballot in Favour. London
The ballot which is being taken in the United Kingdom, by the Miners' Unions to decide whether a general strike should be declared, in conseqeunce of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Disaster at West Wyalong. Inrush of Foul Air Six Men Killed
A terible mining accident, due to an irruption of foul air, occurred at West Wyalong on Saturday afternoon resulting in the death of six out of a party of seven…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Standard of Primary Education. Qualifying Certificate Questions of Public Schools. Gold Watches for the Best Paper on Arithmetic
Recently over 12,000 boys and girls attending the Public Schools were examined in arithmetic, dictation, English, geography, and history, with the…
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