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351 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 18
All the workers in the district collieries, except Mount Keora and Coal Cliff, went out to-day over the eight hours question. The men want eight hours from bank to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Winstone, president of the South Wales Miners Association, states that the executive has passed a resolution against conscription. He added "if politicians are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The full executive of the South Wales miners will attend Thursdays Labor Conference and will oppose compulsion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was an attendance of 2000 miners it an aggregate meeting held here to-day. Mr. Sid Bird, president, condemned the Government for its failure to pass an Eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Diggings on the Ovens. The destruction by the police of our cradle and other appliances was unjustifiable as we both had licenses that we had…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Dr. Backhaus was the pioneer clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church on Bendigo. He arrived in March 1852, and died in 1882. During his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dressed in their neat uniforms, 14 members of the Albury Fire Brigade were publicly presented with inscribed gold medals on Saturday night. The medals were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The battleship, King Edward VII, struck a mine and sunk. All the crew were saved. [The King Edward VII was a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All the local mines are idle, and 5000 men are unemployed, as a general strike was agreed to yesterday at a mass meeting of the A.M.A. Business in the town is al…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South Wales Miners' Conference, by 211 votes to 35, denounced the Compulsion Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Another great shipping disaster has occurred, an Italian steamer being the victim. While making a voyage in the Adriatic the vessel struck a mine and…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The proposal of Mr. T. J. Hewitt, of Daylesford, that the miners' association should take over the suspended mine of the Victoria United Company, Ballarat…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →In London a bundle of firewood that cost a halfpenny before the war now costs three-farthings. In Przemysl last March, just before…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another great shipping distaster has occurred, an Italian steamer being the victim. While making. a voyage in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British pre-Dreadnought battle-ship King Edward VII., 16,350 tons, has been lost through striking & mine. Very little information in regard to the disaster has…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →It is stated that Mr. Arthur Henderson (President of the Board of Education), Mr. W. Brace (Under-Secretary to the Home Office), and Mr. G. H. Roberts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increased by 1/ a ton at the pit's mouth. Newcastle coal has been advanced 3/6 a ton to the consumer in Melbourne. Coal merchants in Melbourne stated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inrush of water and sand was so great that the pumping had to be continued all day for if the pumps ceased work, for five minutes the man working in the hole would…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →The Miners' Federation has unanimously decided to oppose the Compulsion Bill, and has authorised its executive to summon a conference to consider…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Exchange Telegraph Company's correspondent at Card[?]t telegraphs that the threat by the leaders of the South Wales miners to strike against compuision…
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