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Mining & the mines, 1919

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Gas Explosion in Colliery Two Men Killed. Brisbane

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 2

Two men were killed and one seriously injured as the result of a gas explosion at red Bank Colliers, seven milles from Ipswich, Queensland…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Friday Night. Fatal Colliery Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 1

Two men were killed and one seriously, injured as the result of a gas explosion at the Red Bank Colliery, seven miles from Ipswich,…

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"The Age of Gold" for British Manufacturers Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 7 January 1919 · page 2

"The Times" says a golden avenue is opening for British iron, steel, and engineering, if labor co-operates. All parts of the world are pouring in orders at high…

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Coat, Miners Not Working the Richmond Main Idle. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 2

Mr. John Brown to-day interviewed Mr. Fuller, Chief Secretary, and Mr. Graham, Minister for Labor, about the trouble over loyalist minors at the Richmond Main…

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Sweeping Up Mines 100,000 to Be Removed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 2

Mine sweeping is proceeding on a large scale. Some of the minefields measure 100 miles in extent. It is estimated that 100,000 mines, including drifters, have to…

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Fight in a Coal Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 19

The differences between loyalists workers and unionists at Richmond Main coif mine, in the Kurri Kurri district, led to a serious disturbance. Both loyalists…

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Gold Mining Policy for the Future

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 33

A conference has been convened by the Victorian Chamber of Mines for the purpose of considering a definite policy for the gold-mining industry, and to select a…

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Outbreaks by Miners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 22

Rotterdam has learned that the anxiety felt in Berlin at the week-end was partly due to strikers and bloodshed in the mining districts, which are the principal…

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Explosion in Colliery. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 13 January 1919 · page 2

Two miners, John Bland, 37 and Arthur Wilmott 30. were severely injured through the premature explosion of a charge in the Aberdare colliery, Cessnock,…

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To Cope with Mines Wires Severed by Submarine Device. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 January 1919 · page 2

Some oversea ships which have visited Sydney recently have carried a structure on their bows resembling a steel girder. The "girder" is really a paravane, used…

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No Coal Strike Intended Differences Will Be Adjusted Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 3

Mr. Willis, secretary of the Australian [?] Shale Employes' Federation, stated to-day that the men had no intention of striking. He and other members…

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German Gold Reserve De-manded Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

It is reported that the Supreme War Council has empowered Marshal Foeh to demand that Germany convey to Frankfort, the wealthy commercial city in…

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£60,000,000 of Austrian Gold Goes to Italy. Rome

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 2

Austrian authorities have delivered to the Italian Armistice Commission the deposits in the banks in the T[?]ntino and at Trieste, which were removed from…

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Colliery Troubles Brewing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 1

There are rumors in mining circles that a general stoppage of work at all the South Coast mines is likely to occur within a few days. The sittings of the miners'…

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Looking for Gold in Northern Territory

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 19

The Federal Government has approved of the resumption of prospecting for gold in certain definite areas in the interior of the Northern Territory. The Minister for…

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200,000 Miners Strike Men's Demand Granted London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 January 1919 · page 3

Two hundred thousand Yorkshire miners struck to-day, demanding 20 minutes complete cessation of work at meal time, instead of taking their meals…

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Labor Unrest in Britain. the Position Easier. the North Coal Miners' Strike Ended. London

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 January 1919 · page 2

A London message says that a police strike is now considered unlikely. The strike at Notts and the…

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Belgian Gold Returned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 22

A special train has brought to Brussels gold of the value of £29,000,000 being specie which was stolen by the Germans from Belgium during the war…

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Gold Embargo Removal Urged

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 33

The conference of Austral gold producers convened by the Victorian Chamber of Mines has concluded its deliberations. The decisions, arrived at were embodied in…

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50,000 Miners May Be Out. London

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 6

It is expected that thirty Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire collieries will be idle, involving 50,000 miners. The owners refuse to meet the men…

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