The Southern Miners
The threatened strike at Newcastle is the absorbing topic in the Wollongong district. Although the miners of that district will not mix themselves up with the dispute the…
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Mining & the mines, 1888
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Movements of the Miners' Executive
It is understood that the delegates have communicated the issue of the late negotiation by wire to all the labour organised throughout the colonies, and soliciting…
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WHEN the miners decided to give fourteen days' notice to cease work they acted strictly within their province. It has always been a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence a Suggestion to the Miners. to the Editor
SIR,—As there seems to be no alternative but a strike and a stoppage of the coal trade, let me offer a way by which the utter stagnation of trade…
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Mr. M. Yates and party, working the above under tribute to the New Lambton proprietors, and who are also contractors for supplying the…
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The Miners' Executive met yesterday at Tattersall's Hotel, but the business transacted was merely formal, the minutes of the delegate meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lithgow Miners' Opinion
At a full delegate meeting of the Western Miners' Union held on Friday night at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, a telegram was read from Mr. Curley,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southern Miners
A miners' delegate meeting was held at Wollongong on Saturday, with closed doors, for the consideration of the rules for the Southern branch of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tribute Collieries
The men at Mr. Yates' colliery, by request of the district officers, have laid down their tools. They requested to be allowed to work, seeing that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Miners
A special meeting of the above miners was held in the Park yesterday morning, Mr. D. Mason in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Great Northern Colliery
We have received the following letter:— TO THE EDITOR. "SIR,—A paragraph appeared in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Coal
Queensland coal, which has hitherto been unsaleable in the Southern ports, is now eagerly inquired after in Melbourne at 45s per ton, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Seamen and the Miners
At a meeting of the Sydney Federated Seamen's Union it was decided to strike a levy of £1 per month per man towards supporting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Zealand Coal Supply
The effect of the strike hero is already being felt in the largely increasing orders for coal which are pouring into New Zealand from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Feeling Among the Southern Miners
The Newcastle strike is an absorbing topic in the Wollongong district. Up to the present the miners of that district had not the slightest intention…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Supply to the Victorian Railways
The offer of Mr. Speight, Chairman of the Victorian Railway Board, to take 100,000 tons of coal from the Great Northern Coal Company at 12s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Shareholders and the Strike. to the Editor
SIR,—The praiseworthy efforts of our citizens' committee have so far failed to bring about a settlement of existing disputes. Here, however, I trust mutters will not be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Southern Collieries
The demand for Southern coal still continues to increase, the collieries being unable to keep pace with it under the present mode of working. It has been suggested that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Glebe Miners
A meeting of the above miners was held yesterday morning, at 10 o'clock, in Simpson's Hall, Mr. John Lloyd in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Snedden's Colliery at Brookstown
Mr. A. Snedden, proprietor of the colliery at Brookstown, on Tuesday night was visited by Mr. J. Middleby, one of the members of the miners' delegate board, who pointed out…
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