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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

1,195 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 57 of 60

Hetton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 4

A meeting of the Hetton Miners' Lodge was held in the lodgeroom, Wickham, last night. Mr. W. Sheridan, chairman of the lodge, presided…

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Colliery Employees. Presidential Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 5

At the meeting of the Hefton Lodge, at Wickham last night, Mr. D. Watson, president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, spoke in reply to certain…

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Miners' Federation. War Chest Drained. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 December 1911 · page 5

Owing to sectional strikes in Lancashire and Cheshire, the war-chest of the Miners' Federation has been trained…

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Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 13

Sir,—In your issue of Saturday, I notice Mr. Bowling invited me to what he termed a "combined" meeting of Aberdare and Cessnock miners on Saturday night, to ask…

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Mining Matters. Lithgow and Collie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 6

At the meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation recently, a motion in favour of striking a levy of 1s per member for the support of…

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Pen-notes and Pencillings. Gold When a God

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1911 · page 4

A great deal in the way of argument is made out of gold—precious, reverenced, minted gold. While it is right that we should never belittle it, is it not…

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Coal Mining Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 4

The announcement that the colliery proprietors have agreed to meet members of the executive of the colliery employees in order to arrange for a…

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The Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 7

Sir,—A lot of your correspondents seem charged with malice against Mr. Bowling, Now, all will admit that the district was in a bad state for eighteen months before…

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British Miners. Minimum Wage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 5

Mr. Hartshorn—who headed the poll recently in South Wales, when three Socialists displaced three of the old miners' leaders on the executive of the Miners'…

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Mining Matters. Important Decision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 5

At different times during the Year the Colliery Employees' Federation has endeavoured to obtain a conference with the Colliery Proprietors' Association, in…

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Gold Shipped From China. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 5

Messrs. Samuel Montagu. and Company state that unprecedented shipments of gold are arriving in England from China…

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British Coalfields. Labour Troubles. Exhaustion of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1911 · page 6

At the annual meeting of the North Staffordshire Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, at Stoke-on-Trent, in October, the president, Mr. A…

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Minmi Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1911 · page 5

The monthly meeting of the Back Creek and Duckenfield Lodge was held in Peel's Hall, Minmi, on Thursday evening, Mr. W. M'Illano presiding…

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The Barrier Miners. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1911 · page 5

The underground employee at the South Mine on Saturday afternoon adopted the following motions:— "1. That it is the opinion of the South…

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Mining Matters. a Denial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1911 · page 4

Mr. F. Livingstone-Learmonth, chairman of the Hunter River District Colliery Proprietors' Defence Association, Mr. A. R. Cant, secretary to the…

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Mining Accident. Toowoomba

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1911 · page 5

An accident occurred in the coalmine at Oakey to-day. Two miners, named Lamb and Lindsay, were at work in the tunnel, when a truck,…

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Engineers' and Colliery Depot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 2

Since last year the Engineers' and Colliery Supplies Depot (A. Goninan and Company, Limited), 403, 405, and 407 Hunter-street, has made rapid strides. It…

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Mining Matters. District Ballot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 4

The ballot papers in connection with the election of district officials of the Colliery Employees' Federation were sent out to the different lodges yesterday…

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British Coal Supply. Prevention of Waste

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 4

In reply to a question asked in the British House of Commons recently, with respect to the warning uttered by Sir William Ramsay, president of the British…

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Colliery Mechanics. Question of a Wages Board. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 December 1911 · page 4

The application of the Colliery Mechanics' Mutual Protective Association of the Hunter River district for the constitution of a board, was adjourned…

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