Miners at Play. a Character Study
The Cannock Chase working collier is not a bad sort. There are worse folk in the big towns. I can see for myself that he has a humane fondness for gardening,…
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Mining & the mines, 1912
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British Coal Strike. Relieving Distress. London
Mr. W. T. Wilson, M.P. (Labour), has received £250 from the Now Zealand Press Fund, for the relief of the distress in West Houghton, occasioned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Miners' Houses. Overcrowding Problem
Overcrowding, and nearly all the other housing [?]vlis that prevail in the South Wales coalfield, have their roots in the abnormally rapid expansion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Matters. Delegate Board
The quarterly meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, yesterday. Mr. D. Watson,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sea Pit Miners
Announcement is made in our advertising columns that a meeting of the Sea Pit miners will be held near the Newcastle recourse to-morrow morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scarcity of Miners
With respect to recent statements on the subject of immigrants coming to the State, and being employed as minors, the colliery proprietors contend, and have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wonthaggi Miners. Reject Arbitration. Melbourne
At a meeting to-day at miners employed at the State Colliery, Wonthaggi, a motion to resume work at a 2s 9d per ton hewing rate provided Mr. Broome, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. the Second Shift
The joint committee on mining disputes has taken further evidence with respect to the contention of the Colliery Employees' Federation that the second shift…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Siberian Goldfield. Serious Conflict. St. Petersburg
Serious fighting has occurred between soldiers and workmen at the gold washings of the Lena Company, at Irkutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Minmi Miners
The Back Creek and Duckenfield mines met in Peel's hall on Thursday evening, Mr. W. Muir presiding. The chairman said that during the week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schools of Mines
Mr. T. H. Palmer, president of the Broken Hill branch of the Australian Mining institute has expressed some very decided opinions on the necessity…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial Problems. the British Coal Strike
In the course of an address in the Methodist Church, Adamstown, at last night's service, Mr. D. Watson, president of the Colliery Employees'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Immigrant Miners. Are They Needed? the Federation's Reply
With respect to the statements published on Saturday to the effect that several collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts are hampered by not having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Kulambangra. Short of Coal. Brisbane
The steamer Kulambangra, belonging to Lever's Pacific Plantations, Limited, from Solomon Islands, put into Brisbane to-day short of coal, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labour for Mines
The issues between the colliery proprietors and the representatives of the miners relative to the alleged lack of mining labour have reached a stage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canadian Gold
A good deal is heard about the Canadian winter, the "Arctic cold" which many English people far they could not stand. Despite the pictures of harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Strike Distress. New Zealand's Bounty. London
Mr. Hall-Jones, the High Commissioner for New Zealand, has distributed £2453 in the districts where the distress in consequence of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Trouble at Pelaw-main
Trouble has arisen at Pelaw-Main Colliery over certain matters in connection with the winning of coal, and when the Joint Committee on mining disputes met…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Women in the Mines
Work in a coal mine is not particularly agreeable even for strong men, and it is difficult for the present generation to realise that there was a time when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Labour
Sir,—I noticed in your issue of Saturday the remarks of Mr. Cant, the secretary to the Colliery Proprietors' Association, on the scarcity of miners, and his…
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