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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

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Miners' Council. General Strike Condemned. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1913 · page 5

The Northumberland Miners' Council, by 42 votes to 19, defeated a syndicallst motion urging the organisation of all grades of labour with a view to…

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Shortland Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1913 · page 4

The Shortland Colliery at which a stoppage occurred on Tuesday, was again Idle yesterday. It is stated that the trouble arose from the fact that a youth had been…

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Wonthaggi Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1913 · page 4

It has transpired that the settlement of the trouble at the Victorian State coal mine concering the rates offered for alling machine cut coal in No. 9 pit was…

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Mining Situation. Delegate Board Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1913 · page 4

A meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees Federation was held at Farzen's rooms. West Maitland, yesterday, when there was a full attendance…

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Metalliferous Miners. Address by Mr. Edden. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. A. Edden, the Minister for Mines, attended the conference of metalliferous minors to-day by invitation. The Minister, who was introduced by Mr. C. S…

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Mining Situation. the Proposed Tribunals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 May 1913 · page 4

No further information as obtainable yesterday as to the proceedings at the meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation held at…

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Minmi Miners' Lodge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 3

Sir,—In your issue of to-day I read that Mr. E. Peters, acting president of the C.E.F., says he had no official information as to what had transpired at the…

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An Outer Suburban Goldfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 May 1913 · page 11

Melbourne's nearest goldfield is at Diamond Creek, only 17 miles from the Melbourne Post-office, and it seems a little singular that the chief mine is in the…

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Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 May 1913 · page 5

Most of the collieries in the neighbourhood of Newcastle have been working full time during the past fortnight, though those on the Maitland field have been…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 May 1913 · page 5

The monthly meeting of the Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held in the Masonic Hall, Wallsend, on Friday evening. There was a fair attendance. In the absence of…

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Mining Matters. the Burwood Lodge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 May 1913 · page 5

The Burwood miners did not work on Saturday, but held a meeting, when further consideration was given to the weighing difficulty and other matters in…

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Steamer Sunk by Mines. Great Loss of Life. Constantinople

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 May 1913 · page 5

As the steamer Nevada, flying the American flag, was leaving Smyrna yesterday, she struck two mines in quick succession, and a third…

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Cardiff Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 5

On Saturday morning Mr. Peters went out to Cardiff, and met the manager and under-manager with a deputation from the lodge, with a view of arriving at a…

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Burwood Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 5

At the meeting of the Burwood Miners' Lodge on Saturday, further consideration was given to the matter of the methods of coal weighing, concerning which frequent…

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Whitburn Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 7

The monthly meeting of the Whitburn miners was held at Greta on Sunday. Mr. C. Beswick, president, occupied the chair. The following correspondence was…

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Abermain No. 2 Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. Peters, the acting president of the C.E.F., attended a meeting of the Abermain No. 2 miners, near Aberdare, in referance to an agreement, which efforts…

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Stanford-merthyr Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. E. Peters, acting president o the federation, attended a meeting of Stanford-Merthyr miners no Sunday morning, to report what had been done by a…

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Minmi Miners' Lodge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 3

Sir,—In reply to Mr. Brown's letter in your issue of Saturday. I wish to state that I accepted his challenge on the condition that he would accept the Minmi…

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The Wait for Maitland Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 4

Among the steamers that were hung up in port at Newcastle, owing to the floods, awaiting Maitland coal, were the Wear and Alabama, and Messrs, James Paterson and…

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Steamer Nevada. Danger From Miners. Constantinople

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 5

Further details regarding the loss of the steamer Nevada, when leaving Smyrna, through coming in contact with a mine, show that the explosion…

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