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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

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British Labour Party. Miners Blamed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 5

Mr. Smillie, the president of the Scottish Miners' Conference, rebuked the Derbyshire miners for not showing their loyalty to the Labour party over…

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Mining Matters. Pelaw-main Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 5

A meeting of the Pelaw-Main Miners' Lodge was held at King's Hall yesterday, when Mr. Amram Lewis was in attendance. The award made by the board in…

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Canadian Mining Strike. Rioting Suppressed. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 5

The strike among the Nanaimo miners has been practically suppressed. The military effected 150 arrests. Special police are now in control of…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board. Small Coal Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 5

The Northern Coal Miners' Wages Board, consisting of His Honor Judge Edmunds (chairman), and Messrs. E. Peters and N. J. Clark, representing the…

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Miners' President's Salary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 7

Sir,—In reply to the remarks or misstatements that were submitted by "Advance" in your issue of Friday, might I briefly mention that it is somewhat…

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Letters to the Editor. Miners' President's Salary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 7

Sir,—I should like to make some comment on the statement regarding the miners' president's salary, which would appear to the members of the federation…

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Derbyshire Miners. Seek Political Freedom. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 5

The Derbyshire Miners' Association has resolved to secure political freedom in the selection of Parliamentary candidates…

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Northumberland Miners. Increase of Wages. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 5

The Northumberland colliery owners have granted an increase in wages to the employees of their mines of 3[?] per cent…

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Coal Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 3

[?]mparison of conditions of coal [?] these two countries may be of interest [?] both Australians and Englishmen [?] better confine myself to the…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board. Maitland Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 11

A further sitting of the Northern Coalminers' Wages Board was held at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, his Honor Mr. Justice Edmunds presiding as…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 3

A meeting of the Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held at the Masonic Hall on Monday for the purpose of considering a proposal relative to the back-Saturday…

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Victorian State Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 11

Since the settlement of the industrial troubles at the Victorian State coal mine operations have been resumed in all the its. Developmental work is going on…

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Justice Heydon and Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 11

At the delegate board meeting yesterday consideration was given to a notice of motion from the Abermain Lodge, as follows: "That we, the members of the…

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A Mining Fatality. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 4

Two miners, Burns and Green, were yesterday buried by a fall of earth while working in an antimony mine at Coslt[?] field near Kilmore…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board. Further Evidence Taken

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 5

Evidence on behalf of the employers was continued before the Coal Miners' Wages Board at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, the board consisting of…

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Stoppages in Mines. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 5

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, in reply to a question by Mr. Kearsley, Mr. M'Gowen, the Minister for Labour, said that a record of the suspensions or…

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Coal-weighing at Burwood. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 5

The Minister for Mines stated to-night that in consequence of a suggestion made to him by Mr. D. Watson, the president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, he…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board. Continuation of Evidence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 5

The Northern Coalminers' Wages Board consisting of His Honor Mr. Justice Edmands (chairman) and Messrs. Peters and N. J. Clark, representing the…

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Killingworth Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 5

The Killingworth Minors Lodge met in the Killingworth Hall on Thursday evening, when Mr. T. Sheedy presided over a good attendance…

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'A Miners' Member

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 August 1913 · page 6

Mr. Stephen Walsh, who has introduced into the House of Common a bill for the Nationalisation of Coal Mines, is the Labour member for the Lace Division of…

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