Miners Minimum Wage. London
The Miners Federation has resolved to secure a minimum wage in all districts irrespective of abnormal places, and has instructed the districts to interview the…
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Mining & the mines, 1911
384 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 17 of 20
Restless Miners. London
Thirty of the Durham miners' lodges have pledged their support to the Miners' Federation in efforts at securing a minimunt wage, if necessary, by a national…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal, Not Contraband. Malta
Considerable anxiety has been allayed by the announcement that Italy does not consider coal is contraband of war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Fatatity. Sydney
When, two miners were ascending in the cage from the Kalgurli mine. Kalgoolie, a mass of stone crashed through the roof of the cage, and instantly killed William…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collieries Idle. London
The Cambrian Combine colliers at clydackvale have again thrown idle the haulers declining to descend the pits owing to the suspection of a man for what…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Explosion. London
An explosion of gas occurred in the laonnd colliery at cambuslang near Glasgow. Four men wore severely burned, and two others wee injured but not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Combustion. Paris
Explosive firedamp at Saint Etienne colliery killed twenty-six men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mount Lyell Mine. Sydney
There are indications of the Mount Lyell strike collapsing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murmur of the Miners. Sydney
At a meeting of the Newcastle Dalegate Board to-day an opinion was experssed that it would be very unwise for the proprietors to delay meeting the men in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Returning to Work. London
The Bargoe strikers have decided to re sume work uwaiting the Miners'Federation's general treatment of the minimum, wage and non-unionists questions…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Flooded. Twelve Miners Drowned. Hibernia (Now Jersey)
A blast destroyed, the partition between two shafts in the iron mines of the Wharton Steel Company. The water flooded the workings, and twelve men were drowned,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Order for Coal. London
The Italian Government have ordered 150,000 tons of Welsh coal for war purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Accident. Heavy Loss of Life. Rome
An explosion of gas in a sulphur mine occurred at Brabonella, Sicily. Forty-four perished, including, two loaders of the rescue party…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Fatalities. Harrisburg (Pennsylvania)
Nine men have been killed and ten wounded by the explosion of a keg of powder in the Caven Coal Mine. The facemen were changing shifts when the explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Troubles. General Miners Strike. London. Tueaday
At a meeting of the Miners Union at, Bochum, the speakers declared for a general strike, and English, and German miners will consider as to joining the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Is There Gold? McKEE'S Hill Possibilities
"Old, Alluvial Miner", writes:—"Having and many years' experience in deep alluvink mining, both in Victoria and New South Wales, and having a practical knowledge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Smart Robbery. Land Exchanged for Gold. Berne
A case of gold bars valued at £5200 was abstracted in a consignment to the National Bank from London, lead being substituted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cheap Gold Mine. Prosecutor Surprises Magistrate. Sydney
A man named Keith Maitland Gibson has been committed for trial on a charge of having falsely protended to James Canning that he had an option over Cripner's…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners Refused Conference. Sydney
The Northern colliery proprietors have refused to meet the men in conference until the miners at Lymington and Rhondda resume work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canadian Coal Strike Settled. Vancouver
The coal strike, which has lasted for eight months in Eastern British Columbia and Alberta, has been settled, through the good ofiices, of the new Minister for the…
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