A Miners' Conference. London
The National Conference of the Miners' Federation opened in London consider the minimum wages in the fixed district boards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1912
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Miners' Troubles. London
The Federated Miners. Conference has strenuously protested, against several awards fixing the minimum below a reasonable living wage, and has instructed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Camp Flooded. Santiago
A mining. camp in Gatica. Antofagasta Territory, Chill, has been flooded, forty being killed and injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oceana's Gold. Eases Financial Situation. London
Forty out of forty-six boxes of gold in the Oceana have been recovered. The underwriters have largely used their proceeds towards meeting the Titanic losses,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining
The manager of the Pulganbar Quicksilver and, Copper Mining Coy.. Ltd., reports that during the past fortnight good progress has been made throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Troubles. South Stafford Award. London
Sir Walter Lawrence has awarded the South Stafford and East Worcester underground workers 4s a day, boys is 10d to 3s.Coalowners state Clarke's awards are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Closed. London
The Fogg Colliery at Redeliffe, North[?]mber has closed owing to the minimum wage making idle five hundred men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Troubles. London
The Northumberland Mineras Wages Board and owners have agreed to an advance of three and three-quarters per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →80 Years in One Mine
Eighty years in one colliery is the record of a Yorkshire miner, John Inman, who is still at work at the low shaft of the Denby Grange…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Mining Strike. Sydney
The coal miners at kikurnangi Mine, NewZealand,have struck work as the outcome of a difference with the management respecting weighing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Strike's Most Impressive Feature
What is really the most impressive thing about the coal strike? Not the impotence of Parliament; not the revelation of a country in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central Cathcart Mine. Phenomenal Washing of Dirt. Melbourne
A phenomenal return of 343 ounces of gold from eleven quarter fathoms of washed dirt puddled at the Central Cathcart mine, Victoria, provided a sensation in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners Striking Again. London
Thirteen thousand colliers in South Stuffordshire have struck as a protest against. the wages board award…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining- Troubles. Starving Peasants Strike. St. Petersburg
There are strikes in all the mines and factories of the Donetz basin. Efforts were made to engage the famine stricken peasants; but seven hundred from Samara,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Miners Strike. London
Twenty thousand colliers have struck in South Staffordshire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Miners Again. Out a Second Time. Melbourne
The miners at Wonthaggie Mine, Victoria, are again on strike, on account of two at their number being refused their, tokens at the office…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Used the Wrong Coal
Up Lochfyne some time ago an old fisherman with a sense of humor in better working order than his conscience, came on a dead fish called a "stenlock," or coalfish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Rates of Pay. London
The award of three neutral chairmen, issued at Glasgow, fixes the minimum of hewers at 5s 10d…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal at a Penny a Ton. Some Remarkable Shipwreck Sales
Coal at under a penny a ton! And 540 tons of it at this price, too! This is the price that coal was actually sold for in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Swept. Canadian Mining Town Destroyed. Montreal
The mining town, of Cobalt has been swept by fire. The theatre, bank, hotel, and an entire business block were destroyed. A lamp exploded in the actors'…
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