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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
448 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 19 of 23
When the superintendent of a mine where a strike had occurred left the mine the strikers fusilladed his motor car. The superintendent returned, having secured an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peter Bowling was defeated for the secretaryship of the Southern Miners' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Minors' Federation Conference, representing [?]00,000, a resolution was carried asking for an amendment of the Minimum Wage Act to obviate the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to a fall of earth at the Wallaroo Mine, South Australia, one miner named William Cooper was killed and another, F. Gill, seriously injured. Cooper was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Eighty-one per cent., or 600,000 men, voted in the [?]allot which resulted in favor of the Miner's Federation taking political action in accordance with the Trades Union…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Miners' Federation resolved, with one dissentient, upon a combination of the big trade unions to support each other's demands. The resolution foreshadows a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Lord Milner at the Birmingham Institute in an address on the Scramble for Gold said that the decline in gilt edged securities and in sheep and cattle was due to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Labor circles regard the Minors' Federation resolution of great significance. Mr. Williams, Secretary of the National Transport Federation, says action is necessary in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The miners conference by [?]5,000 to291,000 negatived a resolution to establish a five days week on all coalfields. The mover declared that statistics showed there was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Much interest centres in the operations of the Kyloe copper mine at Drake. This is the company that worked a copper lode near Adaminaby, down south, but was forced to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Much interest centres in the operations of the Kyloe copper mine at Drake. This is the company that worked a copper lode near Adaminaby,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fearful explosion occurred in the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd, Cardiff, this morning The force of the explosion was so great that the machinery at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Better than grandeur, better than gold, Than rank and title a thousand fold, is a healthy body, a mind at ease…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The explosion at the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd, Cardiff, this morning shook the neighbourhood, and was heard a long distance away. It occurred at seven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dr. Frodsha[?] at a diocesan missionary meeting in London, announced the completion of an endowment fund for a West Australian goldfields bishopric, to which the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific explosion occurred at the Universal Collery at Senghenydd, Cardiff, on Tuesday morning, shock the neighborhood, and was heard a long distance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nine hundred and thirty-five men descended the Universal Colliery before the explosion at Senghenydd, Cardiff. Five hundred have been rescued and 31 bodies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The explosion at the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd, Cardiff, on Tuesday morning last, shook the neighborhood, and was heard a long distance…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Eighly bodies have been recovered, but hopes of finding the remainder alive have been abandoned. Many of those whose bodies have been…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The fire at Sengenydd has been mastered and the ventilation has improvod. There have been many narrow escapes and several of the rescuers were overcome by…
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