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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

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Mining Swindle. Investors Trust Plausable Stranger

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 6

A clever mining swindle is engaging the attentions of the police throughout the State. Recently an impressive-looking stranger made his appearance…

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The Coal Strike. Hopeful Situation. Highly Satisfactory Offer. London

Tweed Daily · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 5

The negotiations between the Government and the owners of the coal miners has further reduced the differences between the parties…

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Fight with Bandits. Fatal Affray. Big Haul of Gold. San Francisco

Tweed Daily · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 5

Reports from Tampico state that eight guards and two bandits were killed when fifteen bandits robbed- officials of the Agwi Oil Company, a British…

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Still the Coal. Miners Divided. the Government Offer. London

Tweed Daily · Monday 2 May 1921 · page 3

The miners executive has decided that owing to several fatal accidents having occurred through men working coal at the outcrops, such work must cease…

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Mines Flooded. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Monday 2 May 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The coal deadlock is unchanged. Serious mine floodings are reported. The Government's new restrictive measures contemplate all lights out, the…

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A Miners' Battle. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Monday 2 May 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Miners who discovered a big outcrop in a seam at Leigh have been selling coal at a profitable rate throughout Lancashire. This aroused the jealousy of…

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General Telegrams. Coal Shortage

Northern Star · Monday 2 May 1921 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Through the dislocation of the collier service a serios coal shortage is being experienced in Melbourne…

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Labor Affairs. Miners on Short Work

Northern Star · Monday 2 May 1921 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Owing to a fallings off in orders Lithgow district coal trade has not been very brisk. In some collieries the miners, lost up to five days during the past…

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Coal Crisis. No District Settlements. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Monday 2 May 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The members of the miners' executive left London this morning for their respective districts, which have an opportuntiy of reversing the decision of…

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The Latest News. International. the Coal Deadlock

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 2 May 1921 · page 3

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Coal Crisis. Distress Among the Miners. (United Service, Ltd.)

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 May 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The week-end brought no change in the coal deadlock. Owners and miners were both sitting tight waiting for the other side to take the next move. There…

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Coal Trouble. Transporters Act. Support for the Miners. London

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 3 May 1921 · page 3

The Scottish dockers have issued an appeal to the executive of the transporters to immediately convene a conference of the executives of the Labor Triple…

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Coal Crisis. District Settlements. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 May 1921 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday.—Cook, a member of the Miners' Executive, speaking at Pontypridd, said the miners would resist district settlements to the uttermost. Referring to the…

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Labor Affairs. Coal and Shale Employees

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 May 1921 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—An aggregate meeting of Coal and Shale Employees' Federation at Lambton carried a resolution strongly urging all members to refrain from any act…

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Coal Crisis. the Government's Offer. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—In the House of Commons Sir R. Horne said the Government did not intend to increase the offer of £10,000,000 as a temparary supplement to the…

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Coal Owners for a Fortnight. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The outcrop pits which the miners in £he Wigan district had been working, mostly profitably, for the past fortnight, have stopped as the result of the…

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Growing Hardships Stocks of Coal Becoming Exhausted. Terrible Plight of Lancashire. Miners Declare for "No Surrender." International Aspect. European Workers Step In. Berlin

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 3

It has been announced that the Continental dock workers, who are affiliated with the International Transport Workers' Federation, have…

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Miners Demand Another Holiday

Northern Star · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Miners' Federation is demanding that May Day be gazetted a holiday…

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Highway Robbery. Miners' Tactics. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The miners of Clyndach adopted Sinn Fein tactics against the Monmouthshire miners, who were digging coal from the outcrops and sending it…

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Coal Crisis. Prime Minister's Intervention Sought. (Published in the "Times.")

Northern Star · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—A new move to end the coal deadlock has been set afoot by the Parliamentary Labor party and the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades. Union…

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