Coal Rumblings Reduction of Wages Hinted London
Close on the heels of a suggestion from a section, of the coalowners, that there should be a reduction of the miners' minimum percentages and the subsistence wage owing to…
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Mining & the mines, 1927
667 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 28 of 34
Slump in Coal Mining
Letters from England received in Lismore show that English coal miners are receiving, a particularly bad time at present. No doubt some persons in the town and district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Men Buried Fatal Fall of Coal
WOLLONGONG, Sunday.-- Two men were buried beneath 100 tons of goal in Mount Pleasant mine, yesterday. One, John Ashmore, was killed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deputy Killed Two Men Under Fall in Mine Woelongong
Two men were buried beneath 100 tons of coal in Mount Pleasant mine yesterday. John Ashmore was killed and George Hill was badly hurt and is in hospital in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oil From Brown Coal English Company to Start Operations
MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- Among, the passengers by the Orvieto, was Mr. A. Nesfield, of the I. and M. Brown Coal Co., England, who has come to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland's Gold Yield
The output of gold in Queensland for the expired nine months of this year, amounting to 19,240 fine ounces, valued at £81,729, was an increase of 13,031oz…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Miners' Secretary. Not Wanted in Poland
LONDON, Tuesday.—Poland refused to visa the passport of the miner's secretary, A.J. Cook, to permit him to attend a meeting of the executive of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News and Notes. Drake Gold Lease
At the Drake Warden's Court on Friday Curry Bros., owners of the gold lease at Drake, which some time ago created a sensation in mining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining on Beaches. Coolangatta Proposal
With a view to exploiting the Monazite beach sands on the South Coast a company is being formed in Brisbane with a capital of £15,000, and at a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drake Goldfields. Present Shafts
Like most other Australian goldfields, Drake had its heyday, rose to prosperity, and was a flourishing centre for a while, with a population of about…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Miners Strike Big Move in U.S.A.
VANCOUVER, Wednesday.—A message from Denver states that although 6,000 Colorado coal miners affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike in U.S.A. Miners Respond to I.W.W. Call Denver (Colorado)
Although 6000 Colorado coal miners affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World responded to the latter's strike order, only part of the State's coalfields are yet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shower of Gold. Roman Workman's Find
A chance blow from the pick of a laborer working recently on the foundations of a new house in the eastern region of Rome brought down a shower…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining on Beaches. Coolangatta Proposal
With a view to exploiting the Monazite beach sands on the South Coast a company is being formed in Brisbane with a capital of £15,000, and at a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drake Goldfields. Will They Come Again? Present Shafts
Like most other Australian goldfields, Drake, near Tenterfield, had its heyday, rose to prosperity, and was a flourishing centre for a while, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Raid on Pickets Strike at Colorado Coal Mines Walsenbury (Colorado)
Deputy sheriffs made a surprise, attack on Industrial Workers of the World pickets at he coal mines in this district and arrested 17 men and seven women, and charged them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Militant Women. Stone Guards at Mine
NEW YORK, Saturday.—A Walsenburg message says that, standing shoulder to shoulder with their menfolk, women enrolled by the I.W.W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Escaped Massacre. Now a Gold Seeker
One of the two survivers of the Nakanai (New Guinea) massacres, Mr. E. H. B. Britten, has not let his exciting experience affect his appetite for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Guinea Gold. Big Shipment
Sydney, Tuesday.--Seventeen thousand ounces of gold, valued at approximately £42,500, arrived at Sidney today from Edie Creek and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Coal Strike Ends Berlin
The coal strike, involving 70,000 men, has ended. The Government appointed an arbitrator, who awarded the miners a 11½ per cent, increase…
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