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Mining & the mines, 1909

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 9

Cathcart Company, Ararat, V., has definitely fixed the payment of a 2s. dividend—the first—before Christmas, which will mean a disbursement of £5275…

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The Miners' Middleman

The Worker · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 7

The coal strike awakens many thoughts. One is this: Again and again we hear the middleman denounced, the man who is a mere passer-on, and stands between…

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The Coal Strike

The Worker · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 7

A man, talking of the strike, said one of the usual things said by those who judge the present in the light of old things passed away, and never realise that the…

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The Union-worked Mines

The Worker · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 15

The two mines in the Newcastle district—the Ebbw Main and the Young Wallsend—which are being worked by Union labor on the condition that the Federation…

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Miners' Association. Tasmanian Council Recommended

The Worker · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 9

Owing to their remoteness from the headquarters of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Victoria and Tasmania, which are situated at Bendigo, the Tasmanian…

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Land Strike v. Coal Strike

The Worker · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 7

As the following takes in two points of view, each measuring the other, and bearing upon the most important matters of the moment, viz., the taxation of land and…

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The Mines for the People. State Action in Victoria. Pushing on with Government Mines. Interesting Speeches by Labor Members

The Worker · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 15

As soon as the second reading of the necessary bill went through the Victorian Legislative Assembly, a start was made with the State coal mine, where there is…

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Cheap Coal From Japan. Capitalistic Journal's Audacious Proposal

The Worker · Thursday 2 December 1909 · page 13

Of all the remarkable suggestions offered to solve the problem of defeating the strikers, that of the "S.M. Herald" takes the palm for revolutionary audacity. It…

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Japanese coal

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 2

It was stated this morning that the Orient Company had ten thousand tons of Japanese coal on the way to Sydney…

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Mining Notes

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 2

The September returns for the Gibraitar Consolidated Gold-mining Company show that the old mine is still making handsome profits monthly…

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The Coal Strike. SYDNEY

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 2

The Government has decided to intervene in the coal strike and command the whole coal output of the State, as required for railway and…

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The Coal Strike. Railways Disorganised. Sydney

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 4

The Railway Department have intimated that delivery of coal will not be undertaken except in the case of coal designed for use by the…

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The Big Coal Strike. Determined action by the-Government. Counter move by the Labor Party The Law to be Enforced. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 2

The Government has decided to intervene in the coal strike, and command the whole coal output of the State, as required for railway and…

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Coal Lumpers' Action. Government and Price of Coal. Sydney, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 2

The northern proprietors have rejected the proposal of the Labor Party. The strike conference have decided…

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Shipping English Coal. London, Dec. 3

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 2

The steamer Devonshire is loading 5000 tons of Tyne steam coal and half a dozen others are being similarly fixed for Australia. There are also…

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Strike Extends. a Momentous Development. Question of Imported Coal. Coal Lumpers Refuse to Handle It. "Sink or Swim with Miners." Other States Affected. The Wages Board. Explained by Mr. Lee. Not Necessarily a Long Inquiry. the Procedure

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 2

The Acting-Premier, explaining the procedure in connection with the compulsory wages board, said that a judge would be appointed to preside as…

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"No Turning Back." Must Support Miners. Enthusiastic Meeting. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 2

The coal lumpers' mass meeting lasted several hours. The discussion was very heated. The strike committee's resolution recommending them to…

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Railways and Union Mines May Close Down. Sydney Gas Supply. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 2

The company controlling the Ebb[?] Main and Young Wallsend mines were informed to-day that the Railway Commissioners required all the coal…

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Coal from Japan. a Union Split. Lumpers Refuse to Handle It. Disobey Strike Committee's Orders. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 2

The Coal Lumpers Union unanimously rejected the Strike Committee's instructions to handle the imported coal from Japan…

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Miners in Reply Deprecate Intemperate Language Small Coal Question

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 7 December 1909 · page 5

The following statement has been made by the executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation, in reply to the statement of Mr A R Cant, secretary of the Colliery Proprietors'…

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