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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Victorian State Coal Mine. Men Dissatisfied with Conditions. Union Secretary Penalised

The Worker · Thursday 21 July 1910 · page 20

Though no actual industrial outbreak occurred al the Powlett, V., State coal mine, the men resumed work dissatisfied with the terms forced upon thorn, and a…

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Mine Signals. Universal Code Condemned at Bendigo

The Worker · Thursday 21 July 1910 · page 9

A deputation representative of the Bendigo Engine-drivers. Miners, Mining Managers and Mirieowners' Associations, dissatisfied with the present code of mining…

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Sensational Fall. Down Mining Shaft. Several Men Injured. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1910 · page 2

A sensational accident occurred in the metropolitan colliery, Hellensburgh, this morning. It appears 46 men were going down the shaft in a…

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Labor Troubles. Hetton-greta Colliery

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 3

Four miners at Hetton-Greta colliery in the Maitland district will give notice of their intention to cease work as a protest against the system of contract work in operation in…

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Arithmetic Competition for Girls. Gold Watches for the Best Papers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 3

The Principal of Bexley Ladies' College, Sydney, offers two Ladies' Gold Watches for the best papers on arithmetic from girls under 17 years of age…

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Mining Disaster a Transvaal Explosion. Many Lives Lost. London, July 22

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 2

A shocking disaster, due to the ignition of a case of gelatine, occurred in the Simmer East Deep mine, in the Transvaal. Fifteen men (natives)…

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Internal Disagreement. Newcastle Miners' Board Application. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1910 · page 2

AN application, was made in the Industrial Court to-day for an order dissolving the Newcastle Miners' Board, and asking for the constitution…

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Miners' Board. Effort to Get Rid of Member. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1910 · page 2

Application was made in the Industrial Court to-day for an order dissolving the Newcastle Miners' Board and for the constitution of a new…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 28 July 1910 · page 9

Thirty ovens for the manufacture of coke are being built at Corrimal, N.S.W., and it is expected that they will be ready for use in about nine months' time…

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Powlett State Coal Mine

The Worker · Thursday 28 July 1910 · page 23

Over 400 of the miners signed the petition which Labor Leader Prendergast presented to the Victorian Parliament asking that a wages board should be…

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Northern Collieries Board Position of Mr. Paterson. Miners' Application for his Removal

The Worker · Thursday 28 July 1910 · page 10

In the Industrial Court of New South Wales, on Monday. Mr. Watt, on behalf of the Colliery Employees' Federation, applied for a dissolution of the Newcastle…

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Fall of Colliery Cage. Sixteen Persons Injured

The Worker · Thursday 28 July 1910 · page 19

At the Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh, last. Wednesday morning, whilst sixteen men and boys were being conveyed from the surface to the bottom of…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 2

The undermentional Gold-mining Leases have been cancelled for non-fulfilment of the labor conditions:—The Gibraltar Consolidated Gold…

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New-Zealand Miners Killed. AUCKLAND, Aug. 1

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1910 · page 2

Two miners, Frank Moore and Wm. Brough, were killed to-day by a fall of stone in the colliery at Huntly…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 4 August 1910 · page 9

A 30-inch reef, assaying 15dwt., has been struck in the 700ft. level at the Gibraltar mine, Adelong, N.S.W. M. Murphy, looming, trenching, and…

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Northern Miners' Board. Mr. Paterson Not to Be Removed. He Threatens to Make Revelations

The Worker · Thursday 4 August 1910 · page 23

As was expected from the tenor of his remarks when the matter first came before him, Judge Heydon refused the application of the Colliery Employees'…

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Gold Strike

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 2

A report, from Hudson's Bay, Winnipeg, states that due of the greatest gold strikes yet known has taken place in the town of Hudson. The…

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Grahamstown Gold Estates

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 4

In respect to the Gold Estates, Grabamstown, the output of gold from the two barges is computed at a hundredweight of gold per month…

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Great Gold Find. VANCOUVER, August 5

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 2

From Hudsons Bay is reported the greatest gold strike yet found. The town of Hudson is deserted, even telegraph operators and postmasters…

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Mining Mems

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 10 August 1910 · page 2

Reported that work will shortly be resumed at the asbestos mine, Jones' Creek. The shipment of asbestos from the mine, sent to Germany last…

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