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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Sydney Harbor Collieries Award

The Worker · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 8

The Sydney Harbor Collieries Wages Board award was published last week, and came into effect on the 10th inst. It gives a hewing rate of 1s. 10¼d. per ton for…

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A Colliery Strike. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 2

The Wallsend colliery was thrown idle through the action of 50 wheelers in refusing to continues work excepting under increased rates. The stoppage…

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Coal Vend Prosecution

The Worker · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 25

On the resumption of the hearing by the High Court on Monday of the case against the Coal Vend, Mr. Knox, senior counsel for the colliery proprietors,…

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Colliery Trouble. Wallsend Wheelers on Strike. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 2

The Wallsend Colliery was thrown idle to-day through 50 wheelers going on strike for increased wages. They demand 2½d per ton for all coal they wheel…

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Teralba Colliery. Agreement Arrived At. Newcastle

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 2

In connection with the trouble at Teralba Colliery, where the men have been out for the last eight weeks, and agreement has been arrived at on all…

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Colliery Trouble. Men to Resume Work. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 4

The trouble at Teralba Colliery is virtually over. The men are expected to resume work on Monday…

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Colliery Disaster. Twenty-two Miners-killed New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

Twenty-two miners were killed by an exp[?] at the Cascade Colliery. Sykes Viller, Pennsylvania…

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Coal Vend Prosecution Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 3

The Coal Vend cases entered upon the forty-ninth day of hearing to-day. Mr. Campbell's address for the defendants was not concluded when the court rose…

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Fatal Mine Explosion. New York

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

Twenty-two miners were killed by an explosion at the Cascade Colliery at Sykes Ville (Pennsylvania)…

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Australian Gold. Exported to Germany, Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

During the past fortnight Australia has exported 305,000 so[?] Germany…

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Strike at Lithgow Miners Resent Delegates Dismissal. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

The miners at Hoskins' coal tunnel Lithgow, struck work this morning over the dismissal of a man who [?] a delegate to the Miners'…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 27

Peter Bowling, who has been elected check-weighman at the Balmain colliery, thus changes his membership from the Northern Association to the Illawarra…

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Trouble at Lithgow Ironworks. Dismissal of a Lodge Delegate. Work at Colliery Stopped

The Worker · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 13

From Lithgow comes a report of what, on the face, of it, looks extraordinarily like another case of victimisation of a trades union official by his employers, the…

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A Unique Festival. Klondyke Gold Discovery. Seattle

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 2

A unique festival is being celebrated at Potlatch commemorating the fourteenth anniversary of the first Klondyke gold shipment. The…

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A Cloud Burst Follows Intense Heat. Mining Camp Obliterated. San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 July 1911 · page 2

Cloudbursts in Death Valley followed the intense heart of 149 degrees, which drove human beings out before the heaviest deluge in 30 years. One…

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Pullitop Gold

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1911 · page 2

Mr. Geo. Stevenson, the Wagga Mines Warden, announced from the bench in the Court House yesterday that he had received a letter from Mr…

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Strike Favored. Miners Vote Solidly. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1911 · page 2

[?] Northumberland miners, by an overwhelming majority, voted in is[?] of a strike against the three shift system…

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Terrific Explosion Twenty Miners Killed in India. [?]

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1911 · page 2

By an explosion at the Champion Reels mine, Mysore, 20 coolies were killed and many injured, while buildings over a considerable radius were…

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£60,000 Statue. Group of Gold to Be Blessed by Pope. Quebec

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1911 · page 3

An [?]-foot group of statuary carved in solid sold and costing £60,000, will be erected within 6 year or two in the famous Church of St…

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"Would Steal Our Gold."

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 July 1911 · page 2

At a meeting of the depositors in the Saving Bank of New South Wales in Sydney some astounding statements were made on the subject ot the…

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