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Mining & the mines, 1912

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Miners Must Win. Mr. Will Thorne on Union Finance. Mr. Greyson Anticipates. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 2

Mr. Will Thorne, speaking at Blackfriars, said that if the coal strike continued six weeks all the trades unions in the country would become…

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The Coal Strike. Owners Contemplate Ruin. Idle Travellers. Strikers and Police in Conflict. Aggressive Aliens Arrested. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 2

Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, the great biscuit manufacturing firm of Reading, have intimated that if the strike is prolonged they intend to…

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Newcastle Miners Owners Suggestion Should Take Over the Mines Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 2

The conference of colliery proprietors and miners' representatives met at Newcastle to-day to consider the question of the second shift. The…

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A Funeral in a Mining Damp

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 6

The following story of a funeral In a mining camp in California is from the Sacramento "Transcript" of June 11, 1850 :-…

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The Coal Strike. Minimum Wage Bill. to Be Passed To-morrow. Disorderly Scenes. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 2

The British Government hopes to pass the Minimum Wage Bill by Thursday so that it may be considered by the House of Lords on Friday…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 4

A branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association which has been opened at H[?] E[?] N.S.W. with Mr. A. McKinnen as Secretary…

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Coal Mines' Bill. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 2

The House of Commons was crowded when the Premier introduced the Coalmines Bill with great reluctance. The bill is to be enforced for three…

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Another Coal Dispute

The Worker · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 12

IF there should be more trouble in the Newcastle coalfields the public of Australia will know on whom to fasten the blame…

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The Coal Strike. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 2

The week's strike pay for 4000 miners at West Lothian exhausted the funds. Minor riots hare taken place at Lanarkshire, South Derbyshire and…

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The Australian Press on the Great Coal Strike

The Worker · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 12

IT would be well for the conductors of Australian newspapers if, before discussing what takes place so far away, they would try to get an accurate idea of…

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Nonsense Rhymes. 1.—The Little Gold Fish. a Dirge

The Worker · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 2

A little gold Fish, he swam in a dish With parsley sauce around him; He waggled his tail on the stormy gale. But the wild waves rose and drowned…

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The Goal Strike. Tom Mann Arrested. the Mines Bill. Explained in Commons. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 2

Tom Mann, the strike leader, has been arrested but in what charge has not transpired. One hundred and fourteen Sheffield firms are allowing…

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German Miners' Strike Off. Berlin

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 4

The miners' strike at Westphalia (Germany) has been declared off…

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Disaster in Mine. Eighty Men Entombed. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

Reports have been received at Fort Smith, Arkansas, of a great mining disaster at M'Curtain, Oklahoma, through a gas explosion. Eighty men…

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Starving the Sufferings of the Poor. Owners Oppose Minimum Wage. Foreign and Colonial Coal Landed

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

The attitude of the Mine-owners' Federation causes the Ministerialists grave anxiety as to the fate of the Minimum Wage Bill. The owners all…

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The Coal Strike. Minimum Wage Bill. Newspapers Comment. Federation Will Not Accept It. Tom Mann's Arrest London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

The English Opposition newspapers look on the Minimum Wage Bill as inadequate and a sham. The "Times" considers that the public at…

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Trouble in United States. Miners' Demands Rejected. Cleveland

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 4

The miners' demand for an advance of wages was rejected at a meeting of operators. A strike is now imminent unless the arbitration proposals put…

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The Coal Strike a Riot. London Thursday Evening

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 2

While 500 pickets endeavouring to prevent 100 non-unionists from working in the Kirconnell pits overpowered the police with sticks and stones…

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The Mines Department. More Questions. the Usual Reply. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 6

In the House to-day Mr. M'Ga[?]asked Mr. Edden had he yet received any report from his officer regarding the sluicing operations on the…

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More River Pollution Another Dredging Lease Applied for Adelong Gold Estates

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 2

In the Melbourne "Argus" of Thursday last, another step has been taken to pollute the Murrumbidgee River waters. On this occasion the trouble comes from…

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