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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

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On the Brink Colliery Readjustment Miners and the Executive London. March 21

The Daily Express · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 1

The Yorkshire Miners’ Council has decided to recommend that the miners shall temporarily abandon the policy of a National Wages Board…

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Welsh Coal Mining. in a Desperate Position. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 2

The unfavorable state of the coal trade, especially in South Wales, has been strikingly admitted by Mr. J. Hodges, M.P., secretary of the Miners'…

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Opinion of Miners Divided. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 2

The Scottish and North Wales miners' unions have followed the example of the South Wales miners' councils in rejecting the coal owners' wages scheme…

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New Zealand Miners Treaten Drastic Action. Wellington, March 22

The Daily Express · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 2

The Miners Federation threate[?]s drastic acting of the employers refuse an [?]al conference to dis[?]ss their demands. The mine owners…

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Gold Mining Decline on the Rand. Sir L. Phillip’s Warning. Cape Town, March 22

The Daily Express · Thursday 24 March 1921 · page 1

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, Sir Lionel Philips said the gold mining industry on the Rand- had reached…

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British Miners. Wages Readjusted. London, March 22

The Daily Express · Thursday 24 March 1921 · page 1

The Northumberland Miners’ Council has recommended the temporary abandonment of the National Wages Boards and acceptance of the…

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Carpathia Tin Mining Co. ARDLETHAN

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 4

The report and statements of accounts of the Carpathia Tin Mining Company, N.L. for the half-year ended January 31st last, show a loss of £3898, which…

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British Miners Wages Re-adjustment District Scheme Rejected London, Mar. 24

The Daily Express · Saturday 26 March 1921 · page 1

The Miners' Conference has considered the district reports on the wages question and as the replies showed a very large majority against…

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Educed Pay Lead Miners Object Leave Work and Find Gold London, March 28

The Daily Express · Wednesday 30 March 1921 · page 2

The [?] in three hundred years has occurred in upper [?] when the lead [?] are refusing redaction in wages without which…

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Good Gold Yield. From Kalgoorlie Mine. Kalgoorlie

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 March 1921 · page 2

Thirty-one tons of ore from M'Cahon's Great Hope Mount Mine, Mount Monger, yielded 886 ounces 11 dwt., while sand slimes from the…

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British Collieries the Wages Difficulty London, March 20

The Daily Express · Thursday 31 March 1921 · page 1

The coal owners at Cannock Chase offered the miners a wage after April of two and a quarter tines that paid in July, 1914…

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Sunken Gold. Attempt at Salvage. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 March 1921 · page 2

An Admiralty salvage vessel will shortly leave Portsmouth to recover the remainder of the gold bullion which was on the armed liner Laurentie when…

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Coal Crisis. Miners to Cease Work. Disastrous Results Feared London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 2

The coal situation has suddenly taken a most serious turn. The conference of the miners' executive with the Minister for Labor, Sir…

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Direct Action Reduced Colliery Pay. GENERAL MlNERS’ Strike in Britain. London, Mar. 30

The Daily Express · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 1

After a further conference with Mr. Horne had proved abortive, the Coal miners’ Federation announced to-day that it is to-morrow going to withdraw…

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Copper Mines Shut Down 30,000 Operatives Workless. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 6

Thirty thousand copper operatives are out of work as a result of the shuting down of the Anaconda and other great mines in the State of Montana…

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Goal Strike. English Miners Cease Work. Government Proclamation Issued. Deciding That "State of Emergency Exists." London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 4

All men in the North Wales and Warwickshire coalfields ceased work to-day, and a general stoppage of all the mines throughout the country…

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All British Mines Idle Men Removing and Ponies From the Pits Many Engine Men Refuse to Strike Ramsay McDONALD’S Warning to Labor

The Daily Express · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 1

The mlu[?]rs everywhere are bringing up their tools and the pit po[?]ies even in Durham where 60,000 [?] are striking thought they had just…

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Coal Miners' Federation Desire to Remedy Slackness. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 2

The Coal Miners' Federation are asking the Federal Government to appoint a representative of the federation on the Newcastle Coal Control…

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Fighting in Rhineland Communists Seize Mines Belgian Troops Intervene LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 1

A Brussells correspondent: Fighting has occurred in Rhineland between the Communists, who seized four mines, and the pro-Communists, who prevented…

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The Strike in England Meeting on Sunday "Support the Miners" LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 1

At a meeting of the transport workers and railwaymen of London and other centres to-day, the speakers strongly urged action to support the…

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