Ominous. Colliery Trouble Threatened. Conciliation Committees Sudden Collapse. Afternoon Shift Question. Delegate Board Summoned by Wire
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 10
NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--"We regard the position as very serious, and one that we did not anticipate. We feel that we have been misled in entering upon the work of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining. London Buoyant in Silver Shares. Australian Exchanges Respond
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 11
From the fact that the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday, as per cable message received yesterday morning, disclosed a buoyant tone for Barrier silver stocks, operators,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Professor Gilruth Welcomed. Labor Troubles at Darwin. Mining at Pine Greek
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 5
DARWIN, Thursday.--The appointment of Professor Gilruth as Administrator of the Northern Territory is well received. He created a favorable impression when here with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News form the Fur Quarters Foreign Cables the British Coal Strike. 5,000,000 Men Affected
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 4
No settlement has yet been arrived at in connection with the British coal strike. Every miner in the country is out, besides hundreds of thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tighter Grip. Coal Strike and Nation. Trade and Industry Stifled. Unions Grow Anxious. the Double-edge of Unemployment
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 9
LONDON, Thursday.--The coal strike situation is unchanged this morning, and no sign is apparent yet of either side yielding. But the effects of the strike continue to be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Trouble Ahead. Coal Strike Threatened. Outlook at Newcastle. Proprietors Throw Down the Gauntlet. Afternoon Shift Question. Newcastle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1912 · page 10
Serious disruption has occurred between the men and the proprietors in the colliery industry here. The question of the abolition of the afternoon shift has loomed suddenly in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Masters and Men. Northern Collieries Deadlock
Evening News · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 11
NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—The meeting of the conciliation committee called by the chairman Mr. C. Hibbie was opened this morning and kept going till 2 in the afternoon without…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Coal Crisis
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 5
An article in the "Nineteenth Century" anticipates the great coal strike. The magnitude of the issue may be imagined from the fact that in 1910 the coal raised amounted to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Strike An Awakening
People · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 2
Whither are we going? In which direction and to what end and purpose is society moving? This is the all-important question of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Notes
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 18
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Ltd.; has received a cable message, dated London March [?] the following quotations:— Silver, 2/7[?] (official quotation); lead,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Colliery Crisis. Important Meeting To-day. Colliery Strike Discussed. Ballot to Be Taken. Men Very Determined
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 13
NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- The seriousness of the position that has been created in the colliery industry throughout the Newcastle and Maitland districts has been in no way diminished…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Great Coal War
The International Socialist · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 2
LONG millions of years ago the giant ferns and great forest growths of the Carboniferous Period of the Primary Epoch lifted their towering heads…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Week's Coal Export
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 14
The total quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during the week ending to-day amounted to 90,829 tons. Of this quantity 42,722 tons were sent to foreign ports, whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →General Censure. Miners' Stubbornness Deplored
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 13
LONDON, Thursday Evening. -- The whole of the members of the Ministry and the press censure the miners for their stubbornness in the present crisis…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In and About the Mines
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 17
Our Gloucester correspondent yesterday telegraphed: -- The Mount Copeland mine is to be given another trial, and worked at a lower level. The syndicate that purchased the machinery of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Bread Rises. Speculation in Coal
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 13
LONDON, Friday. -- A general rise has taken place in the price of bread. The delay and disappointment of the Argentine crop was the controlling cause, but the coal strike hastened…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Explosion in Mine. Seven Men Killed
Evening News · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 11
VANCOUVER, Friday Evening.—A terrible gas explosion occurred in the Meritt mines on the Diamond Vale Coa[?] British Columbia Seven men were [?] and eleven were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Great Strike. Pressure on Miners. Union Funds Depleted. Miners Feeling Pressure. London, March 7
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 17
The entire Ministry and[?]ress now censureo the miners for [?] unbending attitude they have adopted in connection with the coal dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Southern Coal Trade. the Bulli Stoppage
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 10
BULLI, Friday. -- It is expected that something denni[?]e will be done next week with regard to the stoppage of work at the Bulli mine. It has been idle nearly eight weeks, and though most of the men have found employment…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Anxiety at Newcastle. Miners' Delegates Boards Sitting
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 13
The temper of the men of the Maitland district is clearly shown by a series of motions passed at a meeting of the Cessnock Lodge on Wednesday evening. The lodge meeting was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →