Racial Clash Sidelight On Riots In W.A. Miners Are Bitter
The Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 4
MINERS are noted for hastiness in affairs which they consider, touch them closely. They appear to possess an act-on-the-spur-of-the-moment complex, direct action having for them a stronger appeal than diplomacy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 30
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 14
The price of gold to-day was £6/12/10 an ounce fine, compared with £6/12/5½ yester-day. America bought the whole of the £700,000 worth offered…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Newcastle Activities. Returns for 1933. Increased Shipping; More Coal Exports
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 5
In 1933 the total quantity of coal exports and interstate transfers from Newcastle was 2,104,558 tons, representing an increase over 1932…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boom As Gold Goes Vital Bill Is Signed New Era? Washington
The Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 15
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT signed his Gold Bill this afternoon. Formal devaluation of the dollar, probably…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Serious Riots Kalgoorlie and Boulder Mobs Loot and Destroy. Foreigner Killed in Battle. Attempt to Defend Camp Against Miners. KALGOORLIE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 13
Remarkable scenes of violence were witnessed at Kalgoorlie and Boulder last night and early this morning, when mobs looted and wrecked business premises of foreigners. Three hotels, a boarding-house, and a wine saloon were set on fire and destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Pitched Battle in Race Riots Miners Shot by Aliens: Houses Burn Explosion Is Signal for Attack Foreigners Hold Mob at Bay Kalgoorlie, Wed. Morning
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 1
Several miners were wounded by armed foreigners when fresh outbreaks of mob violence occurred at Boulder late last night and early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move to Clear Foreigners Out of West Sequel To Mob Fury In W.A. Firing and Looting of Towns Committee To Wait On Chamber Of Mines £30,000 DAMAGE 1 PERTH
The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 January 1934 · page 5
FOLLOWING we orgy of wrecking burning and looting by inflamed mobs at Kalgoorlie and Boulder last night,, when damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grains of Gold
Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3
WE all lead secret lives; our only true publicity is in the mind of God. To smile at the jest which, places a thorn in another's breast is to become…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Notes
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 13
TARANAKI (H.Z.) OIL FIELDS N.L.—Message from Moturoa Oil Fields Ltd.: No. 4 well: Drilled to 2085ft in grey shale and sandstone. Now endeavouring to free 8in casing to run to bottom…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners Deaths. Broken Hill
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 12
A verdict of accidental death, and that no blame was attachable to anyone, was returned at the inquiry into the deaths of Albert Edward Ellis and Frank Kovaclch, who were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining the Share Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 13
A weaker market ruled for gold shares yesterday. None of the leading producing concerns made headway. On the other hand, no serious losses were suffered. Western…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Award Rates As Expanses Miners Make Request
The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 6
WITH a view to obtaining better rates of compensation for witnesses who are called to give evidence in industrial and other cases…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Riot Battle with Foreigners at Kalgoorlie
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 2
RACIAL, feeling which has been simmering at fever heat for years on the goldfields of Western Australia boiled over the week when an Australian miner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Race Riots on Western Gold Fields
Italian Bulletin of Australia · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 3
Also in Italian Bulletin of Commerce
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Overcome by Gas Working in Sewer Mine
The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 7
Engaged in constructing a sewer mine leading across a paddock to Auburn Moat Works yesterday, William Tolfer, 43, married miner of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Youths' Jobs in Mines Support for Strike at Corrimal
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 10
BULLI, Wednesday.--Nearly all southern lodges, with the exception of Excelsior, endorsed the proposed 5 per cent. district levy in support…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mine Ultimatum Given Till To-morrow To Resume MELBOURNE
The Sun · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 26
A new development occurred today in the strike of 1300 miners, wheelers and surface workers at the State coal mine. Wonthaggi. when an…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 31
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 12
The price of gold to-day was £6/13/1 an ounce fine, compared with £6/12/10 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Peg Gold America's "Fighting Announcement" 59c Dollar Washington
The Sun · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 10
By proclamation. President Roosevelt to-day devalued the dollar to 59 cents, and announced that from tomorrow the Treasury would purchase…
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