The strike was not productive of anything in the shape of news to-day, and little that is fresh is likely to transpire until the result of the masters' meeting is known. In the meantime the excitement has abated considerably, and ...
Article : 1,448 wordsPresident Carnot has returned from his toar, which was an uninterrupted sucession of welcome and ovations, conclusively proving that the great body of the French people are bent on maintaining the present ...
Article : 2,376 wordsSir,—Since writing you respecting the wages earned by the hewers or getters of coal, a number of inquiries have been made through your columns as to the time occupied by the men in earning the amounts quoted. The average ...
Article : 1,235 wordsSir,—The all-important topic of the day is the canse and cure of the great coal strike. 1st. The cause. I tremble to make the statement, but the truth must out. The cause of the coal strike is the ...
Article : 395 wordsAn effort seems to have been made to sow dissatisfaction among the minors employed in the southern collieries. It was partially successful, for two disgraceful acts are said to have been committed in the workings of one of the ...
Article : 504 wordsSir,—The above question is absorbing public attention just how, and well it may, for the serious results that must follow could not be beaten, unless by a real civil war with much bloodshed. I have watched the papers most ...
Article : 950 wordsSir,—It appears likely that the strike will be very prolonged and the public loss enormous, as even without the support of other labourers the miners can raise enough by sending their singlo men to work elsewhere while their ...
Article : 326 wordsSir,—In Saturday's issue appears a letter signed "Observer," which I trust yon will kindly allow me to reply to, as I am one of the howling idiots, or in other words a "trade unionist." Claiming to be one of those ...
Article : 585 wordsSir,—The Newcastle strike now on brings once more to the surface what has often occurred to me in re the benefit or otherwise of trades unions to its members and to the public at large. I trust a more able pen may take it up, ...
Article : 125 wordsSir,—Your able leader of Saturday on the crisis sums up the present position of things so clearly that I would submit it now only remains for the general public to take up the matter where you leave off, and to answer your ...
Article : 185 wordsSir,—The minors' strike at Newcastle, while it threatens to ruin the mine proprietors by destroying their trade, and on the other hand causing much privation and suffering to the men and their families, promises in the end to tura ...
Article : 836 wordsSir,—The strike at the Newcastle collieries has for a time cut off the principal coal supplies of the colonies. Every effort is heine; rande by the owners of the southern and western mines to meet the demand. In Queensland and Victoria the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 496 wordsSir,—In an English paper of recent date, a correspondent writes under the above caption as follows:—"It may interest some of your readers conversant with fruit culture to know that at the meeting of the Boyal Horticultural ...
Article : 447 wordsIt is rumoured that at two of the mines the men have made demands for a considerable increase in the hewing rates, besides other claims which it is feared will eventuate in a strike. All the southern mines are supplying coal ...
Article : 165 wordsSir,—The Newcastle coal miners cannot sorely have sufficently considered the possibilities of the labour market when they contemplated a prolonged strike in order to force on the pit-owners their own terms, or else they must be very ...
Article : 340 wordsAt a meeting of labourera, held on the Australian Wharf yesterday afternoon, a collection was taken up on behalf of the mitlers who are on strike at Newcastle. The sum of £5 13s. was raised. A sum of about £1 10s. was collected ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 4 Sep 1888, Page 5
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