• The Broken Hill miners' strike of 1919–20 was fought over safety conditions in the mines and eventually resulted in the Holman ministry (1916–1920) setting...
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    Group Limited, also known as Broken Hill Proprietary Company and formerly as BHP Billiton is an Australian multinational mining and metals public company...
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    1892 Broken Hill miners' strike was a sixteen-week strike which was one of four major strikes that took place between 1889 and 1920 in Broken Hill, NSW...
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  • badges at work. 1917 Australian general strike Broken Hill mining strike, from 1919 to 1920 by miners in Broken Hill, New South Wales, over safety conditions...
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    the syndicate reorganized as the Broken Hill Mining Company. Horn silver was discovered in 1885 and the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited was organized...
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    organisation for women formed during the first of several strikes to occur in the mining town of Broken Hill, NSW, Australia between 1889–1920. As early as 1874...
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    Rush in 1849. Mining camps soon thrived in the vicinity, which became bustling commercial centers, including Virginia City and Gold Hill. The Comstock...
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    of Broken Hill's mining unions is closely connected with the story of mining unionism in Australia. The history of trade unionism in Broken Hill goes...
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    to the Broken Hill community. In particular, it acknowledges the work of women who supported the town's miners during long and difficult strikes and industrial...
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  • Richard Thilthorpe Slee (category People from Broken Hill, New South Wales)
    Thilthorpe Slee, (1879–1935), mining engineer, was General Manager of the BHP mine at Broken Hill, Australia. Notable for his mining rescues, he was killed in...
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  • following is a list of miners' strikes. Miners' strikes are when miners conduct strike actions. List of strikes History of coal mining in the United States https://www...
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    strikers and their families. "Red Hill Mining Town", by U2 is about the breakdown of relationships during the strike.[citation needed] The storyline of...
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    short time in 1903 manager of the Cobar-Chesney mine, and the Broken Hill Junction Mining Company for about a year 1904–05. Around 1874 Warren and Fred...
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    submitted to it and in doing so had made a jurisdictional error. Mining commenced at Broken Hill, NSW in 1885, initially for lead in the form of galena and...
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    that the strike had been broken by that time. The Engineering and Mining Journal 1913, p. 958. Mellinger 1995, p. 136. Engineering and Mining World 1913...
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  • wherever the coal strata strike the surface or are relatively shallow. Britain developed the main techniques of underground coal mining from the late 18th century...
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    Yerranderie (category Mining towns in New South Wales)
    strike, lasting for eighteen months in 1919–1920. The workers of this small mine belonged to the same union as those at Broken Hill. When the Broken Hill...
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    Relations, The Colorado Miners' Strike. Government Printing Office. pp. 6345–8948. McPhee, Mike (June 28, 2009). "Mining Strike Site in Ludlow Gets Feds' Nod"...
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  • South Wales around 1878, settling in Broken Hill. He ran a station near Silverton, and became involved in local mining as a shareholder and businessman....
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    Central Mine Manager's Residence (category Buildings and structures in Broken Hill, New South Wales)
    of the township of Broken Hill and the mining activities were exhibited in London at the 1908 Franco-British exhibition. Broken Hill was initially a shanty...
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    Santa María School massacre (category 1907 labor disputes and strikes)
    With the massacre and an ensuing reign of terror, not only was the strike broken, but the workers' movement was thrown into limbo for over a decade....
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    engine driver and journalist in South Australia's mining districts, subsequently moving to Broken Hill, where he married Elizabeth Poole (with whom he had...
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    Western Federation of Miners (category Mining trade unions)
    slaves" of mining corporations rather recently acquired by back-east absentee ownership. They built their union when they were not yet "broken in" to the...
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  • Province from 11 September 1903 to 21 May 1908. He was also mayor of Broken Hill in New South Wales from 11 February 1889 to 12 February 1890, and was...
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    Sam Byrne (painter) (category People from Broken Hill, New South Wales)
    industrial disputes between Broken Hill's mine labourers and mining companies. As a nine-year old child he recalls the 1892 strike, triggered by proposed wage...
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    Breaker boy (category Coal mining)
    A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States and United Kingdom whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker...
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    The Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 was a five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States. It...
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  • increases. The strike occurred because wage negotiations between the NUM and the National Coal Board of the United Kingdom had broken down. In 1960, according...
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    a year. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first strike that spread across multiple states in the U.S. The strike finally ended 52 days later...
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    Barrier Industrial Council (category Broken Hill)
    industrial disputes and strikes in 1892, 1909 and 1919. The first attempt to establish a peak body to represent all trade unions in Broken Hill was in 1916 with...
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