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    The 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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  • Miners' strikes are when miners conduct strike actions. List of strikes History of coal mining in the United States https://www.bls...
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    great industrial disputes of 1892 (1892 Broken Hill miners' strike), 1909 and 1919-20 are well remembered in Broken Hill and beyond. Workers' heroes such...
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    during the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike. According to Bloodworth (1996), there were daily mass rallies and the Barrier United Females' Strike Protest...
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  • several banks and strikes: 1890 Australian maritime dispute, 1891 Australian shearers' strike and the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike. He called for economic...
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    Australian maritime dispute, 1891 Australian shearers' strike, and the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike, were among those who decided there was no hope for...
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    the following thoughts in The Barrier Miner in respect of the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike: ... Sir, this strike has one feature which renders it more...
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    Court judge. He presided over the trials of the leaders of the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike, and was an active faculty member of the University of Sydney...
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  • 1890 maritime strike and 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike. He then went to Coolgardie in Western Australia, where he continued as a miner and became involved...
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  • chairman of directors of The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited at the time of the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike. In 1885 he was elected to the...
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    carpenter by trade. He moved to Broken Hill at a young age, where he was involved in the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike. He returned to Wallaroo over a...
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    and metals public company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company was founded on 16 July 1885 in the mining town of...
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    Premier of New South Wales, during which he had to deal with the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike and the carriage of a complex electoral reform bill. He introduced...
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  • strike in Queensland was broken after 13 union leaders were charged with sedition and conspiracy, and convicted. The 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike in...
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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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    union had been broken; the company had been operating the plant at full capacity for almost a year, since September 1892. The Homestead strike broke the AA...
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    Instead, responding to the 1890 Australian maritime dispute, the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike and others, South Australia, New Zealand, New South Wales,...
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    operations at Port Pirie in South Australia. In 1892 there was a strike by miner's at Broken Hill that was precipitated by a decision to terminate the 1889 and...
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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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    labor strikes by size List of miners' strikes List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes Streetcar strikes in the United States Strikes during...
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    the Western Federation of Miners, which sought to organize miners throughout the West. Violence occurred in later strikes as well. At Cripple Creek,...
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    suffering the effects of protracted violence against them, the miners ended their strike without achieving any of their demands. On July 24, rail traffic...
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  • spread to seamen, wharf labourers, then gas stockers. Coal miners from Newcastle, Broken Hill, and even New Zealand were locked out after refusing to dig...
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  • " Once again, miners were rounded up and herded into bullpens and held there for months. During the Western Federation of Miners strike of 1903–04, there...
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    and strikes, such as the bitter and prolonged 1890 Australian maritime dispute, the 1891 and 1894 shearers' strikes and the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike...
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    Josiah Thomas (politician) (category Australian miners)
    He was a member of the Defence Committee formed during the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike. As a result of his criticism of the magistracy in relation...
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  • Richard Thilthorpe Slee (category People from Broken Hill, New South Wales)
    "Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame | Online Resource". Barrier Miner newspaper, Broken Hill, 19 October 1935, pp 2, 3. Broken Hill, 1915–1939, by R...
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  • The 1908 Blackball miners' strike was industrial action that happened when seven miners in the small town of Blackball, on New Zealand's West Coast, were...
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    Protectionist government of Sir George Dibbs. In response to the 1892 Broken Hill miners' strike, the strike leaders were arrested for conspiracy on the direction...
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    Sam Byrne (painter) (category People from Broken Hill, New South Wales)
    Bill; Byrne, Samuel; Dwyer, Thomas John (1974). "Five miners involved in the Broken Hill Miner's Strike of 1919". Not broadcast (Held in oral history collection...
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