The Rise of Broken HillThe story of the men who made and spent their fortunes, and of the miners who won that fortune from the Hill. |
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Page 62
... strike at the beginning of July 1892. Both parties were already inflamed . William Knox of BHP , acting for all the mines , cabled Sydney , seeking special police to maintain ofder . Unionists picketing the mine leases clashed with ...
... strike at the beginning of July 1892. Both parties were already inflamed . William Knox of BHP , acting for all the mines , cabled Sydney , seeking special police to maintain ofder . Unionists picketing the mine leases clashed with ...
Page 142
... strike in Australia ever won so much . But then few strikes had such forces favouring success . The miners ' union , the most radical in a range of unions which spanned many political views , had intense determination to remedy its ...
... strike in Australia ever won so much . But then few strikes had such forces favouring success . The miners ' union , the most radical in a range of unions which spanned many political views , had intense determination to remedy its ...
Page 168
... Strike The 1892 strike was placed in this chapter , partly because it seemed an integral part of the pessimism which so quickly followed the boom . Moreover I am not certain how far the strike was relevant to the industrial turmoil of ...
... Strike The 1892 strike was placed in this chapter , partly because it seemed an integral part of the pessimism which so quickly followed the boom . Moreover I am not certain how far the strike was relevant to the industrial turmoil of ...
Contents
Illustrations | 7 |
The Magnates | 33 |
End of the Honeymoon | 49 |
Copyright | |
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Adelaide Australian mining Barrier Industrial Council Barrier Ranges base-metal Bavay became BHP's Block 14 Broken Hill companies Broken Hill mines Broken Hill Proprietary Broken Hill South cent Charles Rasp coast Cockle Creek concentrate danger Darling River Delprat dividends drill dust early favourable flotation process gold ground Hill's horse hydraulic fill industrial iron Kalgoorlie Labour lead-poisoning leaders line of lode London magnetic manager McCulloch Melbourne metal miles militants mill miners mining companies mining field Mount Gipps North Broken Hill open cut ounce paid plant plates Port Pirie profits railway Rasp rich rock Roy Bridges shaft shareholders shares sheep station silver and lead silver-lead silverfield smelters smelting South Australia South Wales stopes strike Sulphide Corporation sulphide problem Sydney syndicate Terowie timber tion town tralia underground union unionists W.S. Robinson wages Wilcannia workers Zeehan Zinc Corporation