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Page 188
... eight hours a day , seven days a week . Once in three weeks , when they changed from night shift to afternoon shift , they enjoyed a 32 - hour holiday from eight o'clock on Sunday morning until four o'clock on Monday afternoon . For ...
... eight hours a day , seven days a week . Once in three weeks , when they changed from night shift to afternoon shift , they enjoyed a 32 - hour holiday from eight o'clock on Sunday morning until four o'clock on Monday afternoon . For ...
Page 198
... eight hours a day and received £ 3 3s . a week , but 240 skilled miners worked irregular hours on contract rates and ... eight hours a day , and on 23 August it sent a deputation to R. M. Murray asking him to enforce the eight - hour day ...
... eight hours a day and received £ 3 3s . a week , but 240 skilled miners worked irregular hours on contract rates and ... eight hours a day , and on 23 August it sent a deputation to R. M. Murray asking him to enforce the eight - hour day ...
Page 200
... eight - hour day be sacred , that the company discard inferior candles and explosives , that the miners be allowed to smoke in working hours , that the wage for first - class miners be 15s . 6d . instead of 10s . 6d . a day , that the ...
... eight - hour day be sacred , that the company discard inferior candles and explosives , that the miners be allowed to smoke in working hours , that the wage for first - class miners be 15s . 6d . instead of 10s . 6d . a day , that the ...
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Australian mining began blast body boom Bowes Kelly British Broken Hill cent copper company's Comstock copper cost Creek Crotty diggers dividends Dixon drill Dundas Eldon Ranges Emu Bay engineer feet field fire furnaces gold Gormanston gossan hauled Heemskirk Hercules Hobart hundred investors Iron Blow Karlson Kelly Basin King River Knox later Launceston lease Linda Valley lode London Lyell Copper Lyell directors Lyell Mining Lyell railway Lyell shares Macquarie Harbour manager McDonough Melbourne metallurgist miles mill miners Mining Company months Mount Lyell mountain Murray North Lyell pany pegged Pieman Pieman River port price of copper profit prospecting prospectors pyritic Queen River Queenstown rail rich rock Rosebery Schlapp shaft shareholders ship silver smelters smelting smoke South Sticht stope Strahan sulphur Tasmanian Tharsis timber tons town track tram Trent Trial Harbour tunnel union Victorian Waratah west coast West Lyell western Zeehan zinc