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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

1,112 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 18 of 56

Coal Lockout Opening of Mines Owners to Decide To-day Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

A meeting of the Northern Collieries Association to-morrow afternoon will decide whether to open all the collieries or some of them with the…

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Zig-zag Colliery Question of Ventilation

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly last week, Mr. Hamilton Knight, M.L.A., asked the Minister for Mines if he would have a thorough investigation made into the system of ventilating…

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Northern Miners Fund Soccer Football Benefit

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 4

A meeting of the combined committee of Railway Coal Mine and Thistle soccer clubs at the week-end decided to stage a match in aid of…

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Coal Trouble Hopeful Official SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

A prominent union official stated last night that the coal trouble will be over in a fortnight. He alleges that the A.C.T.U. scheme to…

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Miners’ Convention. Militants and Non-Militants. SYDNEY

Leader · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

The annual convention of the Miners’ Federation opened In Sydney to-day. It is considered that the deliberations will either end or Indefinitely…

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Levy for Miners No Decision in Victoria MELBOURNE

National Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

The Victorian Unions affiliated with the Australian Council of Trades Unions have not reached a decision yet in regard to the levy for…

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Miners and the Show. Lodges to Decide on Holiday

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 4

The executive of the Western Miners' Federation yesterday considered the question of recognising Friday as a holiday, in connection with the first…

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Comrade to Comrade Western Miners' Generosity £64,000 to Northern Men

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

During the last nine months members of the Western Miners' Federation have contributed, by means of the 12[?] per cent levy…

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Re-opening the Mines Thirty to Fifty Per Cent Response According to Owners

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

"It is expected that at least a proportion of Associated Northern mines will be re-opened next week. The simultaneous opening of as large a…

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Mining in the West Is Again Intermittent Mr. Schroder on Rothbury Waste

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

Information was received at the office of the Western Miners' Federation yesterday, morning that 21 notices of dismissal had…

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Coal Lockout Unassociated Colliery Idle CESSNOCK

National Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1930 · page 5

Milfield Greta, one of the largest of the unassoclated collieries in the Cessnock district, was idle to-day. The men decided to hold a stop-work…

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The Coal Impasse Miners Discount Owners' Claims That Skilled Labor Is Available

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 20 March 1930 · page 2

The colliery proprietors decided yesterday to leave the time for re-opening the mines to the companies concerned…

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Balmain Colliery An Appeal For Unity SYDNEY

National Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1930 · page 5

The decision of the special committee by the All Australian Trades Union Congress to investigate the allegation that disloyalist enginedrivers were…

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Miners' Federation a Lively Debate Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1930 · page 5

A lively debate took place at the Federal convention of the Miners' Federation to-day regarding the submission of the coal dispute to…

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Western Coal Trade and Hopper Requirements an Official Explanation

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 20 March 1930 · page 2

Mr. C. M. Thomson district railway superintendent at Lithgow, has made an official statement in regard to the recent complaint that sufficient…

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Liberals Wont Obstruct Passage of Coal Mines Bill London

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 1

When the House of Commons went into committee on the Coal Mines Bill, Mr. Royd George explained that the Liberal party would not take any…

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Coal Trouble Miners' Convention Busy Appeal to Federal Ministers SYDNEY

National Advocate · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 4

Dramatic moves by the coalowners forced the Miners' convention now sitting in Sydney to give immediate consideration to the trouble on the…

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Gold at Mudgee

Leader · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 5

It is reported that [?] been [?]ock at the which yielded much days. A [?]ft has…

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Greta Mine Still Idle Cessnock

National Advocate · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 4

Millfield Greta, one of the largest unassociated collieries in the Cessnock district, which was idle yesterday because the men decided to hold a…

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The Coal Miner. What the Westerners Did

Leader · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 9

Some idea of the vast amount of money levied from the Southern and western miners in assist their com[?]des In the Ma[?]tland fields, who have…

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