Miners and the Union. Sydney
The shiftmen at the Wollongong mines held a meeting with a view to deciding upon their withdrawal from the Miners' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1917
563 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 29
Plenty Op Coal Trimmers. Melbourne, Sunday
It was staled yesterday by a union official in Melbourne that the Minister for the Navy need not entertain any fears regarding men not being available…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Irish Traitors Sinn Fein Rebels Unmasked. Another Upheaval Planned. German Gold and German Guns. Leaders Arrested in America New York, Saturday Night
On Wednesday the U.S. Secret Service officials frustrated a second Sinn Fein rebellion in Ireland, which had been planned to occur next Easter, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wollongong Miners. Alleged Victimisation. Judge Curlewis Explains. Wollongong
Judge Curlewis, presiding over the miners' tribunals at Wollongong, said he wanted to make it clear that he had received no instructions from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Foreigners in Mines. A.W.U. Protest. Sydney
The A.W.U. has protested against the employment of so many aliens at the Broken Hill mines, to the alleged exclusion of men whose sons have fallen in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill Mines. Resume Operations. Broken Hill
It was notified at Broken Hill to-day that operations will be resumed at the North mine on Friday, and at the Central on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mines Off Gabo. Sweepers' Exciting Experiences. Placed by Experts. Some Narrow Escapes. Sydney
It has now been ascertained that the mine-sweepers off Gabo Island dragged to the surface mines of almost modern type and terrifically powerful. They bore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Working the Mines. Prospects Brighter. Sydney
Union reports show that the prospects are much brighter for Christmas than they were a month ago. If the coal trimmers' trouble is settled the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Wales Mines. Examiner's Strike Averted. London
The South Wales mine examiners have rejected the coal owners' conditions of recognition, but in view of the country's peril have agreed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Important Discovery. Rich Vein of Gold. Sydney
A remarkably rich vein of gold, bearing arsenic pyrites, has been discovered at Wattle Flat, near Bathurst. Specimens from the vein assayed yield over 417…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain's Food Shortage. Queues Outside Shops. the Miners and the Butter. London
There are queues outside many of the London provision shops, owing to the shortage of tea, sugar, butter and margarine. The shopkeepers limit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Coal Strike. Miners Support Obstreperous Wheelers. Sydney
A stoppage of work has occurred at Lymington Colliery, in the Newcastle district. The dispute arose over two wheelers refusing to give sufficient…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Gabo Mines
The story of the minefield which was recently discovered off Gabo Island is interestingly told by one of the officers of the vessel which discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Requisitioned. Washington
An order by the Fuel Dictator requisitions ten per cent, of the output of every coal mine in the United States for Government use…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Monstrous Fabrication." Mr. Hughes and Mr. Justice Higgins. the Late Coal Strike. Melbourne
Mr. Hughes, referring to the reported statement of Mr. Justice Higgins, that the Prime Minister wanted him to act as commissioner to deal with the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floating Buoy Sighted. Looks Like a Mine" Sydney
The lighthouse-keeper at Green Cape wires that the steamer Aeon sighted a buoy, with a spar attached, off Green Cape. It looked like a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unemployed Miners. Sydney
Some of the old hands at the Wallarah and Muswellbrook collieries, whose places were taken during the late strike by loyalists, are to be re-employed as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Patriotism. a Letter to the King. London
Mr. Clem Edwards, M.P., has written to the King, pointing out three-fifths of the South Wales miners who voted in favor of combing out are in m[?] and youths…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kaledin, Dictator. Controls Food and Coal Supplies. People Crying for Monarchy Again. Bolspieviks Control Petrograd. Haparanda (Sweden)
M. Kerensky's private secretary has arrived at Tornea, and it is alleged that he escaped from Russia with a false passport, in the name of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Miners' Strike. Was It an Offence? Sydney
The High Court had before it to-day the question submitted by Mr. Justice Higgins: Was a strike of coal miners an offence under the Act? Also, did a strike…
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