The Miners Idle. Smillie Advocates Passive Resistance. Ilondon
Mr. Smillie, secretary of the Miners' Federation, speaking at Glasgow, said it was probable that 90 per cent. of the miners will be idle in two or three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1919
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Miners' Absurd Demands. Manifestly Impossible. Montreal, Tuesday, 2.25 a.m
A message from Buffalo says: The soft coal operators, conferring here, characterised the miners' demands as being radically extravagant and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Strike. Long Struggle Prophesied 100,000 Miners Idle. Expert Food Lorry System. the Third Day. Stranglehold on Industry. More Works Closing. London
The third day of the great strike finds the railwaymen's stranglehold on industry rapidly tightening. News comes in every hour of works closing, and precipitating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Miners Idle. London
Twenty thousand miners have been rendered idle in the Lothians and Lanarkshire by the railway strike…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Conserving Petrol and Coal. Racing in Ireland Suspended. London
A strong Government appeal regarding the use of petrol states that unless voluntary economy is ruthlessly practised, the use of private ears must be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial. Northern Miners. Stop-work Meeting. Sydney
A stop-work meeting, will be held on the northern coalfields on Monday. The matters to be discussed are victimisation, the displacement of miners by returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal and Shale Employees. Sydney
Messrs. Baddeley and Willis were returned unopposed for the position of president and general secretary respectively of the Australian Coal and Shale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Door Still Wide Open. Miners' Resolution. London
That the door to negotiations is still wide open is shown by the fact that the Mediation Committee, after a prolonged conference with the railwaymen's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Smuggling . Through Italy to Germany. Old Tricks Revived
A week or two ago the publication of extracts from French newspapers showed that the French police had discovered that for some time past a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Stop-work Meetings. Sydney
All the mines in the South Maitland district were idle this morning in order that the men might discuss various maters. It is understood that work will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Workmen's Compensation Act. Protest by Miners. Sydney
Meetings of miners throughout the Newcastle and South Maitland coalfields adopted a resolution pledging themselves to support their Broken Hill and New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Crisis
Once again we are in the throes of a coal crisis. Its history can be briefly told. A week ago the country was staggered by a wholly unexpected Ministerial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Employees. £1 a Day of Six Hours. Sydney
Mr. Willis announced that next year the coal employees will demand a six-hour day and £1 per day minimum wage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Big Food Bill. Paying America in Gold. New York
The United States destroyer Laub has arrived from Antwerp with 5,125,000 dollars in German gold, as part payment for the 156,000,000 dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hydro-electricity and Coal
"What is the greatest invention in engineering?" was a question I once put to the late Professor Kernot, of the Melbourne University, and his reply…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Barrier Mining Trouble Little Prospect of Resumption. Sydney
Mr. Willis states that prospects of the resumption of work by the miners at the Barrier appear to be remote. One thing is pretty certain--that the industry would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Quest for Gold
A Victorian mining syndicate with unlimited financial resources recently financed an expert, who prospected the beach all around Ballina. The expert,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold in the West. Perth
Rich specimens from the new find on Hampton Plains have been brought to Kalgoorlie. Although the locality has not been disclosed, it is believed to be in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Industrial. Broken Hill Mines. Proposed Blockade. Sydney
The Silverton Tramway Employees' Union received a deputation from the Amalgamated Metalliferous Association asking members not to handle supplies for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labor in Britain. Mine Nationalisation. Deputation to Prime Minister. Government Declines State Management. London
Mr. Lloyd George, replying to a trades union deputation's advocacy of the [?]tionaLisation of mines, adhered to the policy announced in the House of…
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