Machine Pick Miners Dont Want It the City Railway Strike. Sydney
When striking city railway miners asked the Railway Commissioners to abolish the machine pick used in the work they were met with a refusal and were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1926
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Miners' Leader Cook Gets Bad. Time Press and Platform Escape From Undergraduates. London
Mr. J. H. Thomas in a pungent letter to the "Daily Herald" severely criticises the miners' leader, Mr. Cook. "Like the majority of members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Miserable Pittance" Federal £40,000 Mining Subsidy. Perth
The Minister for Mines, Mr. Troy, referring to the Federal Government's grant of £40,000 to the mining industry, declared it was a miserable dole…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Miners Ten Days a Fortnight. Sydney
The central executive of the Coal Miners Federation decided that after the first Saturday in March all miners engaged in contract work shall only work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Company Registered
The Clarence River Mining and Smelting Company (No Liability), was registered on Monday with nominal capital of £2000, in 100 shares, of £20 each. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Mine Explosion. Pittsburgh
Three were killed and 21 entombed in a mine explosion at the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation mine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Judge Edmunds Collapses After Inspecting Colliery. Newcastle
After a ten-hour inspection of the Aberdare colliery yesterday, Justice Edmunds collapsed through fatigue. He was moved to hospital, where he has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Strike. Coal Miners Again. Sydney
A strike has been declared by the winding engine drivers at Aberdare colliery and about 800 employees have been thrown idle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosions the Pittsburgh Disaster Sixteen Miners Entombed. Pittsburgh
The rescue parties are- abandoning hope that any of the sixteen miners who were unaccounted for after the explosion in the coal mine near here on Wednesday are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Redhead Victims Inquest Resumed a Dramatic Story. Gas in the Mine. Sydney
The inquiry into the dearth of five miners who were killed by the explosion at the Redhead colliery was resumed at Newcastle to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Over Year in Mine Attempt to Recover Body. Newcastle
On November 21, 1924, Edwin Cox was drowned in the Lily Rose mine at Wallsend, and a start has now been made to pump out the water with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Find Prospector Strikes It Rich. Perth
A prospector, William. Black, made a rich gold discovery near Yalgarn, West Australia. Samples of stone assayed by the Government Metallurgist averaged 40…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Smoking in Mines Cause of Disasters. Sydney
Mr. J. Jeffries, superintendent of collieries for the Broken Hill Pty, giving evidence before the Goal Commission today, said it was possible a lighted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Redhead Inquiry Gas Flames in Mine Reference to Money Matters. Newcastle
On the resumption of the inquest to-day into the Redhead disaster, reference was made to "money being given in connection with this matter to any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ultimatum to Coal Tribunal. Sydney
The Miners' Delegate Board, at a meeting, held at Newcastle to-day decided to give the chairman of the Coal Tribunal seven days in which to hear the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Intense Gold Wave in America Second Blizzard in Week. New York
The second blizzard within a week swept middle western and north Atlantic States, and another foot of snow has fallen in New York, which had not finished…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Illicit Gold Buying Unusual Charge in Victoria. Melbourne
An attempt was made recently to induce the battery manager to sell gold from the Ajax mine at Daylesford. The matter was placed in the hands of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Safety Lamps Coal Commission Evidence. Sydney
Giving evidence before the Coal, Commission to-day, Stanley Mackenzie, superintendent of the Hebburn collieries, said gas might be found in any mine, but in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Romance of Gold "Roaring Days" of Old
It is a far ery to the roaring days of the fifties and sixties, but the chances are that if it had not been for the carly gold-rushes in New South Wales,Sydney's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Side Stepping? Jackadgery Proposal Alternative Power Scheme Coal and Water Stations, Sydney
Since the present State Government refused to honor the promise given by the late Nationalist Government to pay the interest charges,…
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