Mr. Lyons Warns Coal Miners
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) in a statement at Canberra last night warned miners that if they resorted to direct action…
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Mining & the mines, 1938
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Coal Supplies Difficult To Get
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—When the Sydney County Council met today the general manager (Mr. Forbes Mackay) said the Council was anxious to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railways Have Reserves Coal Strike Decision Sydney
THE State Premier (Mr. Ste[?]ns) declined last night to comment on the strike decision. He said he had been informed of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Production at North Mine
Production figures of the North mine for the four weeks ended August 27 are given below, the figures for the corresponding period of last year…
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SHOULD the coal strike be prolonged, repercussions will be felt in Broken Hill, but for the immediate future there is no danger. The biggest users of coal locally are the Silverton Tramway Co. and the Broken Hill and Suburban Gas Co., whose officials…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Football Semi-Final Govt. Will Not Intervene Mr. Lyons On Coal Strike SYDNEY
THE Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) said in Canberra today that he could not adopt the suggestion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hopes Of Settlement Are Fading Mr. Curtin and Coal Strike Will Federal Govt. Intervene? SYDNEY
FINAL attempts to obtain official intervention in the coal dispute, it is believed, will be made by the Federal Opposition leader, Mr. Curtin. Today he conferred with the miners' president (Mr. Nelson) and the secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Non-unionists Working at Colliery Police At Entrance To The Mine MELBOURNE
NON-UNIONISTS were working the Austral colliery owned by J. P. Hudson at Korumburra today. They, resisted efforts by unionists to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Central Mine Picnic
The Central Mine Picnic Committee will conduct its annual picnic at Penrose Park tomorrow. Special arrangements have been made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Silver Peak Mine
The secretary of the Silver Peak (Broken Hill) Limited reports as follows for the period ended September 8, 1938:—Development: No 2 drive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →20,000 Coal Miners Idle All Men Affected Except W.A. Hurried Moves to Settle Strike Sydney
MORE than 20,000 coal minors in Australia became idle at midnight last night. Meanwhile hurried moves to settle the diapute are being made. The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) has consented to meet representatives of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inter-mine Tennis Assn. Play-off
The first of the play-offs for third and fourth place in the Inter-Mine Tennis Association competitions was decided on the Fire Station Court this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stork Busy on Goldfields
PERTH, Saturday.—"I always take off ray hat when I see a perambulator, but since I have been on the goldfields on this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mortality Among Miners
SYDNEY, Monday.—According to the annual report of the Mines Department for 1937 there were 26 lives lost in New South Wales during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Production at South Mine
The following are the production figures at the South raine for the four weeks ended September 10, the figures for the corresponding period of last…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A miners' report today from Kurri Kurri stated that a group of hotelkeepers had offered broadcasting facilities, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop Press No Coal From New Zealand
SYDNEY.—The Miners' Federation today received notification from the New Zealand Mine Workera' Federation that they would…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strike in Four States Federal Cabinet Is Considering; What of Safety Men? SYDNEY
FEDERAL Cabinet met today in Canberra to consider the request by the Miners' Federation for the appointment of a tribunal to deal with the miners' claims. At Newcastle today Mr. H. Scanlon,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop Press Coal Owners Reject Enginemen's Claims
SYDNEY — The coal owners have rejected the claims of thE enginedrivers as a result of which aggregate metiengs have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Charged With Manslaughter Cyclist's Death Near Mine Story Related in Court
EVIDENCE was given by several witnesses in the Court of Quarter Sessions before Judge Coyle and a jury yesterday at the trial of Frederick Charles William Whitbread on a charge of manslaughter, that they saw…
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