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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1938

134 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 7

Mining Dispute Compulsory Conference

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: If the attempt to secure volunteer labour for three northern mines is continued, a general mine…

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Coal Mines Action Taken By Judge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 August 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: There was an unexpected development in the threatened mining trouble this morning when Mr. Justice Cantor…

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Swing From Lang Miners Vote In Northern Coalfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 August 1938 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday: Northern miners, by 3958 votes to 2071, have decided to transfer their political affiliation…

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Coal Prices for Railway £130,000 Increase On Last Year

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 August 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The State Railways coal bill this year will be £130,000 more than in 1937…

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Miners’ Ballot

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 August 1938 · page 5

Speaking at a regional conference at Bankstown, the leader of the Industrial Labour Party, Mr. Heffron, stated that the recent ballot taken…

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Miners Stage Stay-in Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 August 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday: Sixty miners commenced a "stay-in" strike in the Durham colliery near Redhead early this morning…

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Unusual Death Mining Deputy Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 August 1938 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Thursday: The case of Allan Dyson, a deputy, who was overcome by carbon monoxide when clearing out gas at Aberdare Central…

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Gold Rod

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 26 August 1938 · page 8

Gold Rod, who won the 1937 Epsom Handicap, but who failed in the autumn engagements, is to make his reappearance on the…

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Spain's Wealth Rich Mines Near Madrid

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 26 August 1938 · page 2

Insurgent drives for control of the earth's richest mercury mines at Almaden, in south-central Spain, recently, reminds…

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FALLS 90 Feet Inside a Mine Found Smoking Cigarette

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 26 August 1938 · page 5

BROKEN HILL, Friday: Harry Tesseyman a timber man, who fell 90 feet down a winze in South Mine, suffered only severe bruises to the…

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Council Lays in Stocks of Coal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 29 August 1938 · page 1

Immediately the threatened strike of coal miners was first mentioned in May last, steps were taken to increase the coal…

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Mines Idle While Men Meet

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 August 1938 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mines throughout Australia are idle to-day to enable men's meeting to be held at which resolutions will be submitted,…

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Miners' Meetings Endorse Strike Plans Votes Give Authority To Men's Union Leaders

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 31 August 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A resolution empowering the direction committee of the Miners' Federation to call a general coal strike, is such action is considered necessary, was adopted by aggregate meetings of miners' lodges in…

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Falls 90 Feet inside a Mine Found Smoking Cigarette

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 1 September 1938 · page 1

Harry Tesseyman, a timber man, who fell 90 feet down a winze in South Mine, Broken Hill, on Friday, suffered only severe bruises to the…

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Guineas Day at Canterbury Pandava And Gold Rod Selected For Major Events the Prospects

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 10

Moderate performers prodominate in the programme offered racegoers by the Canterbury Race Club to-morrow, but there…

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Miners Announce Plans for Strike Expect To Start On Coming Week-End

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 September 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: The miners directions committee, which sat in Sydney all yesterday, officially announced that "the committee had been working out the final preparations for a strike, which it considered would, commence at the…

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Gold Rod Back to Best Form Effortless Win In Canterbury Stakes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 September 1938 · page 8

A failure in the autumn, Gold Rod, at Canterbury Park on Saturday, returned to his former greatness by decisive win at weight for-age in the…

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Miners' Threat Owners Will Meet Men

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 September 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The ultimatum issued by the Miners' Federation to the coal owners threatening a general strike in the industry will expire…

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Sydney and Coal Supply County Council Is Concerned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 September 1938 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday: At the meeting of the Sydney County Council to-day, the general manager, Mr. Forbes Mc-Kay, said the County Council was…

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General Coal Strike on Friday Federation Sends Out Instructions Stoppage Will Actually Take Effect on

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 7 September 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Miners' Federation has called a general coal strike throughout the Commonwealth, as from Friday afternoon…

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