Big Strike. All the Coal-miners Out. the Eight-hour Question
ALL mines in the Commonwealth affiliated with the Australasian Coal and Shale Workers' Federation were idle on Wednesday. The…
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Mining & the mines, 1916
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Coal Commandeered. Newcastle
All the coal on the waterside—several thousand tons—has been commandeered by the Government, and all coal shipping stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Crisis. No Fresh Developments. Commissioners Commandeer Coal. Sydney
There was no fresh developments in connection with the coal crisis to-day. The New South Wales Railway Commissioners took definite action this morning in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegraphic News the Big Coal Strike. No Settlement. Conference Deadlock. Railway Commissioners Seize Coal
There are no fresh developments in connection with the coal crisis. The N.S. Wales Railway Commissioners took definite action this morning in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mining Crisis. Conference Proves Abortive. Situation Critical
The conference between the colliery proprietors and representatives of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, held in Sydney yesterday, at which the mining situation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mining Dispute Conference Fails
There is no change in the condition of affairs in the coal mining dispute in the Newcastle district. The colliery proprietors on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Colliery Crisis
Owing to the need for a constant and sufficient supply of coal, not only to keep the wheels of industry going, but to enable the ordinary activities of life to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Crisis. Action by State Ministers. Supplies of Coal
Tho council of the Australian Coal and Shale Miners' Federation hold a meeting yesterday, and discussed the position that had arisen out of the failure of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Engineers" Perils
American mining interests are anxious with regard to the safety of nine mining engineers who are known to have been in the locality of Chihuahua. It is rumoured that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Industry. Spur to Operations. London, Thursday night
Mr. Asquith, addressing 3000 representatives of the coal mining industry, appealed for the elimination of any avoidable absenteeism, which, he said, now absorbed 5 per…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Big Strike. All Affiliated Mines Throughout Australia. Eight Hours Demand
All the mines in the Commonwealth affiliated with the Australian Coal and Shale Workers' Federation were idle Wednesday. The action of the men has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Seized for Railways. War Precautions Prices. (By Telegraph,) Sydney
The Railway Commissioners, seized all stocks of coal, at Pyrmont ana Newcastle, and announced they will pay in accordance with the War Precautions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEW £60,000,000 Loan. Allies' Huge Gold Shipments. New York
It is believed that the flotation of the British 300,000,000 dollar (£60,000,000) loan next week will cause a halt in the further imports of gold. American financiers are opposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Colliery Mechanics. Aggregate Meeting
An aggregate meeting of the colliery mechanics of the Maitland coalfield was held at Weston on Sunday morning. Mr. E. pendlobury presided over a good…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Workers. Will Not Load Coal
The railway workers who are members of the Railway Workers' Union now incorporated with the Australian Workers' Union, the determined not to do anything which they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Crisis. Government Action. Ministers Hope to Mediate
The dispute between the Coal and Shale Workers and the Colliery Proprietors is still unsettled, but mutters have been put in train, which, warrant the belief that a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price, of Coal Fixed
The Necessary Commodities Commission sat in Sydney yesterday with the object of fixing the price of coal. Mr. Justice Edmunds, President, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Colliery Proprietors. Thier Case Stated. Melbourne
The colliery proprietors of New South Wales issued the following official statement to-night:—"In July, 1915, the employees…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Singleton Argus. Tuesday, November 7th. the Coal Strike
It has been noted more than, once that just as some crisis occurs in Australian political circles, there synchronises with it some important industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Crisis Shipping Seriously Disorganised. 15,000 Men Affected
Shipping generally in Sydney is now seriously disorganised as a result of the coal crisis and threatens to come to a standsstill. Since the mines closed…
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