Colliery Unrest
There is evidence of unrest at several collieries on the Maitland field, and matters have not been running smoothly since the resumption of work. The unrest is due to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1916
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Unloading Waggons. Coal Restrictions Modified
The congestion which it was feared would ensure at Newcastle through the action of the Federal Government in restricting the use of the coal solely for the Naval Department and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Industry Increase in Price
It is stated in Newcastle that ondea,vors are being made to induce the colliery proprietors to apply to the authorities for permission to increase the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Need for Goal. Miners and the Holidays
In view of the great need for coal for war and, industrial purposes, and Particularly to enable many, workers now idle to be re-employed, an appeal is being made to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work or Fight. Miners' Way with Shirkers
Notes miners numbering 35,000, have voluntarily adopted a scheme to stamp out drones and shirkers. Local committees now being set up as…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Goal Mines Act. Deputation to the Minister
A deputation, consisting of Messrs. J. Baddeley and A. C. Willis (president and secretary respectively of the Australasian Coal and Share Employees' Federation),…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Coal Tribunal. Question of Increased Pay and Overtime
The Special Coal Tribunal continued, its billings at Newcastle, yesterday after our report closed. After His Honor Justice Edmunds had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Lumpers Threat. Trouble at Mortlake. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
The coal lumpers engaged unloading coal at Mortlake Gas Works threaten to strike on Monday if their demand for aix men in a gang instead of five…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coal Tribunal Conferences in Camera. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
The special coal tribunal resumed this morning. Mr Justice Edmunds explained the position arrived at last week, and now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kaiser's Gold Plate. Empress Handing Some Over to Finance War. New York, Oct. 4
Imitating the example set by Queen Louise of Prussia in the darkest days of Hohenzollern humiliation during Napoleonic wars, the German Empress is stripping the imperial…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Muswellbrook Colliery Agreement Arrived At. Muswellbrook
The colliery strike has ended satisfactorily an agreement having been arrived at. "The mens's demands have been acceded to, and the wheelers are to receive 9/9…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Unrest
Reports from the collieries do not indicate a long continuance of that industrial peace in the coal trade that is so urgently needed at the present time to prevent the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letter to the Editor Miners and the Coal Strike
Sir,—That great industrial upheavals produce results little anticipated is quite clearly evidenced by the effects of the coal strike upon your correspondent, Louisa Tickle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Holidays
There is divided opinion amongst the miners on the proposal to limit the Christmas holidays this year to actual public holiday instead of the usual nine of ten day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Unrest. a Perilous Position. Strike Threatened
A great deal of unrest exists amongst members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens' Association employed at the Maitland district collieries. Indeed the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Industry. the Employees' Claims
Mr J. M. Baddeley, president of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, returned to Newcastle on Saturday. When questioned as to his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Mines Fail. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) London, Sunday Night
A Paris communique says:— Southcast of Batten Mesnil the enemy exploded mines and unsuccessfully attempted to possess the craters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Muswellbrook Letter. End of the Local Coal Strike. Muswellbrook
"Mercury" readers will remember that the miners of the Muswellbrook coillery censed work in October last, because the pre prop[?] declined to comply with some of their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Claims. Probable Settlement
The representatives of the coal owners and the miners met again in conference in Sydney yesterday. The proceedings were not open to the press, but after the parties…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Local Caol Mine
After, many weeks' idleness the miners employed at Muswellbrook Coal Mine will resume work to-day (Wediiesflay). From…
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