Effect of Shipping Strike. 6000 Northern Miners Idle
The shipping strike is daily bringing into prominence the serious position into which the northern coal-mining industry is being forced. The working fortnight,…
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Mining & the mines, 1920
1,014 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 51
Six-Hour Day. Five Days a Week. Miners' Demands
The Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation has decided to demand from the employers throughout the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →French Coal Shortage Serious State of Affairs. Paris, Sunday Night
Street lighting has been reduced to minimum owing to the coal shortage. Electric lighting is confined to the central markets and certain street crossings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only One Shift. New Claims by Miners
The Delegate Board of the northern branch of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, sitting at Newcastle, considered the claims adopted by the council for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Matters. Delegate Board
At a meeting of the Northern Miners' Delegate Board held in Newcastle yesterday, the executive officers were instructed to co-operate with the lodges on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Mechanics. Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Colliery Mechanics' Association was held in St. Paul's Parish. Hall, West Maitland, on Saturday evening, the president, Mr. J. E…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Conference
The principal subject of discussion at Saturday's sitting of the council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation was with respect to the One. Big Union…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Brook Gold Find
Scone "Advocate" is reliably informed that a loca1 syndicate has been formed for the purpose of testing the reef near the old Bluey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Exceeds £6 an Ounce
London, Tuesday.—Gold wad raised today 3/4 per ounce' to £6/0/10 per ounce fine owing to the New York exchange falling to 3.38, but in the absence of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mines Nationalisation. Asquith Opposes. London, January 30
Mr. Asquith, speaking at Paisley pronounced definitely against the nationalisation of mines. He said that if it was suggested that under…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Nationalisation of Mines. Important Discussion. London, February 5
The demand for the nationalisation on coal mines was discussed to-night between Mr. Lloyd George and the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Mining Problems. Five Working Days
New problems confront the mining industry of the Commonwealth. The full extent of the miners' claims, which have been hinted at at various times, were made…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →German Coal Obligations What Failure Means. More Territory Occupied. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) Paris, Thursday Night
M. Millerand, addressing the Chamber's Foreign Committee, declared that the Government would not treat with Soviet Russia, but would help Poland, as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I the Latest New York Exchange Panicky Scrip. Sold at Loss. Lower Freight Rates. English and French Gold Wanted. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) New York, Thursday Night
The New York exchange market was very panicky to-day, and sterling reached the unprecedentedly low level of 3.19½, later on recovering to 3.25…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Accident
Hugh Burns, aged 21, who is employed at Whitburn Colliery as a set-rider, was admitted to the Maitland Hospital on Saturday night, suffering from injuries to his legs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Work at the Collieries. [?] by Shipping Hold Up
[?] at the Newcastle and Maitland colliery was particularly slack during the foright. Full time for the period was [?], which was worked in two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Commission. Sittings Resumed. Sydney
The Royal Commission inquiring into the coalmining industry and the coal trade in New South Wales resumed its sitting this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Africa. Mining Strikes. Capetown, Feb. 8
Reuter's correspondent at Johannesburg reports that a ballot of all trade unionists concerning the mining industry resulted in a declaration to suspended the strike from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nationalisation of Mines. Coming Struggle. London, February 7
A great political struggle is looming on the question of nationalisation of mines. The miners' executive is dissatisfied with the Government's offer of a referendum, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One Big Union Seamen Favor Miners' Scheme. Sydney
During the week end several unions conferred for the purpose of forwarding 0.B.U. However.the conference failed, the…
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