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Mining & the mines, 1921

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Six Deaths. Kalgoorlie Mining Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 December 1921 · page 5

The fifth victim of the Page accident at the Golden Horseshoe mine Kalgoorie, has succumbed to his injuries, and another one died in the…

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Wallarah Colliery. Work to Be Resumed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1921 · page 14

An important meeting of the Wallarah Miners' Lodge was held at Catherine Hill Bay yesterday, when lengthy consideration was given to the dispute…

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Coal Industry. Award for Engineers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1921 · page 6

An award dealing with engineers in the coal industry was delivered by Mr. Chas. Kibble, chairman of the Special Coal Tribunal…

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Four Men Killed. Kalgoorlie Mine Disaster

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1921 · page 6

An appalling disaster happened at the Golden Horseshoe Mine at the change of shifts on Tuesday afternoon, when a cage containing, seven men got…

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Officials Elected. Coal and Shale Federation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1921 · page 6

The voting in connection with the election of officers of the Coal and Shade Federation is announced. The ballots were conducted on the…

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Authority to Enter. Mining Matters at Warden's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1921 · page 2

The case of the application by the Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., for permission to enter 1280 acres, known as G. T. Palmer's, in the Parish of…

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Stolen Gold. Sonoma's Quartermaster Suspected. Booty Recovered. Vancouver, Dec. 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1921 · page 2

A message from San Francisco says that upon the complaint of Mr. Samuels, manager of the Oceanic Line, Judge Lazarus has issued a warrant…

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Colliery Mechanics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 December 1921 · page 4

A meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Mechanics' Mutual Protective Association was held in St. Mary's Hall, West Maitland,…

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The Collieries. a Slight Improvement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 December 1921 · page 2

Work at the Maitland and Newcastle district collieries during the fortnight ended on Saturday showed a slight improvement, ton mines…

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Hebburn Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 December 1921 · page 4

The ballot at Hebburn Miners' Lodge, for the election of local offers, resulted as follows:—President, J. Chalmers, 280; W. Sullivan. 179;…

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Colliery Mechanics' Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 December 1921 · page 4

Aggregate meetings of the members of the Colliery Mechanics's Mutual Protective Association, will be held at the following centres to-morrow…

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Miners' Ambulance Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 December 1921 · page 4

In connection with the ambulance competition, conducted in conjunction with the Newcastle Labour Day carnival, the shield presented by the…

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Mining Fatality. Four Men Buried at Stanford. Returned Soldier Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 December 1921 · page 6

Robert Irving, a returned soldier, employed as a miner, was killed by a fall of coal, estimated at from 100 to 200 tons, in Stanford Merthyr Colliery…

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Miners' Strike. Amazons' Army. Vancouver, December 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 December 1921 · page 5

A message from Pittsburg, Kansas, states that this centre of coalmining was the scene of operations of a remarkable army of Amazons, who threw…

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Coal Industry. Owners' Firm Stand. Nine Day Fortnight Rejected

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 December 1921 · page 6

The decision arrived at some time ago by the Northern coalminers to try and enforce a reduction of the working fortnight from 11 days to nine…

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Coal Industry Threatened Northern Miners' Decision

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 December 1921 · page 4

The Newcastle and Maitland miners are talking fight. They consider that the Australian Coal and Shale Workers' Federation has been too slow in putting…

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Coal Prices. Relation to Industry. Clear Sighted Leaders Needed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 December 1921 · page 4

It is a great pity for their own sakes that our coal miners and other industrial unionists generally, have nod got leaders with a firm grip of economic laws, and the courage of their convictions, like Mr. J. R. Clynes and Mr. J. H. Thomas, of the old country, to speak to them plainly…

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Mining Fatality at Stanford Returned Soldier Killed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 December 1921 · page 1

Robert Irving, a returned soldier, employed as a miner, was killed by a fall of coal, estimated at from 100 to 200 tons, in Stanford Merthyr Colliery on…

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Holiday Fob Aberdare South Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 10

Aberdare South Colliery has closed down until after the holidays. There was a dispute on at the colliery owing to a couple of shot-firers who were…

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The Eight to Prospect for Coal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 4

The Caledonian Collieries, Ltd, have been granted permission to ender the lands known as G. T .Palmer's, at Quorrobolong, and search for coal. The…

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