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Mining & the mines, 1921

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Miners to Woke Nine Days a Fortnight

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 7

The decision of the conference of Miners Lodges of the Northern district to only work nine a days a fortnight after the 10th of January…

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Northern Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 4

The collieries in the northern district will cease work generally on December 23, after the afternoon shift on that day. There will be resumption…

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Central Authority. Aim of Coal Miners. Controlling the Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 7

The Coalminers' Federation in an official statement declares that at the recent interview with the Prime Minister Mr. Baddeley (president of the…

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The Collieries. a Slight Improvement

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 10

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

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Colliery Mechanics. Aggregate Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 12

Aggregate meetings of members of the Colliery Mechanics' Association were held in the Newcastle and Maitland district on Wednesday, to consider…

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Colliery Echanics. an Abortive Conference

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 9

The conference between the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association and the Colliery Mechanics' Union with regard to the latter's claims for…

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Coal Industry. Award for Engineers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 9

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

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Officials Elected. Coal and Shale Federation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 9

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

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 2

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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Colliery Mechanics. Aggregate Meetings to Be Held. to Consider Proprietors' Reply

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 11

Considerable discussion took place at the delegate board meeting of the Colliery Mechanics" Association with, regard to the reply of the colliery…

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Critical Period the Metal Industry. Coal Outlook

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 8

Handicaps of the mining industry Australia were discussed by the [?]dent of the Australian Mines [?] Metals Association (Mr. G. C. K [?]…

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Critical Period. the Metal Industry. Coal Outlook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 12

Handicaps of the mining industry in Australia were discussed by the president of the Australian Mines and Metals Association (Mr. G. C. Klugg)…

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Six Deaths. Kalgoorlie Mining Disaster

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 10

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

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State Gold Yield. Increase for Eleven Months

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 13

The Under-Secretary for Mines has furnished a return showing that the New South Wales gold yield for November, 1921, amounted to 2752…

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Remedy Obvious. Coal From England. Mr. Hughes' View

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 6

Reports that coal could be landed in Australia from Great Britain cheaper than it could be obtained from Newcastle, were referred to by the Prime…

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 3

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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Authority to Enter. Mining Matters at Warden's Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 9

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 14

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

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Coal Trade. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 5

Prospects for the coal trade are not bright, particularly in view of the pronouncement of the miners leaders that the inception of the nine-day fortnight…

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Synthetic Gold German Alchemist's Claim. The Reparation Aspect

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 20 December 1921 · page 3

London, Sunday.—Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale University, lecturing at the London School of Economics, suggested, as a serious possibility that…

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