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Mining & the mines, 1922

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Colliery Profits. Mr. Brennan's Statements. Comments by Mr. McDONALD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 March 1922 · page 4

Mr. C. M. McDonald, secretary of the Northern Collieries Association, commented on a statement recently made by Mr. W. Brennan…

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American Coal Miners a Joint Appeal. Vancouver, March 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 March 1922 · page 5

A New York message announces that a joint Protestant and Catholic appeal has been issued in an attempt to ward off a coal strike. This is the first…

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Typical South Maitland CoalSeam. This View Shows a Seam of Coal 22 Feet Thick Without a Band—stanford Merthyr Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 17 March 1922 · page 7

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Income Tax. Miners Want Exemption Raised

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 March 1922 · page 5

A lengthy business sheet was drafted for issue be members at a meeting of the Northern Miners Exe[?]tive. Included was the following…

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Colliery Record Output

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 4

The Aberdare Extended Colliery on, Friday established a record output, as during the day 306 waggons of coal were filled. of this number…

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Pelaw-Main, Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 4

Only about a dozen employees reported for work at the Pelaw-Main Colliery on Friday, and in consequence the mine was again thrown…

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Stoppage at Aberdare Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 4

A stoppage occurred at Aberdare Central Colliery at Cessnock on Thursday. The men claimed special rates for coal cut with a pick on the side of…

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New Mine Rescue Apparatus

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 3

Ever since the invention of the miner's safety lamp by Humphrey Davy, Great Britain has devoted keen attention to the subject of safety devices in mines…

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Price of Coal. Reduction Expected

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 6

Sir Allen Taylor, speaking at a meeting of the Sydney City Council electricity committee, stated that he had been told that coal would be cheaper…

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Colliery Profits. Mr. Brennan's Statements. Comments by Mr. McDONALD

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 5

Mr. C. M. McDonald, secretary of the Northern, Collieries' Association, commented on a statement recently made by Mr. W. Brennan…

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Mining Industry. Men Seeking Control

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 3

"WE might consider the desirabilty of taking over the wastefully and inefficiently run industry and of running it in an eff[?]tent manner for…

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Workmen's Compensation. Miners' View of the Act. Inequitable Operation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 16

The inequitable operation of the present Workmen's Compensation Act, as applied to industrial accidents, was made reference to by Mr. A. Lewis,…

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Mining Industry. Enforcing New Policy. Limiting Production

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 11

The policy laid down by the Australasian Coal and Shale Workers' Federation some time ago included a six-hour day, five days' work per…

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German Experts. to Land in Australia. Development of Morwell Brown Coal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 11

The Federal Government has now decided to permit the Victorian Government to bring in six German experts, as well as Gorman machinery, in…

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Cost of Mining Explosives

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 March 1922 · page 4

A combined meeting of Pelaw-Main and Richmond Main Miners'. Lodoges was held at the Empire Hall, Kurri Kurri, on Sunday, ot discuss the…

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Record Output From "Colliery

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 March 1922 · page 2

The Aberdare Extended Colliery on Friday established a record output, as during the day 306 waggons of coal were filled. Of this number 228 were of best…

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Warden's Court. Colliery Company's Application

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1922 · page 3

In the Warden's Court, held at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday afternoon, before the Warden, Major Crane, the South Greta Colliery, Ltd.,…

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Germany Pays Up. Seventh Instalment of Gold. London, March 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 March 1922 · page 5

A message from Paris announces that Germany has paid the seventh instalment of 31,000,000 gold marks under the Cannes agreement…

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LOCAL & General News Hebburn Colliery Idle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 March 1922 · page 4

Hebbura Colliery was thrown idle on Tuesday as a protest against an increase in the price of explosives which took effect six weeks ago. Six hundred…

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Mining Industry. Reduction of Wages Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 March 1922 · page 8

A meeting of the council of the Mining Department of the Australasian Workers Union (formerly the Australasian Coal and Shale…

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