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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1922

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Coal Tribunal. Rule Nisi Granted. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 16

Application was made to Mr. Justice Higgins in the High Court Chambers on behalf of the mining section of the workers Industrial Union for…

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Coal Tribunal. Question of Wage Reduction. Adjournment Granted

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 14

The Coal Tribunal sat again at the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney. The proceedings were adjourned on Wednesday last, after the…

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Mining at Kalgoorlie London, June 27

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 5

At a meeting of the Great Boulder Mining Company, the chairman said that information concerning the gold property, in Argentina, on which the…

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American Coal Strike. Bloodshed in Illinois. Vancouver, June 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 12

Martial law appears imminent in the coal districts of illinois, where clashes have occurred with strike breakers employed in several collieries, especially…

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American Railways. Strike Prospects. the Coal Strike. Vancouver, June 26

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 2

A message from Chicago states that a strike of a million and it quarter railway workers appears almost certain but a definite announcement will…

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Summonses Against Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 July 1922 · page 4

About forty summonses have been issued against employees of Abermain No. 1 and No. 2 Collieries by Abermain Collieries, Limited, for having…

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Colliery Staffs. Association's Annual Dinner. Not a Militant Body

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 July 1922 · page 6

The members of the United Collieries' Staff Association held their annual re-union at Miss Chamberlain's rooms, West Maitland, on Saturday…

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Coal Mining

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 July 1922 · page 2

Prospecting operations are being actively carried on in the district. The latest finds of coal are at Grasstree and Antiene…

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Colliery Stonnages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 July 1922 · page 4

Employees of several collieries have lost time during the past week. South Greta was idle an Friday over a dispute as to the condition of a…

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Herrin Mining Murders

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 July 1922 · page 2

New York, Sunday.—An independent inquiry into the Herrin murders indicates that the majority of the victims and also the majority of the attacking…

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Colliery Stoppages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1922 · page 4

The serving of the summonses on a number of men at the two Abermain collieries was followed by another idle day yesterday. There is a…

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Abermain Colliery Trouble

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1922 · page 7

Work was resumed on Monday at the Abermain No. 1 Colliery as the result of the conference held in Newcastle on the dispute relating to the…

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Cruelty to Horse. Colliery Employee Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1922 · page 7

At the Cessnock Police Court yesterday James Stewart was sentenced to one months's imprisonment for cruelly ill-treating a horse at Aberdare Central…

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Colliery Employees. Prosecuted for Being Absent From Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1922 · page 7

The first batch of prosecutions against employees of the Abermaini Collieries for absenting themselves. from work without reasonable excuse…

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Colliery Employees Prosecuted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1922 · page 4

Prosecutions against 20 employees of Abermain No. 1 Colliery for having absented themselves from work on June 27 without reasonable excuse,…

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Saluting the Flag. Miners' Objections. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1922 · page 5

The Wallsend miners' lodge has respires to support the resolution of the Aberdare Central Lodge in protesting against the Education…

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U.S.A. Coal Strike. Operators' Concessions. Vancouver, July 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1922 · page 5

Fearing that the coal mines may be taken over by the State the coal mine owners and operators in the United States have made substantial…

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Colliery Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 July 1922 · page 4

Mr. D. McCartney, or Harris-st., Cessnock, employed as an overman at Aberdare South, met with an accident while testing a place at the…

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Abermain Miners' Trouble

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 July 1922 · page 3

Indignation is expressed by a considerable section of [?]ders through out the district relative to the adjournment of the summons cases…

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Absenting from Work. ABERMAIN No. 2 MINERS

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 July 1922 · page 6

There was a list of names of more than a dozen employees of the Abermain No. 2 colliery on the business sheet at the Cessnock Police Court on…

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