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Mining & the mines, 1922

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The American Strikes Deadlock in Coal Dispute. More Train-Hands Out

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 August 1922 · page 5

New York, Wednesday.—The Senate Labour Committee has favourably reported on the bill, for the creation of a Coal Commission, empowering…

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Black and Gold Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 August 1922 · page 8

The black and gold carnival, held at the Adelphi Rink on Thursday night was a huge success. The decorations of black and gold harmonising…

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The American Strikes Resolution for General Railway Strike. Coal Situation Improving

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 August 1922 · page 3

New York, Friday.—With the railway heads preparing to fight the strike to a finish, the Sioux City Trades and Labor Assembly has carried a resolution…

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Disaster in Gold Mine 45 Men Entombed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 August 1922 · page 2

New York, Monday.-A message from Sacramento, California, reports a mixing disaster there. Owing to an extensive fall of earth at the Argonaut…

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Mine Rescue Stations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 August 1922 · page 4

Mr. D. Murray, M.L.A., has received the following letter from Mr. R. H. Cabbage, the Under-Secretary for Mines:—"In reply to your…

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Coal From Newcastle. London, August 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 August 1922 · page 5

Five Canadian Government ships have been chartered to carry Australian coal from Newcastle to Honolalu and San Francisco…

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Small Coal. Proprietors Perplexed. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 August 1922 · page 2

The disposal of small coal continues to perplex the colliery proprietors, and coupled with it is the illeness or merely spasmodic working of the Borehole…

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Residence Ares Held Under Miners' Rights

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 September 1922 · page 11

The attention of the Minister for Mines has been drawn to the fact that many holders of residence areas fail to renew their miners' rights. They thus…

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Residence Areas Held Under Miners' Rights

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1922 · page 4

The attention of the Minister for Mines has been drawn to the fact that many holders of residence areas fail to renew their miners' rights…

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Parale of Safed. the Stave Mine Manager

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1922 · page 2

"Once upon a time, when I was moving about the country, and mussing up the map in several of its sections (says Safed the Sage in the Boston…

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Electricity and Coal Measures. Maitland's Opportunities. a Heavy Handicap

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1922 · page 4

The Maitland area has an immense advantage for its development in its proximity to rich coal measures. What that advantage is we have as yet scarcely begun to realise. The huge enterprise to which the Victorian Government has committed…

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Coal Tribunal. Attitude of Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1922 · page 6

Aggregate stop-work meetings of the members of the mining department of the Workers' Industrial U[?]on of Australia are to be held…

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Geology of District. the Coal Measures. Lecture by Professor David

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1922 · page 9

The lecture room at the West Maitland Technical college was crowded on Friday when an illustrated lecture on the geological formation of…

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The Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1922 · page 2

An improvement in the coal trade was manifested in the working days for the northern district collieries for the fortnight which ended on…

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Nova Scotia Miners. Vancouver, Sept. 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 September 1922 · page 5

A message from Halifax states that 10.000 miners in Nova Scotia have accepted the wages offer of the British Empire Steel Corporation, thus…

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Is There Gold at Denman?

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 September 1922 · page 2

There have been many speculations about the weath surrounding Denman. Many of the more optimistic of the citizens declare that the…

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Colliery Explosion. Hope Abandoned, London. September 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 5

Hope of saving the en[?]mbed men in Whitehaven Colliery has been abande[?]ed. Gas and fails of rock have foilest the [?]…

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Mine Disaster in Great Britain

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 7

Forty-two miners have been entombed in the Haig coal pit at White haven, Cumberland (England). Twenty-four bodies have so far been recovered…

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Ellalong Millfield Coal Measures. Great Industrial Centre of Progress

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 10

Any person who makes it his business to take a look around the various lands which haw been taken up with a view to mining in the Ellalong and Millfield…

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Miners' Protests. Work to Be Stopped. If Claims Not Dealt With

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 3

A serious position is developing in the coal-mining industry. Aggregate meetings were held in the respective districts on Thursday, when…

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