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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1925

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The Mines. Offhand Labour. Conference to Be Held. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 August 1925 · page 2

The question of off-hand labour was considered at a combined meeting of the Pelaw-Main and Richmond-Main Miners' Lodges last night…

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British Industry the Mining Subvention German Interests Annoyed LONDON, August 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 August 1925 · page 5

Mr. Winston Churchill, M.P., [?]an cellor of the Exchequer), spent the Bank Holiday preparing a White Paper detailing the coal-mining subvention…

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Colliery Mechanics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 August 1925 · page 4

Mr. H. C. Morton, general secretary of the Colliery Mechanics' Association, returned to West Maitland last evening from a visit to the…

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British Industry Liberals Oppose Subsidy. To Disgruntled Coal miners. LONDON, August 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 August 1925 · page 5

Meeting of Parliamentary Parties have been held preparatory to Thursday's debate in the House of Commons on the Government's coal subvention…

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Colliery Accidents. South Greta and Hebburn. High Court Appeals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 August 1925 · page 6

The South Greta Colliery, Limited, and Hebburn, Limited, appealed to the High Court from the judgment of the supreme Court with regard to the…

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Coal-cutting Machines. Position at Pelaw-main

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 August 1925 · page 7

Though no public statement has been made of their intentions, officials of the Miners' Federation have not been Idle since the Chairman of…

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British Coal Strike Huge Subsidy to Be Voted

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 August 1925 · page 2

London, Tuesday.—It is expected that Parliament will vote a round sum, say, £10,000,000, with a supplementary estimate if more is required for…

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Coal Tribunal Action by Miners' Executive

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 9

Steps are being taken by the Miners' Federation to bring about a resumption of work at the Pelaw Main colliery, so as to enable the hearing of…

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American Miners' Wage

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 4

Wage increases and changes in working conditions demanded by union miners in the anthracite fields were flatly rejected by the coal operators…

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Coal and Its Origin Interesting Lecture

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 4

Mr. S. Dun, palaeontologist from the Mines Department, lectured before a fairly large gathering in the School of Arts last night on the…

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Local and General The Coal Contracts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 4

Representations have been made to Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., concerning the Government coal contracts. It was hoped that some of the…

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Judge's Remonstrance Witnesses at Coal Commission. Prohibitive Costs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 6

That the costs of the Royal Commission which is inquiring into the safe working and lighting conditions of coal mines in the State were…

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Greater Than Niagara. Victoria's Brown Coal Resources. Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 8

"Victoria's wealth of brown, coal at Yallourn is one of the greatest gifts God made to mankind. It is wonderful," said the chairman of…

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British Coal Strike. Huge Subsidy to Be Voted. London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 1

It is expected that Parliament will vote a round sum, say, £10,000,000, with a supplementary. estimate if more is required for the…

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Coal Commission. Extraordinary Evidence. "A Law From Heaven." Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 5

The Royal Commission which is inquiring into the question of the safe working of collieries sat again this morning at Newcastle Courthouse…

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British Industry the Coal Subvention. "White Paper" Published. LONDON, Aug. 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 5

The first explanatory memorandum on the terms of the coal settlement has been published in a White Paper. It points out that while the…

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House of Commons Critical Discussions. Gold Standard and Trade. LONDON, Aug. 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 5

After a vigorous defence of the gold standard by Mr. Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer), the House of Commons carried the second…

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British Industrial Chaos the Coal-miners' Subvention. Mr. Baldwin's Fighting Speech. Labour's Bitter Retorts. London, Aug. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 5

The House of Commons was crowded to-day when Mr. Baldwin moved supplementary estimates of £10,000,000, for a subvention in aid of wages…

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Coal Commission. Payment of Witnesses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 7

The attention of Mr. Baddeley. Minister for Mines, has been drawn to the statement of Mr. Justice Edmunds, Chairman of the Royal Commission into…

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Colliery Accidents. South Greta and Hebburn. High Court Appeals

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 August 1925 · page 5

The South Greta Colliery, Limited, and Hebburn, Limited, appealed to the High Court from the judgment of the supreme Court with regard to the…

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