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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1926

1,671 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 38 of 84

Musivellbrook Collieries Will Remain Idle. Until General Settlement

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 2

The published statements in the city Press that a settlement was pending in the case of three small collieries in the north has been…

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Effect of the Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 4

The adverse effects of the coal strike, caused by the engineers and firemen employed in the industry, are being keenly felt in Muswellbrook, as…

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Carrington Coal Stacks. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 5

In 1915, when the collieries were thrown idle as a result of war conditions, the Prime Minister, Mr. W. M. Hughes, paid the colliery owners…

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Coal Supplies. Relief at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 3

Considerable relief has been felt in Newcastle industrial circles at the announcement that the Broken Hill Proprietary Company had been granted…

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The Coal Strike. Misers' Council Takes Action

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 4

The Miners' Delegate Board minute to the central council that a compulsory conference of all parties concerned be held to deal with the…

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Coal Crisis. an Important Step, London, June 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 5

A step which may go a long way towards ending the coal deadiock has been taken by Mr. Evan Williams. M.A. the chairman of the…

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Drivers' Strike Miners Greatly Dissatisfied. Anxious to Resume. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 5

Representatives of the Miners' Federation and the Federated Enginedrivers are making another effort to reach understanding prior…

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Coal Dispute Efforts at Mediation Miners Becoming Dissatisfied (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 6

The representatives of the Miners' Federation, and the Federated Enginedrivers are making another effort, to reach an understanding prior to meeting…

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East Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 4

At a meeting of the East Greta Miners' Lodge, reference was made to the need in which some members found themselves in consequence of…

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Relief for Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 4

Representatives of East Greta, Ashtonfields, and Rothbury Miners' Lodges this morning waited on Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., to urge the…

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Coal at Kayuga

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 6

Over thirty years ago there was a [?]olliery successfully worked to a limited extent at Kayuga, about three miles from Muswellbrook, but…

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Coal Strike Another Conference Suggested

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 5

A peace move to bring about a settlement of the coal strike has been made by the miners. Although the officials were reticent,…

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Coal Export. Shipments From Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 11

The amount of coal shipped at Newcastle last week for places beyond the State was 19,003 tons, of which 14,543 tons represented…

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The Eginedrivers Support From Southern Miners

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 7

The Southern miners' delegate board sat at Wollongong to consider recommendations of the Miners' Federal Council relating to the…

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Rejected Miners' Peace Effort Fails. Conference Proposals. Turned Down

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 6

The leaders of the enginedrivers' strike have rejected the proposals of the miners for a compulsory conference…

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Engineorivers. Opposed to Coal Tribunal. Mr. Gibson's Attack

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 14

No change took place during the week-end in the strike of the engine drives and firemen against the Hibble award…

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British Coal Deadlock Step Towards Settlement (Reuter Cable.) London, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 6

A step towards ending the coal deadlock has been taken by Evan Williams, chairman of the Owners' Association, who has invited Herbert Smith,…

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General Strike Established Principles Served. Rationing Coal Supplies. New York, May 26

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 12

Addressing the National Association of Creditmen, the British Ambassudor, Sir Esine [?]ward, declared that the general strike in England had served…

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Navy Coal Available for Industry. State Government's Suggestion Agreed To. SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 5

The Federal authorities have acquiesced in the suggestion fo the State Government that 200,000 tons of coal, lying at grass for the use of the Navy…

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British Coal Crisis Inescapable Stale Mate. Cook's Vitriolic Outburst. LONDON, May 30

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 2

At midnight to-morrow Mr. Baldwin's offer of a tapering subsidy to the coal industry expires, but there is no sign to-night of any escape from…

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