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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1927

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Colliery Mechanics. Engineers' Special Tribunal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 7

Mr. T. B. Ward, New South Wales organiser of the Amalagamated Engineering Union, Stated that the Engineers' Coal Industry Special…

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If Strike Lasts. Opportunity to Dispose of Small Coal. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 5

All the collieries in the two districts are idle to-day. The Delegate Board meeting sat again to-day, and it is thought it is…

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Mine Deputies. Proposed Amalgamation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 2

The proposal for the amalgamation of the Colliery Officials' Employees' Federation was discussed at a stop-work aggregate meeting of…

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Lithgow Miners Agin' the Government

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 3

"The Labor Government was put into power to benefit the workers," said a delegate at the Labor Assembly of the Hartley electorate, at Lithgow on…

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Idle Miners. 15,000 AFFECTED. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 2

Acting on the. decision made yesterday by the Miners' Delegate Board, all the miners on the northern coalfields remained idle to-day. About 15,000 are…

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Coal Deadlock. Efforts for Peace. Prime Minister Inquiring

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 2

Efforts are being made to bring about peace in the coal industry, in which 15,000 employees in the North are idle…

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Coal Crisis. Will Match Events. Attitude of State Minister SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 5

The Minister for Labour and Industry, Mr. Baddeley, announced in the Legislative Assembly to-day that, as the…

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Threatened Coal Strike. Conference Fails

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 8

There are war clouds on the industrial, horizon. Again, trouble has arisen in the coal mining industry, and unless something turns up it seems likely that the country will soon be in the throes of an upheaval. The District Miners' Conference at Newcastle ended abruptly…

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Coal Deadlock. Visit of Federal Officer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 4

Mr. R. Knowles, an officer of the Federal Attorney-General's Department, who reached Sydney on Thursday from Melbourne, with Mr. F. W…

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The Calamity in the Coal Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 4

General consternation has been caused by the calamitous action of the coalminers' delegate board at Newcastle in ordering a strike of the…

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Mine Engine Drivers and Firemen. Muswellbrook Branch

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 2

At the annual meeting of the Muswellbrook sub-branch of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association, the election of officers for the…

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The Mining Trouble. Business People Anxious

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 1

Business people on the coalfields view the prospect of a coal strike with misgivings. In the event of the mines closing in Muswellbrook a large amount…

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Railways and Oil Fuel. Important Change Brought about by Coal Strike

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 5

Proposals for the reconstruction of all their locomotives to equip them for burning oil fuel instead of coal are stated to be under consideration by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. If adopted, the change would mean the cancellation of coal contracts of more than 3,000,000 tons…

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Colliery Mechanics New Log Prepared

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 13

The delegate board of the Colliery Mechanics' Union has been convened for Monday, at which consideration of the log of claims for new…

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Colliery Mechanics. Engineers' Special Tribunal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 6

Mr. T. B. Ward, New South Wales organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, stated that the Engineers Coal Industry Special…

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Protest by Miners

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 16

The newly-formed Labour Assembly, for the Hartley electorate, at its inaugural meeting, condemned the Liquor Act as "camouflage."…

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Collieries Idle. Northern District Stoppage. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 7

A crave position has been reached in the mining industry in the Northern district, as a result of the break-down of the…

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Mine Deputies. Proposed Amalgamation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 8

The proposal for the amalgamation off the Colliery Officials' Employees' Federation was discussed at a stop-work aggregate meeting of…

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Coal Situation a Gloomy View

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 4

A gloomy view of the coal situation is taken by prominent men in union circles. . An official of the Miners, Federation…

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Coal Industry. "The Miner's Freedom."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 10

During a brief holiday on the Hunter I have been reading a book which has just reached me from America, "The Miner's Freedom," by…

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