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Mining & the mines, 1928

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Miners Suspended Abermain Men Return Home. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1928 · page 16

As a protest against the suspension of several miners, Abermain No. 2 colliery employees returned home to-day…

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Bellbird Disaster Mine Idle As Mark of Respect

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1928 · page 3

As a mark of respect to the memory of the 21 victims of Bellbird Colliery disaster of 1923, the employees of the mine did not work on…

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Decision of Miners' Convention. for Aggregate Meetings. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1928 · page 7

The aggregate meetings of miners called for 19th and 20th inst. in Newcastle and Maitland districts, are ostensibly for the purpose of…

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Coal Crisis. the Premier Hopeful. Statement Next Week

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1928 · page 4

The Premier (Mr. Bavin) and the Assistant Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) re-turned to Sydney from Canberra, after conferring with the Prime…

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Dover Gold Cup Channel Swimmers Fail. London. Sept. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 September 1928 · page 5

E. Temme and H. Carey failed to swim the Channel from Dover to Dalais, for which the Dover Gold Cup was the prize. Temme was in the…

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Mining Strike. Four Collieries Idle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 7

Grievances at Abermain Nos. 1 and 2 collieries and at Seaham Nos. 1 and 2 collieries were disused at an aggregate meeting at Neath…

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Accident at Central Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 7

The first accident since the Central started work after its spell of six months occurred yesterday when a shiftman, named James Hayes, living…

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Window Display Wins Gold Medal

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 5

Mr. E. Grierson has received the following letter from the Publicity Manager of Berlei Ltd.:—Dear Sir,—We have much pleasure in…

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Coal Industry Mr. Bavin's Soheme. Reduced Prices

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 8

Reference to the efforts of the Premier. (Mr. Bavin) to Vehabilitate the coal industry was made at the joint meeting of the ?Nationalist and…

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Won't Work Till All Disputes are Settled Abermain-seaham Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 6

Developments in connection with the Abermain-Seaham Colliery disputes reached a climax yesterday when the miners employed at these…

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Trouble Overcome Abermain-seaham Mine, Agreement Made

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 8

The trouble at Abermain Nos. 1 and 2, Seaham No. 2 Stockton-Borehole and Aberdare Central Collieries, which threatened to become very…

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British Miners. Harvesting Is Canada. Satisfactory Conditions. Vancouver, Sept. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 4

Mr. Thomas Johnston, Labour M.P. for Dundee, and a member of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation, whose speech at Winnipeg regarding the…

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Will Soon Boom Tub Rabaul Goldfields. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 7

Messrs, A. C. Rossiter and E. Roache, mluers who returned to Sydney from Rabaul to-day, declared that the goldfields there would soon…

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Hebburn Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 6

At a meeting of Hebburn No. 1 Miners' Lodge, it was decided to draw the cavil in accordance with the amended list, and any injustices to be…

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Coal Industry. Premier Confers with Miners. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 7

Mr. Bavin had another conference with the miners' representatives today. He postponed his statement on the…

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Miners' Federation. Rrangements for Aggregate Meetings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 2

Mr. D. McNeill, secretary to the northern branch of the Miners' Federation, stated that the arrangements for the aggregate meetings had…

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Miners on Strike 2000 Men Involved

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 2

It was decided at an aggregate meating of the Abermain No. 1 and No 2 colliery employees, held at Neath on Monday morning, that the four lodges…

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The Coal Crisis The Government's Proposals. Premier Meets Representatives

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 4

The Government's proposals for the rehabilitation of the coal mining industry were placed before the representatives of the Miners'…

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Wheelers' Grievance Stoppage at Aberdare Central. Colliery Idle To-day

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 September 1928 · page 9

Owing to a grievance in which the wheelers are principally concerned, there was no work at the Aberdare Central Colliery to-day…

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Weston Coal-cleaner Only One in Australia

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 September 1928 · page 5

Pessimistic predictions that "the Hebburn mines are nearly finished" have been voiced more than once in the writer's hearing this year. But…

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