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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1929

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Coal Crisis Canberra Conference Little Hope of Settlement

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 November 1929 · page 2

The coal conference Is over, audit is feared that even if it has not been abortive, the ray of hope that a settlement will be effected is but a faint one. At the adjournment for lunch, Mr Scullin said that there was a good…

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Coal Crisis. Canberra, Conference. Parties to Meet Again

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 November 1929 · page 2

The Canberra Coal Conference concluded at 7'o'clock on saturday evening; but the Prime Minister, Mr, soulln, would give no Information to…

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Coal Deadlock State Government Waiting. To-morrow's Conference. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 November 1929 · page 5

It does not seem likely that the Government will make any move in the coal trouble to-day. The Government will consider…

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Foreign Policy the Coal Industry. Mr. MacDonald's Intentions. LONDON, Nov. 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 November 1929 · page 5

The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, In a letter to Mr. Aitchison, the Lord Advocate for Scotland, who Is the Socialist candidate for…

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The Coal Crisis Militant Minority Speakers Urge Miners to Stand Firm. "Scabs Must Be Prevented From Going Into the Mines."

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 6

A meeting convened by members of the Militant Minority Movement was held at the rear of the United Service Hotel this afternoon with…

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Coal and Shale

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 5

Mr. T. Leahey, representing the Baerami-Midden Shale and Coal Syndicate, has pegged out three additional areas at Dungog, each of…

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Oil From Coal Aberdare Coal Produces 50 Gallons Per Ton

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 5

Giving evidence before the Coal Commission, yesterday, Mr. Anseow said he was the inventor of a retort for low temperature carbonisation of…

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Coal Commission Adjourns. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 5

When the Coal Commission met this morning, it immediately adjouprn for an hour and when it reassembled, Mr. Justice Davidson…

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Run Over By Coal Train

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 2

An unemployed man named George Weir (40) was run over by a coal train at Dudley Colliery last night. His left foot and right hand were…

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Coal Carting Held Up Bridges Unsafe

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 5

There has been for sonic time a difference in opinion as to whether the coal should be permitted to be carted from the unassociated…

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Sufficient Men. to Man Rothbury Colliery. Rumor in Maitland. Maitland

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 4

Rumors were extensively circulated in Maitland late last evening that the State Government had secured sufficient skilled miners in Sydney to man the…

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Smokeless Coal Test Carried Out in Cessnock

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 1

The find of smokeless coal by Mr. E. J. Popper promises to become important. A tost of the coal was made in…

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Coal Deadlock Settlement Remote Rothbury to Open. NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 5

No one, not even the miner's representatives, have any hope that the conference in Sydney to-day will result in a settlement of the mining…

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Increased Demand Coal Lorry Owners. Millfield-greta Working. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 4

At a meeting yesterday afternoon lorry owners conveying coal from Millfield Greta Colliery to Rothbury decided not to work until an increase…

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Heavy Coal Lorries Must Keep to Main Roads Municipal Council's Decision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 7

At the Municipal Council meeting on Thursday, Ald. Shakespeare moved that the council use whatever powers they had to stop heavy…

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Poison Crime in City the Coal Conference. Hotel. Scone Nurse the Victim. Lured to Hotey by Exmuswellbrook Resident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 4

The Upper Hunter was shocked when the news came through late on Sunday evening that a Scone nurse, Mary…

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Coal Conference Rothbury Colliery Not to be Worked This Year. Compromise Possible

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 November 1929 · page 2

The State Ministry, it can be definitely stated, will not attempt to open the Rothbury Colliery until the new year, if…

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Coal Crisis Brighter Prospects, of Settlement

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 November 1929 · page 2

The prospects for a settlement of the coal dispute are considered to be much brighter as a result of the conference between the colliery proprietors and the mining unions yesterday. Significance is attached to the fact that, although no settlement…

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Coal Position Government's Policy. Defined By Premier. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 November 1929 · page 5

The Premier, Mr. Bavin, to-day defined the policy of the Government in regard to the coal position…

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The Coal Crisis

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 November 1929 · page 3

Sir,—After montas of Wrangung, and arguing the parties to this dispute seem to be no hourer a settlement than when it first started. To an…

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