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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Lost Coal Trade. Too Many Disputes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 2

Continual disputes on the Australian coalfields are the cause of the Commonwealth losing the Federated Malay States coal trade according…

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The Mines. Withdrawal of Safety Men Combined Unions to Meet

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 8

Mr. D. Tiers, general president of the Miners Federation, slated on Friday that a meeting of the Combined Mining Unions Committee…

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Minister Supports Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 3

The Rev. C.W. Chandler, of Sydney, addressing a crowd from the band rotunda in Cessnock Park on Sunday afternoon, said he was a…

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Industrial Blacklegging. Sins of Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 3

Mr. H. Sutherland, State organiser, for the F.E.D. and F.A., stated in Newcastle that a good deal of capital had been made out of is action as an…

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Colliery Staffs. Men in Awkward Position. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 5

Miners' lodges on the coalfields will meet to-morrow to consider the decision of the rank and file conference held last Thursday…

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Another Conference. Miners' Delegates Meet. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 5

In connection with the coal mining trouble a conference of delegates appointed at the recent aggregate meeting is being held at Newcastle…

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Rothbury Engine-drivers in Conference Proposed Suspension of Operations at All Mines

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 2

At a conference of the Officials of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association, held at Newcastle on Saturday, it was held that the withdrawal of the safety men would not have the slightest influence on the colliery owners…

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Unassociated Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

Most of the unasociated collieries in the Maitland-Cessnock district are working, but it is now known what attitude is to be adopted in response…

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Collieries May Be Sealed If Safety Men are Harassed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

It is stated on reliable authority that Should certain staff at the collieries be harrassed in their work, steps will be taken at once to seal…

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Coal Carrying Busy Carters

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

The carriage of coal from the unassociated mines Maitland motor lorry is proceeding as busily as ever. The carting was…

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Western Mines Rescue Station Dispute

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

The proposed trade boycott at Lithgow, in connection with the dispute at the Western Mines Rescue Station has not yet been put into operation. The…

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South Coast Mines. General Resumption

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

The whole of the collieries on the South Coast, with the exception of Scarborough, where a minor dispute has arisen between the miners and…

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Myall Colliery. Free Labour to Go. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

Free labour will be displaced at Myall Colliery, near Cardiff, from to-morrow, by members of the Miners' Federation, who will work the mine…

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Gold Reserves. Held by Trading Banks

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

The governor of the Commonwealth Bank, under instructions from the board of directors, recently sent to each of the trading banks a letter…

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The Coal Situation Too Much Selfishness; Generosity Needed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

The strife on the coalfields is a struggle between rich and poor; it it going on everywhere; it is a disease of the body politic…

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Why Not a Fair Price for Coal? (To the Editor)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 8

Sir,—Thin letter is written in Die interests of justice as it does not matter now what happened under the spoon reading Of the coal industry by…

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Proposed Picketing of Mines. Enginedrivers to Remain at Work. Instructions From Executive

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

On connection with the recent proposal of the miners' rank and file delegates to commence a system of picketing at the various mines as…

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Upper Bellinger Gorge Search for Gold. Days of Treacherous Blacks Recalled

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 3

Apropos of gold, in circus life a good old gag is the one where the person tried to get where man had never been before, but failed. To-day it certainly…

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"Stand Solid and You'll Win" Rev. Chandler's Advice to Miners. Bavin and Weaver Condemned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

Announcing that no was in Cessnock to launch a social crusade mission, Rev. C. W. Chandler, at the band rotunda on Sunday…

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Riotous Behaviour Charge Transport Workers' Union Official Fined Altercation Over Stopping of a Coal Lorry

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

At the Cessnock Police Court to-day John B. Barrett, local secretary of the Transport Workers' Union, was proceeded against on a…

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