Cavilled-out Miners and Shale Industry Federal Grant Exploiting Newnes Deposits Conference Agrees
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 December 1930 · page 6
The conference of cavilled-out miners' representaties, held in the Church Street Hall yesterday, after a long discussion, resolved, to express its agreement with the proposal to re-establish the shale…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wage Tax "Not Labour Principles" Miners' Protest
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 6
"We, the members of the W.I.U. of A., view with disgust the proposal of the State labour Government to impose a shilling…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Officials Mr. D. J. Davies Re-elected
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 7
Mr. D. J. Davies has been re-gleated General Secretary of the Miners' Federation, be having obtained a majority of 2003 over his opponent, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Honor to Memory Victim of Rothbury Miners' Pilgrimage
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 5
Every mine in Australia will be idle on December 16. the anniversary of the death of Norman Brown. Rothbury victim, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mines Hebburn No. 1 Still Idle Weston
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 1
Hebbura NO. 1 is again idle to-day owing to slackness of trade. Members of this colliery have not started to work up to date for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Peace Position in Britain Efforts Continue London, Dec. 3
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 1
Efforts to scoure a coal peace are continuing, and the Prime Minister, Mr, Ramsay MaoDonald, is seeing the miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Collieries
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 5
Hepburn No. 1 commenced work to-day, this being their first shift for the fortnight. Hebburn No. 2, after working the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rothbury Victim Miners' Pilgrimage
Singleton Argus · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 1
Every mine in Australia will be idle on December 16, the anniversary of the death of Norman Brown, Rothbury victim, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Shale Industry. Miners Support Newnes Scheme
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 2
At a conference of cavilled out miners at West Maitland agreement was expressed-with theproposal to reestablish the shale industry at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Millfield-greta Colliery Notices Terminate To-day A Hundred Men Affected
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 5
The notices of dismissal served on the employees of Millfield-Greta Colliery will terminate to-day. Approximately 100 of the 120…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Visit Cricketers at Richmond "All Had Great Time"
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 6
With the exception of Alan Kippax, Alan Fairfax, Hooker, and Love, the N.S.W. cricketers went on a tour of inspection to the Richmond Main…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kurri Stanford Merthyr Miners Lodge Meets Kurri
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 4
A special meeting of the Stanford Merthyr Miners' Lodge was held last night in the School of Arts to deal with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Leases No New Ones Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 5
Replying to Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Minister for Mines said the policy of the Government was not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Still Entombed German Coal Miners Food Through Tube Cologne Dee. 5
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 December 1930 · page 1
Fritz Wionthal, the minor who was imprisoned in the fall of coal is still entombed. A doctor is preseribing a liquid…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aberdare Mine Meeting of Lodge CESSNOCK
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 December 1930 · page 4
There was a large attendance, at a meeting of the Aberdare Lodge, hold yesterday afternoon, to consider the report of Saturday's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Closing of Collieries "Impracticable Proposition" Pooling Coal Newcastle
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 December 1930 · page 3
The published Statement, following on the conference which the Minister for Mines had with representatives of Caledonian Collieries,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock Colliery
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 December 1930 · page 5
It is expected that Cessneck No. 2 colliery which has been idle since last Thursday will resume to-morrow (Wednesday)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aberdare Colliery
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 December 1930 · page 3
The report of the delegates who represented the Aberdare Lodge at the conference held at Newcastle on Saturday in connection with an effort…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold at Newport
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 December 1930 · page 4
Sydney is agog at the report of the discovery of gold as close to the metropolis as Newport—one of the seaside suburbs on the North Coast. Claims…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Struck by Fall of Coal
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 December 1930 · page 5
At Elrington Colliery yesterday. John Brown, 30, a shot-firer, was struck" by a fall of coal, and received injuries to his right arm. Brown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →