Mr Curtin Criticises Mine Owners Seeking to Force Changes in Industry Canberra
The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) to-day criticised the mine owners who were seeking to force changes in the coalmining…
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Mining & the mines, 1942
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Coal and Gas As Substitute Fuel. Official Survey Conducted. Liquid Fuel Control Board Officer Visits Muswellbrook
Mr. R. P. Clark, representing the State Liquid Fuel Control Board, visited Muswellbrook yesterday for the purpose of making…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Owners Attacked Alleged Irritation Tactics
SYDNEY Saturday.—An allegation that certain coal owners in the southern district were adopting irritation tactics with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Machine Patented Machine Patented Producing Oil From Coal
CESSNOCK Sat—An appeal for assistance in securing recognition from the Federal Government for his work in producing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oil From Coal and Shale Business Men to Hear Talk
Particular interest is being [?] on the coming meeting of the Maitland Businessmen[?] Club, which is being held as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Mines Idle To-pay State Colliery Included
SYDNEY Monday.—[?] moment when the Federal Minister for Labour, Mr. Ward, was [?] route to the mining districts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Still Trouble on Coal Fields Several Mines Idle in Western District Sydney
At the moment when the Federal Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward) was en route to a on the concluding stages of his four days' tour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Full Time at Collieries Pits On Maitland Field
Bellbird, Cessnock and [?] groups of mines worked [?] time (nine days) in the fortnight one day being lost owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Control Regulations Queensland Opposed
BRISBANE Monday.—The general secretary of the Miners’ Federation (Mr. G. W. S. Grant) said that the Queensland Miners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Gas As Substitute Fuel
Many residents have noted with wonder the large framework erected over Mr. H. E. Lancaster's taxi cab, and have asked what the awkward…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal to Miners Minister Visits Coalfields
Aggregate meetings of miners at Kurri Kurri, Cessnock and Adamstown yesterday carried motions [?] support to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Horses Get Away Cause Mines’ Idleness
CESSNOCK Monday.—Twenty-four pairs of miners who turned out for work this morning at Abermain No 2 colliery could…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal Minister Tours Northern Goal Fields Miners Promised An Inquiry Into Production
"After my tour of the northern fields, I am confident that the miners will respond to a man, which will result in peace in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Owners Lost More Coal Than Miners Mr. Booth’s Allegation
SYDNEY Tuesday.—More coal was lost to the nation’s war effort on Easter Monday because the owners refused to open their pits, as they were obliged to pay the men double time, than through all the alleged disputes in the last three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Caledonian Collieries Profit of £59,106
Profit of Caledonian Collirles, Ltd., for 1911, after providing for taxation, is £59,105,. Compared with £55,911 for [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners’ Pensions Retirement Clause
The suspension for six months of the operation of the compulsory retirement clause in the Miners’ Pensions Act has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Work at the Mines
Bellbird, Cessnock and Hobburn groups of mines worked full time (S. days) in the fortnight, one day being lost owing to the holiday. Details…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONLY 15 Miners Idle Today. Sydney
Of 22,000 coal miners in New South Wales, only 15 were on strike to-day. They are 15 wheelers at Wongawilli, on the South Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All Mines Working No Disputes To-day
SYDNEY Tuesday — Of 22.000 coal miners in New South Wales, only 15 were on strike to-day. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Penalties on Miners Must Pay £1 Per Pay
The Northern miners' policy of penalising members held to have been responsible for unauthorised hold-ups is to be enforced Where fines have been…
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