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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1914

229 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 11 of 12

Coalcliff Miners and Wheelers. Alleged Breach of Special Rules

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 6 November 1914 · page 17

Tn the Scarborough Court on Wednesday 35 miners, wheelers and shift men appeared before Mr. A. Elliott, S.M. to answer a charge of an…

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Illawarra Miners. Excelsior Summonses Withdrawn

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 10 November 1914 · page 2

A deputation consisting of the executive of the Illawarra Colliery Employees, with the secretary, Mr. A. C. Willis, yesterday waited on the…

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The Afternoon Shift. Reply to Mr. Hoyde. by Colliery Employees' Federation

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 10 November 1914 · page 2

The executive officers of the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation have made the following statement, in reply to the remarks of Mr. Hoyle…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 13

Mr. Willis, General Sed, speaking of the strike fines on the Northern Union, says, there will be a difficulty in collecting, as the Federation has…

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Colliery Screenings Killingwtrti[?] Big Railway Project

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 4

During the past couple of years the mining township of Killingworth (Newcastle) has moved ahead, and it is evident that there are favorable…

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What Sea Mines Are

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 17

A writer in the British Press thus describes the mines which have been so much a feature of the present warfare:—…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 November 1914 · page 2

On last Friday an output record was put up at Mount Keira Colliery for the period since the introduction of the eight hours bank to bank system…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 2

At the Scarborough Police Court on Wednesday John Alyward, a wheeler, was charged with absenting himself from work on 28th September 1914…

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Colliery Prosecution. Information Dismissed

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 20 November 1914 · page 15

The hearing of the charges against eighty-five of the Coalcliff Colliery employees for absenting themselves from work on the 28th September…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 24 November 1914 · page 2

The decision of the Industrial Disputes Court, last week, as it relates to the principle of a union distributing relief pay is severely criticised by…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 27 November 1914 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The South Coast Miners' Conciliation Board, consisting of Mr. A. Elliott, S.M., chairman, Messrs. A. E. Sellors, and T. R. Morgan, employers'…

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Northern Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 27 November 1914 · page 4

On Tuesday afternoon in Chambers, Sydney, before Mr. Justice Sly, Mr. Watt, instructed by Mr. W. T. Flynn, agent for Reid and Reid, solicitors…

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Queensland Railway Coal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 27 November 1914 · page 4

In the Queensland Legislative Assembly Mr. Kessell asked the Secretary for Railways, "What prices are being paid by the Railway…

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illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 1 December 1914 · page 2

Stoppages occurred at Bulli and Mount Pleasant this morning. At the former mind the action was taken by the men as a protest against what…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 4 December 1914 · page 14
Also in Illawarra Mercury

The prosecutions of Coalcliff Colliery employees were, in the Scarborough Court on Wednesday, adjourn ed till the sixteenth inst…

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Colliery Screenings Scottish Coal Mining

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 11 December 1914 · page 7

In 1913 the Scottish mineral output was 47,434,287 tons, and of this 9,335,452 tons, or nearly one fifth was cut by machine. That is a high…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 11 December 1914 · page 11
Also in Illawarra Mercury

The general secretary, Mr. A. C. Willis, has received an intimation that a deputation to ask that the half-past one p'm. train from…

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