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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1915

166 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 9

Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 11

There was a meeting of the Delegate Board in Wollongong on Wednesday. It was reported re the non-unionist campaign that there had…

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Illawrra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 7

At the Delegate Board meeting this week a report was given upon the action taken by the various lodges against non-unionists and those in…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 2

A number of the collieries in the district are experiencing slack time as a result of the absence of trade owing to the war conditions prevailing…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The conference between the employers' representatives and the I.C.E Association's representatives on Tact day in regard to the surface hands…

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Port Kembla Coal Loading Plant. Trial Run

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1915 · page 2

The new coal loading plant at the Port Kembla jetty was given a trail run on Saturday morning when about 300 tons of coal were put through the…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 February 1915 · page 11
Also in Illawarra Mercury

Both Colliery Wages Boards [?]et in Wollongong this forenoon. Up till mid-day the formal sitting had not commenced…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1915 · page 2

The Surface Hands Wages Board sat at the local courthouse on Friday, when the hearing of evidence from the employers' side was completed…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The South Clifton Tunnell is still idle in consequence of two of the wheelers who were fined, having refused to pay the line and being sent to…

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Collie Coal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 6

In proposing the toast of "The Collie Mining Industry," at a social held in Collie (W.A.), recently, Mr. C. E. Street, the local…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 13

A special delegate meeting is being held at Tattersalls Hotel today to deal with the critical situation that has arisen. Coalcliff, Scarboraough,…

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Colliery Screenings Carbon Monoxide, Effects on Different Men

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 4

The dangerous nature of carbon monoxide (CO,), which is encountered in mines from the use of explosives, and in coalmines, following…

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Miners' Aggregate Meeting

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1915 · page 2

There was a large attendance of miners at the aggregate meeting at the Star Theatre yesterday afternoon, and keen interest was taken in the…

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Colliery Screenings the New Coal Proposition

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 20

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of Coal Ltd. was held at the office of the company, 14 Martin Place, Sydney, on 9th March…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 11
Also in Illawarra Mercury

The award by the Surface Hands Board will be issued probably within a week. Sydney Harbor Collieries Board…

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Mining News

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 1

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of Coal Ltd., was held at the office of the company, 14 Martin Place, Sydney, on the 9th, of March…

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Aggregate Miners' Meeting Prosecutions, Discipline, Industrial Arbitration Act

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 4

On Monday, there was held in Theatre, Wollongong, an aggregate meeting of members of the I.C.E. Association. The gathering fairly…

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