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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1915

166 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 6 of 9

Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 2

On Tuesday afternoon the Coalcliff trouble was definitely settled at a conference held at Clifton between representatives of the proprietors and the…

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Newcastle Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 July 1915 · page 8

A good deal of disappointment is felt amongst colliery employees at the result of voluntary arbitration proceedings held last month, concerning…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 23 July 1915 · page 13

The Miners Wages Board sat at Wollongong on Thursday. The chairman (Mr. Hibble) was asked to define his award re the Scarborough…

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Colliery Screenings Queensland Coal Industry

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 30 July 1915 · page 19

The Queensland Government "Mining Journal" reviewing the coal trade for the first five months of the year, remarks that in the…

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Illwarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 3 August 1915 · page 2

A conference was held at Sydney on Monday of delegates from the New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria miners for the purpose of launching…

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Collieries' Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 6 August 1915 · page 17

The Miners Board (Messrs. Chas. Hibble Ichairman), A. E. O. Sellers, E. Mallet (employers), James Russell, E. T. Sweeney (employees), sat…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 6 August 1915 · page 11

The Australian Coal and Shale Employees Association has been definitely launched. It embraces the coalminers of Tasmania, Victoria, New…

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Miners' Wages Board

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 6 August 1915 · page 7

The No. 4 Miners' Wages Board, comprising Mr. Hibble (chairman) Messrs A. Sellors and Mallet (employers' representatives), and J. T…

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Loyal Australian Miners Bishop of Kalgoorlie's Anecdote

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 6 August 1915 · page 16

The Bishop of Kalgoorlie (formerly the Rev. Cyril Golding-Bird, of St. Barnabas Church, Dover), in conservation on Tuesday in London…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 13 August 1915 · page 13
Also in Illawarra Mercury

A deputation representing the I. C.[?] and the S.C. Proprietors' Associations interviewed the Chief Railway Commissioner on Tuesday on…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 August 1915 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

At the Industrial Magistrate's Court, Wollongong, yesterday, Patrick Frain, a miner employed at the Corrimal Colliery, proceeded against the…

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Wongawilli Coal Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 1

Somebody said once upon a time that no coal would be found South of Kembla. The assertion has been proved to be a fallacy, and at the…

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Colliery Screenings Coal Miners' Wages. What is a Fair Day's Work?

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 21

Judgement was delivered by Mr. Justice Edmunds in the Industrial Arbitration Court of New South Wales last month in the appeals on…

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Collieries' Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 17

No: 4. Board (Miners) met in the Wollongong on Tuesday and Wednesday, Mr. C. Kibble chairman, and Messrs. A. E. O. Sleers and E…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 2

The South Coast Miners' Wages Board sat at Wollongong on Tuesday and Wednesday to deal with the night shift places at Coalcliff Colliery, of…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 31 August 1915 · page 2

A stoppage occurred at Corrimal Colliery last week. According to Mr. S. Bird, president of the Association, it appears that owing to a wheeler…

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Collieries' Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 3 September 1915 · page 13

No. 4 Board resumed sitting in Wollongong on Wednesday Mr. R. Morgan, employers advocate, stated that the wheelers at South…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 3 September 1915 · page 7

When the Miners' Wages Board resumed its sitting on Wednesday, Mr. T. R. Morgan intimated that the employers' representatives declined to…

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