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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1918

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 13
Also in Illawarra Mercury

Much dissatisfaction exists at the Clifton collieries over the night shift question. The men complain that owing to an insufficiency of wheelers they…

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Colliery Line Crossing. (To the Editor.)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 8 February 1918 · page 10

Sir,—Per medium of your widely read journal please allow me to draw attention to a dangerous level crossing existing at Old Bulli. No flagman is…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 14

The District Secretary, Mr. J. T. Sweeney, yesterday received another lot of circulars from the Minister for Labor and Industry, stating the terms of the…

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Circular to the Miners. (To the Editor.)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 4

Sir,—My attention has been drawn to a circular issued by the Department of Labor and Industry N.S.W. to individual members of the Coal and Shale…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 22 February 1918 · page 13
Also in Illawarra Mercury

The second ballots for representatives on the Mine Employees' Federation Council and the wages board resulted as follows: Council, D. H…

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Show Not "Black." Miners Lift Embargo

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 February 1918 · page 2

Some time ago the committee of the Wollongong Agricultural Society carried a motion co-operating with the Cootamundra Society…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 1 March 1918 · page 2

Mr. A. C. Willis, general secretary of the A. C. and S.E.A., was in the district on Tuesday, and in the evening he proceeded to Mount…

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Coal Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 8 March 1918 · page 1

If one took the opinion of the general run of citizens outside a mining community, he would find coal-miners defined much as…

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Iliawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 8 March 1918 · page 14

Mt. Kembla mine has worked seven days for the pay and has worked four days this week. Since the 1st January Mt. Kembla has lost 13 days, chiefly…

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Our Nearest Over-sea Neighbour. the Admiralty Coalfields at Westport, N.z. What Germany Knows of Them. How She Kept Her Pacific Bases Supplied with Best Westport Coal Prior to the War

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 8 March 1918 · page 3

Leaving Sydney Heads astern and steering somewhat, to the South of East, a modern cruiser of average speed would "lift" the…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 15 March 1918 · page 14

A compulsory conference, which has been opened in Sydney, has been adjourned. It is unlikely it will be resumed till that proceeding in the north…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 March 1918 · page 2

A number of the members who were summoned for the recovery of levies imposed by the Federation have since paid up, and in these…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 March 1918 · page 6
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

In the Industrial Court, Sydney, on Monday, an application was made by the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association for an…

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N.z. Coal Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 March 1918 · page 3

The N.Z. correspondent of the "Newcastle Herald" writes:—There is, "trouble" again in the coal mines in the West Coast field…

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Coal-mining. No 2. Victimization

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 March 1918 · page 3

There are certain characteristics, virtues—or call them what you may—which we all admire. We generally sum the man up who has…

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Accidents in Mines

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 March 1918 · page 6

Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, the State Minister for Mines, has made available statistics relating, to accidents in mines for the years…

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Gold Rush

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 March 1918 · page 2

The first gold rush in the history of Wollongong will be witnessed on South Beach on Saturday afternoon. Five hundred spades, we learn, have been…

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