First Coal Reached. London, October 17
The British Press Bureau has issued the following "authoritative statement" for simultaneous publication in the press on Wednesday morning, showing the result of…
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Incidents of the War Britain's Coal Output. "Export Reached Dangerously Low Limits." Employers and Men Pledge to Increase Supply
In the course of his address to 3000 representatives of the coal mining industry yesterday, Mr. Asquith said that the output of coal in 1913 was 287,000,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain's Coal Output
Referring to the conference between Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, and representatives of the coal mine owners and seiners at Westminster on Wednesday, "The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anger of Mines. Admiral Invents Device
"Rear-Adnural Goedhart, of Holland, has invented an appliance to protect vessels against mines…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Coal and Men Needed
Mr. Lloyd George, Minister for War, in the course of a speech at Newport on Friday, said that the greatest service Wales could render now was to supply…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Troubles at Newcastle
Eleven collieries, in the Newcastle district, and two in the Maitland district are idle, owing to the demand of the men that the hours of the bank to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Crisis Critical Situation. Miners Probably Idle To-day in Commonwealth. SYDNEY, Thursday Night
A conference of colliery proprietors and men was held to-day, but ended abortively. The State Government will consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Colliery Strike. Nearly 12,000 Hands Idle
The whole of the collieries of Australia, with one exception, were laid idle on Wednesday. Great interest is manifested with respect to this conference between the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Thursday Evening. the Coal Difficulty
The whole of the colleries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts with the exception of Lemington, are idle. Nearly 12,000 men and boys are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Crisis The Railway Commissioners Take Definite Action The Coal at Newcastle and Pyrmont Seized SYDNEY
There are no fresh developments in connection with the coal, crisis. The New South Wales Railway Commissioners took definite action this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Other Items. Bad Weather Impeding Operations Miners Want Food Prices Fixed. The Berlin Conference. Norway and Germany. The Value of the Recent Verdun Gain
Bad weather is impeding operations on all fronts. The Scottish and Welsh miners demand that the Government should fix…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Supplies at Wodonga
About two months ago, the Victorian Railways Department entered into a contract for the supply of slightly over 100,000 tons of coal from Lithgow, New South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Crisis All Supplies Seized. by Minister of Navy. Warships and Transports First Call. Interests of Public Guarded. MELBOURNE
Mr. J. A. Jenson, Minister for the Navy, announced this afternoon that his department had commandeered all the coal supplies of Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russian Battleship Damaged. Struck Mine in Baltic
It is stated by the "Stockholms Dagblad" that the Russian battleship Sebastopol (23,000 tons) has been damaged by a mine in the Baltic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Strike. Sydney
The coal strike situation is unchanged. Mr. Hoyle, Minister for Labor, is going to Melbourne to-morrow,, to confer with Mr. Jensen, Minister for the Navy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Strike. No Settlement in View. Widespread Inconvenience Occasioned. SYDNEY
Both parties to the coal dispute are awaiting developments. Mr Hoyle will not take any action in the direction of a settlement until he has conferred with Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Strike. Proposal by Unions All Coal to Be "Black."
It was learned in Sydney on Tuesday that unless coal supplies are available within a fortnight at most practically all the factories that depend on gas or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Help to Bunker Transports. Sydney
The strike position is unchanged. The coal miners are assisting the authorities to bunker the transports. "The other side has insinuated that we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike
What promises to be the biggest and most disastrous strike in the history of Australia commenced last week. All the coal supplies of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Strike
THAT there should be a coal strike sufficiently widespread to paralyse the commercial life of Australia during a period of war and at a time when it is…
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