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Mining & the mines, 1923

252 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 13

Colours From Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 39
Also in The Independent

As everyone who cares at all about pictures and paintings is well aware many of the most beautiful works of painters of century ago are fading…

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The Coal Difficulty. Both Sides Determined. Position Admittedly Very Serious

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 1

A Newcastle message says it is generally admitted that the position is very serious The miners don't want a general upheaval. All the…

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Coorabin Coalfield. Coal Should Be Struck Next Week. Wonderful Kaolin Deposits

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 18

Six months ago the work on the Coorabin coalfield has been confined to exploratory operations. To-day there is a marked change, and a visit to the…

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Coal Crisis. Owners and Miner's Reach a Deadlock. Employees' Demands Entirely Unacceptable

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 19

The conference between coal-owners and representatives of the miners, after sitting for an hour and a half on Monday, ended in a deadlock. An…

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The Coal Dispute

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 3

Mr. McDonald, secretary of the Northern Mine Owners Association, statied to-day that the mines will be thrown open for work as soon as the…

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The Coal Dispute. Attempt to Localise the Dispute. Prayer Meetings on Maitland Field

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 2

At a meeting of the Northern Collieries Association, Sydney, to-day, it was decided to leave the dispute in the hands of the Maitland and Greta…

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The Coal Dispute. Helensburgh Colliery to Resume. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 2

A mass meeting of the employees at the Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh., yesterday, decided to resume work on Monday. Many miners…

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King Coal, Despot

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 26

Between April 10 and May 10 the miners on the northern coalfields who were on strike during the period lost £240,000 in wages. This sum…

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Coal Position Still Critical

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 28

Mr. M'Donald, secretary of the Northern Colliery Owners' Association, remarked that there is no split amongst the coal owners. They were…

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The Coal Dispute. No Settlement in Sight

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 1

A meeting of the Coal Miners Federation to-day discussed the trouble on the Maitland Greta field, also the coal owners decisions, Mr Willis,…

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Coal to Sweeten Tea. Nature's Most Precious Gift

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 4

In addition to what coal does for us by providing light and power, it gives from within itself vast numbers of I things which are most useful in our…

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The Mining Trouble. Miners Strike a Levy

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 2

The Broken Hill miners struck a levy of 15 per cent. for the Maitland miners, expressing the belief that the issues involved were so important…

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The Southern Collieries. Now All at Work. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 2

The Helensburgh Colliery, Southern district, resumed yesterday, and no industrial trouble new exists in the Southern district…

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Coorabin Coal

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 3

The "Sydney Morning Herald" has sent a special reporter to examine the Coorabin cornfields near Oaklands, and he reports that the area of boring is…

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Coal Crisis

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 25

The coal owners intend to prevent the resumption of work by Maitland and Greta miners until their terms are complied with. The miners express an…

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Miners Become Violent

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 3

The attempted loading of a consignment of coal lying "at grass" at Whitburn colliery at Newcastle was attended by violence. Mr. J. Hestlelow,…

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South Coast Mines to Resume

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 32

There was no notable development at the end of last week in relation to the strike on the Maitland coalfield. There are evidences that the miners on other…

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The Coal Dispute. Free Laborers at Whitburn

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 1

Of the fourteen men who went to Whitburn Colliery t& load coal, yesterday, three remained, two expressing their determination to see the job…

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Disciplined Miners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 June 1923 · page 37

In his address to the minors at Lith fow, the general secretary of tho Minors' Federation (Mr. "Willis) spoke of the position created by the strike on…

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