All South Coast Mines Idle SYDNEY
All south coast mines were idle today on a wages claim by deputies and shot-fires at the Metropolitan mine Output loss was 10,000 tons…
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Move to Avert Coal Mines Stoppage Sydney
The chairman of the Central Coal Reference Board (Mr F. H. Gallagher) has called a conference tomorrow to try to avert a general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleges Inferior Coal Sold Sydney
Sydney County Council decided today to ask the State Government to appoint a committee to inquire into the deterioration of NSW coal since…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tie-up Threat Persists All Mines May Be Idle Sydney
Threat of a tie-up of all NSW coal mines and subsequent dislocation of industry and transport still exists. Unless rank and file members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Output Increases Sydney
NSW coal production during June was expected to be best monthly output for several years, said the Federal Minister for Supply and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners’ Threat to B.H.P. Steelworks Newcastle
If an ultimatum from three miners’ lodges—Burwood, John Darling and Lambion—is not recognised by the Newcastle BHP before Monday, coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Italy Gripped By Political Unrest and Strikes 6,000,000 Workers Protest Stoppage 155,000 Miners Walk Out In U.S. LONDON
Six million workers throughout Italy struck work today for half an hours as a protest against disorders in Palermo on June 22, which resulted in two deaths, says the Associated Press correspondent at Rome. Police have arrested 60 persons in their hunt in [?] for bandits…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Talk Of Dictatorship In France Government Crisis Over Austerity Budget Nearly 200,000 Coal Miners on Strike LONDON
Majority of French morning newspapers predicted an early Government crisis as a result of the new austerity budget, says Reuter’s correspondent. The Paris independent resistance paper, “Combat,” went so far as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Production At Record SYDNEY
For the first time since December [?] of last year not one miner was on strike in NSW today. Only one mine was idle today, Northumberland, where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Miners Back at Work London
Nearly all the French coal-miners, after a week of strikes, (returned to work yesterday, states the Paris correspondent of British Associated Press…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ruhr Coal Deadlock Ended LONDON
It has been officially announced in Herford that the deadlock in the British and American discussion of the for the handing over of the Ruhr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine Manager’s Appeal Allowed PERTH
In the Supreme Court at Kalgoorlie, Mr Justice Walker allowed an appeal by Walter Stuart McColl, aged 50 years, married, mine manager of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Agreement in U.S. WASHINGTON
Mr John L. Lewis (president of the United Mine Workers) and owners of mines that produce about one-third of the nation’s bituminous coal have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lewis Wins Coal Victory Washington
American Associated Press says that Mr John L. Lewis (president of the United Mine Workers’ Association) has won the biggest concession…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Survived Mine Burial Sydney
Oxygen from an air-compressor saved the lives of two miners buried on Friday under 200 tons of coal and stone at Richmond Main colliery,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ship Hits Mine; 19 Drowned LONDON
The Turkish steamer Silivri hit a mine and sank opposite Budrum n south-western Turkey, says Reuters, Nineteen of a crew of 29 were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Ray Week for German Miners in Russian Zone London
A seven-day week for all miners in the Russian zone of Germany was decreed on Sunday by a hand-picked team of 12 Germans whom Marshal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain Must Have Coal “Country’s Position Desperate” LONDON
Lord Hyndley (chairman of the National Coal Board) has written to the National Union of Mine-Workers Stating that unofficial strikes must…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Agreement Accepted WASHINGTON
The Southern Coal Producers’ Association has announced the unanimous acceptance of a new soft-coal wage contract. This means that Mr John L…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Crisis May Face Britain Threat by Miners’ Leader London
“It might be necessary to close a pit or two where men refuse to obey injunctions, where they go on defying the decision of their organisations,…
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