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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 55

Seaham No. 1 Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. E. Peters, acting president of the C.E.F., attended a meeting of the Seaham No. 1 miners, held in the West Wallsend Park, on Sunday morning, when…

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Mining Situation. Deputation to the Minister

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1913 · page 5

Messrs. E. Peters and A. Lewis, acting-president and treasurer of the Colliery Employees' Federation, are leaving for Sydney this morning, with the object of…

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Oil Versus Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. John Brown, of the firm of Messrs. J. and A. Brown has received further advices from Valparaiso respecting the use of oil in preference to coal on steamers…

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The Southern Miners. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 4

The Miners' Delegate Board continued its sitting to-day. It is understood that a motion in connection with a change in the secretaryship a on the business…

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Miners' Grievances. Deputation to Mr. Edden. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 4

Messrs. Lewis and Peters, representing the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation, accompanied by Manors. Kearsley, Cardiner, and Grahame, Ms.P.,…

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Mining Matters. the Special Court. Deputation to the Minister. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 4

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Peters, acting president of the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation, and Mr. Lewis, treasurer of the same body,…

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Wonthaggi Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 May 1913 · page 4

The Wonthaggi miners have decided that for a time at least there is not to be a general stoppage of work at the State mine. The ballot taken on Monday on the…

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The Miners' Executive. Defence by Mr. Brennan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 May 1913 · page 4

Mr. W. Brennan replies as follows to the remarks of Mr. Cant, the secretary to the Colliery Proprietors' Association:— "During my absence from duty through…

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Mining Matters. Burwood Weighing System. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 May 1913 · page 4

Mr. Edden, the Minister for Minas, was engaged this afternoon perusing the departmental reports concerning the system of weighing coal at the Burwood…

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Mining Matters. Burwood Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. Edden, the Minister for Mines, met Messrs. E. Peters and A. Lewis, acting president and treasurer of the Colliery Employees Federation at the Trades…

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Colliery Engine-drivers. Claim Before Wages Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 4

A wages board in connection with the conditions of colliery engine-drivers, firemen, greasers, trimmers, cleaners, and pumpers in and about collieries north of…

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Mining Matters. the Concilation Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 4

Mr. Amram Lewis, the treasurer, was the only member of the executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation at the Trades Hall yesterday afternoon, Mr…

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South Wales Miners Non-unionists Join. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 May 1913 · page 5

The resistance offered by the non-unionists in South Wales to the Miners' Federation campaign has collapsed. Fifty thousand non-unionists have…

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Mining Matters. Difficulty at Burwood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 May 1913 · page 4

A special meeting of the Burwood miners was held yesterday morning, in Mr. W. Herbert's Picture Palace, at Broadmeadow, for the purpose of further…

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Mr. Edden and the Coal Vend. a Vigorous Pronouncement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 May 1913 · page 4

During the course of a speech on the referenda proposals on Saturday night. Mr. A. Edden, Minister for Mines, speaking from the balcony of the Royal…

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Mining Explosion. Several Fatalities. Bell Valley (Ohio)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 May 1913 · page 5

The Imperial mine, belonging to the Ogara Coal Company, was wrecked by explosions yesterday. Two men were killed and three…

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Mining Situation. Delegate Board Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1913 · page 5

Owing to the disorganised state of the railway traffic consequent upon the floods in the Hunter River district, it has been found necessary to postpone until further…

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Minmi Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1913 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Back Creek and Duckenfield Miners' Lodge was held in Pool's Hall, Minmi, on Thursday evening. There was a large attendance, and…

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Minmi Miners Resume

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1913 · page 6

Messrs. J. and A. Brown's Minmi Collieries, which have boon idle this week, owing to the flooded state of the firm's private railway line from Minmi to…

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Petrol From Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1913 · page 9

One of the greatest problems of to-day is the scarcity and high price of petrol, and of the heavier oils now being used in ever-increasing quantities in the navy…

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