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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1915

602 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 31

Colliery Officials. Application for Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 November 1915 · page 4

The Coal mining (North) Group, No. 1 (Deputies Shot-firers, and Waste Examiners) Wages Board sat at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday to further…

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Labour Disputes. Assurance to Miners London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 November 1915 · page 5

Sir John Simon, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, has assured the Miners' Federation that men returning to civil employment after being attested under…

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Mining Matters. the Conference Proposals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 November 1915 · page 4

The executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation have received a reply from the colliery proprietors to the request of the delegate board for a further conference…

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Mining Matters. Deputation to the Minister. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 December 1915 · page 6

A deputation from, the Colliery Employees' Federation waited on Mr. Estell, the Minister for Mines, to-day, and brought under his notice several matters…

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Mining Matters. Coal and Shale Miners. Meeting of the Council. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 December 1915 · page 4

The council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Miners' Federation met in Sydney to-day at the Trades Hall. Mr. J. Baddeley, the president, occupied the…

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Southern Collieries' Agreement. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 December 1915 · page 4

The following is the new agreement arrived at between the Southern Colliery proprictors and the employees' association at the compulsory conference in…

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Colliery Shunter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 December 1915 · page 7

Inspector Gregory proceeded against Messrs. William Laidley and Company, Limited, for committing a breach of the Coal-mining (North) Group, No, 2…

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Pay for Colliery Refuse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 December 1915 · page 7

The Stockton Borehole Colliery, Limited, for which Mr. A. A. Rankle appeared, pleaded not guilty to a complaint .by Inspector Gregory, of a breach of the…

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Mining Matters. Explosion in America. Bommer (Virginia)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 December 1915 · page 4

Nineteen men are known to have been killed by an explosion in No. 2 mine of the Bommer Cool and Coke Company. According to rescue parties emerging from…

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Mining Matters. the New Agreement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1915 · page 4

A special meeting of the Colliery Employees' Federation Delegate Board was held it the Trades Hall yesterday, chiefly to deal with the reply of the proprietors…

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Mining Situation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 December 1915 · page 6

Sir,—The decision arrived at by the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation in submitting to its members by ballot for acceptance of rejection of…

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Coal and Coke Shipping Employees' Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 December 1915 · page 3

Messrs. D. Mather and G. O. M'Nay write: "Owing to the appearance in Thursday's issue of the 'Newcastle Morning Herald! of a statement made by W…

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District News. Wallsend and Plattsburg. Popular Mine Manager

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 December 1915 · page 6

There was a large attendance at the Masonic Hall, Wallsend, on Saturday evening, when Mr. S. Croudace, who for the last three years has occupied the position of manager of the…

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Mining Matters. Work at the Pits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 December 1915 · page 4

Work at the various collieries of the Newcastle and Maitland districts has been fairly well maintained during the fortnight ending Saturday. Ten collieries put…

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Colliery Employees' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 December 1915 · page 7

Sir,—My attention has been drawn to a letter which appeared in Monday's issue of the "Newcastle Morning Herald," the writer of which, judging by the comments…

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Wallarah Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 December 1915 · page 6

A meeting of the Wallarah Miners' Lodge was held at Catherine Hill Bay on Sunday, Mr. C. P. Hall presiding. The delegate explained the minutes of…

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Britain's Gold. Large Resources London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 December 1915 · page 7

Mr. M'Kenna, the Chancellor, of the Exchequer, states that the gold in "British banks on June 30th 1914 was worth £82,800,000 at the same date in 1915 it…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 December 1915 · page 7

The monthly meeting of the Globe Miners' Lodge was held in Thoms' Hotel, Merewether, on Tuesday evening, Mr. J. Penman presided…

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Mining Matters. Ballot on Agreement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 December 1915 · page 6

The ballot of members of the Colliery Employees' Federation, to decide the acceptance or otherwise of the agreement framed by the northern proprietors and…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 December 1915 · page 6

A meeting of the Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held in the Masonic Hail, Wallsend, on Wednesday evening, Mr. T. Richardson presiding…

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