Battalion of Miners
At the meeting of the Colliery Employees' Federation in Newcastle yesterday, a letter was received from the Lake Macquarie Shire Council, asking the…
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Mining & the mines, 1916
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Mining Matters. Delegate Board Meeting. the Mining Position
A lengthy meeting of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, yesterday. Mr. J. M. Baddeley, the president, occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inspectors' Reports. Deputation to Minister for Mines. Sydney
A deputation from the coal owners of the northern district waited upon Mr. Estell, Minister for Mines, this afternoon with regard to the publication of the…
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A conference of representatives of all miners' lodges in the Maitland and Greta districts was held at Weston last evening, when matters in connection with the…
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A special meeting of the Glebe Miners' Lodge was held in the Merewether Hotel on Tuesday evening, Mr. J. Penman presiding…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →British Miners. National Strike Unlikely. London
A conference of the South Wales Miners' Federation, by 211 votes to 35, denounced the Compulsion Bill. They decided that the only method to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Conference in Sydney. Sydney
The conference between the proprietors and the representatives of the Colliery Employees' Federation of the northern district was held to-any at Messrs. Pitt,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gold-mining Industry
Mention of the discovery of gold reminds me that the gold-mining industry in Victoria is in a precarious condition. The latest award by Mr. Justice Powers…
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The annual returns of the quantity of coal exported from Newcastle are always of interest, inasmuch as they afford an interesting guide to the…
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It seems strange in these days of Federation, when Victoria is rapidly dropping behind as a gold producer, to find that one of the first discoverers of gold in this land…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Compulsion Bill. Attitude of Miners London
The Miners' Federation has unanimously decided to oppose the Compulsion Bill, and has authorised the executive to summon a conference to consider further…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Southern Miners to Resume. Wollongong
At a meeting of shiftmen and wheelers at Bulli on Saturday, a motion, that the advice of the Miners' Federation he accepted, and work resumed on Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hebburn Miners
A meeting of the Hebburn miners was held in the Olympia Hall, Weston, on Sunday morning, Mr. G. Avis presiding. The first business dealt with was a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Lumpers' Difficulty. Melbourne
There was no development to-day with regard to the coal lumpers' strike. Matters seem rather mixed. The owners of the Wear and Alabama stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Wales Miners. Oppose the Government. London
The South Wales miners have resolved to support a motion at the forthcoming Labour Conference, summoning Labour members in the Cabinet to withdraw from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chinese Coal
William Barclay Parsons, in an address before the Franklin Institute, stated:—China's mineral wealth Is, both varied and abundant, and, fortunately, coal is…
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As a result of the limitation of the export of coal, the Lambton, Lambton B. and Burwood collieries were idle yesterday. Permits could not be obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' General Secretary
Mr. W. Brennan, secretary of the Colliery Employees' Federation, who has been on the sickle list for the past five weeks, returned to his duties yesterday. Though…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal at Elphinstone
The "Clifton Courier" states that Mr. P. F. Larkin, while boring for water on his property at Elphinstone, 146 miles south-west from Brisbane, struck a seam…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Delegate Board. New Agreement Conference
The quarterly meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, yesterday. Mr. J. M. Baddeley, the…
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