Pelton Colliery
The news that 11 Pelton miners have received fourteen days' notice from the 20th instant is causing dissatisfaction on the northern portion of the Maitland…
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Mining & the mines, 1917
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Industrial Matters. Colliery Mechanics
Mr. Waller, secretary to the Colliery Mechanics' Association, speaking of the decision of Judge Pickburn, on the mechanics' case, and on the meeting of the…
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Representatives of the Colliery Mechanics' Association and of the Newcastle Trades and Labour Council will wait upon Mr. Holme…
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In a lecture on fuel economy, Mr. W. H Casmey, of Bradford (Eng.) said from a long practical experience he was satisfied that a saving of from 10 to 15 per…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Bronchitis in England
Dr. J. S. Haldane, who is director of the research laboratory instituted by the Yorkshire (England) coal owners at Doncaster, stated at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The World's Coal Supply
A study of the export trade of the world discloses an enormous apparent deficiency in the coal supply that is puzzling many of the best informed men interested in…
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Mr. J. B. Holme, the Under-Secretary, will to-day receive a deputation from the Newcastle Labour Council to protest against the decision given by Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Mechanics. Deputation to Department
SYDNEY, Friday.—Delegates from the Colliery Mechanics' Association waited in the Minister for labour to-day. but Mr. Beeby being away, the…
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Mr. Justice Edmunds is at present in Melbourne Investigating the trouble in regard to "jiggers' at the Wonthaggi State coal mine. His Honor has arranged to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Old Gold and Silver War Fund
In view of the special appeal now being made by the War Chest Fund, which is urgently in need of money the committee of the Old Gold and Silver War Fund…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bellbird Miners
A special meeting of the Bellbird Miners' Lodge was held on Thursday eight to consider the reports of the deputation re the dips, also the report of the scrutineer's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Cranes Board
Mr. C. Corbett, of Carrington, has been nominated by the industrial Court as an employer's representative on the Newcastle Coal Cranes Wages…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Mechanics. Fruitless Deputation to Sydney
Mr. W. Waller, secretory of the Colliery Mechanics' and Surface Employees' Association, returned to Maitland last night after a visit to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters. Miners' Officials
Mr. W. Brennan, the secretary to the C.E.F., is the only official of the organisation at present in town. Mr. Baddeley, who has been in Sydney on important…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Strikes a Mine. New York
Passengers arriving by a steamer report that a liner struck a mine in British waters, and had to return to port. It is believed that she was not seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Neath Colliery
The miners al Neath Colliery were also idle to day, attention having been called to the fact that the manager , was not paying in accordance with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Stoppages. Burwood Extended
Burwood Extended Colliery was idle to-day, consequent on a grievance in regard to the greasing, the work on the skips not being up to the standard…
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A third colliery where no work was done today was Stockton Borehole, where the stoppage was due to a complaint by the wheelers as to the turn…
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The Federal Coal Board will not sit in Newcastle to-day, as intended. The sittings will be fixed for later in the week. His Honor Mr. Justice Edmunds was,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Belgian Coal Shortage. Amsterdam
The German Governor of Belgium has closed all the Belgian schools, alleging a shortage of cool. Besides closing the schools, he has…
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