Coal Crisis Unequal Distribution Shipping Interests Criticised
The withdrawal of shipping in a great degree from the port of Newcastle, has precipitated in the coal trade a crisis involving a section of…
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Mining & the mines, 1918
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Cost of Living Miners Want More Wages LONDON, Thursday Night
At the National Conference of Miners, to-d y, a resolution was passed demanding a substantial increase in wages commensurate to the increased cost of living…
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Further evidence was heard to day by the Royal Commission appointed to investigate and determine the standard price of gas. Andrew Wilson, chief engineer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lymington Colliery. Miners Confer with Mr. Holme. Sydney
A conference between the miners' representatives and Mr. J. B. Holme, Industrial Registrar, was held in Sydney to-day, and a satisfactory arrangement…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our New Zealand Letter. Wellington, May 30. the Coal Supplies
Stocks of coal are unprecedently low in the Dominion at present. On April 30 last the stocks of coal in sight amounted to only 151,866 tons, at least 100,000 tons less than…
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A largely attended meeting of the members of Lymington Miners' Lodge was held at Cardiff yesterday. Mr. Baddeley, president, and Mr. Lewis, treasurer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal and Shale Workers
A meeting of the council of the Coal and Shale Workers' Federation will be held in Sydney to-day, when the proposals placed before the miners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lymington Colliery Resumes
The Lymington colliery, which has been idle since May 1, owing to disputes between the management and the men, restarted work yesterday morning. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Federation. Sydney
An important meeting of the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation was held at the federation offices in Rawson Chambers to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial Matters. the Coal Federation. Costs Not Allowed. Melbourne
The High Court to-day (Mr. Justice Higgins dissenting) decided not to allow the costs incurred by the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal-mining Questions. Melbourne
Messrs. Watkins, Charlton, Nicholls, and Considine had a lengthy interview to-day with Mr. Watt, the Acting Prime Minister, and Mr. Poynton, the Acting Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Coast Collieries. Wollongong
After 24 hours' idleness the men employed at Coledale, Scarborough, and Coal Cliff mines, resumed work this morning. On Monday the men refused to begin work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Felaw-main Colliery. the Wheelers' Trouble
Pelaw-Main Colliery was idle yesterday in consequence of trouble arising out of charges pending against twenty-one wheelers in connection with an alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Payment for Pillars South Waratah Mine
The question or special payment to miners for working the pillars at the Caledonian Collieries South Waratah mine, has been under consideration for some time as well…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Destroying U-boats Last Month Disastrous Mines in North Sea LONDON, Tuesday Night
Reuter's correspondent at paris says that "Petit Parisien" learns that since the last Anglo-French official statements were issued the rate of destruction of submarines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Industrial Matters. Pelaw-main Colliery
The trouble at Pelaw-Main Colliery was fully discussed at a meeting of the Pelaw-Main Miners' Lodge held in the Empire Hall, Kurri Kurri, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Great Mine
The Welsh coal magnate, Mr. D. R. Llewellyn, has purchased 5000 acres of a coalfield in West Glamorgan, containing a huge quantity of workable coal. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Trade Distribution
The executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation have not yet received intimation from Mr. Watt, the Acting Prime Minister, with respect to the date of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Trade Deputation Arranged
This morning, Mr. Baddeley was advised that the Acting-Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) and the Acting-Minister for the Navy (Mr. Poynton) would probably receive a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Demand for Men Lloyd George to Miners
The Premier (says "The Times" of March 21) received a duputation from the executive committee of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. Mr. Smillie, the chairman of…
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