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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1918

1,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 65

Coal Purchase Board Owners' Representatives Colonel Forsyth Nominated

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 July 1918 · page 7

Yesterday tho Acting-Minister for the Navy, wired Mr. Cant, a member of the deputation representing a section of Newcastle colliery proprietors which, in May…

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Hemming Them in Effect of British Mines Quelling Submarine Menace LONDON, Friday night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 July 1918 · page 1

Speaking at the exhibition of naval photography Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, said he wished that he could tell the many extraordinary tales of what the…

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Industrial Matters. Coal Purchase Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 July 1918 · page 4

Mr. H. S. Forsyth, of Newcastle, has been nominated by the colliery proprietors as their representative on the Coal Purchase Board appointed by Mr. Poynton,…

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Six-hour Day Miners' New Demands London, Sunday night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 July 1918 · page 1

The Miners' Federation has Passed a resolution demanding a Six-hour day after the war and six days' pay for a five-day week…

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Colliery Grievances

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1918 · page 4

Grievances at several collieries on the Maitland coalfield will be considered at a conference to be held in Sydney to-day between the proprietors and the…

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Minmi Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1918 · page 4

Minmi Colliery was Idle yesterday. It is expected that work will be resumed to-day…

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Gold Production

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1918 · page 5

Sir Lional Phillips, a member of the Gold Committee, states that the cause of the decrease of gold production is mainly due to the unfair system by which…

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Industrial Matters. Miners' Accident Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 July 1918 · page 4

A report prepared by Mr. J. Blanksby, the officer in charge, states that during the currency of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund—a period of 16½ years—there…

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Minmi Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1918 · page 5

Minmi colliery continued idle yesterday, and the prospects for work this morning are anything but bright. The trouble arose through the wheelers refusing to go…

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South Greta Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1918 · page 5

A largely attended meeting of the South Greta miners was held at the Sportsmen's Arms Hotel, West Maitland, on Monday night. Mr. J. M. Baddeley, district…

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Morwell Miners. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1918 · page 5

Mr. Prendergast, speaking in the Legislative Assembly on the Address-in-Reply, protested against the drastic treatment of the Morwell coal miners, and…

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Equal Distribution Work in Coal Trade

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 July 1918 · page 2

The question of sharing the work or pooling the coal to ensure a more equal distribution of work among the members of the Coal and Shale Workers' Federation is…

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Industrial Matters. Coal Federation Meets. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1918 · page 5

The executive of the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation met at the federation's a offices in Sydney to-day. Consideration of a number of matters had not…

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John Brown, Complainant (Continued from Page 5) Trouble Over Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 July 1918 · page 4

At the Minmi Police Court this morning, John Henry Wilson was charged with stealing a drayload of coal, the property of J. and B. Brown, from the Back Creek colliery,…

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Abermain Colliery Dispute. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 July 1918 · page 4

A de[?]utation from the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation, headed by Mr. Baddeley, president, waited upon Mr. Chapman, the managing director of the…

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Minmi Colliery. a Wheeler Prosecuted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 July 1918 · page 4

At the Minmi Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. F. Butler, proceedings were taken against John James Mulholland, a wheeler, employed at the Minmi Colliery,…

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Miners' Delegate Board

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 July 1918 · page 3

Mr. Baddeley presided over a meeting of the Miners' Delegate Board of the Colliery Employees' Federation to-day. It was resolved to recommend the lodges…

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Baths for Miners. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 July 1918 · page 4

The bathing facilities for the miners employed at Coledale Colliery have been completed. A room 50ft by 15ft, near the mouth of the pit, has been…

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Coal Federation's Attitude. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 July 1918 · page 5

At a meeting of the executive of the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation at Sydney to-day, the I.W.W. cases were discussed, and the following resolution…

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Industrial Matters. the Coal Tribunal. the Matter Deferred. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 July 1918 · page 4

The meeting of the executive of the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation, which began in Sydney yesterday, was continued at the federation's offices…

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