The Coal Question
The British Miners Conference has rejected by an overwhelming majority a motion empowering the executive to declare a strike in the case of important…
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Mining & the mines, 1919
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Coal and Shale Council
A meeting of the council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation will be held in Sydney to-day. Mr. A. Willis, the general secretary, who was…
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Mr. Campbell, K.C., the Coal Commissioner, continued his sittings at Parliament House to-day. Frank Oakden, general manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nationalisation Miners Insistent Dramatic Railway Strike LONDON. Thursday Night
The miners have decided that they will refuse to pledge themselves not to strike for three monts, but they will co-operate with the Government,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Increases Effect on Commerce Freights and Fares London. Thursday Night
The rise in the price of coal is regarded as a serious blow to the whole structure of commerce, concurring as it does with a depression in the export…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Coal Mines. Government Proposal Declined by the Miners. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Mr. Brace, M.P., appealed to the miners at the Keswick Conference to accept the Government's offer to suspend the 6s a ton increase on the price of coal for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dandies of the Mine
Dandles of the Mine.—A new type of miner is being evolved at Atherton Lancashire, through the growing popularity of the baths at Messrs. Fletcher,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Miners Come Again
Although we have been remarkably free from serious troubles in the coal mines of late, it was not to be expected that the miners would let slip such a golden…
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Mr. J. L. Campbell, K.C., the Coal Commissioner, continued his investigation into the coal industry at Parliament House to-day…
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The Council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation met in Sydney to-day, and discussed a number of matter, the most important of…
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Mr. Bonar Law, in the House of Commons, said that in view of the miners' decision not to accept the compromise offered by the Government, the 6s a ton…
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Sir,—Recently I saw in your paper that the Commonwealth had awarded £10 to the crow of the s.s. Kalihaba for discovery and destroying of a mine, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Germany's Gold Supply
The Washington correspondent of the "New York World" states that the Treasury Department learns that the German gold supply increased from 298…
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A report from Bluefield, West Virginia, states that an explosion destroyed the Tanwell coal mine. A fire followed, and many miners were…
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Owing to the refusal of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress to call a national Labour Conference to deal with the scheme arranged…
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We ought to have a change in our waggons as well as in the tipping appliances, and a waggon carrying not less than 40 tons of coal should be provided for. Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Commission. Some Interesting Figures. Sydney
Mr. J. L. Campbell, K.C., the Coal Commissioner, continued his investigations into the coal industry at Parliament House to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Threatened with Ruin Flooded Mines London, Monday Night
The Premier announces that pumping operations have been stopped on 85 British mines which the strikers flooded, thus threatening the ruin of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unionism's Death-blow Warning to Miners Heeded LONDON, July 16
The rejection by the Miners' Conference of the proposal to empower the executive to declare a strike on questions of first-class importance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Seamen's Strike. Conference Opened. Awaiting the Miners. Melbourne
A conference which is expected to have an important bearing on the future of the seamen's strike was opened at the Trades Hall, to-day. It is composed of…
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