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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

1,622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 73 of 82

American Miners Another Conference VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 November 1919 · page 1

A Washington message states that at the opening of the conference between the coal miners and the operators to adjust their troubles, the…

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Industrial Matters. Coal Commission's Report. Reply to Mr. Willis. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 November 1919 · page 5

Mr. C. M. M'Donald, secretary to the Northern Collieries' Association, replies as followed to the statements of Mr. A. C. Willis, secretary to the Coal and Shale…

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Do Miners Drink Wine? a Ceesnock Licence Objectors' Appeal Fails

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 November 1919 · page 5

The appeal in which Harold Biggers, and others, of Cessnock, objected to the granting of a colonial wine licence at Cessnock to Edwin Anstey, came…

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Coal Commission. Statement by Mr. McDONALD Reply to Mr. Dooley. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 November 1919 · page 4

A reply was made to-night by Mr. C. M. M'Donald, secretary to the Northern Collieries Association, to the comments of Mr. Dooley (deputy leader of the state…

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Pelaw-main Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 November 1919 · page 6

The Pelow-Main Colliery employees will hold their annual picnic at Speers' Point on Saturday. The excursion train will leave Stanford-Merthyr at 7.10 a.m.,…

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Control of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 November 1919 · page 5

The Royal Commissioner inquiring into the coal-mining industry and the coal trade of the State has presented, in his report on a majority of questions…

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Industrial Matters. Teralba Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 November 1919 · page 5

At the invitation of the lodges in the Teralba district, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, president of the federation, attended a meeting in that centre last night. He…

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Coal and Ships Effect on Trade What Commissioner Says

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 November 1919 · page 5

The effect on the distribution of the coal trade by reason of shipping companies being interested in collieries, was referred to as follows by the…

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Brown's Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 4

A meeting of the representatives of Pelaw Main, Richmond Main, and Minmi miners' lodges was held on Sunday to consider the best means of securing for…

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Colliery Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 4

A deputation, comprising an executive officer of the Colliery Mechanics' Association, with two local representatives, met the manager of the Hebburn Colliery…

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Coal Distribution Miners Make Move "Humanity, Not Profit"

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 1

Until recently, advocacy of a system of providing for more even distribution of trade was confined to a section of the proprietors. The…

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Burwood Extended Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 4

Burwood Extended colliery was idle yesterday. The question in dispute has relation to the abolition of the afternoon shift for machine-men. A meeting of the…

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Southern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 4

Mr. A. C. Willis, secretary to the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, who returned to Sydney to-day, said that considerable unrest was prevalent on the South…

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New Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 4

A conference between the representatives of the New Lambton colliery and the miners was to be held yesterday to discuss, among other matters, the…

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The Coal Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 6

There is little or no change in the coalmining problem, and opinion is rapidly forming that there must be a strike before it can finally be settled. Meantime…

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Price of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 4

The price of coal in New South Wales has been subject to considerable fluctuation since the date of first production, says the Commonwealth Statistician in…

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Wolgan Miners. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 5

The dispute at the Wolgan colliery, Newnos, is still unsettled. Mr. John Fell, the owner, has stated that he would not work the mine again…

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Industrial Matters. Coal Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 4

The executive of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation will meet in Sydney to-day…

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Ships and Coal Commissioner's Comments

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 2

Yesterday references from the report of the Coal Commission to the evident amalgamation of certain shipping, and colliery interests were…

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"Might Go Further" Mr. Dooley on Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 1

Referring this morning to Mr. Dooley's published remarks on the report of the coal commissioner. Mr. Amram Lewis said that the Parliamentary…

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