Coal and Water Power
Victoria still lags behind as regards the proper utilisation of her undoubtedly great stores of material for the generation of steam and water power. She is a small…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1919
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Broken Hill Miners. Melbourne
At the half-yearly meeting of the share-holders in Block 10, Broken Hill, the chairman announced that the company was in a strong financial condition, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Colliery Mechanics
Sir,—If Mr. Waller will be honest in his criticism, it will generally be acknowledged that the eight hours' start was not an easy matter for the mechanics to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lymington Colliery
Lymington Colliery, Cardiff, was idle for four days last week, owing to a grievance of the men. The miners met yesterday morning, and it was decided to resume…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters. South Coast Mines. Corrimal Miners Out. Sydney
Reports from the South Coast show that for the fortnightly pay distributed on Friday, the majority of the pits averaged about ten days. The miners took a day off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Coal Strike
The United States Government has decided to seize bituminous coal mines in cases in which the owners do not show a disposition to co-operate in increasing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brown Coal and Industrial Supremacy
At Morwell (Victoria) there has lain for countless ages a huge deposit of brown coal, a crumbly maps of half-curbonised primaeval forests. This material is about to revitalise Victorian Industry. A commission of electrical experts has recommended to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chief Inspector Humble. Retires From Mines Department
Mr. W. Humble, the Chief Inspector of Coalmines in New South Wales, will go on seven months' leave this month, and at the end of that period will retire from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Connrol Nationlisation Urged LONDON, saturday Night
In the [?] commons to-day, in opening the coal debate, .Mr. Brace (Labor) moved the appointment of a Select Committee to Inquire Into the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Contract to Go "Last Slavish Dreg" Miners Want Day Work Proprietors Opposed
The miners decision by ballot, to demand the abolition of the contract system, will be included in the list of claima Which, they have announces,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Australian Goldfields Kalgoorlie
A big advance towards a resumption of work in the gold mining industry was made yesterday. After a very stormy gathering at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Mechanics
Mr. H. C. Morton, secertary to the Colliery Mechanics' Association, has received a letter from the Northern Colliery Association, advising that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ashtonfieds Colliery
The tribunal which is to inquire into a dispute that exists at Ashtonfields Colliery, Thornton, will sit in Newcastle to-day. Mr. H. M. Cohen is the chairman,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Ballot. Southern Miners' Voting. Sydney
Advices received by Mr. A. C. Willis; general secretary, of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, from the southern branch show that the voting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Manager Killed. Perth
Mr. Andrew Watson, colliery manager, formerly of West Wallsend, was fatally injured on Saturday through the overturning of the colliery locomotive at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kalgoorlie Miners. Kalgoorlie
Arising out of the decision of the mining branch of the Australian Workers' Union to request a conference with the Chamber of Mines, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Industry
The published results of the ballot taken by the miners' lodges in the Newcastle district were much discussed in mining circles yesterday. Although little…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day's Mining Conference
A number of grievances existing at collieries in both fields will be considered at a conference of the representatives of the owners and the miners in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Income Tax Welsh Miners' Protest LONDON, Monday Night
According to the incomplete returns at the Welsh miners' ballot concerning the resistance of payment of income tax below £250. 61.562 voted for a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Coal Strike
It is reported from Pittsburg that Government troops have manned the coal mines. One train conveying troops was…
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