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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1920

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Industrial Matters Coal Federation. Important Resolutions. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 May 1920 · page 5

The Council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, sitting in Sydney, has during the last few days, discussed a number of important…

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Brown's Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 4

Pelaw-Main and Richmond-Main Miners' Lodges have given fourteen days' notice to Messrs. Brown that arrangements must be made for a more equal distribution…

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Rosedale Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 4

Rosedale colliery was idle on Friday owing to a dispute having arisen with regard to the refusal of the management to reinstate a member of the lodge…

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Rhondda Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 4

During the past couple of weeks there has been a good deal of friction with regard to the extraction of dirt from the seam at Rhondda colliery. Mr. A. Lewis,…

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West Wallsend Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 4

West Wallsend colliery was idle yesterday, owing to some difficulty having occurred between the wheelers and the miners…

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Styx River Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 1

The "Rockhampton Bulletin" has learned from the local gasworks that a proportion of its requirements of coal had been met from the State coal…

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Dora Creek Coal Labor Suspension Sought

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 4

Application has been made [?] Mining Warden at Newcastle [?] Messrs. John Evans and C. R. W. [?] bill (directors), and James [?]…

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Hebburn Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 5

A conference took place in Newcastle yesterday in connection with Hebburn No. 1 and No. 2 Collieries. Mr. C. M. M'Donald, secretary to the proprietors' association,…

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Rothbury Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 5

There will be a further meeting to-day of the tribunal recently appointed to investigate certain matters affecting the miners employed at Rothbury Colliery…

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South Seaham Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 5

The question of machine rates for the South Seaham miners will be considered at a conference to be held to-day between the management and Mr. A. Lewis,…

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Coal Industries' Welcome

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 1

The arch which the coal industries propose to erect in honor of the Prince's visit to Sydney…

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Coal-handling Appliances

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 3

A conference was held in Melbourne on Friday between the Harbor Trust Commissioners and the Electricity Commissioners on the proposal to…

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Miners' Claim for Deductions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 5

At the Wollongong District Court, before Judge Bevan, two coal miners, named Tyrer and Gibbons, employed at the Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh, sued…

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O.B.U. and the Mines Arbitration Opposed SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 5

Mr. Willis, secretary of the Australian Coal Shale Employees. Federation, stated to-day that in future the organisation would be…

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Colliery Re-opened

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 6 May 1920 · page 5

A party of miners, headed by Mr. James Cherry formerly employed at the Aberdare Central Colliery, Kitchener, have secured a lease from Mr…

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Old Cardiff Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 4

A party of miners, headed by Mr. J. Cherry, formerly employed at the Aberdare Central Colliery, Kitchener, have secured a lease from Mr. R. O'Halloran,…

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Johannesburg Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 5

A Johannesburg telegram states that a conference of miners and leaders of the Chamber of Mines regarding the position in low grade mines working at a loss is…

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Ventilation of Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 4

Inspector Bissett, in the course of his report on the condition of the collieries under his inspectorate, states that with the exception of a few small mines where…

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Federal Steamer Dilga to Carry Coal to Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 4

The steamship Dilga, the latest vessel to be completed at the Government Duckward, Newcastle, was handed over to the Commonwealth authorities yesterday…

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Neath Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1920 · page 7

Neath Colliery was idle yesterday in consequence of a difficulty with the wheelers…

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