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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

2,096 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 105

Back to Harness Rand Strike Miners Ordered to Resume CAPETOWN, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 February 1921 · page 1

The Johannesburg Mine Workers' Union has issued the following notice: "Members are officially notified that the ballot just taken is against a…

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Collieries Staff Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1921 · page 7

At a meeting of the United Collieries' Staff Association, Northern District of New South Wales, it was decided to draw up a log of wages and conditions to be…

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The Morwell Mine. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1921 · page 7

Mr. Asquith, the president of the Victorian District of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, with other officials endeavoured to see Mr. Lawson, the State…

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Warden's Court. Tuesday, February 15. (Before M. W. Le Brun Brown, Warden.) Coal Mining Applications

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1921 · page 5

The Wallarah Coal Company applied for authority to enter on portions 94 and 81, parish of Wallarah, County of Northumberland, to prospect for coal. Mr…

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£30,000 Strike Jo'burg Miners Resumption of Work CAPETOWN, Tuesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1921 · page 5

Advices from Jonannesburg state that most of the strikers resumed today, and the majority of the mines are operating practically at normal…

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Make Hamilton Busy After the Coal Industry and Homes Hamilton's New Era

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1921 · page 8

More than 30 years ago, when coalmining operations began to decline in Hamilton, the A.A. Company, in order to keep pace with the demand for…

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Killingworth Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1921 · page 5

Owing to a dispute between the miners' and mechanics' unions Killingworth Colliery has not worked this week. Members of both unions are idle…

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Stop-press Colliery Inspection

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1921 · page 1

Rothbury Colliory will be inspected on Tuesday, when Mr. C. Hibble and other representatives of the Coal Tribunal will inquire…

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One-eyed Miners Compensation Awards Men Able to Work

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1921 · page 5

Before Judge Hamilton, in the District Court to-day. Caledon[?] Collieries, Ltd., sought a variation of a compensation award to Arthur Vincent…

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Industrial World Two More Mines Idle Abermain No. 2 Resumes

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1921 · page 3

Two coal mines—the Burwood and Shortland—were idle yesterday in the Newcastle district. In consequence of strikes. The Wallarah Colliery was…

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Morwell Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 4

The Victorian Ministry has re-affirmed the decision that only the men who signed the statement containing the conditions of employment before February 6 will be…

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Wonthaggi State Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 4

Reports received in Newcastle start that there are more miners at work at the Wonthaggi State coal mine than there were before the recent dispute…

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Wallarah Miners. Tribunal's Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 5

The chairman of the Coal Tribunal has issued an award for the miners employed at the wallarah Colliery, Catherine Hill Bay…

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Mining Suspensions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 4

The continuance of stoppages of work at various collieries over trifling matters is being made much of at the present time, and a report is actually…

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Gas Afire Union Officer's Report Colliery Criticised

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 5

Mr. J. W. Iceton check inspector of the northern district of the Coal and Shale Employees Federation who inspected a colliery early this week…

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Industrial Matters. Miners' Explosives. Conference Convened

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 4

A conference has been called by the executive of the northern district of the Miners' Federation in connection with the increased cost of explosives used in…

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Labor Crisi[?] Miners and Owners at Var[?] Railway Companies' Plight Facing Bankrupt London, Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 1

A dangerous situation is foreshadowed in the mining industry. The owners and the miners are in conflict on the subject of a permanent wages…

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Warden's Court. Thursday, February 17. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, Warden.) Wallarah Coal Land

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1921 · page 7

The Wallarah Coal Company applied for the right to enter portion 44, parish Wallarah, to prospect for coal. Mr. Millard appeared for the…

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Lithgow State Coal Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1921 · page 7

It is reported from Lithgow that early arrangements are being made to undertake the unwatering and the further sinking of the shaft at the State coal mine in…

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Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1921 · page 7

An invitation has been received by the northern district of the Miners' Federation from the town clerk of Hamilton to attend a conference in the council…

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