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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

2,096 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 105

South Seaham Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 7

Work was resumed at South Seaham Colliery yesterday, after several days' idleness…

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Industrial Matters Coal Tribunal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 7

A special meeting of the Coal Tribunal has been convened for Monday next, in Sydney. It was not known in Newcastle yesterday for what purpose the sittings…

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Idle Picks Britain's Coal Supply Cut Off Saving the Mines Pumpmen at their Posts LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 1

Every coalfield and approximately 1,200,000 men, women and boys are idle, but the districts are quiet and there has been no disorder…

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Industrial World Mine Stoppages More Trouble with Wheelers

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 8

Information made available in Sydney shows that 12 strikes occurred in the coal mines in the Newcastle district during this week…

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Miners Entombed Communist Crime Womenfolk to Rescue LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 1

A horrible crime is attributed to Communists in Saxony. They wantonly extinguished the furnaces which supplied power to the machinery in a…

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The Miners' Strike. Men Leave the Pits. Engineers Stand By. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 7

Sir Robert Horne waited at the Board of Trade offices the whole day yesterday, hoipug that the miners' executive would seek another interview before ordering…

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Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 4

Owing to the Easter holidays full working time at the Newcastle and South Maitland collieries was nine days, and this was put in at 23 of the mines. The…

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Powdered Coal for Railway Advocated in New Zealanr

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 5

The use of powdered coal as a means of raising steam is receiving consideration in New Zealand. Recently Mr. G. M. Thomson, of Dunedin, wrote to Mr…

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Triple Alliance Sympathy with Miners Question of Solidarity Government Restrictions LONDON, Sunday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 1

At meeting of the transport workers and, railwaymen in London an other centres to-day, speakers strongly favored action in support of the…

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British Coal Strike. Parliament Summoned. the Crisis Grave. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 5

A Royal proclamation has been issued, summoning Parliament to meet on Monday. It is stated that undisclosed factors have caused the Government to take a…

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British Markets. Effects of Coal Strike. Great Reduction in Woollens. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 5

Under the influence of the coal strike, the Stock Exchange is lifeless. There has been little business since the holidays, but no panic or liquidation, the…

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Coal at Awaba Mining Over 3000 Acres

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 6

Application to prospect for coal over 3000 acres of ground at Teralba and Awaba was made by Mr. A. Hall, on behalf of James Moth Morris, in the…

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Richmond-main Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 4

Richmond-Main Colliery was again idle yesterday owing to a local dispute. The officers of the lodge conferred with the executive of the federation during…

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Mount Morgan Mine Cabinet Concerned Rockhampton

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 6

The disastrous position which is threatened if Mt. Morgan closes down has evidently aroused fears in the Queensland Cabinet, for the general…

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Coal Strike "It's a Lockout" Discussion in Commons LONDON, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 6

In the House of Commons, Mr. Donald McLean asked whether Mr. Lloyd George intended to make a statement to-day or to-morrow with regard to…

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The Coal Deadlock. Will It Extend. Railwaymen Support It. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 5

The coal deadlock continues. Mass meetings were hold yesterday throughout the country, with the object of instructing delegates to the London…

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Now or Never British Labor's Fight Flooding the Mines Death Blow to Communism LONDON, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 1

"It is better to have a big fig[?]t now than allow ourselves to be taken singly," is a meaningful phrase employed by the railwaymen's and…

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"Back to the Sheep" Fate of the Barrier Mining Industry Tottoring Broken Hill

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1921 · page 5

Speaking at a conference last night of bodies contributing to the hospital. which discussed a now scheme for [?]nancing the hospital. Mr. Fairweather…

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British Coal Mining. Costs and Proceeds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1921 · page 9

The summary statement of the Mines Department of the Board of Trade on the finances of the coal-mining industry will not be published for some weeks…

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The Coal Tragedy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1921 · page 6

Not all the folly is on the side of the British miners. Here again we see how those who hold out hopes without the circumstances to justify them pave the…

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