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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

2,096 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 105

Coal Crisis Conference Fails Parties Will Not Meet Railwaymen's Attitude LONDON, Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 1

The conference between the Prime Minister and the miners has broken down and the meeting between the coal owners and the The rail way men have requested the question of rendering effective assistance to the miners…

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Colliery Disturbances

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 7

There were further disturbances at Cowdenbeath Colliery, Fifeshire, last night. The police force used their batons to disperse the crowd, who broke shop windows…

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Colliery Engineers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 7

The Federal Government has appointed a special tribunal, to be known an the Engineers' (Coal Industry) Special Tribunal, to deal with industrial…

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The Coal Strike. Conference Fails. Miners Will Not Agree to Resume Pumping. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 7

The meeting between Mr. Lloyd George the Prime Minister, and the representatives of the miners proved abortive. The miners declined to order the…

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Industrial World Mine Stoppages South Coast Trouble

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 7

Reports from the South Coast show that the trouble arising out of trivial complaints leading to stoppages of work at various mines is as acute as…

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Miners' Ultimatum "No Conditions" Conference Refused LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 5

The miners refuse to confer with the owners except unconditionally. The railway men and transporters have decided to strike, filling a settlement…

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Shortland Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 5

In connection with the stoppage of work which took place at Shortland Colliery during two days of last week, Mr. P. Bone, secretary to the lodge, stated that…

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British Coal Strike. Meeting Arranged for To-day Between Miners and Mine Owners. Miners Agree Not to Stop Pumping. Railwaymen Largely Opposed to Strike. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 5

Ii is officially announced that the Triple Alliance—the railwaymen, transport workers, and miners—has decided to strike…

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Appeals to Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 5

Mr. Lioyd George, In reply to a letter front the miners that they desired to be left to discuss every aspect with owner, said he never suggested that any…

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Destruction of Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 5

Reports from all parts of the country show that the younger miners are bent upon dragooning the officials from the volunteers into abandoning the mines, and…

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Metropolitan Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 4

The Metropolitan Coal Company, whose property at Helensburgh has been bought! by Huddart, Parker, Limited, recently issued a balance-sheet in London covering…

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The Miners and the Revolution

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 4

The British nation, fortunately. is difficult to stampede The difficulty is now apparent to the Ministers. A strike lost is aa futile a thing us an alibi not established—It leaves the offender in a worse position than over. The men's leaders, seeing the people busily preparing's to…

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Gold in War Time

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 7

Sir Thomas White, until last year Minister of Finance at Ottawa has written an interesting series of articles on the subject of Canadian financing during the war…

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Coal or Oil? the Future of Fuel An American Vision

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 7

O[?] is not only coming, but already here. We have just entered the epoch of liquid fuel, says R. P. Hearne writing in "The Sphere." Mr. Hearne…

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Killingworth Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 5

The dispute among the miners employed at Killingworth Colliery is still unsettled, and the mine was again idle yesterday…

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Southern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 5

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, president of the Miners' Federation, left Newcastle yesterday, for Wollongong and other centres on the South Coast…

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Metalliferous Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 4

Another great mining company, that at Mount Lyell, now announces that in consequence of the depression in the market for metals it will be unable…

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British Coal Strike. Pumping Resumed. Hopes of Settlement. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 5

The coal strike is estimated to cost £15,750,000 per week, including £1,750,U00 for defence measures. In consequence of the federation's…

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Manning the Pumps Miners and Owners Confer "Settlement Certain" Communism's Dismal Failure LONDON Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 1

The pumps are working in the mines except in Fileshire, where the militants drew the fires, the police arriving too fate. Safety men descended the Notts and Derbyshire mines to-day without interference…

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Southern Miners New Claims Coal Tribunal's Work

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 3

Claims filed by the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation were put before Coal industry Special Tribunal at Wollongong yesterday…

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