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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

2,096 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 105

Rumbles and Grumbles Sandy's Homily on Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 6

"Weel, I see they've been aggregating again," said Sandy McTavish. "They ca' it May Day meeting the [?]. Bat I remember weel when they used to…

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The Coal Strike. Efforts at Settlement. Hardships Increasing. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1921 · page 7

This is the fifth week of the coal strike, but a settlement still seems far off, though powerful influences are working to bring the miners and coal owners…

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Colliery Surface Employees

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 4

A combined conference of colliery proprietors and representatives of the Miners' Federation was held at the Newcastle rooms of the Northern Collieries'…

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Cardiff Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 4

A conference of representatives of the colliery proprietors and miners was held in Newcastle yesterday in regard to matters affecting the Cardiff miners. The…

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The Coal Strike. Miners Obdurate. Unemployment Increasing. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

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

Unemployment, due to the cool strike, is increasing by leaps end bounds. Four hundred thousand workers were Idle lest month, owing to the lack of…

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Mount Morgan Mine. Reductions Refused. Mt. Morgan

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

A ballet of all unions concerned on the question of the 20 per cent. reduction in wages to enable the Mt. Morgan Company to resume operations resulted as…

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Waiting for Coal N. Zealand Suffers Di culties of Control

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 3

That coal control is crippling the oversea trade has been manifested during the past few months, and there is every likelihood that the loss…

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Deposing King Coal Oil As Fuel End of Dispute Predicted LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 May 1921 · page 1

An expert committing under the direction of the Food Department, is investigating the possibilities of the widespread substitution of oil as fuel…

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The Coal Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 5

An influential section of the House of Commons is trying to resuscitate the conference between miners and owners on the basis that the question of a national pool…

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Queensland Coal Export

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 5

Remarking on the progress which is being mode in the Baralaba and Styx River cool areas, and of the valuable commercial asset to Central Queensland and…

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Broken Hill Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 4

Mr. Cann, the State Minister for Mines, has returned from Broken Hill, and has seen for himself the conditions which prevail in that great mining…

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South Australian Mining. Utilisation of Lignite

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 5

A report prepared by the Department Of Mines, South Australia, given Some interesting particulars of the lignite deposits in that State, and of the uses to…

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Days Off Need to Demonstrate Miners' Attitude Record Output Claimed

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 6

At the close of a meeting of the northern district executive of the Miners' Federation to-day, a statement was made by Messrs. J. M…

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Coal for New Zealand Expensive Delays Preference Not Evident

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 5

Attention was drawn in yesterday's issue of "The Newcastle Sun" to two specific cases in which vessels coming to Newcastle to load coal for New…

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Brief Respite Coal Strike Commoners in Conference LONDON, Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 May 1921 · page 5

The "Daily Mail" states that members of the Labor Party in the House of Commons and a group of private Commoners conferred and formulated…

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Wallarah Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 5

[?] has been no settlement of the trouble [?]Wallarah Colliery, and the mine continues idea. The men ceased work on the expiration of their fourteen days' notice on the…

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West Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 5

A combined meeting of the four miners' lodges of the West Wallsend district was held on Thursday evening, to receive the report of the delegates who sat in…

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The Coal Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 10

The eternal coal question has cropped up again, and at the moment of writing there is considerable uncertainty as to what the position will be in another few…

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Tired of Strife Miners Resuming Federation Loses Control LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 1

There are growing indications that the Miners' Federation is losing control of the men. some of whom and returning to work in small bodies,…

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British Miners. Rioting Resumed. Storming Headquarters. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1921 · page 5

There is marked recrudescence of rioting in the strike areas. The miners at Hill of Beath Colliery, in Fifeshire, blocked the railway lines to…

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