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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

2,096 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 105

British Coal Strike. Situation Serious. Drastic Steps Necessary. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 May 1921 · page 5

The coal situation has now reached such an acute stage that, the Australian Press Association learn on high authority, it may be necessary to mobilise the…

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Foreign Coal Glasgow Dockers on Strike Government Determined Voluntary Unloading Invoked London, Wednesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 May 1921 · page 1

A grave turn in the industrial crisis has occurred in Central Glasgow, where the dockers have declared a general strike to prevent the…

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Cardiff Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 4

A meeting of the Cardiff Miners' Lodge was held at Cardiff yesterday, to consider the award of Mr. C. Hibble, the chairman of the Coal Tribunal. Mr. A. Lewis,…

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Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 4

It is stated by Mr. A. Willis, secretary to the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, that the Tribunal to hear the claims for a shorter week…

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Mysterious Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 5

The arrival of 11,000,000 dollars of gold bullion in Now York from Sweden puzzles the bankers. Steamers sailing from Scandinavia…

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African Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 5

A Capetown message states that a conference of representatives of the diamond producing mines in the Union and South-west protectorate, also the…

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Industrial Matters. Northern Miners. Meeting of Executive

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 4

A meeting of the executive of the northern district branch of the Miners' Federation was held at the Newcastle Trades Hall yesterday, Messrs. J. M…

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To Help the Miners Alliance Conference Drastic Action Predicted LONDON, Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 1

Trade union leaders, in the course of interviews, forecast drastic action as a result of to-morrow's joint meeting of the executives of the…

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British Coal Crisis. Transporters' Appeal. Mr. Thomas in New York. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 5

The Transport Federation announces that the Gasworkers' Union and other trades unions have informed them that their members have been suspended for…

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Hebburn Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 4

A seam of first-class coal 20 feet thick has been reached in the shaft of the new colliery on the Hebburn, Limited, Estate, near Tumbleby Mountain, about two miles…

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Lymington Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 4

The manager of the Lymington Collieries writer to say that the reference to the weighbridge in connection with the meeting at the Cardiff Miners' Lodge was…

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Queensland Coal Mining. Bowen and Garrick Fields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 11

A report has been prepared by Mr. J. M'Geachie on the coal mines of the Bowen and Garrick districts of Queensland, and in this much valuable information as to…

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Coal Export

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 11

The quantity of cool shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 98,814 tons, of which 65,355 tons represented shipments for…

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Coal Scarcity

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 13

Melbourne is not too pleased with the Newcastle coal miners at present. The resident of Victoria's capital have too vivid a recollection of the inconvenience…

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The Coal Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 7

There has been no new development in regard to the increased demands of the coal miners since I last wrote, but the pin-pricking policy is being continued to…

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Coal Control New Zealand Supply 5000 Tons a Week

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 1

Last week several examples of delay in the loading of New Zealand vessels were quoted in "The New castle Sun." It was claimed that…

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Coal Embargo Railwaymen's Decision Will Not Handle Imports LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 1

The executive of the National Union of Railwaymen has decided that its members shall not handle imported coal, no matter for what purpose or…

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The Coal Strike. Train Engineers Join Unemployment Increasing. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 5

The coal situation is generally unchanged, awaiting to-day's conference. Meanwhile the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers has come to the grave…

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Colliery Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 May 1921 · page 5

Newcastle district, including Wallarah, West Wallsend, and Seaham, as well as the South Maitland districts, were visited by Mr. H. C. Morton, the secretary, in…

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Redhead Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 May 1921 · page 3

Messrs. J. W. Iceton and J. Greenwood, district check inspectors, in the course of a report of a special inspection of Redhead Colliery, made on May 1, state:—…

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