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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1922

2,088 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 105

Constant Work At State Coal Mine LITHGOW

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 8

Excellent progress, which has been a feature of the resumption of activities at the State coal mine in Mort's Gully, continues, and is even more…

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Miners' Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 4

The chairman of the Coal Tribunal has convened a conference of the representatives of the collierly owners and the Miners' Federation for this…

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£300 From Mineowners Colliery Association's Gift

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 4

The Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association met yesterday and voted £300 for the unemployed of the Newcastle district…

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Mine Idle Grata Central Dispute

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 5

Greta Central Colliery is idle owing of the dispute between the miners and the management concerning the dismissal of a pair of miners on wages…

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£325 for Diggers Large Donations Colliery Proprietors' Gifts [?]

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 4

[?] The Abermain and Seaham Colliery Company has donated £300 to the Unemployed…

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Cessnock Line Miners on the Warpath

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 4

The Workers' Industrial Union of Australia (mining department) wrote to Wickham council last night asking for assistance in the matter of the…

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Coal for Unemployed Company's Free Supply

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 4

The unemployed relief committee is now issuing orders to married men, other than returned men, for quantities of coal donated by the…

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Hoard of Gold Sportsman's Cash Box Three Months Search

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 8

Sovereigns and half-sovereigns [?]mounting to £6000 have just been [?]ound in an old cashbox deposited in a Walthamstow bank. The money…

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Queensland Copper Mines May Reopen Big Moves in Prospect Brisbane

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 8

The Premier (Mr. Theodore) says that the report is inaccurate that the Government is willing to reopen the Chillagoe State copper and lead…

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Coal Tribunal Compulsory Conference Secret Session Claim for Reduction SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 5

The colliery proprietors and the minors having failed to agree at their conference last week, a compulsory conference commenced…

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Central Greta Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 4

Central Greta Colliery has been [?] this week owing to a dispute [?] out of the manager giving a pair of miners 14 days' notice. It is alleged by the…

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Idle Miners Will Their Numbers Increase? Officials' Efforts

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 5

"The present condition existing in the northern coal mining district is most unsatisfactory," said Mr. Amram Lewis, treasurer of the northern…

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Miners' Appalling Hardships "British Famine Has Begun" LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 1

The executive of the Miners Federation to-day discussed in London the serious situation on the coalfields. The secretary, Mr. Hodges stated that every district, with one exception has reached the wage minimum. This combined with…

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Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 6

The ballot for the position of president of the Northern District of the Miners' Federation, which was postponed from June 7, will be taken on Wednesday…

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Cessnock No. 2 Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 6

A conference with regard to Cessnock No. 2 Colliery will take place at the Union Bank Chambers in Newcastle at noon on Monday…

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"This Unhappy Winter" Unprecedented Distress Official Report Out-of-work Coal Miners

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 5

A tale of distress and unemployment is unfolded in the May Labor exchange report for Newcastle, issued by Mr. Huntley,…

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Synthetic Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 7

Just as a London paper give it: A discovery which would revolutionise industry and trade, and profoundly modify human existence in the future, is…

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British Miners' Troubles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 5

The executive of the Miners' Federation has issued a statement in which it says that wages are so low on many coalfields and employment so irregular…

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"Australian Gold."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 5

It is a heading in a recent issue of the "London Times." But before repeating what followed it, has anyone an Australian sovereign that is lagging…

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Industrial Matters. Miners' Income Tax

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 6

There is stated to be considerable feeling existing in the coal-mining centres of the Newcastle and Maitland districts at what is considered by the men to be…

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