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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

2,174 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 109

Newcastle Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 4

Mr. M. Charlton, M.H.R., telegraphed to Mr. Hoare, president of the Miners' Federation, yesterday, stating that, with Mr. D. Watkins, M.H.R., he had…

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Whitburn Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 4

The whole of the members of the Enginedrivers and Firemen's Union employed, at Whitburn Colliery, Greta, yesterday tendered fourteen days notice of their…

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The Coal Tribunal. Request From Queensland Western Miners and Back Saturday. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 4

The Coal Tribunal gave further consideration to-day to the claim of the colliery proprietors for a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent. in the wages of the miners…

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Industrial Matters. Northern Mines Idle. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 4

At the sitting of the Coal Tribunal to-day, Mr. C. M. M'Donald, secretary to the Northern Collieries' Association, mentioned that a number of collieries were…

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Western Mines Reduction Claim Earnings at the Zig-zag SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 7

Giving evidence to-day before the Coat Tribunal in rebuttal of the claim of the owners for a 33 1-3 reduction in wages, Edwin Truscott,…

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British Miners. Demand Increased Wages Deputation to Bonar Law (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 5

Mr. Herbert Smith, the president of the Miners' Federation, leading a deputation to Mr. Bonar Law, the Prime Minister, demanding an inquiry into the miners'…

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Forty Per Cent. Coal Tax French Tighten the Screw Confiscating Motor Cars Sentries' "Courtesy" to a Lady London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 March 1923 · page 1

The "Daily Mails" Dusseldorf correspondent states that Franco has further tightened her hold by putting into effect a 40 per cent. cool tax, and has warned the owners that refusal to par will result in imprisonment and withdrawal of the export…

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The Coal Tribunal. Western Miners' Evidence. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 4

Evidence setting out the earnings of miners at different collieries in the western district was given to-day, before the Coal Tribunal, when the hearing was…

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Our Coal Supplies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 7

New Zealand, abounding in lakes and rivers as it does, will, in the future, [?]e to a large extent independent of coal for the generation of power. Just at the…

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Export Coal Tax

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 5

General Dego[?]tee has decreed that the Ruhr mineowners must pay an export coal tax. Failure to pay the tax will be…

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Big Coal Business

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 14

This little article in a London paper shows how busy the British coalfields must be. Huge orders for coal, coming in from…

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In the Ruhr. Designs of France. Lloyd George's View. Not for Reparations. Control of Coal and Iron. Scheme Bound to Fail. (Exclusive to and copyright in Australasia by the Australian Press Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1923 · page 5

"The French troops occupying German territory have further advanced in Germany. The French have cut off the British bridgehead on the Rhine. There are…

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The British Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 5

The miners' organisations resent the result of the abortive interview of the federation with Mr. Bonar Law, when the latter stated that nothing was…

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Miners and May Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 4

May Day will be observed as a general holiday by the Miners' Federation, and on effort is being made to have May 1 declared a public holiday…

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Mining Disaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 5

It is reported from West Virginia that an explosion has occurred at the Pocahontas mine. Eleven bodies have been recovered, and…

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Ambulance Classes Miners' Decision Coalfields Combine

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 5

A meeting of the delegates of the South Maitland District combined collieries ambulance classes was held at the School of Arts, Kurri. on…

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Industrial Matters. Miners' Federation. Question of Compensation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 March 1923 · page 4

Mr. T. Hoare, president of the northern district branch of the Miners' Federation, stated on Saturday that a conference of the three districts in Sydney, had,…

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Hebburn No. 2 Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 4

The award covering working conditions at Hebburn No. 2 Colliery came into operation yesterday. It has twelve months' duration…

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The Coal Tax

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1923 · page 5

The Dusseldorf correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph " says the French have made all administrative arrangements for collecting a 40 per cent…

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The Coal Tribunal. Western Miners' Evidence. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1923 · page 7

The Coal Tribunal met at the Commonwealth Bank Buildings this afternoon, when further evidence was given with regard to the claims of the…

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