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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

2,174 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 63 of 109

Miners Killed Fall of Earth Disaster In Wales LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 July 1923 · page 6

Four miner were killed and two seriously injured through a fall of earth at Glyn mine, at Neath, in Glamorganshire, Wales…

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Mining Villages Titles To Allotments Exemption Removals

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 July 1923 · page 2

Mr. H. J. Connell, M.L.A. has received the following from the Under-Secretary for Mines, on the subject of occupiers acquiring titles to allotments…

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Searching for Coal at Singleton Many Holdings Affected SINGLETON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 July 1923 · page 2

At the Mining Wardens' Court authority was granted to enter a large area to prospect for coal on the left side of Hunter River at…

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AGREEMENT Resumption At Mines Next Wednesday Oakes Dispels Deadlock Pelaw Main Arbitration Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 July 1923 · page 6

An agreement arrived at late yesterday provides for a resumption of work at all mines next Wednesday…

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Whitburn Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 5

The lodge officers interviewed the manager of Whitburn Colliery, Greta on Saturday and it was arranged that the shiftmen resume to-day. As there is…

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New Greta Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 5

New Greta Lodge will meet to-day to arrange for drawing the cavill…

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Pelaw-main Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 5

Mr. Justice Edmunds, who has been deputed to arbitrate on the air turbine machine difficulty at the Pelow-Main Colliery, will meet the parties at his…

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Industrial Matters. Maitland Collieries Preparations for Signing On

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 5

A meeting of the Northern executive of the Miners' Federation was held at the Trades hail on Saturday. All the officers were in attendance. It had been…

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The Coal Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 6

Sir,—Mr. Rees expresses surprise that I should accept the word of Mr. Denford, the general secretary of the Communist party, in preference to the…

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Maitland District. Colliery Mechanics Annual Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 6

Mr. J. E. Pendlebury presided at the annual meeting of the Colliery Mechanics' Mutual Protective Association in St. Mary's Hall. West Maitland on…

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Signing on at Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 5

On Saturday Mr. W. Brennan, secretary of the northern district branch of the Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, telegraphed to the various lodge…

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Neath Tenure Under Miners' Rights

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 6

The miners' executive, at its meeting in Newcastle on Saturday, had before it correspondence received through Messrs. J. M. Baddeley and D. Murray,…

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Miners' Compensation. Judge Hamilton's Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 5

Mr. Farrar, Minister for Labour and Industry, has furnished the Minors' Federation with a copy of a report received from His Honor Judge Hamilton, having…

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Lithgow Coal Trade Still Brisk LITHGOW

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 6

Briskness in the local coal trade continues unabated, but tho supply of hoppers is no meagre that inconvenience is being caused. The Railway Department…

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Colliery Disaster at Maltby Main Twenty-seven Lives Lost (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 5

A terrible colliery disaster has occurred at Maltby Main, near Rotherham. The management and the miners have for several weeks been [?]ghting gob fires,…

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Not a Friend Willis And Communists Coal Settlement Criticism SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 1

Mr. J. Howie's use of the term "our friend Willis" at the Communist Hall in Sydney last night brought the interjection. "He's not our friend" from…

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Down with the Red Flag American Miners and Wharfies' Strikes Collapse VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 1

Two unauthorised strikes, which have attracted much attention, have practically collapsed . Of 8000 coalminers in Nova Scotia who followed the Red Flag strike leaders until the latter were repudiated by the international union officials. 6000…

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Mining Disasters Eight Men Killed Explosion Feared No Chance Of Rescue London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 July 1923 · page 5

The explosion at Gartshoro colliery, near Kilsyth, killed eight, and injured three. One of the injured, went to the surface to…

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Self-heating Coal Cause of Colliery Disaster Yorkshire Explosion Men Claim Voice in Mine Management LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 July 1923 · page 1

The abandonment of attempts at the rescue of the entombed miners at Maitby colliery has sent a shudder throughout the district. Bereaved women and children stand at the doors of the…

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Mining Disasters. Colliery Explosion Young Miner's Pluck (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1923 · page 5

While bricking in a large section of the Gartshore Colliery, at Kilsyth, a gang of eight men, who were working with naked lights, were all killed by a…

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