May Go on Strike Redhead Mine Engine Drivers Objection to Two Jobs
The winding engine-drivers at the Redhcad Colliery are dissatisfied with their arrangement of duties…
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Mining & the mines, 1924
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British Miners Conference Adjourns Government Appealed to to Fix Minimum Wage. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Although the offer made by the colliery owners has been rejected by the miners, it is officially stated that it will be open to the districts to…
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The Northern Collieries' Association reports seven collieries on the northern coalfields were idle yesterday, as the result of disputes. At Duckenfield No. 2,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Minimum Wage
The lobbyist of the "Daily Herald" estimates that the Government is likely to have a majority of twenty on the second reading of the bill prescribing a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mines Inspection Act
Mr. Fitzpatrick, Minister for Mines, in conformity with the powers conferred upon him by the Mines Inspection Act of 1901, has made the following general…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Train Charges
The Railway Commissioners have issued the following regulation dealing with charges for detentions to trains at collieries:—"Except when specially…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters the Coal Trade
Inquiries in Newcastle yesterday showed that there were a number of collieries in the northern district idle. The cause of this is slackness of trade,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Muswellbrook Coal Increased Output MUSWELLBROOK
After a big fight the directors of the Overton Colliery have surmounted many obstacles, and are now on their way to success…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storing Explosives in Aberdare Pit Miners Fined
Joseph Alexander, manager of the Aberdare Central Colliery, charged patrick O'Keefe. Fred Dennett, William Murphy, John Elliott, Alex…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal to Newcastle for Naval Purposes Over 50/- Per Ton
A shipment of Admiralty coal is coming from England to Australia for naval purposes. The steamer David Lloyd George left Capetown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northern Collieries
The Northern Collieries' Association reported yesterday: "Northern Extended, Cardiff, Borehole, South Wallsend, Duckenfield No. 2, and Co-operative…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pacific Colliery
Trouble has arisen at the Pacific Colliery, Teralba, with the machine men, who refuse to cut the coal in deficient places without compensation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pearlshell "Mines."
Pearl shell "mining" in Birmingham as a profitable industry was suggested by Mr. W T. Gordon in a lecture on Gem Minerals at King's College, Strand. He…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal to Newcastle
The importation of Welsh coal to Newcastle continues, although a large store has been stacked at the Carrington Dyke for several years, and has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District Explosives in Mine
At the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, Fred Donnett, William Henry Murphy, Patrick O'Keefe, John Elliott, Alexander Russell, and Archibald…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Three Mines Idle More Wheeler Trouble
Bellbird and Aberdare collieries were Idle to-day. At the former between 400 and 500 men are employed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hope of Settlement British Miners' Demands Negotiation Preferred LONDON
Interrogated in the House of Commons regarding the situation in the coal industry, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald said that interviews which had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Northern Collieries. Sydney
The Northern Collieries' Association yesterday reported: "New Lambton and Seaham No. 2 resumed. The position at Duckenfield No. 2, ,Co-operative,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cardiff-borehole Miners
The difficulty that has arisen at the Cardiff-Borechole Colliery was considered yesterday at a meeting of the men. Mr. Hoare, district president, and Councillor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leg Broken Accident At Colliery
James Williams, aged 61 employed as 1 ser-rider at Lambton colliery sustained a compound fracture of the right leg above the ankle whilst at work to-day…
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