Guards' Pay Colliery Train Men Complex Rates
The payment of guards employed on trains on the Richmond Main and Pelaw Main colliery lines has been the subject of considerable friction…
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Mining & the mines, 1925
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Remedies for Coal Trade
The coal industry is in a parlous condition. In recent years the demand has fallen off, partly owing to the use of other fuel, but also on account of the…
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After having held up the payment of relief money for over two months. owing to a shortage of funds, the Colliery Mechanics Association is now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Hebburn Mine Companies and Contractor Men Complain
There is as yet no settlement of the dispute between the A.H.P. Company and Hebburn. Ltd., and the contractor, Mr. F. Jefefery, of Paddington, about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Safety in Mines Government Criticised Mr. Murray's Views Sydney
Speaking in the Assembly on safety in mines, Mr. Murray said:— "I desire to support what has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal and Shale the Year's Operations Reports Reviewed No. 1
The annual report of the New South Wales Department of Mines has been issued covering the operations of the State to the end of December. This is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Disaster Fall of a Cage Many Men Killed (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Eighty miners were coming up in a cage at the Werienbach mine, in the Moselle district, when the cage crashed 1150 feet down the shaft, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Standard British Attitude Not Yet Determined (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
In the House of Commons, replying to questions, Mr. Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said he was anxious to announce the decision on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Miners' Wages
The House of Commons by 208 votes to 143 rejected a motion by Mr. Walsh (Labour) for the second reading of the Coal Mines Minimum Wage Bill, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work at the Collieries
Eleven days constituted full time at the collieries in the northern district for the fortnight. Particulars, as furnished by the shipping agents in…
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Aberdare, Bellbird, and New Lambton mines became idle this morning owing to disputes. Hebburn No. 2 and Seaham No. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Disaster Fifty-one Men Killed a Faulty Cage (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
It is now ascertained that 51 men were killed and 28 wounded in the cage disaster at the Raumaux pit, in the Moselle district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Collieries
The Northern Collieries' Association yesterday reported:—"The disputes at Hebburn No. 2, Seaham No. 1, and Stockton-Borehole collieries having been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Health in Mines
The greater attention now given by various authorities to the problem of protecting operatives in the course of employment dangerous to health is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Miners Trouble Predicted (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Mr. Cook the miners' leader, speaking at Bullwell, said:—"We have now prepared the necessary machinery to establish by might what we failed to secure by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal and Shale the Year's Operations Reports Reviewed (No. II.)
There were no prosecutions by direction of the Secretary for Mines during the year. There were a number of convictions secured against miners for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trapped in Mine Sudden Inrush of Water Eight in Peril London
An inrush of water trapped 34 coal miners at the montague pit at Scotswood on Tyne. Two hundred miners escaped…
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The Northern Collieries' Association reported yesterday: "Work was resumed at Cardiff-Borehole, South Wallsend, and New Lambton pits this morning, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine Ambulances Sydney
In the Legislative Assembly to-night Mr. Fitzpatrick, the Minister for Mines, in reply to Mr. Murray, said his attention had not been drawn to a statement to the effect…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Working Thick Coal Seams
Sir,—Mr. Jeffries, like Mr. Fulagar, has not got a grip of my system of working thick coal seams. In the first place, I do not desire it to be understood that…
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