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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
2,117 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 59 of 106
The witnesses called by the miners advocates before the Commission of inquiry into the safe working of coal mines continue to show a remarkable division of opinion on the vexed question of the safety light versus the naked light…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Collieries' Association reported yesterday that Abermain Nos. 1 and 3, Laidley's and Duckenfield No. 2 remain idle owing to disputes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Work was not resumed, as expected, at the Cardiff Borehole Colliery during the week. The mine has had fourteen consecutive days' idleness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Wallarah Miners' Lodge was held at Catherine Hill Bay, to consider a number of cases of distress among the members in that part…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The week's work in connection with coal shipment at Newcastle was one of the slackest experienced for five years. The marshalling yards at Carrington and Port…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Tribunal, which is engaged on the claims of the Miners' Federation, will assemble in Sydney at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Evidence will be submitted from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The new claims of the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Union have been forwarded to Melbourne for consideration by the Commonwealth Steamship Owners'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the last public sitting of the Court of Inquiry Mr. Evan Williams admitted that wages sometimes only averaged 35s per week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This is the concluding part of a very long article of considerable interest. Modern science puts down the law—there are no elements; matter is one. It…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. A. Lewis, district treasurer of the Miners' Federation, stated yesterday that reports with regard to one of the John Darling Colliery shafts, at Belmont, had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further evidence was called to-day before the Commission which is inquiring into the question of Safety in Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The mine-owners and the miners, after meeting the First Lord of the Admiralty (W. C. Bridgeman, who is medlating in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Miners' Executive is instructing the miners to cease work on July 31, except the minimum number of safety men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The value of the report of the Royal Commission which is inquiring into the working of coal mines in New South Wales must necessarily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A conference in London of the Trade Union Congress Special Committee, with three Railway Unions, and the Transport Workers' Union, decided, in the event of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. J. E. Pendlebury presided over the annual meeting of the Colliery Mechanics' Association, in St. Mary's Hall, West Maitland, on Saturday evening. There…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There were important developments in the coal dispute on Friday, when representatives of the owners and miners separately met Mr. W. C. Bridgeman at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Next Friday will be a fateful day for Great Britain. Unless by that date the coal-owners withdraw their demands for a reduction in wages and for Increased hours, the British mines will be laid idle, which, It is feared, will result in the greatest industrial calamity in British…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Metropolitan Colliery, at Helensburgh, on the south coast, was the scene of a disaster this afternoon. Two miners, George West, aged 25, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Collieries' Association reported yesterday that on account of the dislocation of shipping twenty-seven pits on the northern coalfields…
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