Miners Pessimistic
Mr. Cook, the miners' secretary, interviewed, was pessimistic. He thought there was very little hope of a peaceful settlement as the statesmen seemed to have…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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Mr. Cook, the miners' secretary, interviewed, was pessimistic. He thought there was very little hope of a peaceful settlement as the statesmen seemed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The failure of the miners at Pelaw Main colliery to carry out a direction of the chairman of the Coal Tribunal, in connection with the working of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Is the ventilation in mines where safety lamps are used better or worse than that in naked light mine sections?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, had a conference with Mr. Bridgeman and Lord Stamfordham at Downing-street yesterday in regard to the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →According to the report of the Northern Collieries' Association, issued yesterday, twenty-three collieries are idle because of the lack of trade, on account…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. T. Hoare, president of the northern branch of the Miners' Federation, when questioned yesterday in regard to the announcement of the suspension of the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The attitude of the chairman of the Coal Tribunal in refusing to continue the inquiry into the miners' claims because an award is not being obeyed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. A. Lewis, district treasurer or the Miners' Federation, in a statement yesterday, said there was a feeling among the members of the branch that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Before the Mines Royal Commission to-day, Martin Manion a miner of Aberdure No. 17 said, in answer to Mr. Icelon, the representative of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The decision of the chairman of the Coal Tribunal not to proceed with the hearing of the general claims made by the Miners' Federation while the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Reference to the Helensburgh disaster, when two men were killed, was made at to-day's sitting of the Commission which is inquiring into the question of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Important step in the direction of averting the big coal strike, which is due to start on Friday, was made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, has intervened personally regarding the coal dispute. He conferred at 13 Downing-street for three-quarters of an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Good progress is now being made with the work of reopening Rothbury Colliery. Mr. R. Thomas, manager, stated last evening that he expected the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The delegate board of the Colliery Mechanics' Association has decided that no levy shall be struck, and no relief payments made in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The menace of a possible coal strike in the United States is growing daily. The Government figures reveal that the production of union mines is far…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Czecho-Slovakia were represented at a private meeting of the executive committee of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another mining fatality occurred on the south coast to-day. About three o'clock this morning, a deputy on duty in Coalcliff colliery was killed by a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some consternation has been caused in mining circles by the decision of the chairman of the Coal Tribunal to discontinue the sittings of that body until the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The majority of the 200 men engaged on rood reconditioning work in the Newcastle district are minors. Despite the fact that many of these…
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