Miners' Protest Aberdare Extended Trouble Colliery Idle
Aberdare Extended Colliery was idle to-day. Miners and contract wheelers claim that following the recent dismissal of 36 surface workers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1927
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Miners Must Not — Coal Dust for Stemming Hillside Prosecution
"This prosecution is solely for the purpose of showing and proving miners that they mint not use coal dust for stemming," said Mr. T. A…
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Sir,—We have to-day Richmond-Main idle, when we should have been at work all this week, and suffered no loss in prestige, because the whole thing will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Zealand Dobson Mine Disaster Commission's Findings Laxity at the Mine Cause of Explosion Unassigned Wellington, July 5
The report of the Royal commission that has been inquiring into the Dobson mine disaster on 3rd December last has just been made available for publication…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Verge of Starvation" Off-hand Mine Workers Demand for Increase
A demand for a basic wage of £5 10s per week in the coalmining industry was made at a conference representative of the whole of the South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters Richmond-main Dispute Miners Still Considering. Sydney
After conferring with representatives of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association yesterday morning, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deputy's Death Fall of Coal at Pelaw Main Kurri Inquest
"How is it boys; everything all right?" said Benjamin Jenkins, a deputy at Pelaw Main colliery when he entered a working place on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"DRIFTING" British Coal Situation Trouble Predicted Ex-Commissioners' Warning LONDON
Sir Herbert Samuel, chairman of last year's British Coal Inquiry. says that the industry is drifting towards another perilous situation,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Northern Collieries
The Northern Collieries' Association reported yesterday:—"Redhead Colliery resumed this morning, but Richmond-Main and Aberdare Extended continue on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hebburn Miners
Mr. T. Hoare, district president of the Miners' Federation stated yesterday that Mr. I. Hoare, district check inspector, had notified the executive that, with Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Safety Lamps
At a recent meeting of the Midland Institute of Mining Engineers, held at Leeds, Dr. J. S. Haldane, the president of the institution commented on the series…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seamen and Miners
There is considerable bitterness in Labour circles as the result of the excentive of the Seamen's Union, by 13 votes to 12 subscribing £10,000 to assist the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floating Mine? Warning to Shipping MELBOURNE
It has not yet been established definitely whether the object sighted off The Haycock, just south of Twofold Bay, was a live mine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Prices to Be Increased Sydney
On and after Monday the selling prices of the three grades of northern coal will be increased by sixpence per ton. This was decided on at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters Miners' Council Attitude of Mechanics Sydney
The position that has arisen at Richmond-Main and elsewhere on the coalfields over the attitude of the colliery mechanics was again the principal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Was It a "Mine" Scare Off Twofold Bay SYDNEY
Was the "mine" reported to be floating off Twofold Bay really a 40-gallon steel drum? The doubts of the State Navigation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Goal Profits What New Increases Mean Mr. Hoare's View 'Last Advance Gave Mine Owners £569,809'
"As I am not in receipt of the official return of the coal output for last year. I do not know what the increase in the price of coal means," said the president of the Northern Miners' Federation (Mr. Hoare) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Northern Collieries
The Northern Collieries' Association reported yesterday:—"Richmond Main and Aberdare Extended are still on strike. Strikes have also occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Still Idle Aberdare Extended Colliery
Aberdare Extended Colliery was again idle to-day, owing to the men's grievance that broken skips in use at the mine reduce their earnings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wasted Wealth Coal and Its Uses Huge Losses
A great deal of attention is being paid by scientists throughout the world to the question of making use of coal by-products, but these are not…
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