Miners' Council Hopes to Make Peace with Engine-drivers Threatened Split Miners' Council Gets an Ultimatum Hopes of Peace Royal Commission Surrounded at Cessnock Kerbstone Hearing
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 5
A break-away from the Combined Unions Group by the engine-drivers and firemen, mechanics, deputies and engineers, is imminent, involving serious industrial possibilities. Although miners deny that there is any disagreement, and that an ultimatum has been given to them, it was learned from an authoritative source to-day that the engine-drivers had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Commission Inspection of Collieries
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 9
Mr. Justice Davidson, Mr. H. W. Gepp, and Dr. Keith Ward, members of the Coal Commission, made inspections of Aberdare Extended and Ayrfield No. 2…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Picketing Collieries
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 9
About six pickets stopped the engine-drivers going to Richmond Main Colliery yesterday morning. Thu pickets met in the vicinity of the Pelaw Main bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In Camera Colliery Staffs Meet
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 3
The adjourned meeting of the Colliery Staffs' Association was held at West Maitland this afternoon. Proceedings were conducted in camera…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Crisis
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 13
Sir,—At the present period of the coal turmoil, may I suggest a plan whereby a satisfactory arrangement may be entered into between the mine-owners and the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →BLOCKADE? Richmond Main Colliery "Starve Them Out"
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 3
A combined meeting of Richmond Main, Pelaw Main, and Stanford Merthyr Miners' Lodges decided yesterday afternoon to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Misrepresentation" Miners' Officials Complain. Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 9
"It is greatly to be regretted," said Messrs. D. Rees and D. J. Davies, senior officials of the Miners' Federation, to-night, "that papers such as the "Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Miners Management Committee Meet on
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 3
Committee of Management of the northern mines will meet at Newcastle Trades Hall at 9.30 a.m. on Tuesday. Committee appointed to inquire into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Federation Repudiates Other Bodies Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 9
The Central Council of the Miners' Federation sat all day considering the decision of yesterday's Combined Unions' meeting, and the attitude of the engine-drivers…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. Batey's Statement Demand by Miners' Lodge
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 9
Mr. G. W, Batey, General Secretary of the Collieries' Staff Association, has received the following letter from Mr. J. Logan, Secretary of Hebburn No. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners' Proposals Unacceptable to Owners Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 9
In a letter to the State Treasurer, Mr. Stevens, to-day regarding the terms submitted on behalf of the mining aliens, Mr. C. M. McDonald, the Chairman of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →No General Strike Mine-workers Warned Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 9
A warning to members at present working not to be stampeded into a general strike is contained in the following statement, which was jointly issued tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fall Down Hold Coal Lumper Injured. Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 11
Henry Deards (36), coal-lumper, of Mortdale, was working on the steamer Berrima, at the Central Wharf, Dawes Point, Into to-night, when he missed his stop, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Governments Duty" Mayor's Statement on Coal Position Resumption Schemes
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 3
"The serious conditions existing in this district resultant upon the present coal crisis, and the misery and suffering of innocent people due to the same cause, should arouse the attention of the Government to a sense of its responsibility to immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tense Feeling Safety-men in Mines Abermain No. 2 INCIDENT
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 3
Feeling on the South Maitland coalfields against the safety-men at work at the various collieries is daily becoming more tense…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Extension Miners' Council Decision General Strike Not Approved Mayor of Newcastle's Proposal Supported By Mr. Lang SYDNEY
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 9
Although the outlook for peace has not improved, it is clear that for the present, at all events, there is not to the any extension of the trouble involving the engine-drivers and other workers in the mines…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Work at the Collieries
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 June 1929 · page 5
Ton days constituted full time at the unassociated northern collieries for the fortnight ended on Saturday, one day having been lost through the holiday on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Coal Export
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 June 1929 · page 4
Colonel C. D. W. Rankin reported in Brisbane last week that he had completed arrangements for the export of coal from Urangan extending over the next three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Does the Miners' Federation Rule?
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 June 1929 · page 4
DEVELOPMENTS this week will show whether the Miners' Federation or the Councils of Action, formed on the coalfields, control the miners. The public, so far, has been by no means one-sided in its view of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eight Hours' Act British Miners' Attitude London
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 June 1929 · page 5
Mr. Herbert Smith, President of the Miners' Federation, officially denies that the miners are demanding the instant repeal of the Eight Hours Act…
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