Coal Washing New Automatic Device Pit Equipment
Among recent British colliery equipments is a patent automatic coal-washer with a washing box capacity of 60 tons per hour, this being…
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Mining & the mines, 1929
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Aberdare Miners Will Stand by Combined Unions Committee Council of Action Rebuffed Aberdare Meeting Poorly Attended Unrest at Hebburn Threat Against Colliery Staffs' Association Engine-drivers Meet To-night
Whether the Miners' Federation will be able to discipline the militants on the coalfields, was the aspect of the coal dispute on which attention was concentrated in Newcastle to-day. Demands of the militants, for an explanation at mass meetings, why the Combined Unions' Committee and the Miners' Central Council repudiated the actions of those responsible for mass…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Engine-men to Meet Reply of the Miners SYDNEY
Mr. J. T. Atkins, the general secretary of the Engine-drivers' and Firemen's Association, returned to-day from Canberra, where he had a long…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Chaos Industrial Messiah Wanted SIR T. Henley's Speech
"We want a new industrial Messiah to save us. Would I were sole Commissioner. I would soon settle the coal problem," said Sir Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The People's Pights Coal Position Discussed Sir Thomas Henley's Address
Sir Thomas Henley, M.P., who was the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Merewether Brotherhood, held in Newcastle on Saturday evening, gave an address on "The Present Day Coal Trouble, and The Way Out."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mines Inquiry First Newcastle Sitting Opened Evidence Begun Masses of Statistics Produced
As soon as the Royal Commission on coal opened its first Newcastle sitting this afternoon, an immediate start with the evidence was made. An officer of the Labor and Industry Department (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Settlement Coal Trouble Drags on Mr. McDonald States His Case. Sir Thomas Henley's "Way Out"
The week-end did not contribute any evidence to suggest the early settlement of the coal trouble. Meantime, southern pits are working full time. The question of picketing continues to be discussed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Mines Regulations Deputation to Minister Sydney
Mr. G. Booth, M.P., and Mr. R. James, M.H.R., called upon Mr. R. W. D. Weaver, Minister for Mines, to-day. They said they had been informed that certain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Abermain Death in Colliery
Mr. Morgan O'Connell, an overman employed at Abermain Colliery, collapsed in the main road of Abermain No. 1, yesterday afternoon, shortly after 2 p.m., and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Coal Crists
Sir,—The decisions of the Central Council of the Coal Miners' Federation against a general strike is supported by Mr. Lang. This needs comment. Recent events on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Meeting Decision is Unlikely
Inquiries of the special committee appointed to investigate charges against miners on the coalfields and against members of other unions for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Picket Shifts Constant Watch at Hebburn No. 2 All Quiet Miners' Management Committee Meets
A special meeting of the Northern Miners' Management Committee was held to-day to consider measures to ensure that the undertaking given to the engine-drivers shall be observed. The President of the Federation (Mr. D. Rees) was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owners' Leader Presents Proprietors' Side at Coal Inquiry McDONALD in Box History of Increases in Wages "Constant Strikes" How Wages Affected Selling Price of Coal Awards in War Period
The chairman of the Northern Collieries' Association (C. M. McDonald), entered the witness box at the Royal Commission, inquiring into the coal industry at Newcastle Court-house to-day. After the presentation of statistics had been completed, the chairman of the Commission (Mr. Justice Davidson) said that the Commission wanted to hear from both side their views of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commission's Big Task All Phases of Coal Industry Evidence at Newcastle Sitting Figures Reveal Scope of Inquiry
Documentary evidence concerning selling prices of coal, increases in wage rates, alterations to working conditions, and the annual outputs of the New South Wales fields, occupied the attention of the Royal Commission appointed to report…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Killingworth Colliery
Sir,—I wish to correct a statement appearing in your paper of to-day, to the effect that deputies at Killingworth colliery had for some time been sending…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Crisis Picketing Continued Hebburn No. 2 Mine
Under the arrangements arrived at by Hebburn No. 2 Miners' Lodge at a meeting at Weston, on Monday, picketing was taken up yesterday in three shifts,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Council
Internal Federation business occupied the northern miners' management committee at its sitting to-day. Officials at the luncheon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Crisis
Sir,—As all this money has belt spent upon a full enquiry into the mining conditions, on behalf of the miners in answer to their demands, and they are still…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Passing By
There is gold in the Gulf Stream, though, as the company promoters would say, there is no money in it. M Claude, the French engineer, who is working out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imported Coal ADELAIDE
Three thousand tons of coal from abroad will be landed for Adelaide Electric Supply Company to-night. New Lambton Lecture.—An…
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