Coal Stack Only 30,000 Tons Left
Approximately, about 30,000 tons of coal remain in the Railway Commissioners' stack of coal at Bullock Island. It is estimated that this quantity will be…
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Mining & the mines, 1929
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24 Miners Killed German Pit Disaster Berlin, July 30
Twenty-four miners were killed, and it is feared that 12 others will not recover from their injuries, as a result of fire damp suddenly breaking out in a mine…
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The depletion of reserve stocks of coat at Newcastle is apparently not worrying the Railway Department or the Sydney Electricity Department…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A.W.U. HELPS Miners and Timber Men Compensation Gases
The Railway Workers' Industry Branch of the A.W.U. has decided to issue a 1s coupon to all its representatives to raise funds for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Rich Gold South Australian Field Adelaide
No payable ore has so far been found at Twigham's lode goldfields, near Mount Bryan, in the north of South Australia. According to the report of the Assistant…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"White Flag" Miners' Leaders on Compromise Vigorous Attack Engine-drivers' Organiser Criticised
In a statement on behalf of the Combined Mining Unions' committee, the President and Secretary (Messrs. D. Rees and D. Davies) attacked the organiser of the Engine-drivers' Union for issuing a statement advocating a compromise with the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Owners' Profits Question of Deductions Coal Commission's Decision Income Tax and Amortisation
The reserved decision of the Coal Commission on the question of "profit" allowed the deduction of income tax and disallowed any deduction for amortisation. The Northern Management Committee of the Miners…
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Sir,—In your columns of today I notice a Jotter by "Old Miner." I believe ho has got at the foundation of the present lockout. It the sliding scale were in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Powdered Coal
LONDON, Thursday.—The Swiftpool, a vessel of 9000 tons, the first British ship equipped to burn powdered fuel, instead of lump coal, proved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For Funds Miners' Collectors
The four collectors appointed by Cessnock vigilance committee to travel the north to solicit funds for the relief of families of locked-out miners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Support for Miners Muswellbrook Meeting
At the invitation of the citizens of Muswellbrook, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.P., and Mr. R. James, M.N.R., addressed a public meeting in the Muswellbrook School of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heaton Crossing Coal Company Helps
After years of agitation, Wallsend is at last to have a railway crossing at Heaton. The crossing, it is believed, will be an important factor in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Appeal Campaign for Relief Adamstown Lodges
At a combined meeting of Burwood and Shortland miners' lodges at Adamstown to-day. It was decided to canvass Lambton, New Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Commission Examining the Accounts Sydney
The Coal Commission, sat in camera again to-day, and when an adjournment was made until to-morrow morning the account of the Hetton-Bellbird Company…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Maitland District Warden's Court Coal and Shale Seekers Many Applications
Mr. G. James, Warden, president at the Warden's Court, at the East Maitland Courthouse, yesterday. Application was made by Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Compromise Issue Miners' Official Statement Reply to Mr. Sutherland Strong Disapproval of Utterance
Strong criticism of the recent statement made by Mr. H. Sutherland, State Organiser of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association, was contained in an official disclaimer issued yesterday at the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Enginemen's Wages Suggestion by Miners Denied What Sutherland Said Have to Accept Slight Reduction
An official of the Engine-drivers' Association (Mr. W. J. Carruthers) denied to-day that it had been suggested that the engine-drivers were seeking a compromise with coal-owners, provided they got an agreement that their rates were not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Iron Ore B.H.P. Coy.'s Electrification Scheme at Iron Knob
The completion of the scheme for the electrification of the handling appliances at Iron Knob and Whyalla lends particular interest to the iron ore milling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mines a Broader View Need for Reconstruction
Mr. C. E. D. Meares, General Manager of the Producers' Distributing Society Ltd., discusses in the article below the need for reconstruction in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Coal Crists
Sir.—When the biography of some present-day craft union officials is written, posterity will realise there is more than one Judas. Their minds will wander along…
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