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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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Opinions are divided on the Northern Coalfields as to the outcome of the miners' aggregate meetings on Wednesday. A big majority is opposed to a strike, but is prepared to be influenced by the views of their leaders, which will be expressed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the meeting of the seamen to-day, it was decided to call out the crews of all vessels under the jurisdiction of the union, thus involving the North Coast and South Coast boats, the vessels running…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Main colliery was idle yesterday owing to a breakdown to the machinery. It is expected that repairs will be effected in time for a resumption of work…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Work was resumed at a large number of the associated and non-associated mines in the Northern field yesterday, following the usual New Year cessation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Are the members of the Coal and Shale Workers' Federation going to submit to the same delusions, and be led like sheep to slaughter, in the same fiasco…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The two Kurri collieries. Pelaw Main and Richmond Main, were again working to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The meeting of the National Executive of the Mine Owners' Federation, which had adjourned from before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An address on the proposed stoppage of work in northern coalmines will be given by the miners' secretary (Mr. W. Orr) from Station 2UE from 7.30…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the conference between the councilors of the Miners' Federation and the State Labour Party to-day, the miners' leaders gave an undertaking that if the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle Deputies aid Shotfirers' Association at a special general meeting last night decided to dissociate itself from the resolution moved by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation to-morrow night will broadcast the reasons why the miners' officials decided to be involved in the strike, over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Official returns of the trade at the port of Newcastle during December, made available at Newcastle Custom-house yesterday, disclose that coal shipped to places…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cessnock Mineworkers' Area Committee, at its meeting last night, was addressed by a delegate from the Newcastle branch of the Seamen's Union. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The published statements of mine managers and others on the decision of the mining unions to recommend a general stoppage show the necessity for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-morrow about 9000 miners on the Northern Coalfields will vote for or against the general stoppage proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 200 tons of coal which had been smouldering for two days following spontaneous combustion in a coal silo at the Sulphide Corporation's content plant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"I would issue a word of warning to the miners' leaders that they should not place their members in a position which will undoubtedly affect them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Representatives of the Australian Council of Trade-unions will attend a conference in Sydney to-day, the Emergency Committee having received a telegram from the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—At the aggregate meetings we are to decide the questions of a general stoppage of all the coal mines, until such time as the licensing clauses of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TO-DAY members of the Miners' Federation and of associated unions decided emphatically in many cases that a strike was not the best way to help the seamen. The voting so far leaves no doubt, although all results are not…
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