Industrial News Miners' Federation Acting Vice-presidency
The ballot for the office of acting vice-president of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation will be taken to-day. The successful member will occupy the…
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Mining & the mines, 1936
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Campaign Against Small Mines Conference at Kurri
A largely attended meeting of representatives of coalfields organisations at the Kurri end of the field was conducted at Kurri School of Arts last…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners' Poll Held To-day Pit Top Ballot
The ballot for the election of an acting-vice-president was taken by Northern Federation mining lodges to-day. There are 15 candidates. Pits not…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Workers' Claims Compensation Commission Several Mining Cases
After evidence yesterday in the case in which Albert Howell claimed £3/18/7 a week from May 17, 1935, from the Stockton Borehole Collieries Ltd., as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Oil, World's Fluid Gold (By O. Schreiber, President of the Trade Union Secretaries' Association)
The war in Abyssinia is proving that oil is now as great a national necessity as gold ever was—or a greater one'—and that for all purposes, in war and peace times, the Australian nation must have control of its local production. King George's speech at the opening of the new British Parliament on December 3 last…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hebburn No. 1 MINERS Coal-cutting Machines
The question of the reintroduction of a coal-cutting machine into a section of the pit and payment for the work formed the subject of a discussion at a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Deputation to Lyons Miners on Oil From Coal
The acting Northern president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. Kellock) has been Informed through Mr. R. James, M. H. R., that the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Kurri Mines Working
The two Kurri colliers, Pelaw Main and Richmond Main, were working to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Mines Policy
Delegates from Newcastle district mining lodges conferred on the small mines question last night at the Trades Hall. It was decided to recommend…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Price of Gold
The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended March 20 is at the rate of approximately £7/19/3 per…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners' Claims Compensation Commission Newcastle Sittings
A verdict for the respondent company was returned in the case in which Henry Hunter claimed compensation from J. and A. Brown Abermain-Seaham Collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£75 Compensation for Married Son Father's Death in Colliery
While working in Pelaw Main Colliery on February 18, 1935. Thomas Glendinning, a miner, of Pelaw Main, was killed by a fall of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Struck by Horse in Mine Compensation Claim
Alleging that he had contracted a hernia after being struck by the limbers on a horse in Dudley Colliery on August 1. Joseph Millward, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Unsafe Conditions" Southern Miners Protest SYDNEY
At a meeting of the Southern Miners' Delegate Board a resolution was carried protesting against "unsafe conditions mine workers are being called upon to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Northern Mines Conference of Lodges Amendment of Act Sought
A conference of the delegates of the whole of the mining lodges in the Newcastle area was held at the Newcastle Trades Hall last night. The Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Direct Tax on Port" Railway Coal Charges Port Finances
"At least sixpence a ton of the present charge of nine-pence for loading coal at the cranes represents a direct tax…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold and Minerals Future Position Reports From Fields (Contributed.)
The future use of monetary gold does not appear to be made easier of solution by the recent conclusions of the several authoritative bodies who met to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal Petrol Co. Federal Government Inquiry Mr. Rogers in Newcastle
The Commonwealth Government's Fuel Adviser (Mr. L. J. Rogers), who is visiting Newcastle, spent yesterday in conference with the Board of Coal Petrol Pty…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners' Federation
Mr. R. James, M.H.R., has informed the Acting President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. Kellock) that the Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) has agreed to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hill End Colliery Further Subsidences
As usually happens after heavy rains, there have been further subsidences over the old workings of Hill End colliery at East Cessnock. The Mines Department…
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