Intensive Mining Changes in Method of Work
In evidence before the British Royal Commission on Safety in Coalmines, the Mineworkers' Federation suggested changes in the method of work. The view of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1937
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Mine Safety Detecting Gas On Surface Sydney Engineer's Plan Sydney
The time has arrived to abandon testing for dangerous gases in mines by sending men down with canaries in one hand and a lamp in the other, said a Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ship Holed by Mine British Liner on Spanish Coast London
With 300 passengers aboard the 10,609 tons steamer Llandovery Castle struck a mine off Cape Cerbere. where the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Industrial News Many Disputes Considered By Miners' Committee Wallarah and Dudley
The special sitting of the Northern Management Committee of the Miners Federation held at the Newcastle Trades Hall yesterday, did not conclude until 6…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →ENGINEERING Current Science Notes Mining As a Career
At the present time there is danger of an acute shortage of skilled workmen and officials in the coalfields, but, whilst It may not be easy to repair the deficiency…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Gold and Minerals The Industry's Progress Reports From Fields (Contributed.)
A writer once stated that goldmining had "precipitated Australia into nationhood." Since the days when the above statement…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Two Killed Police Fire Into Crowd Attacked by Miners' Wives Budapest, February 24
Two were killed and three wounded when gendarmes fired a volley into a croup of miners and women to-day. The crowd was demonstrating in support of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bellbird, Pelton Two Collieries Idle
Bellbird colliery was idle yesterday over a dispute concerning the erection of balks. A deputation met the Manager yesterday, and a meeting will be held…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Dudley Colliery Visit of Inspectors
The District Check Inspector of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Hoare) informed the Northern Executive of the Miners' Federation yesterday that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Demand for Coal in Chile
The Chilean Manufacturers' Association—the most influential organisation in national industry—has given official cognisance to the complaints of the scarcity…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Return to Coal? British Merchant Ships London
Examination of the question whether more coal should be used by merchant shipping, is being speeded up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine or a Torpedo British Ship Holed Off Spanish Coast London
The commander of the Llandovery Castle (Captain Aylen) says it was either a mine or a torpedo which struck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →C. M. McDONALD Dead Great Figure in Coal Industry Sydney
Mr. Charles Mylne McDonald, Chairman of the Northern Colliery Owners' Federation, died in Molong…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Division of Labour How Work Is Distributed In Britain Fewer in Mining Industry
Some, striking changes in the distribution of employment in Britain during the last 13 years (from which may be inferred the expansion or contraction of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Struck Mine Ship With 300 Aboard Launches Stand by Passengers Danced All Night (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, February 25
With 300 passengers aboard the 10,609 tons British steamer Liandovery Castle struck a mine off Cape Creus, where the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In Barricaded Mine 30 Men Stage Stay-in Strike at North Wallarah Took Explosives Below Object To Order To Increase Output
Determined to resist an attempt to speed up production beyond what they consider a reasonable degree, 30 miners are staging a "stay-in" strike at the North Wallarah colliery, near Swansea…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Aurie's Star In Newmarket All the Way Victory From Pamelus Hua's Sire's Produce Stakes Success Essendon Stakes to Gold Rod Melbourne
Favourite since his runaway Oakleight Plate win. Aurie's Star to-day justified the confidence shown in him in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington, when he won from the unlucky Pamelus and Regular Bachelor, M. McCarten rode…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bellbird Colliery Resumes
Bellbird miners resumed work to day. The assurance was given at a meeting of the lodge yesterday that the management would arrange an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kurri Mines
The two Kurri collieries, Pelaw Main and Richmond Main, resumed work to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →North Wallarah Miners and Their Friends
Top: North Wallarah miners reunited with their friends and relatives at Swansea Hall on Saturday night, after they had come to the surface from their voluntary "stay-in." Lower: Messrs "Bondy" Hoare and J. Scanlon, with relatives of the miners. Conferences between the executive officers and the women gathered at the mine were frequent…
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