To Keep Miners Employed Aberdare Move
Proposals for the retention of the men who are threatened with retrenchment at Aberdare Colliery are to be placed before the Superintendent of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1938
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Richmond Main Mine Idle To-day
The Richmond Main Colliery was idle to-day owing to a dispute over a pit-bottom worker. It is expected that the matter will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disaster of 1889 At Hamilton Colliery To-day's Anniversary
To-day is the anniversary of the disaster at the Hamilton colliery on June 22, 1889. Eleven lives were lost. The mine was owned by the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Accident At Scene Of Coal Fall
The spot where the two Harrower brothers were buried by the coal fall at the Aberdare Central Colliery yesterday was the scene of another…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Riding on Skips at Mine Evidence in Claim for Compensation
Giving evidence from his bed in Newcastle Hospital to-day, a man told the Workers' Compensation Commission that as far as he knew it was a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hazardous Mine Rescue One Man Saved, But Brother Killed in Fall Miners Face Danger at Aberdare Central Seven Hours Before Injured Man Freed Manager Has Legs Broken in Second Fall
James Harrower, 42, married, of Aberdare, was killed, but his brother Peter, 48, married, was rescued in a fall of coal at Aberdare Central Colliery yesterday. Rescuers faced continual danger. The manager of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Campaign Barrier District in Favour Plan for Added Credits Sydney
The Miners' Federation Was informed to-day that a meeting of the Barrier District, attended by about 1000 miners, by a large majority adopted the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Oil From Coal Plants in Britain Labour Party's Advocacy London, June 21
Stressing that all the fighting services require oil, for which there is no alternative, a report issued by the Labour party urges the Government to establish 12…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fixed Price To Save Coal Industry Cessnock Plan Government Will Be Asked to Act
A compulsory selling price for coal, fixed by the Government, is the proposal of the President of the Cessnock Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Colliery Mechanics Stanford Main No. 1 Conference
The President (Mr. T. G. Moran) and the General Secretary (Mr. H. C. Morton), of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association met the Manager of Stanford…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fixed Coal Prices Appointment of Board Urged
The appeal by the Cessnock Chamber of Commerce to the Government to intervene to prevent a strike in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Conference on Aberdare Pit No Comment by Miners
Miners' leaders refused to comment to-day on the outcome of a conference at Cessnock between the Superintendent of Caledonian Collieries, Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Men Back at Work Cessnock No. 2 Mine Fire
Only 10 employees were without work to-day owing to the fire which yesterday made necessary the scaling of a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners' Ballot for Big Convention Support From Federal Members
Northern miners who were working to-day balloted for the election of nine representatives who will attend the national convention in August,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mine Fire Portion of Cessnock No. 2 Section Quickly Sealed
A fire was discovered yesterday morning in No. 2 tunnel—the smaller section—of Cessnock No. 2 colliery. The section was at once…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Many Changes How Coal Passed from Suburbs Industries Replaced It
Time brings many changes, Nowhere is this more noticeable than at Lambton and Adamstown, once dependent on coalmining for their existence. To-day in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Stocks Information Helped Leaders Agreement with N.Z. SYDNEY
It was ascertained to-night that the leaders of the Miners' Federation have decided on plans for a Commonwealth-wide strike…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Strike Plans Miners Tell Ms.H.R. Labour Support Delegation Visits Canberra CANBERRA
Members of the Federal Parliamentary Labour party were told to-day by Miners' Federation delegates that the miners had…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners' Ballot National Convention Delegates
The ballot for the representatives to attend the national convention of the Miners' Federation was taken in the Northern mining district yesterday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Trade "No New Avenues of Consumption" Use of Brown Coal for Gas
A Newcastle business man connected with the gas and coal industry expressed surprise yesterday at the apparent indifference of the general community to the…
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