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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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“There is a very definite move for a 40-hour week,” said Judge Drake-Brockman in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day when Mr. J. E. Cassidy,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →A machine which, it is hoped, will ultimately lead to the complete elimination of the coal dust nuisance in mines, has been devised by the Superintendent of Hebburn Ltd. (Mr. S. McKensey) who is a member of the Royal Commission on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"John Darling mine is idle," said Mr. Cassidy, K.C. (for the coalowners) resuming his address in the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A touch of aesthetics will be added to Newcastle Railway Station on April 16 when the new double-breasted, gold-braided uniforms for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the monthly meeting of the Abermain No. 1 Miner's Lodge, it was resolved that the contribution for medical attention to cavilled-out members and their…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Northern Miners' Management Board will meet on Monday, April 17, when the report of the executive on the new building proposal will be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →That the opinion of the rank and file of Hebburn No. 2 Miners' Lodge should be obtained on the question of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →When a Jewish refugee on the Nieuw Holland asked the purser to place a heavy parcel in the ship's safe for the voyage to Australia, that official was very cautious,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Faced with a serious food shortage when their craft ran out of coal off uninhabited Amsterdam Island, midway between South America and Australia, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pelaw Main Colliery was idle to-day owing to a dispute with the wheelers. The men turned out to work but returned home…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Work at the collieries will cease un Thursday, with the afternoon shift, and will be resumed on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Matters in respect to the conduct of the ballot for one of the official positions in the Northern Miners' Federation will be the subject of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners employed it Wongawilli colliery were forced to return home to-day. On reaching the mine to begin work they found that a large fall of stone oil…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Described as a promising step toward the eradication of the coal dust nuisance in mines, a method developed by Mr. S. McKensey, who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney county councillors to-day contended that increases in the price of coal for the council's £51,0000 annual contract were an unjustifiable…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →For the second time during the sittings of the Commission inquiring into Health and Safety in Mines, an accident occurred on the day an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Northern Miners' President (Mr. T. Hoare) said to-day that conferences in regard to outstanding disputes would take place with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Carrington branch of the Australian Labour Party has decided to protest to the Premier. (Mr. B. S. B. Stevens) against the proposed new coal-loading…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blow-outs in the trailing cable at Abermain No. 2 colliery had been recorded in the mine books simply as faulty cables, a shiftman…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Buried for 12 hours, Jack McCarthy, 69, timberman, was not free late to-night, but was still conscious and joking gamely with…
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