Miners Concerned at Broken Working Time
A holiday but nowhere to go! This is the position which will confront many miners on the Coalfields on Monday. They cannot work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1940
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Price of Gold Sydney
The Commonwealth Bank to-day fixed the price for gold lodged at the Mint yesterday at £10/12/9 per oz fine. Sovereigns are £2/8/11…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Action Endorsed by Board Wollongong
The Southern Miners' Delegate Board today endorsed the action of the Wongawilli miners in ceasing work because the management declined to make up the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mine Union Delegates Hear Leaders Conference on Policy Programme
Delegates from Northern Miners' lodges and from other mining unions in the North, at a conference at Newcastle Trades Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Be Idle on Monday All Mines in North Support Enginemen's Protest
All collieries in the Northern district will be idle on Monday in support of engine-drivers and firemen employed by South Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →How Mines Worked
None of the big mines exceeded five days in the first working period of 1940. The holidays ended on January 7, and the majority of the pits resumed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collieries in North Idle To-day 10,000 Men Are Affected
More than 10,000 mine workers throughout the northern field were idle to-day, while the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Spread Into Old Mine Near Bloomfield Main Proto Apparatus Used
A timber decking of a disused pump shaft over the workings of old Bloomfield colliery, on the Mt. Vincent-road, near East Maitland, caught alight on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mines Will Be Idle To-day Engine-drivers' Stop-work Meeting
The large collieries on the Northern field will be idle to-day. A stop-work meeting of the engine-drivers has been called to enable members of the union…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aggregate Meetings This Week Miners' Conference Says Peace is Impossible Irritation Tactics May Be Resorted to
Peace in the industry was impossible under existing conditions, stated a resolution adopted in Newcastle on Saturday by the conference of mining unions, which discussed the plan of action to enforce the 40-hour week…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stole Colliery Hose
When he went to the home of Matthew Hopkinson at Kitchener to question him about the theft of a length of hose from Aberdare Central colliery on December…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Whitburn Colliery Reopens After 10 Years
After being closed for 10 years, Whitburn colliery, at Greta has re-opened. It was closed owing to the lack of trade. Late last year a tributing party led by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Relief for Hebburn Miners Sydney
A conference arranged for to-morrow between the Premier (Mr. A. Mair) and representatives of the miners to discuss relief for men laid off at Hebburn No. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wongawilli Mine Still Idle Wollongong
Wongawilli mine is still idle owing to a dispute regarding the deficiency of a working place…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Industrial News Tyldesley Colliery Idle for Day Lithgow
The Tyldesley colliery was idle to-day, owing to a dispute stated to be about seniority. Mr. C. Stewart, manager of the mine, said that the men held a lodge…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Price for Gold at Mint Sydney
The Commonwealth Bank will announce to-morrow the price to be paid for geld lodged at the Mint on Saturday. The price of sovereigns remains unchanged at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Idle Day for Mines Engineers Meet on
It is expected that all the mines in the north will again be idle next Monday, when the Amalgamated Engineers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal History Geologist Tells of Resources North's Twelve Seams
"It is one of the curiosities of technology that there has never been a general definition given to coal," the Government Geologist (Mr. L. J. Jones) told…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prepare for Mass Meetings Mining Union Leaders Uniform Week Campaign Sydney
The executives of the combined mining unions will meet on Wednesday morning to decide dates on which aggregate meetings should…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners Support Pensioners
The Northern executive of the Miners' Federation has agreed to support the old age pensioners in their claim for an increase in the allowance…
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