Eight Mines Idle in North To-day
Eight collieries were idle on the Cessnock and Newcastle fields to-day. Stoppages occurred at Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1940
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Industrial News 15 NOMINATE Northern Miners' Check Inspector
The Returning-officer of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation (Mr. L. Halliday) yesterday announced the receipt of the following nominations for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pensions for Miners Commission to Sit in February SYDNEY
A Royal Commission to inquire into the question of pensions for mine employees over 60 will be set up this week. It will hold its first sitting early in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Uniform Week in Mines Engineers Endorse Campaign Mechanics Will Organise
The decision of the Coalfields engineers yesterday to press for a uniform 40-hour week, with no overtime and no week-end work,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hours Strike Issue South Coast Mine Idle Union Sees Threat of Free Labour Sydney
A strike has developed at Nattai-Bulli colliery, on the South Coast. It has features about which the Miners' Federation is deeply…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallarah Mine Idle
Wallarah Colliery did not work yesterday. Members of the combined unions held a meeting and decided not to work as a protest against the staff doing a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Arbitration Court and Miners
The future attitude of the miners to the Arbitration Court will be decided at the aggregate meetings to be held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nazi Mines Swept From Seas London, December 27
Splendid work is being done for the Grand Fleet by the minesweepers. Men who served a sea on this work during the last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Three Mines Idle Likely to Work To-day
The winding engine-drivers of Aberdare Central colliery declined to work yesterday and the pit was thrown idle. They returned home as a protest against…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners' Aggregate Meetings Will be Held on February 1 in North and South Trouble to Come to Head Soon, Says Mr. Orr Sydney
Aggregate meeting of miners were fixed to-day as follows:— Western district, January 31; Northern district, except Muswellbrook and Gunnedah, also Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Weston Miners' Nominations
Nominations for the Vice-president of the Western Miners' Federation and four for the position of Central Council representative from outlying lodges have been…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Two Lithgow Mines Idle Lithgow
The fall of tops on the transport road at Hermitage colliery resulted in the mine being idle to-day. The management stated that since there was no definte…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Group of Southern Miners on Strike Sydney
Firms which obtain coal from Nattai- Bulli mine, where 30 members of the Miners' Federation are on strike, are to be approached by union official…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Creek Pumped Dry Fire at Ayrfield No. 2 Mine
When timber in the month of the main shaft at Ayrfield No. 2 colliery, where a fire was extinguished on Tuesday, again caught fire early yesterday morning. Kurri…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Increase in Gunnedah Coal Prices Permitted Canberra
An order issued by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner to-day permits increases in the price of coal sold by Gunnedah Colliery Co. Ltd. To the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →10 Aggregate Meetings in the North All Mine Unions to Combine
Ten aggregate meetings of mine-workers will be held on the Newcastle and Maitland fields next Wednesday, followed by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hard Fight at Teralba Mine Menaced, 600 Props Burnt Bush Fires Active Again
Stockton Borehole colliery, near Teralba, was threatened for nearly four hours yesterday by the advance of a mile-wide bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners' Mass Meetings Dates Altered Slightly North to Meet on January 31 SYDNEY
The Secretary of the Combined Mining Unions Committee (Mr. W. Orr) announced to-night that the dates for miners' aggregate…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mine Mechanisation
Mechanisation of the collieries in New South Wales is steadily advancing, the Chairman of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company (Mr. H. de Y…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →New Uses for Coal
Three officers of the State Department of mines are engaged at the Fuel Research Station at Greenwich, England, in a programme of research to…
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