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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The coal control regulations will be amended to provide for a coal commission of three members instead of a single commissioner, as at present. One member of the Commission will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cause of much unrest on the Coalfields, penalties in the annual leave provision of the miners' award will be discussed at a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The proposal of the board of management of the Northern Miners' Federation to create a third executive position —assistant vice-president—has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—When is the local reference board to get the power to give a decision without having to go to the Central Reference Board? Many lodges have appeals on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY Friday.—The Central Coal Reference Board refused to-day to alter the annual leave provisions of the award applying to the miners at Hebburn No. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harsh application of certain clauses, which were full of anomalies, and which dealt with penalties for holiday leave payments, was causing widespread…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Millers' lodges on the Coalfields are planning farewell functions to mark the retirement or hundreds of men who will go out of the industry next…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The No, 2 north-west section of Stanford Main No. 2 Colliery, where production ceased this week, may not be worked again…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners at Weston to-day appealed, to the Minister for Mines (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) to intervene in the dispute over the calculation of holiday pay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Retiring officials were re-elected to major positions in the half-yearly ballot of Aberdare Extended Miners' Lodge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward) said in the House of Representatives to-day that he would meet miners' representatives in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Slow progress is being made in reclaiming the section of Bellbird colliery where the fire occurred 18 years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—"Streamlined arbitration is being hamstrung on the coalfields. Disputes which should be settled in a day or two days are talking four or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: The Miners' Federation has been asked by the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beasley) to appoint a representative to the new Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.): With the breakdown of peace talks between coal-miners and the steel industry, the gravest industrial crisis yet threatens the United States war effort. Indicating that he intends to call out the army if the miners strike to-morrow (as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—Robert Thompson, 57, of Booval, and Robert Grieve, 58 of Ipswich, were killed yesterday when they were buried beneath 20 tony…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A stoppage in the coalmining industry on the northern field in a fortnight is threatened unless miners Rain. satisfaction from negotiations taking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—To guard against a stoppage of coal mines throughout the Commonwealth because of deductions from annual…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Elrington miners held a stop-work meeting to-day to discuss a dispute that developed on Friday. The matter was to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—The Victorian Government will meet district mining officials to-morrow to discuss a miners' pensions scheme similar to…
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