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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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The vote of miners being taken at the Adamstown aggregate meeting today. Those shown with heir hands up are voting in favor of a stoppage. The meeting carried the strike proposal by almost a two-to-one majority…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' aggregate meetings throughout the Northern District to-day are likely to be well attended. The recommendation of the Central Council for a general strike is expected to find opposition. Reports indicate that in some quarters the voting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—To remain in the sidelines would cost our union £5000 a week in strike pay to our members involved or else that we assisted to smash trade unionism by sending our members back to work without basic unions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE Gas Company had coal stocks to last 10 or 11 days, the Manager (Mr. A. Spence) said last night. Gas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By 1472 votes to 1116, aggregate meetings of miners on the northern coalfields today voted in favor of a general stoppage throughout the State. The two biggest attended…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—"I appeal most earnest to miners at their meetings to-morrow decisively to reject any proposed to stop work at this juncture." the President of the A.C.T.U. (Mr. Clarey) said to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Central Council of the Miners' Federation has closed the pits in New South Wales, but it cannot be happy about the small…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Results of the miners' aggregate meetings were an example of how a minority gets its way when the majority are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Picture shows the vote against the strike at Kurri Kurri—433 to 201 for rejection of the Miners' Federation Central Council's recommendation for strike. Right: The Northern President (Mr. Crook) makes a point…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Less than a third of the membership of the Miners' Federation in the three coalfield areas of New South Wales yesterday attended aggregate meetings to decide on a general strike. Out of a membership of nearly 15,000, only 4600 voted. At two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Even if the miners resumed work to-morrow and insisted on taking their holidays, as they had indicated there would be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., addressing a meeting of Kurri Kurri Retired Mine Pensioners, said that, notwith standing rumours, the Mine Pensions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HONGKONG.—While many flats are undamaged and untenanted, there is an acute housing problem in Hongkong—"0haai gum" (shoe gold) is the main reason. European essential workers are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AN ironical angle to the coal shortage is that the B.H.P. in Newcastle is almost the only Australian industry with plenty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway and tramway services will be cut by 20 per cent from to-morrow to save coal. Even if the miners resumed within a few days…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gas and electricity rationing will begin at midnight to-night The restrictions, especially for cooking, will be more severe an the electricity rationing in Sydney during the Bunnerong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation decided in Sydney yesterday not to extend the coal stoppage to other States. The General President (Mr. H. Wells) said last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ayrfield Colliery. non-Federation mine on the northern field, worked today, producing about 600 tons of coal. The mine worked part of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →LONDON, Dec. 5. A.A.P.—German obstruction, which was described by the French Minister of Industrial Production (M. Marcel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Dec. 5. A.A.P.—At the first meeting of the International Labour Office's Industrial Committee on Coalmining, Mr. R. James…
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