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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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LONDON, Monday: Imperial Chemical Industries announces a £10,000,000 development scheme, which is described as the greatest single Industrial project launched by British industry. The company has bought more than five square miles of land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—The miners' strike has held up the ballot count in the Miners' Federation annual elections. This is because, without coal, there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →USE of water may have to be restricted in Newcastle to save coal. Prohibition on the use of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rank and file opinion among miners on the South Maitland coalfields is strongly in favor of a return to work as soon as possible. Although there is support for the demand by the Ironworkers' Union for recognition by the B.H.P., most miners favor resumption of work pending negotiations for settlement of the Steel Works dispute which led to a general stoppage in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Dec. 11. A.A.P.—Australian, Canadian, and American delegates to the Coalmining Committee of the I.L.O. to-day objected to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said that if a scheme for the acquisition and distribution of coal were instituted the Commonwealth would be prepared to accept its share of financial commitments…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven thousand tons of gas coal held by the Railway Commissioner as a reserve at Port Waratah will be transferred to Sydney gas companies. The first train load of 300 tons leave Newcastle to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Workman at the Port Waratah end of The Dyke removing slack coal which has been "at grass" for years transport to gas companies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Dec. 12. A.A.P.—The I.L.O. Coalmines Committee completed its work with the adoption of eight principles for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE the Miners' Federation called a general strike last Monday, one small pit on the Newcastle field—Glenbrook—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Proposals by the Miners' Federation, now subject to discussions between the miners and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MORE than 4000 tons of valuable Maitland field coal urgently needed for gas purposes has been lying in waggons at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: Strike pay for the 14,500 miners now idle has not yet been considered, said the Miners' General Secretary (Mr. G. W. S…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →SYDNEY.—An undertaking that the State Government will next year introduce a bill virtually providing for nationalisation of coal mines, will be given to a meeting of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reserve coal stocks in hand at the abattoirs would probably last six weeks, the General Manager (Mr. Lawson) told Greater Newcastle Council's Abattoir Committee last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Thursday.—The coal position in Queensland is deteriorating and the troopships Canberra and Katoomba may be held up at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the contractors at the Muswellbrook open-cut mine (Mr. Stan Theiss) denied that any men were suspended there for refusing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) last night denied a report that he had promised members of the Central Council of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The steel and coal strikes are considered almost at an end. The miners' Central Council is expected to-morrow to order a resumption of work at the mines on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE 1932 Coal Industry Bill, which passed both Houses of the State Parliament but never became law, provided for virtual…
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