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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

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Coal Strike Affects Singleton. SINGLETON,Wednesday

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 9 November 1916 · page 2

Thirty hands at the Rosedale Colliery are out in connection with the strike. The Singleton Gas Company has about threee weeks supply of coal on hand. It…

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Coal Strike No Fresh Developments. Harbor Full of Idle Shipping. SYDNEY,Wednesday

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 9 November 1916 · page 2

There were no further development to-day with respect to the coal crisis Transports are being bunkered at Newcastle and Sydney in which work the…

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Coal Strike. No Sign of Settlement. Ferry Service Affected. SYDNEY.Thursday

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 10 November 1916 · page 2

There are no [?] development with respect to the strike. Ferry service proprietors have been warned to [?] their time tables as…

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Late Telegrams Coal Strike. Other Mining Industries Jeopardised. Tasmania Nearly lsolated. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 11 November 1916 · page 2

The cutting off of the coal supplies from New South Wales fields will shortiy have a serious affect on the general mining industry of the Commonwealth…

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No Loading of Wheat. Owing to Coal Strike SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 11 November 1916 · page 2

In consequence of the coal strike inructions were issued to all distriets toay to stop the loading of wheat, wheber for shipment of locat use…

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Coal Strike. More Men Out of Employment. Coke Works Close Down. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Monday 13 November 1916 · page 2

A number of maners lodges have approved of the recommendation of the Delegate Board of the Colliery Employecs' Moderation that coal lying at…

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The Coal Strike

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 November 1916 · page 2

The coal strike is still, and doing more harm every day. Eight hundred men were paid off at the Newcastle steel works on Friday, and…

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The Coal Crisis Serious Situation. Important Developments Likely This Week. Is Coal Black. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 14 November 1916 · page 2

Mr. Willis, secretary of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation stated today that he had received a repetition of the request from three out of five…

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Coal for Transports. Miners Will Not Obtain or Remove. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 15 November 1916 · page 2

A Newcastle telegram says that by a [?] majority, the miners' lodges in the nothern coal fields decired not to take any part in obtaining or removing coal…

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The Coal Strike

Manilla Express · Wednesday 15 November 1916 · page 2

There appears to be little possibility of the Federal or any of the S[?]e Governments inter[?]ning in the coa[?] strike. As both the min[?]r and…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 15 November 1916 · page 6

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh street Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with the…

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The Strike May Spread to Railway Service. Over "Black" Coal. Miners Agreed Not to Strike During War. State Ownership Demanded. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 15 November 1916 · page 2

Considerable apprehension is felt in the Railway Department at the threat to declare all coal "black," as if it includes coal already delivered to the…

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Black Coal. No Action Owing to Compulsory Conference. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 16 November 1916 · page 2

In view of fact that he had received notice to attend the compulsory conference in Melbourne, Mr. Willis, secretary of the Coal and Shale…

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Coal Strike Government Takes Over Ferry Supplies. South Coast Distress. Probable Trouble on Railways. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 16 November 1916 · page 2

Another development in connection with the coal crisis occurred this morning, when the naval authorities notified the ferry companies in Sydney that all…

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The Coal Crisis. Sydney

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 17 November 1916 · page 2

Mr. Hughes has called a compulsory conference under the War precautions Act in connection with the coal crisis…

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Wool Sales Suspension. No Coal for Wool-Carrying Steamers. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 17 November 1916 · page 2

The suspension of the Sydney wo[?] sales has been brought about owing to the inability of buyers to secure freight, vessels being tied up in various ports of…

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The Tamworth Daily Observer Friday. November 17, 1916. Only Solution of the Coal Trouble

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 17 November 1916 · page 2

[?] will be a very poor tribute to the efficacy of the new National Government in this State if the coal strike is allowed to paralyse the industrial life of…

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State Parliament Questions Regarding Coal Strike. No Stale Action for the Present. Wheat Growing. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 17 November 1916 · page 2

In the Assembly to-day the Premier, in answer to questions relating to the coal strike, said that the conference arranged by the Federal Government was…

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Coal Strike No Agreement in Coal Crisis. Compulsory Conference. Government's Proposal Now Only Hope. SYDNEY

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 18 November 1916 · page 2

A Melbourne message says the conference is stiull proceeding. Both parties are conferring in private separately. The miners representatives made fresh…

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Offer of Proprietors. Not Acceptable to the Miners MAITLAND

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 18 November 1916 · page 2

The offer of coal proprietors at the Melbourne Conference is not received favorably by the leading Maitland miners. They say it is little, if any,…

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