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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
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The South Wales miners at the recent conference passed a resolution demanding drastic action in regard to profiteering, and an immediate reduction in retail…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A mesage from Copenhagen states that the Swedish Press publishes a scheme to send Swedes to Germany and Austria to hew coal for Sweden. The undertaking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Saturday.-- The engineers, boilermakers and blacksmiths employed at White Bay steel works came out this morning. Only a few laborers remain at work. The tank…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday.-- The loco men have decided by a large majority to immediately declare a strike. After a meeting lasting four hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday. -- A public meeting of Forbes citizens pledged themselves to assist as volunteers for anything that might be requided to assist the Government in carrying…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Lismore Council meeting last night the Mayor said the Council had experienced difficulty in getting coal supplies. Arrangements had been made, however, to get 80 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Commissioners have sufficient coal in the yards and at grass to keep the railways going for six or eight weeks under normal requirements,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday. -- Only 23 trains ran from the suburbs this morning between 6 and 9 o'clock instead of 110. The number on ordinary days is 50. Small arms…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday. -- The Strikers' Defence Committee has declared all coal in the Railway Commissioners' service "Black."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Two hundred and fifty men have gone on strike at Mouramba Coy's Nymagce mine on the question of overtime payment…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yorkshire miners, by a large majority, rejected the proposal for peace by negotiation, and instructed their delegates at Friday's conference to oppose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Members of the East Greta and Aberdare branch of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, employed on the Maitland coalfield…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In view of the special appeal to be made by the ''War Chest" next month, the committee of the "Old Gold and Silver War Fund"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The whole of the East Greta railway has ceased, the men employed by the company having left work in a body. This stopped all the coal traffic as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- The Government declares the card system is only an excuse for the stoppage of work. All strategic points on the railway lines are guarded and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All trains and trams stopped at midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All coal mines at Lithgow are idle, also a number at Newcastle and Iila warra…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The whole of the collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts, and most of the mines at Lithgow, were idle to-day. This is the result of the decision…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Acting Premier says it is absolutely false to say the introduction of the card system meant an enormous increase iii the employment of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY. Wednesday.--About one hundred tram cars were running in the City and suburbs yesterday, and an improved service is promised for to-day. Arrangements…
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