The Coal Trouble Meeting of Mine Owners
SYDNEY, Monday. --The northern coal mine owners met this afternoon and considered the position which has arisen out of the stoppage of work at certain…
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Mining & the mines, 1923
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English Mine Strike
LONDON, Sunday.—The miners of Rhondda Valley resume to-morrow. The strike resulted in doubling the Miners' Federation membership…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A meeting of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association was held this afternoon to discuss the situation arising out of the recent stoppage on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Coalfield. All Mines Working
SYDNEY. Monday.—Mr. Willis, general secretary of the Coal Federation, said that according to information received from the northern coal fields, all mines in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collieries Idle. Magistrate's Removal Demanded
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Minors at fifteen collieries in the Maitland and Newcastle districts are on strike. Yesterday the mechanics at a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal in Queensland
At Blackwater a new seam of coal has been found, and a consignment, tested in furnaces, proved very satisfactory. The seam was struck at a depth of 130…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal at Bonalbo
A coal seam exists at Bonalbo, Upper Clarence, and the coal is said to have yielded excellent results when tested in Sydney, whither a bag of it was sent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trouble on Coalfield. Eleven Collieries Idle. Objection to a Magistrate
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A serious development has occurred-on the northern coalfields. Eleven collieries were idle to-day in consequence of Major Crane presiding at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Cheaper Than Water Power
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In a report to the electricity sub-committee of the City Council, Mr. Forbes Mackay, General Manager of the Electricity Supply Department of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gold Yield of Australia
The gold yield of the Commonwealth for the first two months of 1923, as against 1922, shows a considerable increase, and it is hoped that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hydro-electric Schemes, Early Action Advocated. Excessive Cost of Coal
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—-At a meeting of the Associated Chambers of Manufacturers last night the question of coal costs was considered of such importance that the following…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—Work ceased at two more collieries, and 6,620 men are idle. As the strikes are over a purely local grievance it is not expected they will spread to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Colliery Crisis
Developments on the Maitland coalfield during the last few days seem to indicate the near approach of a grave, crisis in the coalmining industry. Anything of the kind…
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At the sale of racing stock to-day a number of well-known performers were offered, but the majority failed, to reach the reserve and were passed in. All Gold was purcliased…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brown Coal. Germany's Last Hope. Briquette Making
The French having seized the Rhur, which, contains four-fifths of the bituminous coal deposits of Germany, German, scientists and mining engineers are turning with renewed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Idle Miners Sectional Stoppages. Maitland Field Practically Crippled
SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The miners in fifteen of the collieries in the Maitland and Newcastle districts went on strike yesterday, and the mechanics at a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jack Dempsey Coal Mine Owner. Venture in Utah
NEW YORK, Wednesday.--It is stated in a message from Salt Lake City that Jack Dempsey, the champion heavyweight boxer, has purchased a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Dispute. Another Mine Closed. Each Side Blames the Other
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Another mine, Pelaw Main, ceased. work to-day. Mr. Baddeley, M.L.A., declafcd to-day the coal miners had been locked out because…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Mines Talk of Lockout. What the Owners Want
SYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. Baddeley, M.L.A., said to-day, in referring to the miners' trouble, that the northern miners had been locked out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Stoppages
In view of the Coal Tribunal s recent, decision not to bring about any reduction in the wages of the coal miners it might reasonably have been…
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