"Stupid Irritation Methods" Miners' Claims
SYDNEY, Thursday:—Spirited exchanges concerning the question of irritation and retaliation strikes in the northern coalfields took…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1939
520 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 26
Aberdare Miners Stop Work Sydney
The Aberdare miners did not work to-day in sympathy with the protest by the Wallarah ipiiners yesterday against Judge Drake-Brockman's…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Moonem Coal Ald. Elsmer Jones Hits Out. "Greatest Betrayal in Richmond's History."
On various occasions in the last quarter of a century this paper has had occasion to compliment (and endorse the views of) Aid. Elsmer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Remarkable Revelations As to Miners' Earnings. and How the Coalies Are Exploited by Their Unions
"All this turmoil in the coalmining industry has been caused by officials of the Miners' Federation not telling the miners the truth."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stimulate Progress In Richmond River Area Using District Coal Deposits CASINO
Complaints about the delay in securing an electricity service for certain parts of Tomki Shire were made at a meeting of that council to-day. It was decided to ask the Clarence River County Council, which has a franchise in the shire, to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Good Finds When "Specking" for Gold
KALGOORLIE, Monday:—Following torrential rains on the goldfields, hundreds of fossickers have been out "specking" for gold along…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wages Cost of Coal Production "Will Not Disclose It Publicly"
SYDNEY, Monday:—When the hearing of the coal miners' industrial claims was resumed in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Allegation Brings Challenge "Section of Mine Due for Judge's Inspection Fell In"
SYDNEY, Tuesday:—Mr. W. Orr, General Secretary of the Miners' Federation, told Judge Brake-Breckman in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Pat Skipper's New Plans Search For Pirate Gold. LONDON, (By Air Mail)
Captain Dod Qrsborne, famous skipper of the Girl Pat, will, shortly leave England on another cruise of adventure, this time in a luxury liner…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Rich Gold Find Reported Kalgoorlie
A rich gold find is reported at Mallock's Well, 30 miles south-east of Laverton. The Western Mining Corporation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Owners of Mine Went on Strike Sydney
Although the miners virtually owned the mine at Mount Mulligan they had struck work to endeavour to force themselves to pay themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Using North Coast Coal Resources M'Bah Engineer Invited To Give Address in Lismore
The president of the Lismore Chamber of Commerce (Mr. Ray Granger) said at a meeting of the chamber that 2,000 tons of North…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Moonem Coal
Sir,—In reply to Ald. Bryan, of Casino, re the Moonem coal mine, I can prove that a coal mine has been in existence at Moonem for more than 50 years, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Electricity from Moonem Coal Tomki Shire Council Unanimous
Support for the E.C. Coy's proposal to generate electricity from coal-burners is forthcoming from the Tomki Shire Council. Several councillors declared that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →75 Miners Buried in Japanese Disaster
TOKIO, Sunday:—A gas e-plosion in a coal mine at Miyadacho, in the Prefecture of Fukuoka, five miles below the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →W.A. Mines Resume KALGOORLIE
Most of the mines in the Golden Mile resumed work to-day and all railway services we resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →75 BURIED Explosion in Mine in Japan TOKYO
A gas explosion five miles, below the surface in a coalmine at Miyadacho, buried 75 miners. Five bodies were recovered, six were rescued, but fears…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gigantic Hoardings of Gold
Owing to a recent gold scramble in London, it is now becoming difficult to find room in vaults and safe deposits. Experts estimate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Save Many Lives VANCOUVER
A midnight dance at a nearby town, attended by most of the 100 population of the mining town of Hedley, in British Columbia, saved scores of lives…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners' Strikes "Necessary Machinery Lacking" SYDNEY
"Under the jungle rules that now prevail, the miners have nothing else to do but strike if they have a dispute, as there is no machinery for…
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