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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Recruiting Men From South Australia To Work in New South Wales Mines ADELAIDE

Western Age · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 3
Also in Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent

It is reported that the South Australian Mines Department is recruiting experienced men, for work on the coal mines in New South Wales at the…

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The Coal Trouble Strikers' Big March Free Laborers Assaulted Newcastle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

At daylight this morning 5000 miners from seven lodges, on Newcastle field, marched into Astonfields Colliery and surrounded the pithead, but there are…

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The Coal Dispute Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

The safety men at the Bellbird Colliery were subjected to intimidation at their homes and did not go to work yesterday. As a result the…

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District Police Called to Coal Fields

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 1

In response to e[?]ephone calls on Sunday, the mounted police at Collie and Tooraweenah, together with the horses from those two centres and…

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All Out! From Associated Collieries

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

All safety men and deputies were withdrawn from the Associated Collieries on the Northern coalfields this morning…

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All Quiet! More Rothbury Coal

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

Everything is reported quiet on the Northern coalfields to-day. There are now 600 police on duty, drawn mostly from metropolitan areas…

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Stockton Safeties Withdrawn From Mine Stockton

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

The safety men were withdrawn from the Stockton borehole colliery yesterday afternoon…

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The Coal Crisis Lawyers Going Strong In the High Court Appeal Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 1

The Full Bench of the High Court of Australia, which will decide the validity or otherwise of Judge Beeby's interim award, in connection with the Northern…

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To-day's Wires. The Coal Trouble. Miners and Police Clash Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 10

Four miners' gatherings on the coalfields were charged by police, armed with batons early yesterday. Several men were injured and…

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Black Sunshine to the Coal Miners

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 3

Coal is the carth's stored sunshine! Thro' the ages It grew and grew by the shores of primal seas,…

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More Bluff Miners' Mandate Newcastle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

The Miners' Federation has issued a statement to the effect that owners can make peace possible by reopening the mines on the pre-steppage conditions,…

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The Mining Trouble. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

A Kurri Kurri Lodge official has sent an urgent telegram to Scullin declaring that peaceful citizens were ruthlessly attacked by police, batons…

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The Coal Crisis Facing Starvation Business Men's Appeal Kurri Kurri

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

At a public meeting at Kurri Kurri, convened by business men, it was decided to send a deputation to the Governor, asking him to use his influence…

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The Coal Trouble. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 2

No aggregate meeting of miners was held at Kurri Kurri or Cessnock. yesterday, although definite arrangements had ben made to hold them…

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Coal Conference at Melbourne. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 2

The coal conference held at Melbourne between Mr. Scullin and Mr. Bavin proved to be abortive, but further efforts will be made…

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The Coal Crisis Conference for Settlement Ends in Deadlock Chaffey Determined Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 1

On receipt of word in Sydney last night that the conference between the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin)and the Premier (Mr. Bavin) in reference to the northern coalfields situation had ended in a deadlock, general…

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The Mining Trouble. Sydney

The Western Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

No aggregate meetings of miners were[?]held at Kurri Kurri or Cessnock yesterday, although definite arrangements had been made to bold them…

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To-day's Wires. the Coal Trouble Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 8

It is reported from Cessnock that the rank and file conference agreed to "all out" policy on the south Maitland field and that steps would…

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Gold! Found in Macquarie Street Workman Unearths Half Sovereign

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 2

It's certainly better to be born lucky than rich. Such is the opinion of a Dubbo resident who struck "gold" in Macquarie-street…

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