Coal Industry. Mtners Granted Increases. New Working Agreement Mr. Watt's Order
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1919 · page 17
The secretary to the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation received a telegram yesterday from Mr. Watt, Acting Prime Minister, stating that the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →N.S.W. COAL Commonwealth's Acquisition Board of Control Appointed [?]
Evening News · Saturday 3 May 1919 · page 5
[?] was issued that the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Trade Commonwealth Control. Extent of Federal Powers. What the Public Will Have to Pay
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 May 1919 · page 11
That the community view with some consternation the immediate prospect of another advance in coal prices is only natural. Last year we raised in this State 9,000,000 tons, of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Great Coal Bluff Amazing Story of a Gamble How Willis Out-generalled Watt The Strike That Never Threatened
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 May 1919 · page 6
In the following article the truth is told about the greatest industrial bluff in Australian history. The story is written by one who has been behind the scenes during the last few weeks and knows every move…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining
Sunday Times · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 9
Business in the mining market proceeds on generally uninteresting lines with a limited turnover. The manager of the New Burragorang…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fairy Gold
The Sun · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 3
The average practical man, reading Mr. Rae's recent views on the ideal State, in which all land would be confiscated by the Government, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What Coal Crisis Really Means Miners and Proprietors Satisfied But the Public Has Yet to Pay
Sunday Times · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 2
Excepting for Investigation into deficient places and victimisation, the coal crisis has ended. The miners are to be paid 15 per cent. Increase, and the proprietors 2/3 to 2/9 per ton more than formerly. Conference between miners' and proprietors' representatives will be resumed on Tuesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Union Secretary and Mines Minister
The Mirror · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 4
The Assertion by the Minister for Mines (Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick) referring to the distress at Cobar, that there was employment awaiting 1100 men on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Wages What Days Off Mean Mr. Willis Explains
The Sun · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 2
"The contention that miners could earn more if they worked every day the mine is open is only true so far as a limited number of individuals are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Coal Pits Shipping Agents Anxious Newcastle
The Sun · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 2
According to information supplied by Newcastle shipping agents for collieries, 19 pits worked full time during the fortnight ended to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Enterprise Professor David Impressed Uses of Brown Coal
The Sun · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 3
It is common knowledge that during the war Germany was industriously preparing for the intense contest on the economic plane, on the re-establishment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Watt's Coal Increased Pay from To-morrow Workers Affected
The Mirror · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 2
A special Federal Gazette was issued in Melbourne yesterday morning. authorising the seizure of coal by the Government. A further Gazette on Monday will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Zealand Turf Sasanof's Trentham Gold Cup Afterglow Beaten
Sunday News · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 4
WELLINGTON. Saturday.—The Wellington Racing Club concluded its autumn meeting this afternoon, when the principal event of the programme was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Shortage Danger of Darkness Melbourne's Outlook Peace Festivities Affected
The Sun · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 2
There is danger of a grave coal shortage in Melbourne, and the public is being warned to economise in the use of gas, with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Prospecting Boom Miners Testing Reefs Near Cobar Residents Co-operate to Work New Lodes
Sunday News · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 8
ORANGE. Saturday.—Consequent upon the closing down of the Cobar [?] and the throwing on the labor market of hundreds of unemployed, the Cobar…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Genesis of the Trouble What the Miners Asked For, and What They Did When They Got It
Sunday Times · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 2
In the Sunday Times of March 23 Mr. A. C. Willis, general secretary of the Australasian Coal and Shale Miners' Federation, affirmed the claims of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Can Huns Pay the Price? Huge Resources of German Coal, Iron, and Potash Will Yield Billions of Pounds—Tremendous Figures How Indemnity Could Be Paid
Sunday Times · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 19
It has been frequently asserted that Germany would be ruined if defeated, and that in no circumstances can she pay an adequate war indemnity. This argument is demolished by figures quoted in an article by Politicus, the able publicist, who writes under the title…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Tales of Long Ago the First Australian Wild Cat The Sad End of an Enterprising Mining Promoter who lived before his Time. Illustrated by Lionel Lindsay
Sunday News · Sunday 4 May 1919 · page 9
Aa a part of [?] to the [?] pathetic and moral bearing [?] it may be said that it is not a zoological treatise at all. The wild cat…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Commission Further Evidence Taken Rate at Rothbury Mine
The Sun · Monday 5 May 1919 · page 7
The Royal Commissioner (Mr. J. L. Campbell, K.C.), heard further evidence to-day in the No. 2 Jury Court with regard to the trouble in the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Commission
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 May 1919 · page 5
The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the coal industry of New South Wales will resume its sittings in No. 2 Jury Court. Supreme Court-buildings, at 10 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →