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Mining & the mines, 1920

3,666 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 184

Australian Coal Outside Products Preferred Government Criticised

Evening News · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 4

"At present we are dependent on other countries for the requirements of Australia. Our Federal Government, notwithstanding its…

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"The Limit" Mine Stoppages Industry in Perilous Position

Evening News · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 5

"At no time in our history has the position of our collieries been more perilgus." declared [?]. J. R. M. Roberson, a well-known mining engineer, at…

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Miners' Agitators Should be Deported as Traitors Engineers Condemnation

Evening News · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 1

[?] is the surest [?]astropbe, and [?] living that our [?] to," declared…

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Extremist Rule Miners in Agitators' Hands "Breeding Race of Schemers"

Evening News · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 5

"[?] unsling, and captions [?] for popularity, but deal[?] or any idea of [?] outstanding [?]…

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Miners' "Squeeze" a South Coast Strike £2000 in Wages Lost

Evening News · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 3

"It was an endeavor in an underhand way to remove the limitations from the award." said Mr. Sellars, manager of the South Bull Colliery, at the Coal…

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Miners Go Fishing After Five Days' Strike £2000 Lost in Wages

The Sun · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 5

How the South Bulli Colliery became idle for five days, involving a loss of £2000 in wages, was told to the Coal Commission to-day by Mr. Albert…

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DRASTIC! Punishment for Strikes Illegal Lock-outs Mining Engineer's Views

The Sun · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 5

Dr. James Robertson, mining engineer, voiced his views on several phases of coal mining, before the Coal Commission to-day…

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Broken Hill Strike. Men Working at Outside Mines. A.M.A. to Take Action. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 7

The conference concerning the Broken Hill industrial dispute between the mining companies and delegates from various trades unions will be resumed in Melbourne on…

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Bendigo Amalgamated Goldfields. N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 9

In view of the recent yields obtained from the Constellation mine, and the consequent market improvement in the finalcial position of the company since the issue of the inter[?]…

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Unruly Youths Control Coal Mines Serious Losses of Time

The Sun · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

Before the Coal Commission this morning Joseph Seymour Rowe, manager of the Metropolitan colliery, Helensburgh, gave evidence…

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Coal Commission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 7

The Commission will sit in the Public Works Committee Room, Parliament House…

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Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

North Taipings output for the first half of April was 13 tors of tin oxide. Kampong Kamunting worked 61[?] hours during the past fortnight…

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Mining Shares

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

Business in mining shares upon the Sydney Exchange was quiet yesterday. The feature of the business recorded was the sharp advances in…

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Abercrombie Copper Mine. Plant Dismantled

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

LITHGOW, Monday.—All the machinery and railway lines in connection with the now defunct Abercrombie copper mine at Burraga have been removed…

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Gold Producers. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 9

The secretary of the Gold Producers' Association, Mr. Thomas Maughan, stated to-day that the amount of premium obtained on gold exported and sold by the association since…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 10

The mining share market opened rather quietly yesterday, and at no period was business brisk. 'A fairly steady position was maintained by copper and silver-lead stocks,…

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Soviet in Wales Ridiculed by Miners LONDON, April 17

The Sun · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

The Welsh miners ridicule the assertion that the Soviet system is ready to be put into force in South Wales at any moment…

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Everything Wrong. Harassed Coal Industry. Foreign Fuel for Federal Steamers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

Dwindling markets, decreased production, and the lack of industrial stability were some factors which caused Dr. J. R. M. Robertson, mining engineer, to take a particularly gloomy…

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Coal Will Rise 30 Per Cent, increase If Working Hours Reduced

Evening News · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 4

J. S. Rone manager of the Metropolitan Co[?] Helengburgh at the Coal commission to-day said any reduction in hours worked at present would be the…

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£46,000 IN 3 YEARS Wages Lost at One Mine Strikes and Meetings

Evening News · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 5

"The losses in wages at the mine, as the result of 'monthly' meetings, approximate £3000 a year," said C.F. Mallett, secretary of the South C[?]ton…

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