U.S. Coal Strike. Mineworkers' Demands. Nationalisation Urged. Washington, April 3
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 13
Appearing before the Labour Committee of the House ot Representatives, Mr. Lewis, president of the mine workers, urged that Concress should consider the nationalisation of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Burning Mine Disaster in Germany 16 DEAD, 383 in Peril London, April 4
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 9
A message from Berlin reports a disastrous fire in the Anselm Mine, in the Ratisbon district (Bavaria). Sixteen are dead, and 36 others have been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Industry. Loss of Export Trade. Wales Competing. (From a Correspondent.) San Francisco, March 14
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 13
A big fight for supremacy in the coal trade, which has developed on the Pacific between Australia, America, and South Wales, now appears to be narrowing down…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Magnesite Mining Suspension of Labor Conditions B.H.P. Company's Application Tamworth
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 7
In the Warden's Court, Tamworth, before the warden, Mr. H. H. MacDongall, P.M., the Broken Hill Proprietary Company applied for a suspension for six months of labor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rand Gold Mines. Labour Conditions. Capetown, April 4
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 9
Replying to a question in the Legislative Assembly, the Minister for Mines said the number of Europeans re-employed on the Rand gold mines since the strike was called…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Price of Gold
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 12
Also in The Daily Telegraph
The Gold Producers' Association reports that the London quotation for gold on Tuesday was 94/9 per ounce fine, a decrease of /1 since March 25…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →In and About the Mines
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 7
The following were among closing mining quotations on tho London Stock Exchange on Monday.--B.H. Proprietary, b 23s 6d,. s 25s; Block 10, 7s 6d; North B.H., b 27s 9d, s 38s 5d…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatalities & Accidents Struck by Coal Basket
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 9
Robert M'Donald (32), a coal -lumper, of Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, was admitted to Sydney Hospital last night suffering from injuries to the spine. He was working at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Miners. Denounce a Strike. But Make Preparations
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 8
For months past, as previously stated in these columns, the Miners' Federation has been making preparation for the possible occurrence of a big industrial upheaval in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Under the Library Lamp. Reviews. What Things Are Mine
Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 9
What things are mine shall come to me, Someone from out the dark unknown— In storm or calm, by land or sea, Through deserts wild or fruitful sown…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Commercial, Investment & Mining Markets Millet Scarce for Broom Making Sussex-street Trade
Evening News · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 5
Few bales of broom millet are coming from the Hunter, the Richmond, or the Manning, and some broom factories are inconvenienced by lack of any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheelers. Defy the Miners' Executive. Equal Pay Demanded. Aggregate Meeting. (From Our Special Representative.) Weston
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 10
The whole of the collieries in the South Maitland coalfields with one exception were thrown idle to-day by the action of the wheelers in calling an aggregate meeting in defiance of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Federal or State? Colliery Deputies' Wages
The Sun · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 7
Judge Beeby, in the Industrial Court to-day, gave judgment on the application for fixing the wages and conditions of colliery deputies. The point…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Notes
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 4
Kampong Kamunting, during February, ran two dredges for 1124 hours., treating 148,000 cubic yards for a yield of 53,10 tons. This product, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tragedy Feared Woman Mining
Evening News · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 8
A bout 6 O'clock yesterday morning Ruby Beatrice Watson (27),a single woman, residing with Miss [?] at Oaks Avenue.Doe why,left her…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →23/4 a Day Colliery Deputies' Award Judge Beeby's Finding
Evening News · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 5
Holding against the [?] that the [?] right to appeal to [?] of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The World's Oldest Mine Primitive Methods Still Employed
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 3
On the outskirts of the town of Fatun, in the world. It began to produce copper in 1225. In the seventeenth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Join A.W.U. Broken Hill
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 10
At a meeting of the Workers' Industrial Union, held last night, Mr. Blakeley, M.P., president of the Australian Workers' Union, gave an address on the aims and objects of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Blasting with Water. a New Motliod of Coal-setting
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 15
A new method of balsting coal by water instead of powder will diminish greatly the frequency of mining disasters, it is believed. The apparatus…
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