Miners' Wages. Owners' Claims. Drastic Reductions
The coal-owners of New South Wales propose to reduce wages all round in the industry by 33 1-3 per cent, and to revert to a working day of two shifts…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining & the mines, 1922
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Wages and Hours Municipal Council Moving Basic Wage Considered Colliery Owners' Claim
The question of the basic wage was argued before the Board of Trade yesterday; figures were submitted on behalf of the employers showing the cost of living in February to have beef. £3 14s 8d, as against £3 15s 10d in January. The Board will consider its declaration later…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barrier Politics. Miners and the A.L.P. Broken Hill
A special meeting of the Workers' Industrial Union, decided to appoint two delegates to attend the All-Australian Trade Union Congress at Melbourne in June. Messrs. D…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steel Works. Price of Coal. Real Cause of the Crisis
The Trades Hall is very much perturbed at the proposal to close down the Newcastle steel works. The A.W.U. recently forwarded a communication to the general manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining Industry Owners and Men Meet Important Proposals
The following joint statement was issued yesterday afternoon by Mr. C. M. M'Donald, secretary of the Northern Colliery Association, and Mr. A. C. Willis, general secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Shares. Malays and Silver-lead. Both Much Weaker
A generally weaker London metal market was reflected in lower prices for most Malay tin and local silverlead shares at the Sydney Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Industry. Employers' Claims. Rejected by Miners Council
The proposals of the coal-owners of the Commonwealth to reduce wages all round in the industry by 33 1-3rd per cent, and to revert to a working day of two shifts of eight…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Northern Miners. Newcastle
The generally expressed feeling is that the miners will not favour any interference with the present ruling rates of wages and working conditions. The uncompromising attitude…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mount Oxide Mines Limited
Shareholders in Mount Oxide Mines Ltd. (in liquidation) are to receive in £5 shares fully paid in Mount Elliott, Ltd., a proportion of the assets of the company available for distribution at the rate…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining Notes
The manager of Block 10 Misima Gold Mines, No Liability, reports under date of April 22:—No. 8 tunnel, south main drive, south hanging wall drive…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Price of Gold
The Gold Producers' Asssociation reports that the price of fine gold in London on April 25 was £4 13s an ounce. Four days earlier the quotation came through as £4 13s 5d an ounce…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In and About the Mines
Mining shares quoted on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday included:--Broken Hill Propty., b 23s 9d, s 25s; Broken Hill North, b 30s, s 30s 7d: Hampden-Cloncurry, b 5s 7d, s…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining. the Share Market
The reactionary movement in Barriers continued on Change yesterday, though the actual decline was confined to the mining companies proper, in which business on spot was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company
Shareholders in the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Co., Ltd., at the annual meeting yesterday, adopted the report and balance-sheet for the year ended March 31. The net profit…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shipping Purchase West Australian Coal Trade
Messrs. Scott Fell and Co., of Sydney, in conjunction with Messrs. Johnson and Lynn, Limited, of Perth and Fremantle (W.A.), have purchased the sailing vessels Cleverdon and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →VICTIMISATION Rand Miners' Fear CAPETOWN, Tuesday Night
It is reported from [?] at a sitting of the M[?] Industry Commission the chairman made Statement with regard to the fears…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Mining Town. Passing of Canbelego. Where £3,000,000 Worth of Gold Was Raised. Dubbo
The end is at hand of the once-flourshing and busy mining town of Canbelego Over £3,000,000 worth of gold has been taken from the Mount Boppy gold mine there, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Wages Proposed Reduction Will Be Resisted Newcastle
The proposals of the colliery proprietors, at yesterday's conference, were, to the miners, as one man put it, "a staggerer," and there is no probability whatever of their being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Company News. Wickham Coal. Usual 10 Per Cent. Dividend
The trading operations of the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Co., during the year ended March 31, resulted in a net profit of £32,841/6/4…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Yield. £1100 Worth in Five Days. Perth
Three prospectors, Paskov, Mijat, and Landsesh, dollied 150oz of gold on April 20, at a prospecting area a mile east of Sandstone, and 100oz four days later. The stone came from…
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