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Mining & the mines, 1923

4,495 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 225

French Logic Poincare Argues Germany Could Pay Ruhr Coal Not Needed Reparations Could be Settled in Foreign Currency

The Sun · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 1

M. Poincare, in a speech made dramatic by the unveiling of a monument to dead soldiers declared that France would not reduce her reparation demands…

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Coal Crisis. Back to Work. Miners' Desire. Aggregate Meeting at Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 9

An aggregate meeting of the four big Aberdare miners' lodges at Cessnock yesterday unanimously carried a resolution under which the colliery managers will…

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Bellambi Coal Co

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 7

The scheme of reconstruction of the Bellambi Coal Co.. Ltd.. provided that holders of shares in the old company should receive, in addition to share for…

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Miners Support Federal Executive. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 9

At a meeting of the Miners' Delegate Board to-day it was decided to send a telegram to the Federal Labour Executive supporting the proposal that that executive should control the…

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Mining Notes. Vegetable Creek

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 4

The output of the Vegetable Creek Tin Mining Co. for the week ending April 12, was 10 cwt of tin oxide…

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Maitland Mines Nineteen Pits Idle Prospects of Resumption

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 5

Only three mines of the twenty-two on the Maitland field were at work yesterday. These were the Central and East Greta and the Stanford…

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General Strike What Miners Say Owners United Doubt About One West Maitland

The Sun · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 9

Delegates from two lodges met their colliery managers last evening with the object of conferring relative to resumption, but were told that the…

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"Clean Up" Coal Industry No Resumption [?] at Least a Fortnight" Newcastle

Evening News · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 7

It is definitely announced by the colliery proprist[?] that there will be no work at the pits for at least a fortnight…

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Black and Gold Grammar Shaping Well for Regatta--STRONG Eight and Fours

The Sun · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 14

Black and gold usually shows out well in the Great Public Schools Regatta, and this year should be no exception to the rule. SYDNEY Grammar School should have a fair chance of winning…

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Coal Mining Trouble. No General Strike

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 16

Coal miners are looked out from nearly a score of mines in the Maitland district, and doubtless the Coal Barons are hoping that this will goad the men into declaring…

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Coal Export

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 4

The quantity of coal (bunker and cargo) shipped at Newcastle for the week ended April 13 for places beyond the State was 67,370 tons, of…

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Coal Crisis. Miners Offer to Resume. Pits Still Closed. Waiting the Owners' Attitude

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 13

Representatives of the coalminers on strike in the Maitland district yesterday waited upon the mine managers and expressed their willingness to return to…

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The Coal Strike

The Sun · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 11

"A Worker" voices his views: -- As a worker up against it, the same as thousands of others, I crave space to offer a suggestion for settlement of…

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Coal and Monopoly

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 11

THE Secretary of the Miners' Federation, A. C. Willis, caused quite a stir in certain capitalistic dovecotes last week, when, in the course of a statement, he…

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Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 4

For the first half of April the output of the Deobook dredge at Ronpibon amounted to six tons of tin oxide…

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Gold Yields. Continued Decrease

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 11

The New South Wales State gold yield continues to show a substantial decrease. In March the total amount won was 882oz. crude, equal to 762oz…

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Gambler's Gold a Police Punter

Evening News · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 7

Two bets on Gambler's Gold were made by a constable with Reginald Dawson, 48, on premises in Flinders-street, about 11 a.m. to-day…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 15

There was a revival of activity in silver-lead interests in the share market on the Stock Exchange yesterday. A good inquiry brought all-round increases. Among…

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The War of Coal and Iron

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 19

A. C. Freeman, writing to the New York "Call" from Berlin (Germany), gives a firsthand account of the struggle between the French and German capitalists for supremacy in the Ruhr, and incidentally the control of the…

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Restive Miners Something Doing Mr. Willis Speaks

Evening News · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 7

"Something very definite will most certainty happen in the course of a few days." The speaker was Mr. A. C…

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