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Mining & the mines, 1927

4,154 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 208

Men Are Still Out Two Mine Disputes Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 6

No more has taken place in the matter of the lock-out at Walterawang Colliery, Lidsdale, where some 80 men are out. The dispute is relative to the unequal…

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Gold Discovered 18 Miles From Perth Perth

The Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 11

Gold has been discovered between Parkerville and Hovea in the Darling ranges about 18 miles from Perth at a depth of 40 feet. The average sample…

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Stop Press. Mine Disaster. Heavy Loss of Life. London, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 14

A further message relating to the mine disaster states that the Marine Colliery is one of the largest and most modern in the South Wales coalfield, and employs…

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Rich Gold Find 20 Miles From Perth Perth

Evening News · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 13

An [?] Kalgoorlie minor named White discovered a rich leds of gold while digging a well at Parkerville, a small town less than 20 miles from Parth…

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Rockchoppers and Sewer Miners' Award. Appeals by A.W.U. and Contractors' Association

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 20

The Deputy Commissioner of the Industrial Commission delivered the following judgment in connection with the appeals lodged by the A.W.U. and the Public…

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Money, Mines and Merchandise City Gossip State Deficit Grows National Bank Capital Revenue Account

The Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 8

An uncomfortable tilt continues in the State revenue account. The Treasury statement for the first eight months of 1926-27 disclosed, on…

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Heroic Rescues Mark British Mine Disaster Trapped Swept to Death Explosion Too 75 Believed Dead

The Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 1

Two tragic mine accidents in England early yesterday morning resulted in the death of, it is believed, 75 men, and serious injury to many others. An explosion in a colliery at Ebbw Vale, in Monmouthshire,…

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75 Killed in British Mine Disasters[?] Blast and Deluge Tragedy in Many Homes Explosion Wrecks Welsh Pit Staging Collapses in Nottingham Poisonous Gas Adds to Horror London

Evening News · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 1

TWO simultaneous mine disasters—one in Monmouth and the other in Nottinghamshire—have brought tragedy into the homes of scores of minning folk, it being believed that the total deadth roll in both mines…

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Goldfields Murder Question of Reward PERTH

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 11

When the claim of Evan Clarke for the reward of £1000 offered for information regarding the Kalgoorlie police murders was called to-day an…

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Three Collieries Idle Cessnock

The Sun · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 13

Three collieries in the Cessnock district were idle to-day. Nearly 1690 men are affected. At Aberdare Extended, the wheelers…

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Mining

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 5

Austral Malay: 6d. a share; payable February 26. Asam Kumbang: 1/- a share; payable February 26…

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Mine Disasters Go'a'l Pit Is Tomb Women's Pathetic Vigil Night Scenes at Welsh Colliery Hope Abandoned for 45 Men Miners Mob Prime Minister London

Evening News · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 11

HOPE was definitely abandoned at 9 a.m. to-day that any of the 45 miners entombed in the Cwm colliery were still alive. It has been announced officially that the death roll of the two…

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Miners' Fury Baldwin Mobbed

Evening News · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 11

There was an unfortunate demonstrate when the Prime Minister, who was accompanied by Mrs. Baldwin, visited the pit head…

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Coal Export. Newcastle Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 4

The quantity of coal (including bunkers) shipped at Newcastle last week for places beyond the State was 62,700 tons, of which 50,060 tons…

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State Mine Resumes Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 6

Work was resumed at the state mine yesterday. Several conferences have taken places…

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Special Coal Tribunal Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 5

The coal industry special tribunal will alt this Thursday, to deal with the claims of "Watlarah miners. In conformity with the Intention…

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"Don't Want Sympathy" Unemployed Miners

The Sun · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 16

Mr. Sullivan (Lab., Bothwell) submitted a motion in the House of Commons calling attention to the unemployment in the mining industry and…

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Stop Press. Miners' Demonstration. London, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 10

Miners from the Cwm colliery made an angry demonstration against Mr. Baldwin (who was accompanied by Mrs. Baldwin) by shouting at the Prime Minister: "Why…

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Epic Story of Rescues Colliery Disaster Death Roll of 75

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 5

The two mine disasters at Cwm Colliery, Ebbwvale, Monmouthshire, and the Bilsthorpe pit, Nottingham, have brought…

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Toll of the Mines Other Huge Disasters

The Labor Daily · Thursday 3 March 1927 · page 1

The greatest coal-mining disaster of modern times was that which took place at Lens, in France, some 20 years ago, the deaths resulting from…

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