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Mining & the mines, 1927

4,154 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 208

Fumes in Mine. Inspector's Theory. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 16

Mr. J. W. Salter[?] Inspector of Mines, today inspected the winze at the 300 feet level in Thompson's section of the British Mine, where several men were gassed on…

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A Grave Position Victorian State Mine Miner Vtctimised

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 7

The refusal of the management of the Victorian State coal mine to re-employ the miner Kennedy, in preference to other men, as demanded by the Miners'…

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UNHURT 300 Miners Escape Joyous Scenes Montreal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 7

A message from Ehrensfield states that over 300 miners, for whom hope had almost been abandoned after they find been entombed by an explosion,…

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North Coal Dispute Agreement Adopted by Owners

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 6

Mr. M. McDonald, secretary of the Northern Colliery Owners' Association, stated yesterday that the agreement relative to the Maitland…

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Northern Mines. Early Resumption. Proposals Accepted. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 16

The adoption of the proposals of the conference hold in Sydney on Wednesday, was practically unanimous by the aggregate meeting of deputies held at Cessnock to-day. The…

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Tombs Stocked With Gold. Hidden Graves of 5000 Years Ago

The World's News · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 5

A CEMETERY nearly five thousand years old, in which nearly every grave contains ornaments of gold and silver and richly-colored stones, has been found at…

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Settlement in View Cockle Creek Dispute Conference Yesterday Miners Meet on Sunday Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 6

There is every prospect that the Cockle Creek trouble will be settled, and the thousands of men now thrown idle enables to…

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150,000 Men Idle in U.S.A. Mines Three Strikes Wage Troubles Plumbers:printers New York

Evening News · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 1

ONE hundred and fifty thousand men quitted work at midnight in the soft coal mines of the middle west…

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Mother of Mine "I Know Whose Prayers Would Save Me" Shielding Her Son

Truth · Sunday 3 April 1927 · page 12

BY falling in a dead faint on the floor of the court a married woman, a mother, provided the necessary dramatic finish to a certainly dramatic inquiry which Judge Edwards had on hand on Thursday at the Quarter Sessions Court…

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Through Jungle Paths to Fortune What Do You Think of This ?—A Query to an old Coolgardie Man, who answered by being One of the Early Birds on the New Guinea Goldfields

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 April 1927 · page 5

In the steamy, humid heat of the Pacific a man were the khaki uniform of the Australian Forces which occupied the Mandated Territory in the early after…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 13

Gold was Quoted in London on Friday, our correspondent cables, at 84/11 per oz fine, an increase of three farthings on the day…

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Prices and Gold Output

The Sun · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 3

Commodity prices on the gold basis are affected mainly by the relation between supply and demand in the case of the individual commodity, and by the abundance…

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Mines to Resume Cockle Creek Pact

Evening News · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 7

IN view of the settlement of the deputies' dispute at Cockle Creek, the colliery proprietors have decided to recommence operations at the four…

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Strike Settled Resumption This Week Colliery Dispute Cessnock

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 1

As the enginedrivers and firemen, at an aggregate meeting this afternoon, adopted the proposals submitted from Friday's conference…

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Shortage of Coal Trucks Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 12

A great shortage of trucks has caused broken time during the week at most of the mines in the Lithgow Valley, but the State mine has been only slightly affected. Railway…

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City Gossip Brewery Board's Fees Colliery Co. Call Tooths Directorate

The Sun · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 6

At an extraordinary meeting of shareholders in Tooth and Co., Ltd., to be held on Wednesday next, proposals for alterations to the…

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Fine Building for Bank of N.S.W. Welsh Colliery Disaster

The Sun · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 14

DUKE AT TENNIS. -- A fine action picture, taken during the visit to N.S.W., of the Duke of York at his favorite game, jumping for a high ball. EARTHQUAKE IN JUGOSLAVIA. -- One of the wrecked…

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Mine Disaster Six Killed in U.S. VANCOUVER

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 1

A message from Cokeburg, Pennsylvania, states that six miners were killed and Ave injured In a coal-dust explosion yesterday. Four hundred were…

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How French Coal Strike Was Stopped Paris

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 1

PLAYING a strong hand for the Government against both the coal owners and the miners, M. Andre Tardleu forced…

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Mines Still Idle No Industrial Troubles West Maitland

The Sun · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 9

Work has not been resumed at the collieries, except at East and South Greta and Stanford Merthyr. Some of the big collieries have not…

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