A Political History of Australia The First State Coal Mine -- Tory Rebels -- The Australian Agricultural Company -- Impudent Coal Monopoly -- Earl Bathurst's Audacious Letter Chapter Cxxxvi. Places of Punishment
The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 10
In considering the class struggles and economic and political device, and institutions that [?] from material [?] in this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining. the Share Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 19
An upward turn in metal quotations found a response in a steadier share market yesterday. Barriers moved forward, Souths at 42/9, and Zincs at 36/9 advancing /9, 250 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Training Schemes for British Miners LONDON
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 4
Replying for the Government to Labor statements in the House of Commons, that the Eight Hour Act had thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Cup. Moorefield Meeting. Excellent Programme
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 20
With a £1000 Gold Cup event on the programme and no local racing opposition the [?] Club can [?] forward to a large attendance to-day. The programme is one…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Broken Hill. Miners' Claims Rejected. Broken Hill
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 18
The conference between the Mining Managers' Association and the Industrial Council was resumed this afternoon, when the companies pressed for reconsideration of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →"To Keep Law" Why Payments Made to Miners' President
Evening News · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 6
THE secretary of the Stockton Borehole Colliers, Ltd.,Mr. L. K. Reberton, has [?] the following statement, by Mr. R. N. Kirk, in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crisis Looms in South Africa Miners' Demands Capetown
Evening News · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 1
A DEPUTATION of diggers from the alluvial diamond fields arrived here to-day to Interview the Prime Minister, General Hertgog…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Leases. Mr. Baddeley's Explanation. Question for Mr. Bailey
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 17
"My decision to refuse new coal-mining lenses was made in the interests of the men employed in the industry, and the public," said Mr, Baddeley, M.L.A., yesterday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Spirit. By-product of Coal. London, Feb 8
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 17
The Scientific Industrial Research Committee says that experiments have indubitably shown that at high pressure a large proportion of coal is convertible into liquid fuels, but…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Coal Trade Depression. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 15
Sir,—Of people who profess to know all about everybody else's business and nothing about their own, the comments made by Mr. D. J. Davies, general secretary of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Trapped Fire in Mine Too Many for Lifts 35 Missing Toronto
The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 1
A disastrous fire has devastated Hollinger, one of the world's greatest gold mines. Four bodies were recovered late this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Winning and Working the World's Coal Improvements Scientific in Great Britain The Baddeley Report (Continued). No. 11 Fuel Research Work on Coal and Oil Shale
The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 10
THIS instalment of the Report deals largely with the work of the Fuel Research Board in Great Britain and with the various methods followed in a number of colliers for the distillation and liquefaction of coal and the utilisation of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold From Moscow. Going to United States New York, Feb. 9
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 17
A first consignment of gold from the Soviet Government to the United States will arrive on February 20—5,000,000 dollars being consigned to banks which have been the Soviet's…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mr. Kirk's Declaration Money Paid to Mr. Hoare. to Keep the Mine Working. Counter to Irritation Tactics
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 17
There was a dramatic development yesterday in connection with the bribery allegations concerning the Stockton Borehole Collieries, Limited. In an official statement, telegraphed from Hobart, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Dramatic Telegram Clears Up Coal "Bribe" Mystery Company Director Says That He Made the Payments "Did Not Disclose Details to Co-Directors, nor to Company's Secretary " -- Money was Given as an "Insurance Premium" MR. R. N. Kirk Explains His Actions
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 2
The coalfields mystery reached a dramatic climax last night. The £597, which Mr. Hoare, President of the Northern Miners' Federation, sensationally announced had been given to him over a period to induce the miners to keep the Stockton Borehole…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TRAPPED! 47 Perish in Gold Mine Fire Big Oil Explosion Vancouver
Sunday Times · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 6
Forty-seven men were trapped by fire in Hollinger Gold Mine, in Ontario. All are believed to be dead, and so far two bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Nigger in the Coal Heap
Sunday Times · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 4
A gentleman named Hoare startled the honest people of the State by a dramatic announcement that for the past year and a half he had been paid a certain sum of money ostensibly for the purpose of keeping a certain mine working…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Off with the Lid! Hoare's Coal "Bribery" Charges Must Not Be Packed in Coal Storage Bruce Should Take Hold!
Truth · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 1
AT the moment Mr. Bruce has a scheme for a round-table talk on what ought to be done to achieve smooth running in industry. Almost at the same moment comes an announcement by the President of the Northern branch of IT WAS AN EXCELLENT START.—The seventeen runners in yesterday's Moorefield Gold Cup wen away to an excellent start. Cave Dweller is the hone nearest the sals, while the winner, Honan, is fourth from the fence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Honan Comes Home in Moorefield's Rich Gold Cup
The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 6
Honan had a comfortable win in the Moorefield Gold Cup from Cadenza and Killarney. Last year's winner, Cave Dweller, is running fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal War? Australia Butts in Sydney Letter London
The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 1
Owing to further reductions in the miners' earnings in the north-eastern coalfields, a big coal upheaval is predicted by the Secretary of the Miners' Federation, Mr. A. J. Cook, unless the Government intervenes…
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