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Mining & the mines, 1929

7,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 250

It Must Be Nationalisation If Coal Lords win No Other Way Out (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 January 1929 · page 5

Sir,--There can scarcely be a doubt that the coal barons ore determined to emulate the shipowners in an endeavor to introduce more oppressive and servile…

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John Brown Joins the Talki 'Smith's' Dips inter the Future Horrors of Life on the Coal-fields

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 January 1929 · page 7

NOW that the talkies have burst into speech, anything might happen. For years people counted on the moving pictures as one of the few things that could be relied on not to talk. Moving pictures, the Silent Navy, dumb waiters, ex-aldermen, and John Brown, these were the grandly inarticulate things of life in a world of Babel…

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The Coal Crisis

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 January 1929 · page 3

Premier Bavin, whose efforts to bring about a settlement of the coal-mining dispute and put the industry upon a sound basis were rendered valueless…

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Faced with Chaos The Miners Have Blundered

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1929 · page 12

AFTER negotiations extending over five months. Premier Bavin's sound and equitable proposals for the stabilisation of the coal industry have been turned down by the employees representatives…

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Deadlock in Coal Crisis Men Adamant S.A. SALES

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 January 1929 · page 2

While mystery envelops the proceedings between Mr. Bavin (Premier of N.S.W.) and Mr. Butler (Premier of South Australia) in…

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Believe it or not, Miners once Fined for Working LITHGOW

The Sun · Sunday 27 January 1929 · page 2

The present discussions in regard to the coal industry recall that not such an extraordinary number of years ago --34 to be precise--Lithgow miners were…

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Gold Rush Strike Near Wingham All Claims Pegged Wingham

The Sun · Sunday 27 January 1929 · page 4

Gold was struck recently at Mt. George, between Wingham and Gloucester. Whether the find will prove a payable one has yet to be…

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Drops of Gold Rain on the Way Mr. Mares Hopeful

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 January 1929 · page 2

Mr. Mares, State Meteorologist, stated last nigh that the rain which fell yesterday afternoon and last night was the forerunner of good general rain which has…

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Mining Promoter Exposed! Benjamin Gibson Has a Police Record Head of N. T. Corporation City Investors Warned

Truth · Sunday 27 January 1929 · page 1

"TRUTH" emphatically brands Benjamin Forbes Gibson, governing director of the Northern Territory Mineral Development Corporation, Ltd., a concern with a nominal capital of £100,000, as a smooth-tongued…

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Mt. Morgan Gold-mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 16

BRISBANE, Saturday.--Application by the liquidators of Mt. Morgan Gold Mining Co. for further exemption of six months from mine working regulations has been…

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Miners' International British Miners' Reports

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 8

Documents received by the Mining Department of the W.I.U. of Australia from the Miners' International include the following reports on the Miners'…

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W.A. Gold Mining Plant for Wiluna Co

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 16

At the annual meeting of Associated Mining and Finance Co., Ltd., which has a shareholding in Wiluna Gold Corporation, the chairman said the bringing of the Wiluna…

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Rescued Entombed Miners Fall of Coal Escaped From Death Newcastle

The Sun · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 9

Caught by a fall of coal in the Pelaw Main Colliery, four miners were„buried beneath a vast quantity of debris…

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Australia's Coal Crisis

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 4

The New South "Wales Coal Industry is facing disaster. It can no longer sell its product outside the State for the simple reason that British coal is obtainable at a lower price. The British mines are 12,000 miles away but the long carriage is counterbalanced by…

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Coal and Wages

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 8

NO doubt, the owners of coal mines, and their political instruments, the Nationalist politicians, would like to see the earnings of employees in the coal mines reduced. Of course they would. Did anybody ever hear oi any employer who…

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The Coal Horror

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 4

WHILE Mr. Bavin and the Tory Press continue railing at the "greed" of the miners in declining a wage cut of 124 to 20 per cent, in order to "rehabilitate" the declining coal industry, the same Tory Press publishes heartrending details of the position in Great Britain…

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Rubber From Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 13

Professor Fritz Hoffman, of the German Dye Trust, speaking at the International Conference on Bituminous Coal, at Pittsburg, U.S.A., on November 21, said the production of…

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Miners on Roads Walcha

Evening News · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 8

At a meeting of unemployed it was decided to protest against miners from striking coal districts being sent to work on the Port Macquarie-road, while local…

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Alluvial Gold Coolangatta Find

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 5

A BEACH SANDS company, which has been operating for the past few months on tho black sands a few miles from…

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Reported Gold Discovery. Wingham

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 January 1929 · page 12

It is reported that gold has been discovered at a spot some little distance north of Mt. George. A total of 250 acres have been pegged out, and a syndicate has been formed…

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