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Mining & the mines, 1929

7,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 250

Mine Stoppage What It Means Newcastle

Evening News · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 10

At 2 p.m. to-day practically all mines in the Colliery Proprietors' Association closed down, and appoximately 11,000 then were thrown cut of employment…

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Living Pictures Blue and Gold Ball

The Sun · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 8

MRS. MATT. SAWYER presided at a meeting yesterday of the committee of the Blue and Gold Ball, which is being arranged at the Ambassadors…

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Wage Cut Miners Reject Federal Scheme Inquiry Welcomed

Evening News · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 10

THE Federal Government's proposals, so far as they concern a reduction in wages, were definitely rejected by the…

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Political and General News Overseas Cables Petrol from Coal

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 2

Petrol extracted from coal nos been successfully used in the engines of stationary aeroplanes at Stag-lane acrodrome (London)…

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Speculation Mining For Precious Metals Not Favored

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 8

A correspondent desires to have whether I can put him in touch with anyone who would he likely to [?] him to develop an and many show in his…

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Miners Want Decent Bath Room Angus Place, via Lithgow, N.S.W.

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 2

Some months ago the “Workers Weekly” drew attention to the bath and change room at the Vale of Clwydd No. 2 mine…

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The Coal Problem. Geneva Inquiry. Mners' Federation Scheme LONDON, Feb. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 13

Mr. Herbert Smith and Mr. A. J. Cook, president and secretary respectively of the Miners' Federation, are at Geneva in connection with the League of Nations inquiry into…

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"German Gold" Behind the 1917 Strike Member's Assertion Lively Assembly Debate

The Sun · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 11

Another lively debate developed this afternoon in the Legislative Assembly, when the House further considered…

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Marts, Money and Mines Howard Smith Reduces Dividend From 10 to 7½ P.c

Evening News · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 7

Howard Smith, Ltd., is paying an ordinary dividend of 7½ per cent, for the year ended December 31, 1923, as compared with 10 per cent, a year ago. The…

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Federal Session. Coal Crisis. Mr. Brace's Statement. Tasmania's Grievances. (From Our Special Representative.) Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 14

Much of the time in the House of Representatives to-day was devoted to a discussion on the disabilities of Tasmania, and a motion was carried to the effect that the…

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Effective Reply Balmain Miners Full Time Worked and £20,000 Wages What Will Mcdonald Have to Say?

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 5

TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN men kept in work who would otherwise have been on the grass…

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"Tearing Into" the' Coal

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 9

IT may be that one of the things that the proposed Royal Commission will investigate is the reckless way in which the mine owners have "played the devil" with a great national asset. Nature had dowered Australia with some of the finest coal…

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One Coal Industry Union

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 9

Sir,--The time was never more oppertune than at present for the forming of the union in the Industry. I have been following closely through…

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Miners Go Fishing. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 17

Already there is an exodus of miners to Lake Macqunrle, where they intend to camp, and supplement their food supply by fishing. Bellbird Colliery was idle to-day for the…

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Relief Measures Miners' Council's Scheme

The Sun · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 3

The Central Council of the Miners' Federation, which concluded its sittings at the head offices. Rawson Chambers, to-day, decided on a system…

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Sixteen Thousand Mine Workers Are Locked Out Frankenstein Monster Is Born of Our Coal Barons Thousands of Miners Thrown on the Grass Effort to Bludgeon Governments Owners Force Concessions Their Bluff Called

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 1

CONJURED in the sodden brains of the Northern Collieries' Association, the most diabolical plot even conceived to bring a Government to its knees at the behest of Capitalism has now been born. And what a ghastly infant…

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W.a. Gold Companies' Deal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 18

PERTH, Friday. -- The Minister for Mines is in the dark in respect to the purchase of the Golden Horseshoe mine by Lake View and Star. "I want some say, or the new…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 19

The mining share market attained a little more activity yesterday though prices were irregular. Barrieis were dealt in freely at stronger rates. Norths rose 1/ to £5/8/6,…

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Events Move Rapidly in Coal Crisis -- Long Struggle Expected Mines Closed Yesterday 11,000 Men Thrown on Labor Market More May Follow

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- All the associated mines on the Newcastle and Maitland fields, with the exception of New Greta and…

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Unconscious in Mine Mysterious Accident Kurri Kurri

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 6

Discovered by workmates unconscious in Hebburn No. 1 mine to-day. Thomas Tumbull. 17. clipper, was removed to Kurri Hospital, where he…

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