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Mining & the mines, 1929

7,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 250

Spectacular Fire Sweeps Through Top of 100 ft. High Ultimo Factory Ruin Mines 'Withdraw Safety Men' Militants' Move

The Sun · Saturday 2 March 1929 · page 3

Now that the notices to the northern miners have expired, an intensification of the campaign by the militant minority movement…

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12,000 Men Leave the Mines Long Idleness Begins. Loss of £35,000 a Week Wages. Gloomy Outlook for the North. NEWCASTLE

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

More than 12,000 miners and other colliery employees, employed at some 20 collieries on the northern coalfields, walked workless from the pits when their notices automatically expired this afternoon. The prospects are a long period of idleness…

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"Safety Men" Won't Work Mines Two Collieries Long Struggle Expected

The Sun · Sunday 3 March 1929 · page 5

A serious development in the coal crisis arose yesterday, when, at Aberdare and Aberdare Extended collieries,…

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All Calm Northern Miners Off Fishing Newcastle

Truth · Sunday 3 March 1929 · page 1

WORKERS at the mines concluded their last day of employment in a dead calm. It is unlikely that it will prove the…

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Blue and Gold Dance of C.W.A. Vice-Regal Function

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 March 1929 · page 18

MANY society girls will take part a the living pictures to be staged at The Ambassadors on April 4, at the annual Blue and Gold Dinner Dance,…

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No Gold in Golden Three But Portion Gives Punters Their Share Finch's Heels Worked Overtime

Truth · Sunday 3 March 1929 · page 2

PUNTERS fell over themselves to back Golden Three in the first stanza of yesterday's Park Stakes at Hawkesbury, but G. H. Moody's Newmarket mare wasn't even nine carat and after looking a winner missed a place…

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How Gollan Got the Gold Percyllene Com. Made Casque d'Or Market He's Some Grandstand Jockey, Too!

Truth · Sunday 3 March 1929 · page 2

BILL GOLLAN garnered in the gold at Hawkesbury yesterday when his wife's gelding, Casque d'Or, took the Flying Handicap. The connections of Percyllene early in the day cornered Bill off and requested him…

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 16

PUCHONG.--Superstructure of dredge is now almost all in position, and a start has been made with the installation of heavy machinery…

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Rail Men, Now ? Attitude Towards Coal Aberdare Possibility Balmain Colliery Has Ceased Work

The Sun · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 9

In the event of any coal being hewn or handled by "scab" labor, the railwaymen will probably refuse to touch it. That, it was learned on good authority to-day…

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Deputies Dismissed. Cessnock Collieries. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 11

Twenty-three deputies at Aberdare Extended colliery and 20 at Aberdare colliery were dismissed yesterday for refusing to carty out waste-working examinations as well as their…

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Coal Crisis. Absolutely Solid Coal Industry Delegates Miners and Engine-drivers Are in Complete Agreement "Brutal Intolerance" Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 5

An emphatic deman was given to the inference, broadcast in a section of the of the metropolitan Press, that there was a difference of opinion between the representatives of the miners and engie-drivers at the Conference at Sydney last week…

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Mount Isa Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 16

An interim report to shareholders of Mount Isa Mines, Ltd., by the company's consulting engineers (Russo-As[?]atic Consolidated, Ltd.)[?] state that Mr. F. W. Draper (Russo-As[?]atic's…

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Prince Among English Miners

Evening News · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 12

MAKE LIGHT OF OBSTACLES.—Fair members of the Poly-technic Harriers, out on a cross country run, scale a gate at Perivale, England. MODELLED IN BONES—This unique model of the French sail-…

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Glen Ayr Colliery May Reopen Maitland

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 5

During the past week pumping operation were commenced in Glen Ayr mine, which closed down four months ago…

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West Australian Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 13

The gold output for February was 28,178 ounces, valued at £119,693 (telegraphs our Perth correspondent)…

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Idle Mines. Awaiting Mr. Bruce's Move

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 11

Northern colliery owners who are members of the association, who have dismissed their employees were engaged on Friday and Saturday in seeing that all necessary steps were…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 13

The mining share market was quiet on Saturday. There were few variations in price. Barries were well held, the only sale occurring in 200 Sulphides at a firm 18/9, with a…

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Coal Bamboozlers Are Being Bamboozled Out of Their Mental Depth Miners. Having Called Their Bluff. Will Now See Issue Through Council Reviews Its Plans

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 5

CULLY realising the serious aspect which the indiscriminate lockout of between fifteen thousand and sixteen thousand men has given to the coal industry crisis, the Miners' Central Council sat all Saturday considering the plan of campaign which is to be observed in the dark days ahead…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, March 4, 1929. the Coal Crisis

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 10

The trouble in the coal industry should have required only the application of plain business common sense to settle It. Unfortunately the application of common…

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"Prosecute Coal Owners" Cancel Leases Requests by Elect. Cncl. Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 5

At the annual meeting of the Newcastle Federal castle Federal Electorate Council on Saturday night. It was resolved to ask the Federal member, Mr. D. Watkins,…

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