More Marches? Mines May Be Sealed If No Safety Men Newcastle
Picketing of the associated collieries with the object of withdrawal of safety men will probably commence on Tuesday…
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Motors and Motoring Coal Gas Chemists Investigate New Process of Extraction
Upon his return to Sydney this week the consul for Roumania (Mr. A. K. Way) said that British, chemists had been investigating the possibilities of a new…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Letters Communists and the Coal Strike. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The Premier has declared that the organisation of the "Labour Defence Army," which is now current on the northern coalfields, is "unnecessary and illegal."…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners' Relief Fund. Towards £700 Some New Names Out-of-work Man Sets Example
The Miners' Relief Fund is now heading for £700. An addition of just on twenty pounds yesterday, carried the total past the £600 mark…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"A Famous Victory !" Miners En Masse Ashtonfields Drama No More "Blacklegs" Orderly Scene Newcastle
ASHTONFIELDS colliery has been purged--it has been washed "white" by the organised might of 6000 miners who marched on to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Violence on the Coal Fields. Men Brutally Assaulted. March by Thousands of Pickets. Ruse to Mislead Police at Rothbury
Making a surprise descent on Ashtonfields Colliery, near Maitland, yesterday morning, a strong body of pickets from the Newcastle field intercepted a number of miners on their way to work and grossly assaulted them…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Battle of Wits Police Are Completely Outwitted by Miners Masterpiece of Tactics Blacklegs Cleared Out of Ashtonfields Rothbury March Branxton
THE hunting of a score of blacklegs employed at Ashtonfields colliery from the premises this morning was the culmination of a masterly tactical move on the part of the members of the Miners' Federation on all the fields…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blowflies Of Bribery Hunt For Food In N.S. Wales Coal Dispute There's Trouble in the Air Peace Not a Winged Angel Bitterness Between Towns
PEACE pictured as a winged angel is all wrong. She may travel by boat or train, by car or on foot, but certainly not by air. Anyone doubting this story of turmoil up aloft need…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Evidence of Starvation on Coalfields Not Material to Case --Mr. Justice Starke BROWNE, K.C., Argues Before High Court Outlines Case for Miners Story of Collusion Between Bavin and Owners Argumentative Judges Melbourne
MOST of to-day's proceedings before the High Court, in which the validity of the Beeby interim mining award is being tested, consisted of an outline by Mr. Browne, K.C., of the history of the case, and argument with the justices of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Brandish Revolvers in Frantic Charge Ugly Scene Narrowly Averted at Rothbury Miners Mobilise in the Dawn Ghostly Army of Ten Thousand Strong on the March Volunteers Stripped Naked State of Panic in Compound Cessnock
BY drawing their revolvers as they drove through the miners' ranks, about 30 police nearly precipitated an ugly scene during the Kurri march this morning. Provoked by the wanton display of arms, numbers of men gathered sticks and stones as defensive weapons and threw them at the police as they sped past in two cars…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners a Seething Mass Gigantic Flare-up at Any Moment Rail Men Won't Handle Coal! Branxton
WHAT next? Despite frazzles nerves, pent-up emotions, and a weariness only comparable to that of the worn-out soldiers on the Western Front, every member of the special police guards at Rothbury and Branxton is haunted by that question. A boil-over is due at any moment…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →It Was a Wedding of Gold
WEDDINGS are in the air. From London comet the description of another aristocratic bride, the Honorable Diana Sackville-West, who was married to Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Rail Men Refuse to Handle Rothbury Coal
BY a two-to-one majority the northern members of the Australian Railways Union decided yesterday that they would not handle coal hewn at Rothbury by volunteer labor. Mr. Bavin was informed of the result of the ballot by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Riches for Spain Coal and Diamonds
THE Geological and Mining Institute of Spain has made remarkable finds oil hitherto unknown coal and potassium salt deposits. Diamondiferous ground…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Free Coal Railwaymen Decide Won't Handle It
The ballot of members of the Waratah and Newcastle branches of the A.R.U. resulted in a 2-to-1 decision not to handle coal hewn by other than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What About It? Punters Know Now Gold Tray Beaten
What about it? Punters knew all about it when What About it just beat the favorite, Gold Tray, in the second…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Cut-out Price Cuts First International Coal Agreement LONDON
THE first International agreement in the history of coal mining was achieved to-day, when the British and Polish exporters pledged to be guided…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Carriage of Coal -- 2 TO 1 AGAINST Newcastle Ballot is Emphatic
The A.I.U. ballot in Newcastle concerning the carriage of coal hewn by other than union labor resulted in a majority of almost 2 to 1 against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chaos in China Nanking Forbids Merchants Gambling in Gold SHANGHAI
THE National Government threatens to place an embargo on the further importation of silver into China in order to attempt to alleviate the present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plonk Supped Gold Tray Cost Mick Poison Plenty Now What About It?
IF anyone cares to risk a row he has only to walk up to Mick Polson and ask "What About It?" The moke with the marathon…
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