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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

6,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 250

No Mining : £408 Profit Newcastle

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 9

Despite the fact that Newcastle Coal Mining Co., Ltd., had no mines in operations for the past six months, a profit of £408/10/8 is recorded in the directors'…

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Miners' Boycott. "The "Black" Ban. Must Be Withdrawn. Ministry's Decision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 13

The State Cabinet decided yesterday to take immediate steps to counteract the "black" ban policy introduced on the Maitland coalfields. Unless the ban is withdrawn the…

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Charges Fail Against Three Miners Benefit of Doubt Cessnock

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 12

Saying that there was a doubt in his mind, Mr. Reed, P.M., to-day dismissed the charges against three men who were alleged to have joined in…

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Kearsley Riot. Miners Before Court. Mass Picketing Charges. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 13

Though 11 men were to appear at Cessnock Police Court to-day on charges arising out of the mass picketing of January 15, only three cases were reached…

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"Keep the Mines Closed." to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 9

Sir,—The letter under the above heading in to-day's issue of your paper is not calculated to help with a settlement of the coal trouble. Though the writer claims to have a close…

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The man in the Street (To the Editor) Military and Miners

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 4

Sir,--What is wrong with this suggestion: That Mr. Scullin, send down the military to the Northern districts to protect the miners from the police…

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Miners Relief Fund. Slower Progress the Holiday, Perhaps Twelve Hundred Almost

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 5

It always happens. We just get are fund moving nicely and along comes the last of week or a holiday, or some other upset…

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Coal From England. £600,000 Lost to Australia. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 14

Since the closing of the mines in New South Wales the Metropolitan Gas Company has been compelled to import 250,569 tons of coal from England, and 23,909 tons from Westport…

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Labor Row Over Mines Scullin's Future Should Win Day Caberra

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 9

WHILE many members of the State Parliamentary Labor party expect dramatic developments from to-day's meeting of…

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Enginemen Make History Coal Crisis Their Attitude "L, Daily" Castigated

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 5

DEEMING it necessary to place on the minute-books of the organisation ''a definite historical record for the future guidance of members of…

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Victorian Notes and News a Weekly Letter. Miners and the A.W.U.

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 13

ANOTHER column will have told the story of the half-yearly meeting of the Victoria-Riverina Branch. The anti-Pan-Pacific Secretariat resolution was…

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Cheap Coal New Zealand Takes a Stand Pattern for N.s. Wales

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 4

Following the threats of the Bavin Government to reduce the price of coal by hook or by crook. New Zealand has awakened to the seriousness of…

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MARTS — MONEY — Mines and Maritime Golden Speech Fenton Sends Up Australian Stocks London

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 6

The speech of Mr. Fenton Commonwealth Minister for Customs, received considerable publicity in the financial columns of the newspapers and had a…

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"Let Labor Be United" Sen. Barnes' Appeal A.w.u. and Coal Lockout

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 4

ON his presidential address before the A.W.U. Convention yesterday, Senator Barnes said that no stone should be left unturned to see that…

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Coal Lockout Special Labor Conference Demands Drastic Action. High Court Says Beeby Award Is Invalid

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 15

A CONFERENCE summoned by the N.S.W. Labor Executive to discuss the coal situation was held at the Sydney Trades Hall last Wednesday afternoon…

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Federal Government and Coal Trouble Prime Minister States Constitutoinal Position. Answer to “Labor Daily”criticisms

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 18

ARISING out of certain criticisms appearing in recent issues of the “Labor Daily" newspaper regarding the part played by the Federal Labor…

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Sorry Day Federal Cabinet Crisis Coal Again Beasley May Go in a Re-shuffle Canberra

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 11

In an unhappy mood, Federal Ministers entered the Cabinet room to-day for their first meeting in Canberra this year. Gone was the exultation and the buoyant spirit which…

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More Starvation Threats to Miners That "Black" Ban Must Be Withdrawn Bavin Issues Another Hysterical Challenge Cutting Off Food Relief

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 1

NO compromise; but ruthless repression of the miners in their fight against the cola owners is the slogan of the Bavin Government. Starvation is the weapon which is being forged to combat the tactics, so far successful, of the men on the Northern coalfields…

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N.g. Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 16

The following progress report for the week ended January 4, has been issue by the Mining Trust, Ltd., consulting engineers for New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd.:--…

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Premier Bavin and the Coal Trouble N.S.W. Nationalist Government, by Openly Supporting the Mineowners to Maintain an Illegal Lockout, is preventing a Settlement of the Dispute on the Northern Coalfields

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 13

IT is now eleven months since the mine-workers were locked out of their jobs on the Newcastle and Maitland coalfields, and the prospects of a resumption of work…

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