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Mining & the mines, 1930

6,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

End Near? Coal Deadlock Govts Hopes Miners Feel Pinch

Evening News · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 11

IN State Ministerial circles the collapse of the coal trouble is expected at any time…

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Coal Position

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 6

Mrs. O'Donnell wonders:--Can someone explain, through your paper, why the coal mines cannot be worked three shifts a day, on…

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Relief for Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 12

Employees at Hoyt's new theatre, now in course of construction, yesterday agreed to contribute 10/ a week to the miners' funds. Members of the railway workers' branch of…

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Balmain Mine. Enginedrivers Refuse Work

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 12

No settlement has been reached of the dispute with the englnedrivers which caused a stoppage at the Balmain colliery. The northern organiser of the Federated…

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Big Coal Importations Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 4

Speaking at the half-yearly meeting of the Metropolitan Gas Company, the chairman. Sir John [?] said that since the opening of the opening of the trouble in New South…

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Alderman Approves Coal-Fields Police

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 11

Alderman Pill is opposed to the withdrawal of the police from Rothbury. On Tuesday the organisers of a public meeting at Lithgow sought Holroyd…

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Queensland Coal Front Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 5

ALL quiet on the Queensland coal front though business firms query whether it the ''claims before the…

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Ban May Be Lifted by Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 11

A move has been made to have the "black" ban lifted fiom the coalfields. Representatives of the Liquor Trades union and the Hotel, Club, and Restaurar…

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The Coal Commission. Report in February

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 12

The secretary of the Coal Commission (Mr. Jamieson) informed representatives of the Press yesterday that the full report of the commission would not be available until the…

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Wharfies Jib Coal Levy Cessation Likely

Evening News · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 8

THE Waterside Workers' Federation, at its next stop-work meeting, will rescind its levy of 2/- a week for the miners, it is…

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Watersiders' Aid to Miners Members Will Decide

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 1

The calling of a stop-work meeting was agreed to by the Waterside Workers at their meeting yesterday. The incidence of the levy for the…

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All Lithgow Mines at Work Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 6

Kandos Colliery lies resumed operations. the dispute with the management having been settled. All collection in the Lithgow area are…

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Rothbury Coal. Transported to Newcastle Branxton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 12

Another trainload of coal left Rothbury colHery this afternoon foi Newcastle. The train consisted of 37 trucks, and was strongly Guarded by police, who occupied two special…

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Coal Again Before High Court Beeby Award

Evening News · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 13

ONCE again Mr. Justice Rich was engaged in the High Court to-day with a Chambers hearing of preliminary objections to an inform…

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To Confer with Coal Commission Canberra

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 4

The Commonwealth Statistician and actuary Mr. C. H. Wickness, will ho to Sydney in a few days to see the Royal Commission on the Coal industry on…

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Refuted Enginedrivers' Hot Air "All Camouflage" Say Miners' Chiefs

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 5

''IT appears to us that the Enginedrivers' Association's talk of a general stoppage is merely so much camouflage to cover their…

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Bellambi Coal Pays 15 P.c. P.a

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 16

By declaring interim dividend of 9d a share for the past half-year the directors of Bellambi Coal Co., Ltd., have raised the rate from 12[?] to 15 p.c. p.a. For 1927 and…

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Free Coal 2622 Tons To-=ate Newcastle

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 17

Approximately 2622 tons of coal have been railed from Rothbury since the Government took control of the colliery. An additional 320 tons arrived…

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Bench Believes Miners Were Peaceful Magistrate Doubts Police Evidence Those Armed[?] Miners Crown Sees Futility to Address Defendants Acquitted Kurri

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 1

There is a doubt, and I give the defendants the benefit," said Mr. Reed, P.M., at Kurri Court to-day, in the case of William Edwards, Edward Villis, and Frederick Gibbins, charged with having joined an unlawful assembly…

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Vindictive! Branch Attacks Executive North Enginemen with Miners Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 January 1930 · page 5

THE only motive the Newcastle branch can discern in the executive of the F. E. D and in withdrawing the men from the…

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