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Mining & the mines, 1930

6,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

Price of Gold London

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 3

Gold is quoted at 84/11½ per oz [?] of ½d on the day…

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Miners Disappointed. Volunteers Do Not Desert. Branxton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 15

The hopes of local miners that the volunteer labourers in the Rothbury camp would desert in a body after they had been paid, received a rude shock this afternoon. A rumour had…

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Mine Strike Is Threatened Enginemen's Conference To-day

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

A general mining strike throughout the Commonwealth is again threatened, this time as the outcome of to-day's…

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Holiday for Miners' Children Bondi Woman's Splendid Work

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Friday.--Mrs. Florence Munday, of Bondi, who on Saturday last took 30 miners' children to Sydney for a few weeks' holiday, and…

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On the Side of the Miners Rev. Chandler's Reasons

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

According to a statement issued last night, Rev. C. W. Chandler has five, reasons for going to Cessnock next Sunday. They are: --…

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To Brighten Lives Trip for Miners' Children Cessnock

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 3

Mrs. Florence Munday, of Bondi, has returned to the coalfields for the purpose of getting together a second party of fifty children of miners who…

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Britain's Best Coal Week Since 1924 LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 4

Britain's coal mines produced 5,647,200 tons in the week ended December 21, which exceeds any week's output since May, 1924…

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The Decision Enginedrivers Delegates Coal Policy Newcastle

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

The special conference of the F.E.D. and F.A. delegates, which met at Newcastle Trades Hall this afternoon, decide dthat while they agreed with the…

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"Coal and Iron Police" Horridly Murder a Miner

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 8

In our last issue we gave an account of the horrible murder, by American private police, of a miner named John Barkoski, and of the trial of his…

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Goulburn Gold Cup--close Thing in Argyle Handicap

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 21

THE PIONEER lady in Australia of the new steel- shafted,…

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Innefficient Coal Owners Advised -- What Professor George Knox Says

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 9

It is only in Australia that the capitalists and their newspapers, can induce people to believe that all trouble in the [?] industry results from the obduracy…

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The King v. the King Remarkable Coal Case Anomaly

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

A remarkable legal aspect of the High Court coal case is that the King is appearing against the. King, with the King as his judge!…

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Britain's Labor Government Improves Coal Marketing and Reduces Hours

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 9

In Britain, there is a Labor Government in office, which, not being fettered by the limitations (or alle[?]ed limitations) of a Federal Constitution…

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Britain's Big Coal Output London, Friday. (British Official Wireless.)

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

IN the week ending December 21, Britain's coal mines produced 5,647,200 tons, which exceeds any week's output since…

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Coal Dispute Interest Centres on Beeby Award Appeal Case

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 4

The coal strike still remains unsettled. All overtures to effect a settlement that would have tho endorsement of the conflicting parties have failed, and during…

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Hidden Under Coal Bunkers Brandy and Opium Seized on Cabarita

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 3

Sixty-eight bottles of brandy. 45 bottles of sam-su (Chinese gin), and a small quantity of opium was seized yesterday by Customs officials, after…

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Mining Tin Producers' Meeting. Prospects of Controlling Output

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 17

Speaking at a meeting of the Tin Producers' Association in London recently, Mr. J. Howeson, of the Anglo-Oriental Mining Corporation, threw further light on the…

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Miners' Relief Fund. the Old Team Carrying the Baby Total Mounts Slowly

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

The Miners' Fund added some thirteen pounds yesterday, bringing the grand total somewhat closer to £400…

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Full Steam on Coal Case High Court Decision on Monday Week?

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

The first chapter of the High Court coal case ended suddenly yesterday morning, when the last of the involved preliminary…

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EXPLOSION. In Railway Engine's Firebox. Detonator in the Coal. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 15

An explosion occurred in the firebox of a train proceeding from Jeparit to Rainbow this morning. The driver, F. Speed, and Driver G…

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