EXPLOSION. In Railway Engine's Firebox. Detonator in the Coal. Melbourne
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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Bavin and the Miners That Vendetta in N.z. Question of Relief Civic Discussion
YESTERDAY we published reports from New Zealand showing how, in response to a cablegram from the Premier of New South Wales, stating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Workers Form Defence Corps to Combat Coal Owners Lessons of Rothbury Newcastle
The subject of forming a Labor defence corps has been discussed for a considerable period in northern industrial circles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Coal Far Superior Canadian Dept.'s Tests London, Friday. (British Official Wireless.)
THE superior quality of British coal has been demonstrated by a series of tests instituted by the Canadian Department of Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Money, Mines, Markets Stock Exchanges Reopen on Monday J. G. Williamson's Profit Stock Exchange Vacation Ends
To-day marks the close of the year- end vacation of the Australian Stock Exchanges. Business in Sydney and the other capital cities will be resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FINANCE and Commerce Financial. Export of Gold. Creation of Oversea Credits. Risk of Inflation
The export of £5,000,000 of gold from the Commonwealth in three months raises the question what effect should export of gold which is beyond an ordinary production,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Coal Award Referred to Full Court Preliminary Hearing Ends Mass of Evidence and Objections to Be Probed Nothing Yet Decided
AFTER a short sitting of the High Court, Mr. Justice Rich referred the whole of the case concerning the objections to the Beeby award in the coal industry to the Full Bench of the High Court, which will sit at Melbourne next Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Would You Allow This Man to Censor Your Talkies? Weeping Willis and £800 a Year Miners' Friend Who Might Be Film Censor Real Sob Stuff --Industrial Brand Even With Spoils to the Victors It Would Be Too Much This Man Is Not for Job
MR. WEEPING WILLIS, who a few days ago in the Legislative Council of New South Wales sobbed for the stricken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Tray Left
Gold Tray was a well-backed runner in the second division of yesterday's Maiden Handicap, but when the burner moved the gelding jumped back, and lost ground…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Those Oats Gold Cup Goes Home MELBOURNE
IT Will be some time before Gold Cup races in Australia again, as his owner has decided to give him a good spell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ban on Coal Is Mooted Enginemen to Review Position
NEWCASTLE, Saturday. -- Delegates of the Engine Drivers' Association, who met at the Newcastle Trades Hall to-day, carried…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Labor Parleys A.W.U., A.L.P., and Miners
THIRTY-TWO delegates from all over Australia will attend the annual convention of the A.W.U. in Sydney on January 23…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Forgery No Gold in Golden Speech Coalopolis Crash
LIKE a week-end millionaire, Golden Speech sounded all right when money talked for the gelding in the betting on yesterday's Warwick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROTHBURY Norman Brown's Inquest on January 13 Miners Quiet West Maitland
THE most important happening of the week on the coalfields was the conference of the Miners' Lodge representative, at which the Central Council…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sensational Developments in Coalfields' Drama Police Want Double Money Miners' Leaders Insist on Force Being Boycotted Hotel Staff Downs Tools Fifty More Men Reach Cessnock: Search for Explosives
THERE were sudden and sensational developments in the Rothbury coal turmoil yesterday. It was announced that the N.S.W. Police Association will this week make an official request to the Government for an increased allowance for the men on duty at Rothbury mine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Stands Between Peace and Holocaust Coal Fires Smouldering One fake Step May Mean a Huge Conflagration ! General Strike Feared High Court Evidence of Extraordinary Coincidences
FOR months Australia has been on the edge of an industrial volcano, with its grim fires smouldering, ready to burst into an inferno at any time, and set the whole country ablaze in a lava stream of chaos—and that volcano may yet explode with all the terror and tragedy that can follow in its wake. ONE easily visualised that catastrophe with its awfulness while the alert, serene David John Davies, General…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Miners Make Move to Prevent Police Obtaining Food Hotelkeepers Asked Not to Cook or Serve Meals One House Falls In With Plan, and "Bobbies" Go Hungry Move to Quarter Them Elsewhere
CESSNOCK, Saturday. -- The staffs of the hotels in Cessnock have been asked, by a section of the miners to refuse to cook or serve meals to the police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines and Miners
Mr. T. Waddell, M.L.C., sees a solution:-- I suggest that the Government should say to the miners: "We will…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Resume Mines Miners to Work Them Fair Repayments Men's Big Losses (To the Editor)
Sir,--The solution of the coal problem has now become one of urgent notional importance. He is a sanguine man indeed who think it can be solved by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Support Miners" Newcastle
The northern secretary of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union (Mr. Forbes) this afternoon denied a statement that members of his union had…
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