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Mining & the mines, 1930

6,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 67 of 250

"White" Beer Heat Wins Thirsty Miners' Raid Cessnock

Evening News · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 1

BEER is "white" on a section of the coalfields, and it it anticipated that the drought will break in all the big centres before…

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Queensland Coal Shipments Exploiting the Crisis Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 4

Hetherington and Rylance (Ipswich) colliery proprietors have scoured large order for coal from the West Moreton mines…

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Opened a Mine and Lost It Wrongly Chartered Maitland

The Labor Daily · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 1

Having opened a mine and on the verge of entering rich coal-bearing leaves. D. Taylor, and A. Sidebottom heard the Mining Warden at…

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£500,000 Blaze Kimberley Loss Mine Buildings Go Kimberley

Evening News · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 1

KIMBERLEY present a desolate appearance this morning, after a disastrous fire involving nine buildings and a loss of £500,000…

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Price of Gas. May Be Raised. Coal Too Expensive

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 13

Unless the price of coal, when a settlement of the dispute is reached, is sufficiently reduced to enable the company to recover its losses sustained by reason of the stoppage,…

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Ways and Means Mining Conference To-night

The Labor Daily · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 4

The conference between the A.L.F, Central Executive and the N.S.W. Federal Representatives and Senators, Will take Place to-night in…

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Kurri Miners Kick Meeting Denounces Traitor Leaders, Calls for New Lead

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 1

A combined meeting of the Kurri miners’ lodges held here last Wednesday showed more hostility than ever to the scabby and inactive policy of…

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NOVELS of the Day Californian Gold and a Whaler

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 8

"Gold"—enthralling titlel"—is a notable new book of which we have received nn advance copy from London. The romance of gold is everlasting. The most romantic era…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Blue Metal Quarries Meagre Profit

The Sun · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 3

Small Profit on Blue Metal Southern Blue Metal Quarries, Ltd., earned net profit of only £191 during the year ended October 31 last, but…

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Coal Case in High Court. Miners' Secretary in the Box Inter-state Aspect of Log Shows How Federation Had Asked for Increase at Many Conferences Legality Arguments Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 5

LENGTHY, and at times heated, cross-examination of Mr. D.J. Davies, miners secretary, by Mr, Menzies, K.C., was the feature of to-day's hearing in the High Court, before Mr, Justice Rich, of the application by the owners to restrain the interim award of Judge Beeby being brought…

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International Gold Movements. Bank of England Rate Effective. Draws the Metal Back to London. Gold Standard. a Year of Record Movements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 6

The gold standard was on its trial in 1929. So far the victory is with it. But a British Minister declared that there must be something wrong when a wild wave of speculation…

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Terrorism on Coalfields Ninety Miners Convicted Magistrate’s “Cat and Mouse” Tactics

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 1

KURRI, Feb. 9.—The latest move in the coalowners’ campaign of mass terrorism which is designed to break the fighting spirit of the miners was the…

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Coal Dispute. Activity at Richmond Main. Rumours of Reopening. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 14

Rumours to the effect that Mr. John Brown intends to reopen his Richmond Main colliery. and offer work at the rates and conditions fixed by the November conference…

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Coal Policy Debate Communist Party Affirms that Hoare Has Betrayed Socialist Principles

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 1

The Band Rotunda, Kurri Kurri, has been fixed as the place, and 3 p.m. next Sunday as the time, for the widely-advertised debate between…

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The Commonwealth Bank. Control of All Gold Reserves. Towards Central Banking

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 1

The Commonwealth Bank during the year advanced a step on the way to full central reserve banking. It obtained control in the last month of the year of the gold held…

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Miners’ Leaders Ban Convention Treacherously Flout “All Out” Demand Disaster, Unless Rank and File Take Control

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 1

Too cowardly to give an account of its stewardship to the rank and file, the miners’ central council has postponed—indefinitely—the annual…

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A Stampede? Militants' Anxious Days Split in Ranks Free Labor Threat at John Brown's Mine Kurri

The Sun · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 12

Local miners' lodges, in conjunction with the Pelaw Main and Stanford Merthyr lodges, are working feverishly to prevent any action being taken which would assist in the successful working of Mr. John Brown's Richmond Main colliery on compromise…

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Coal Dispute Earnings of the Men at the Rothbury Mine

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 4

No settlement has yet been elfected in the coal dispute on the northern fields it is expceted, however, that Mr. John Brown will open the Riehmend Main…

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Coal-mining Conditions in India Misery of Women and Girls Underground

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 9

The annual report of the Chief inspector of Mines in India shows that in 1021 the average dally number of workers employed in mines was 260,000. 181,000. males…

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Excelsior Mine Wolongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 9

Mr. Patterson, [?]outhern District Check Inspector, Issues the following re[?] on Excelsior Mine: Ventilation at Place 45 was slack…

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