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Mining & the mines, 1930

6,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 75 of 250

Miners' Children

The Biz · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 5

The 15 miner' children from Hillview Settlement (who were taken by the soldier settlers for a fortnight and kept a month), returned home to…

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Let the Mine-owners Pay a Sympathiser with the Miners Has His Say

The Land · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 4

Mr. J. R. McIntyre, of Black Mountain, who is on the side of the Newcastle miners in their present stand[?] writes:—…

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French Miners Strike

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 3

PARIS, Jan. 2.—A thousand miners in the Gondreville pits have joined the strike of the mi[?]ers in Piennes and Lamouiere, so that there are now…

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Relief for Miners

Evening News · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 8

The combined mining unions committee will meet to-day to consider the question of the allocation of relief…

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Miners' Children Need Clothing

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 7

Children's clothing, cocoa. Bonox, or any nourishing foods are urgently needed by the miners. The women of the coalfields are…

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Lithgow Appeal for Miners

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 6

The committee has invited Mr. W. Nellson, organiser of the M.R.F., and Mr. Rowley James to attend a public meeting at Lithgow on the 28th inst…

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Owners of Coal Shares Sensational Revelations Judges, Magistrates, Parsons, and Knights What Can Miners Expect?

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 5

WHAT base hypocrisy! What sanctimonious cant! What one-eyed " Justice! What base and flagrant lying! Around this present coal dispute is woven one of the dirtiest environments ever possible to conceive…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 13

Gold was quoted in London on Wednesday at 84/10? per oz fine, our correspondent cables, an increase of one halfpenny on the day…

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A “Leader” of the Miners

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 2

KURRY, Feb 12—When Mr. T. White vice-president of the Miners’ Federation was addressing a combined meeting of the Kurri lodges to-day,…

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Coal Problems Weaver in Quandary

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 1

The Minister for. Mines, replying to Mr. Davles in the Assembly, yesterday, definitely refused a request to appoint a committee or members of the…

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Miners Attack Free Laborer Wallsend

Evening News · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 7

AN altercation between free laborers and Miners' Federation men outside Wallsend Court to-day was Quietened when a detective appeared on the scene…

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Scabbery at Balmain Colliery On a Par With Rothbury

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 2

Stating bluntly that Balmain miners, with their collective contract are scabbing on the workers in the mining industry, the Communist Party distributed…

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W.i.r. Is Organising Miners’ Relief

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 2

Parcels of clothing, received in response to the appeal of the Workers’ International Relief. have been sent to the new W.I.R. depot at Kurri for…

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Famous Mine Working Once More Parkes

Evening News · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 7

AFTER having been closed for 20 years, the Phoenix, most famous of the mines on the Parkes goldfields, has again opened, and a company is being formed…

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One Acquitted Mine Charges Ashtonfields Case Wellsend

Evening News · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 8

THE charges of unlawful assembly against 72 men in connection with the incidents at Ashtonfields Colliery on January 10 were resumed…

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Coal Dispute. Production Figures. a Ministerial Denial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 12

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Weaver), in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, in reply to a question by Mr. Booth, denied the accuracy of figures showing the output of coal at…

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Trial of Miners Govt. Wants Reed P.m. Only

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 6

The Minister for Justice indicated clearly in the Assembly yesterday that the Government was determined that Mr. Reed, P.M. would hear all the…

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Who Wants to Go to the Picnic? Miners' Kiddies Invited

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 7

THOSE children from the coalfields who have been brought to Sydney under the auspices of Mrs. Munday's scheme are invited to attend a motor…

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Coal Struggle Is World-wide New Crisis in British Coal Communists Lead Fight for 7- Hour Day and Guaranteed Wage

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 3

The coal industry in Britain is rapidly running into a new crisis comparable almost with that which led to the general strike and miners’ lockout…

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Fanned with a Pick Handle! Miners Say Clothes Were Torn Off

Daily Pictorial · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--"Dazed from a blow, I walked into a tree and fell down. I got up. Gezzel twisted my wrist and…

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