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Mining & the mines, 1930

6,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 77 of 250

Mineral Output. £12,750,000 Last Year. Decrease Due to Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 17

Vaine of the mineral production of New South Wales for last year showa a decrease of about £2,500,000. The actual output has not been definitely…

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Stands Up for Miners Mechanics Presdt. Bathurst A.L.P. Metting Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 6

Speaking, at a meeting of the Bathurst, branch. A.L.P. Mr. A. T. Moran, president of the Federated Colliery Mechanics Association of Australia said the…

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Effect of Lock-out Big Coal Decrease Official Admissions State Heavily Hit

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 5

THE annual report of the Mines Department, issued yesterday, shows a decrease of 2,958,737 tons in the Northern coal district, the…

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Turned Out by Miners Communists Banned in South Wales "A Little Moscow" London

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 4

The biggest defeat the Communists in the Welsh coalfields have yet sustained, says "The Times." is the expulsion of the…

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Vicious Penalties Imposed by P.M. on Miners Three to Gaol for Three Months Sixty-six Heavily Fined Ashtonfields Demonstration Four Discharged Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 1

THREE miners--A. Gazelle, B. Charlton and H. Deas--were sentenced to three months imprisonment each, and 66 others fined in sums ranging from £6 to £18 by Mr. Reed; P.M., at Wallsend Police Court to-day for unlawful assembly…

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Shot Dead Fight on Goldfields Cairns

The Sun · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 8

It has been reported from Coen that a man named Power was shot dead on the Batavia goldfields, following a tight with another man…

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Hard-Headed Nats. Hoaxed By A Domain Orator! £300 Paid for Coal Peace! Posed As a Journalist Recognised in the Nat. Lobby Mr. Hemsley Fell And Mr. Jas. Ashton Nearly

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 1

REPRESENTING himself, under an assumed name, to be a journalist, a Domain orator of Australian-wide…

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Western Miners Against "All Out" Policy Lithgow

The Sun · Sunday 23 February 1930 · page 2

In a secret ballot, western district miners have taken a stand against an "all out" policy, 1746 votes being registered against "all out" and 334 in…

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"To Beer Or--" "Skewbald" Drinks Miners' Dilemma Cessnock

The Sun · Sunday 23 February 1930 · page 5

South Maitland colliery workers to- day are thinking black thoughts and drinking "black" beer. Yesterday, at Weston, the…

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£100,000 Damage in Paint Works Fire to Gaol? Miners May Not Pay Union Refuses More Time for Fines ?

The Sun · Sunday 23 February 1930 · page 2

It is expected that a majority of the miners who have been found guilty of unlawful assembly will want to go to gaol rather…

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Amounis Is a Wonder Humps 10.4 and Knocks Them Cold Good-bye Greenline Gold Melbourne

Truth · Sunday 23 February 1930 · page 3

WITHOUT a doubt Amounis is one of the mott brilliant sprinters who ever looked through a bridle, and after the way he cut the field down in the Futurity Stakes he was certainly entitled to be ranked in the first flight…

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Rockley Gold Mine

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 6

In a report on work at Rockley Gold mine, N.L., for the two weeks ended February 21, the mine manager states that the reef in the north drive from winze improves in quality,…

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Miners to Appeal

Daily Pictorial · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Appeals have been lodged against the sentences of imprisonment inflicted by Mr. Reed, S.M., on the miners who…

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Miners and State Enterprise

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 5

FOR some unaccountable reason there are these who say that the miners favor private enterprise. This insidious rumar [?]…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 13

Gold was quoted in London on Friday at 84/ll¼ per oz fine, our correspondent cables, an increase of one farthing on the day…

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Scullin Government and Miners' Rights

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 4

Miners are particularly invited to attend, the next meeting of the Paddington A.L.P. at the Town Hall on February 23 when Mr. S. Williams…

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From Bellbird More Miners Children Arrive

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 7

FORTY-EIGHT miners children ox rived in Sydney from Bellbird on Saturday afternoon under the care of Mrs. Munday. One of the number was…

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Black Ban. Mine Rescue Station. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 12

Four brick cottages are being built alongside the mine rescue station by the Western Miners' Rescue Committee. This will render it unnecessary for members of the corps…

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Costly Thirst Disciplining the Miners Cessnock

The Sun · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 9

Beer is expensive for Kuril miners now that local miners' lodges have adopted a policy or disciplining members of unions who do not observe…

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Qld. Railmen Aid Northern Miners Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 6

THE South-Eastern District Committee of the A.R.U. carried [?]unnimously the following:--"That this meeting of the South-Eastern…

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