Capitalist Offensive in Germany Wage Cuts Demanded by Coal, Textile and Metal Bosses Ruhr Councils of Action
The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 4
Berlin, Thursday.—The New Year in Germany opens with the launching of a gigantic offensive against the wages and conditions of the workers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip East Greta Coal Co. Merger Plan
The Sun · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 2
The directors of the East Greta Coal Mining Co., Ltd., announce that preliminary negotiations have been concluded for the acquisition of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Elrington Colliery Conference Newcastle
The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 8
Mr. J. Kallack, northern miners' vice-president, attended a conference at the mine-owners' rooms to-day 10 a.m. endeavor to fix the rates and conditions to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Blown to Death in Coal Mine Gas Explosion at Wonthaggi Naked Lights Melbourne
The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 1
A man was blown to death in a gas explosion in Wonthaggi coal mine to-day. FIVE others were seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Notes
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 15
South Australian Oil Wells reports:—"No. 2, water shut off and well balled dry. Oil now coming in. No. 3, balled 140 gallons oil. No. 4, cleaning out well, and plugging bottom to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Blown to Death in Mine
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 8
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Dashed against the roof of the tunnel when gas exploded, Alfred Elkin (63), married, a mine deputy, was fatally…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold Find in Tasmania
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 15
Our Hobart correspondent telegraphs that a great deal of interest is being taken in the discovery of gold at Mt. Honor, about 15 miles north-east of Scottsdale, made by Messrs. C…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Great Turnastone Gold Reefs
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 15
Great Turnastone Gold Reefs N.L., has been formed with a cipital of £10,000 in 200,000 1/ shares to develop a recently discovered gold reel at Turnastone, neal Barraba, New…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mining the Share Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 15
Prices were mainly firmer in yesterday's mining share market on a moderate turnover. Attention was diverted from gold stocks to base metal interests by a further general…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Gold Rush Historic Eureka Melbourne
The Sun · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 7
The gold rush on the historic Eureka lead, which is the first rush Ballarat has seen for more than half a century, is extending…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Wages. Owners' Application. Ten Per Cent. Reduction
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 14
Collieryowners in the south and west of New South Wales and Tasmania and the Victorian State mine have lodged a claim with the Commonwealth Arbitration Court…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Coal Industry. Proposed Board Opposed. NEWCASTLE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 12
The State Government's proposal to set up a board to control the New South Wales coal industry was condemned by the council of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce at a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Explosion in Mine. One Man Killed. MELBOURNE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 13
An explosion of gas occurred in the State coal mine at Wonthaggi to-day, and one man was killed and five others were seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Gold at Orara Discovery in Old Shaft
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 8
DORRIGO, Friday.--Two prospectors, Joe Cook and T. D. Moseley, arrived in town;last night with fine samples of stone Studded with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Reps. at A.L.P. Conference Newcastle
The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 7
[?] lot for seven members to represent the district at the A.L.P. Metropolitan Provincial Conference, to be held in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Deal East Greta in Merger Big Group
The Sun · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 3
The merger of the J. and A. Brown and Abermain Seaham collieries, forming the strongest coal group in Australia, is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Quest for Gold. Points for Prospectors. I.
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 9
Men only search for gold when the more comfortable ways of earning a livelihood fall them. It was this driving force of economic necessity that sent men from the towns and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Big Coal Merger Extended East Greta Co. To Join £600,000 DEAL
Evening News · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 3
NEGOTIATIONS have been concluded for the acquisition of the whole of the shares of the East Greta Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Trade Booming in the North Big Consignments Every Week Revival Likely Newcastle
The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 5
THERE is enthusiasm in Newcastle regarding the trade revival in coal. Since the export trade increased…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How Much Gold Was Left By Australia's Pioneer Diggers? Walked Away From a Fortune How Norman Sligo Missed £40,000 Riches From Abandoned Holdings
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 3
NOT only the inexperienced have walked over rich values in the ground, or, having located the indications of these, have abandoned areas that proved highly payable later. Good men, good miners, and good prospectors have similarly misread the signs…
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