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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1938

4,311 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 216

Miners Condemn Mr. Lang. Resignation Demanded. Appeal to Federal A.L.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 11

The interstate council of the Miners' Federation carried a resolution yesterday demanding that Mr. J. T. Lang should resign from the State Labour…

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Claims by Miners and the Facts Attempt To Cloak Relationships With "L.d." Statement

The Labor Daily · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 6

FOLLOWING a meeting of the Miners' Council yesterday, the general secretary. Mr. Orr, released a lengthy statement to the whole of…

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"Monkey" Lost on Murray Court No Match For Sally Gold This Time

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 1

ODDS-ON pops are only created to make the grey hairs grow in profusion on poor old punters. Seldom do they win, and MURRAY COURT proved…

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In Equity. (Before Mr. Justice Nicholas.) Mining Syndicate Venture. Leases and Power of Attorney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 6

Messrs. Harold and Morris Leventhal, of Sydney, have commenced a suit relating to the affairs of the "Great Cobar Syndicate" against Mr. George Wright, mining engineer,…

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Third Round, Tooth's Gold Cup Praag, Kitchen, Abbott, or Wotton? Johnson, Duggan, And Stevenson Well In It

Referee · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 25

THIRD heat of Tooth's Gold Cup at Sydney Show Ground on Saturday night should be the most open event of the season. With Arthur Wilkinson and Jack Milne absent, any one of six riders is capable of pulling off the event. Those with best…

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Serious Charge Against Brisbane Jockey W. SHIPTON Investigations At Open Inquiry After Gold Star's Run Stewards Exonerate Trainer

Referee · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 5

A SEQUEL to the running of the Foundation Handicap at the Q.T.C. meeting on Saturday last was a serious charge against Jockey W. Shipton. The stewards alleged that he had not permitted Gold Star to run on its merits…

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No Work Yet at Idle Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Thursday.--Employees of Elrington Colliery went to the mine this morning, but again returned home. The colliery has been idle for some…

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"Miners Must Accept Challenge"

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Thursday.--The attitude of Messrs. Baddeley, M.L.A., and James, M.H.R., at the Cessnock A.L.P. meeting last night was a direct challenge to the…

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Miners on Waterside Decision

The Labor Daily · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 14

After congratulating members of the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation on their refusal to load metals that might be used in the manufacture of arms…

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New Lusitania Gold Quest

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 3

MAX E. NOHL (left), 27-year-old Milwaukee (U.S.) deep-sea diver, who is to make an attempt to recover the gold treasure from the Lusitania, which was sunk off the Irish coast in 1915 by a torpedo from a German submarine. Here Nohl, with an assistant, is testing the suit. At right he is shown as he came to the surface after descending 420ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin…

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W.a. State Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 15

The Western Australian gold yield for January was 86,215oz valued at £A747,988. The output was 17,375oz more than for January, 1937, and 10,071oz less than the…

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Call on Lang to Resign Miners Resolution On “Labor Daily”

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 3

SYDNEY, Feb. 2.— “You own a £1 share in the ‘Labor Daily’ are a moneylender extracting- your pound of flesh from the company while the Miners’ Federation owns 10,000 £1 shares upon which interest has not been paid and which will be lost if…

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Mining the Share Market. Base Metals Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 15

Base-metal sections of the [?] share market were quiet and steady yesterday. Of the leading shares B. H. South, in the only movement recordediccoided, hardened a few pence…

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Will Not Aid Labor Paper A.W.U. Congress Vetoes £5000 Grant Proposed Miners to Subscribe Another £5000

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 7

FEDERAL convention of the A.W.U. decided yesterday not to subscribe £5000 to the fund organised by the unions to liquidate Mr. Lang's debenture over the Labor Daily…

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Lithgow Miners Idle

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 2

LITHGOW, Friday.--Because of a dispute with the management, 107 men of Vale of Clwydd Colliery are idle. A conference between lodge officials and the…

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Tas. Mine Dispute

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 8

The Central Council of the Miners' Federation yesterday endorsed the stand by members involved in the dispute at three Tasmanian collieries, and approved of the…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 1

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies, with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present…

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100 Mine Men to Lose Jobs

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Friday.--Officers of Aberdare Central Miners' Lodge were summoned to a conference with the management of the colliery tonight…

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Riotous Gold Diggers at Lambing Flat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 7

The conflict between miners and troopers pictured above is described in an article in the preceding column…

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Five Killed in Shaft of Mine Ottawa

The Sun · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 5

Five miners were killed and 12 injured when a cage carrying 20 miners, at the International Nick[?]i Company's mine at Sudbury…

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