Unity of Mining Unions Will Fight For New Deal
The Workers' Weekly · Friday 1 July 1938 · page 2
SYDNEY.—Unanimity was reached al a conference of unions with members engaged in the coal mining industry at a conference on Wednesday to evolve plans to meet any emergency that might develop in the present dispute in the industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Miners Forge World's Greatest Strike Weapon Steak at 1d. Included in Plans
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 July 1938 · page 1
ON August 4, the National Conference of the Miners Federation will decide on action, if coal-owners refuse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Investor's Diary. Profits and Losses in the Coal Mining Industry—Results of Eight Public Companies
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 July 1938 · page 14
There has been a good deal of publicity lately in the Press relative to a possible strike in the coal industry if certain demands made by the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →News From Mines Oil Search Activities
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 July 1938 · page 16
Oil Search, Ltd., reports.--Drillers, Ltd.: Hutton Creek bore: Present depth 4668ft., formation hard compacted dark shale. The Federal Oil Advisory Committee recently visited the bore. and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Govt. Attacked On Threatened Coal Stoppage
The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 July 1938 · page 2
FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT THE IMPENDING INDUSTRIAL CLASH ON THE COALFIELDS WAS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. Price of Gold
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 July 1938 · page 18
Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/9 an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/8½ yesterday BASE METALS. Base metals were quoted at noon to-day as…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Coal for China. Newcastle May Get Orders. War Causes Shortage. Newcastle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 July 1938 · page 17
Large orders of cargo coal for Shanghai may come to Newcastle as a result of the war between China and Japan cutting off Shanghai's usual sources of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Salamaua-wau Road. Economic Value. Gold and Timber Resources. Saving Freight Costs
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 July 1938 · page 19
The new road from Salamaua to Wau, which will be built in conjunction with the transfer of the capital of New Guinea from Rabaul to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Borneo Gold Project Theodore-Wren Group Retire
Truth · Sunday 3 July 1938 · page 27
BORNEO Gold Explorations came into the news during the week with an announcement that Messrs. Wallace H. Smith, P. F…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Colliery Owners' Chairman Dies
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 July 1938 · page 4
The death occurred yesterday at his home, Wygadon Street, North Sydney, of Mr. Ivo Clarke, chairman of the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop Press Rich Gold Reported
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 July 1938 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A rush has set in to Mansfield, where two prospectors have reported a rich find on line of rich lode 60 years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, July 3
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 July 1938 · page 12
Gold was quoted on Saturday at £7/0/9 an ounce fine, unchanged from Friday. "GIPSY" SMITH MARRIED. LOS ANGELES, July 3…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Lithgow Colliery to Reopen
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 7
LITHGOW, Monday. Cobar Tunnel colliery, which has been out of production for several years, is to be reopened. Only a few men will be employed,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Granites Development Mine
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 8
During the week ended June 30 the Granites Development N.L. mine worked only 70 hours owing to the opening out of the face and to minor mechanical troubles. A partial…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Prices Wangled to Show Loss Orr Explodes Coal Barons’ Tales Facts Support Miners’ Claims
The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 4
Coal prices were low because they were fixed by the larger companies, which used must of their own coal, said the miners’ general secretary (Bill Orr). They preferred to show a “bookkeeping” loss at their coalmines if large profits from cheap coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Want Inquest Reopened
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 5
Officials of the Miners' Federation have been asked to request the Government to reopen the inquest on John Anderson. 42." who was killed at the John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria Gold Dredging
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 9
The dredge of Victoria Gold Dredging Co., N.L., is expected to begin a trial run this week. For the nine months ended March 31 (the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sunshine Gold Return
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 8
Sunshine Gold Development, Ltd., clean-up for June yielded 306oz sold…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Owner On Five Charges
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 5
NEWCASTLE, Monday.--A mine owner A. R. Thomas, of Jesmond, was convicted, today on five charges of breaches of the mining regulations…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Affiliate with New Party
The Sun · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 3
The first union to affiliate with the new Labor Party, formed at the Newtown rebel industrial conference recently, is that of the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →