Miners Deny "Mondayitis"
The accident rate in coal mines was always more pronounced on a Monday, because the miners in commencing on that day were always…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining & the mines, 1939
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Miners’ Auxiliaries Busy
The Women’s Auxiliaries of the Miners’ Federation are continuing their activities and are continually growing. Educational lectures and debates are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State Parliament Vital Need For Mine Safety Expense of Coal Commission No Object
"HEALTH and safety coalmines are so important that the expenditure of a few thousand pounds on a Royal Commission is not worthy worrying about."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Declares Miners "Die Like Flies"
"Coalminers are dying off like flies after they reach the ages of 35 to 40 years." The general secretary of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Money Spent On Mines Inquiry
The Royal Commission on Safety in Mines has cost to date approximately £2500. The Treasurer (Mr. Mair) stated this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Triton Gold to Pass Dividend
Directors of Triton Gold Mines, N.L., have decided against the payment of a dividend for the quarter ending March 31…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Judge Cantor’s Coal Shares SYDNEY
In the bearing of the claims of mining unions, Bill Orr said he proposed to deal with the question of those…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Watered” Mine Capital Bill Orr’s Address
“I do not know that ‘ROBBING’ is the right word. ‘EXPLOITATION’ might be better.” So said Judge Drake Brockman in the Arbitration Court during Bill Orr’s speech in reply to the evidence on miners’…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press Phone M2406. Newcastle 472 Miners Protest
NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- Northern Miners' Committee of Management tonight made a protest against delay in sittings of the Miners' Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Exposed to Many Ills Orr Puts Their Case For Shorter Hours
"Many men in the coal mining industry die off like flies at 35 or 40 years of age, without compensation." Mr. W. Orr, general secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Miners Die Off Like Flies." Claim Questioned by Judge. Effects of Employment
A submission by the General secretary of the Miners' Federation, Mr. W. Orr, that miners "died off like flies" after the age of 35 or 40 was questioned by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Triton Gold Mines
Explaining their decision against payment of a dividend for the March quarter, the directors of Triton Gold Mines N.L. state that operating costs for January and February…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Idle Mines
CESSNOCK, Friday.--Cessnock No. 2 and Elrington Collieries were idle to-day, the former because of slackness of trade and the latter because of the shortage of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Yields
SOUTH VIRGINIA crushed 190 tons for 43oz. 13dwt. of gold. NEW CAMPBELL'S CREEK treated 3000 [?] yards for 9oz. 11dwt. of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Work Resumed at Colliery. Lithgow
Work was resumed to-day at the Invincible Colliery at Cullen Bullen, which employs 150 men, after two days of Idleness. The dispute arose over the condition of some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Notes
APEX GOLD.—Bore depth 135 feet: passed through [?] feet quartz at 97 feet. BUNDI TIN DREDGING.—Recovered 53oz gold bullion in 70 hours, from 7,104 cubic yards…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Coal Motor Spirit
LONDON, Friday.--The production of motor spirit from coal in the United Kingdom has been doubled in the last four years, it was stated in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Antarctica-- Australia's Gold Mine! Commonwealth Extends from Tropics to S. Pole Vast New Fields For Minerals, Fisheries
BY THE PURCHASE OF THE "WYATT EARP," THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT HAS GIVEN THE FIRST PRACTICAL EVIDENCE OF ITS INTENTION TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Miners To Confer With D.N.
Daily News information will be supplied to an aggregate meeting of Cessnock miners by the directors of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Accidents. Greater Number on Mondays. Secretary's Theory of More Danger
Judge Drake-Brockman, in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court yesterday, remarked that it was curious that the number of accidents to employees in…
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