Rosewood History

Clarefield Colliery

The Brisbane Courier (Qld.)  Tuesday 26 January 1926, page 9

Clark Bros.’ mine on Clarefield, Thagoona is now working, and coal is being trucked from Thagoona. 

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Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld), Wednesday 22 November 1933, page 6

NEW COLLIERIES.
The Ipswich district coal mining inspectors (Messrs. Jas. Haggerty and Thos. Sharp) in their reports for October, published in the ‘Government Mining Journal,” refer to the opening of new pits in the district Mr. Haggerty states: The owners of the Clarefield Colliery are sinking a trial shaft on property adjoining the Clydebank No. 3 mine. The coal in their present lease will be worked out at no distant date, hence the necessity to prospect elsewhere.

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Townsville Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, 2nd April 1940, page 5

COLLIER PICKETS.
At Ipswich District Mines.
BRISBANE. April 1.
Following a day of concerted ‘peaceful picketing’ at the Ladysmith mine, near Booval, on Sunday, when a crowd of more than 60 men from Booval, Blackstone and Silkstone tried irritating tactics against truck drivers moving coal from the waste dump, nearly 100 men assembled around the mine today. The truck drivers did not appear on the job.

The spokesman for the pickets said today, ‘We will be waiting again tomorrow for them if they do turn up, and will resume the same tactics.

When the men learned the Committee of Management of the Union had granted permission for pickets to go by truck to two mines in the Rosewood district, at which work had been reported, the men decided to move in a body to these mines. The men found that work had stopped at Clarefield Colliery, Walloon.

Awaiting them were 13 police, under Inspector A. Maloney, of Ipswich. Inspector Maloney said he wanted to give the men every facility to picket, according to their rights, but be warned them of the danger of becoming abusive when a large body of excited men were involved. He dissuaded the men from going on to the other Rosewood mine, Roughrigg, at Tallegalla.

By the time the pickets reached that mine there were 16 police and only a dozen pickets. After a short talk the five men who had been working at Roughrigg since the strike began agreed to come out for the duration of the strike.