Sunny Corner Potato Crops a Failure Coal Stoppage Obliterates Prop Industry
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 5
In the five days from April 11th to the 15th. 226 points of rain were received here, so that the drought may be considered to be definitely broken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Football Rugby League. Gold Cup As Prize. Junior Knockout Contest
Leader · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 6
The Orange Rugby League intend [?]ing a twenty—guinen gold cup which has been presented to them, to the [?] of the jun[?]or Rugby…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Enemy Mentality." Thorby Hits Out at Miners. Free Labor on Coalfields? CANBERRA
Leader · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 2
The Federal Government intends to introduce [?] labor into [?] to maintain coal [?]pplies and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Crisis Boycott of Meeting Addressed by Prime Minister Newcastle, This Afternoon
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 2
"If a challenge is intended in this boycott of my meeting, then I will accept the challenge and go to the sports ground," said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Mr. Menzies on the Fields Miners Coycott Meeting War Issue Involved Kurri Kurri
National Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1940 · page 3
The Prims Minister (Mr Menzies) fulfilled his expressed intention of going to the coalfields to speak directly to the strikers to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"I Would Roar If It Were Mine"
Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 20 April 1940 · page 3
After hearing the subjoined letter from Mr. J. W. Paddison, acting on behalf of the estate of the late G. W. Paddison, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Mines Four More Resume Brisbane
National Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1940 · page 3
Four more collieries [?] Rose Mount Glenco and Malabar will resumes work in the Roseville district next week according to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Mines Four More Resume
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 5
FOUR more collieries, Lancefield, Rose Mount, Glenco and Malabar, will resume work In the Roseville district this week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Horses Carried Effect of Coal Strike
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 5
IT has been unofficially stated that the next curtailment in railroad service because of the coal strike will after the carriage of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Free Labor Coal Strike Sequel SYDNEY
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 1
IN Mining Union circlet it is feared that the Prime Minister in a statement he Will make to-day on the coal strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brighter Prospects Coal Dispute Settlement Canberra, This Afternoon
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 2
Hopes for a settlement of the coal strike were brighter today than on any previous occasion, following an interview between the leader of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Cabinet Meeting To-day Important Developments CANBERRA
National Advocate · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 3
I was officially nnounced to[?]ht It was officially announced tonight to decide on its policy in regard to the coal strike in view of recent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Free Labor Likely Statement by Mining Leaders SYDNEY
National Advocate · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 3
Allegations that attempts were being made to induce free labor to work the coalmines were made in Sydney last, night. In a statement Messrs C…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Vital Week" Mining Dispute Mr. Nelson's Hint Possibility of Free Labor
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 1
"This, week will he the most vital in the fight of combined mining unions," said the general president of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labor's Policy War and Coal Strike Communists and the Government Mr. Curtin's Views (Special to National Advocate) CANBERRA
National Advocate · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 1
There has been no change in the views that my colleagues and I have taken of the war since it first broke out. There has been no change in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Coal Crisis
National Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1940 · page 2
The Menzies Government threatens to use weapons of force rather than the methods of peace to bring about a settlement of the coal strike which is so badly hampering trace and industry. For Menzies and Co. to resort to force would be the least likely and certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Settlement Move Miners Agreeable Accept A.C.T.U. Plan Compulsory Conference CANBERRA
National Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1940 · page 2
The central executive of the Combined Mining Unions has approved of the proposal that the A.C.T.U. approach the Arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£10,000 a Week for Miners Victorian Unions Help Melbourne
National Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1940 · page 2
It is believed Victorian unions will contribute £10,000 weekly to the coal strike…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Ship Sunk Cargo of Coal for Sweden London
National Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1940 · page 3
According to a message from Stockholm, a German merchant ship of 4,500 tons was sunk yesterday in the Baltic, 50 miles south-west of Stockholm. It was stated that the ship was carrying a cargo of [?] to Stockholm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Mine for Asbestos
Leader · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 4
At the Warden’s Court authority to enter the property of Walter Bart[?] and Sons. for the purpose of prospecting [?] was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →