Colliery Mechanics' Support for Owner-drivers
At a special meeting this morning members of the Colliery Mechanics' Union decided to unanimously support the decision…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Talks on Claims by Miners
A conference has been arranged on a log of claims by all miners, a dispute over which threatens strike action on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strike Report to Minister
CANBERRA, Tuesday: The Acting Attorney General (Senator McKenna) has received a report from the Attorney Generals' Department on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Coal Job Baddeley Sponsored
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A committee of Labor MLA's has recommended to the Premier (Mr. McGirr) that Mr. Baddeley be appointed director of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strike Threat by Miners Conference Arranged
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A conference has been arranged on a log of claims by all miners, a dispute over which threatens strike action on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Interested in Migrant Scheme
In order to publicise appeals from members of the British mining industry who desire to migrate to Australia under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Stir on the Coal-mining Front
There was a sensation in coal mining circles at Lithgow last week. Following investigations during…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mines to Be Idle
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Most NSW coal mines will be idle next Monday while members of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association attended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Case Against Miners Legal View
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Commonwealth legal authorities have advised that there is no prima facie case on which to base prosecutions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seniority in Coal Mines
The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. Gallagher, yesterday criticised a system of promotion based on an absolute rule of seniority…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →35 Hour Week Mine Claim Big Coal Loss Predicted
SYDNEY, Thursday: The Coal Industry Terminal (Mr. Gallagher) was tour today that if miners were given a 35 hour week it would mean the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increase in Miners' Pensions
The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) and the Attorney-General (Mr. Martin) will go to Canberra next week to confer with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Stoppyage Threat Compulsory Conference
SYDNEY, Thursday: Officials of the Federated Mining Mechanice Association have been called to a compulsory conference with the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Coal Stoppage Possible Over Mechanics Issue
Unless satisfaction was reached at two conferences in Sydney to-day, all coal mines in N.S.W. are likely to be idle on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press No General Mining Stoppage
State Secretary W. Crane, of the Federated Mining Mechanics Association, in a phone call from Sydney this afternoon, said his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Bill
LONDON, Friday: By 49 votes to 18 the House of Lords has amended the Coal Industry Bill, requiring Parliamentary approval before the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Coal Output
SYDNEY, Friday: Joint Coal Board officiate stated today that production from NSW coal mines this week will probably be the best output this year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Employee As a Baronet
LONDON, Friday: "John" the check weigher at Horse Wood open cut coal site, Keresforth Hill, near Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners To Talk On Claims
Two miners from Lithgow will address a street meeting in Lord’s Place near Summer St.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines Stoppage Averted Challenge by Owners Withdrawn
SYDNEY, Friday: Stop-work meeting by mining mechanics and engineers which were to have taken place throughout N.S.W. next Monday…
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