Offer To Coal Miners
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The Joint Coal Board intervened in the conference today on the Mining Union’s log of claims with proposals aimed at providing a settlement. Decisions on the proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
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Progress in Coal Talks Miners' Claim Under Review
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. Cameron) said today that coal talks in Sydney were making a measure or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Price Increase Hits Gasworks Undertaking
An increase of 13 in the price per ton of coal supplied to the Lithgow gasworks would represent an increase of £380 in the annual cost of operating the undertaking, Lithgow City Council was informed at Monday night's meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Industrial Officials Investigate Coal "Washing" Possibilities Here
Investigating the possibility of increased production from this field and the quantity of "dirty" coal produced, two members of the Sydney Trades and Labor Council executive visited Lithgow on Monday and had several discussions with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident in Mine Men Delayed Underground Broken Hill
About 200 men, working in the Zinc Corporation's Mine at Broken Hill, and in the New Broken Hill Consolidated could hot be brought to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Returning Officer
Six members have been nominated for the position of returning officer to the Western Miners' Federation and a ballot is at present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hermitage and Lithgow Valley Collieries Will Double Production
With the installation of a new trackless coal cutting-loading unit, Hermitage Colliery--one of the two most centred mines in the Lithgow area--will double its daily production within a couple of months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Slopwork Proposal Defeated by Miners' Central Council
The central council of the Miners' Federation yesterday rejected a move by Communists for stop work meetings on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Man Crushed to Death at Lidsdale Open Cut Mine
Before the gaze of his horrified workmates, a young married man was crushed to death beneath the descending tippertop of his lorry at the Mudgee line open cut colliery, at Lidsdale on Monday last…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Stoppage Threatened
SYDNEY, Thursday.— The Miners Federation Central Council today decided to form a nation-wide stop…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Coal-cutting Machinery
LITHGOW, Thursday.—The installation of a new track-less coal-cutting and loading unit will double the daily…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Crisis Nationwide Stop-work Meetings Coal Talks Break Down Sydney
The Miners' Federation Central Council today decided to call nationwide stopwork meetings next Thursday if a settlement is not reached on the mining unions' log of claims…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Western Coal Production Is Again Good
With only one minor local stoppage to mar the production record, western miners this week produced more than 65,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Costs If Coal Union Claims Granted
Mr. W. S. McNally said yesterday that granting of claims by deputies and shotfirers would cost southern and Western…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Mining Stoppage If Claims Not Met
The Miners' Federation Central Council yesterday decided to call nation-wide stopwork meetings next Thursday if a settlement is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A.l.p. Concerned at Purchase of Homes by Joint Coal Board
Alleged high prices paid by the Joint Coal Board for houses for their staff was the subject of a grievance expressed by Mr. H. Heffernan, who successfully moved at the Lithgow A.L.P. meeting on Wednesday night that a letter be sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Crisis Miners' Demands
SYDNEY, Friday: When coal talks between the Combined Mining Unions' Council and the Joint Coal Board and coal owner…
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LITHGOW.—Two members of the Sydney Trades and Labor Council executive recently visited Lithgow to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Talks Fail Stoppage Threat by Miners
SYDNEY, Monday: The Miners' Central Council will meet tomorrow to decide on strike action, following a breakdown at a conference today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Mass Meetings Are Postponed
Although full details are not yet available, mass stop work meetings called throughout the mining industry for to-morrow were postponed by the Central Council, which met the Coal Industry Tribunal late this morning…
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