German Loses Gold Bars
LONDON, Wednesday.— German financier, Walter Wipperman, who tried every Tuse to keep the 36…
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Mining & the mines, 1953
451 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 5 of 23
Old Photographs Tell Story of Gold Rush in Gulgong 82 Years Ago
A collection of photographs taken on the Gulgong goldfields in the 1870's is being exhibited…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Immediate Coal Position Not Good
Fears that widespread dismissals of western mine workers would follow an abrupt cancellation of orders for coal by the Victorian Railways heightened this morning when one of the largest…
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LITHGOW, Thursday: Three western district coalmines face closure because the Victorian railways have advised that they will not accept any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Little Effect by Miners' Long Service Leave
The commencement of 13 weeks' long service leave by 102 western miners on April 1 is expected to have little effect on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Member S Move to Avert Coal Crisis
Although no further dismissal notices were issued western mine-workers to day, an air of uncertainty hung over the field as a result of the large-scale issue of notices on Thursday and…
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In the face of nearly 300 dismissals in the western coalfields within 24 hours last week the chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. S. F. Cochran) frankly announced on Saturday that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Demonstrate Against Dismissals & Demand Action
With most of the district idle as a protest against the issuing of dismissal notices to approximately 300 mineworkers, and the reduction of output at three well established mines, more than 500 members of the Western Miners' Federation, F.E.D. and F.A., A.E.U. and Federated Mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines Stop Work Protest Over Sackings
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Stoppages at 39 Western coal mines today, in protest against the proposed closure of four small mines, lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brighter Side of Western Coal Industry
There is a brighter side to the coal mining industry in the west, but it is of the future. Today the controllers of coal in Australia (the Joint Coal Board) are talking and even urging our people to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Member Criticises Tack Of Interest Over Mines
Mr. Menzies had exhibited little concern for the future of unemployed mineworkers in the western field when he had represented the seriousness of 300 dismissal notices to the Prime Minister yesterday, Mr. A. S. Luchetti, Member for Macquarie, said this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board on Two Charges Remand Granted
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Samuel Fogo Cochran) appeared in Paddington Court today on a charge of having…
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At the same time the president of the Chamber of Commerce (Ald. H. G. Coates) forwarded the following telegram…
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Without commenting in detail in this article on the crisis which the Joint Coal Board has apparently forced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Too Much Coal Now
CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Joint Coal Board, in its fifth annual report to Federal Parliament, says about 2,000,000 tons of coal is being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Constructive Letter On Coal Crisis To the Editor
Sir--I wish to congratulate you upon the editorial in to-day's issue. Your analysis of the crisis in the Coal Industry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →United District Action Ln Western Coal Crisis Rationalisation And Centralisation Says Town Clerk
A joint deputation, comprising representatives of Blaxland Shire and Lithgow City Councils, together with' the mining unions, will-wait on the Preimer (Mr. J. J. Cahill) at an early date to protest against the dismissals of western mineworkers and to urge the State Government to make money available so that developmental works can be speeded up to. absorb surplus labor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lithgow Deputation To Joint Coal Board
Pledging full support to the campaign for the retention of full employment on the western coalfields, Mr. J. Chalmers, M.L.A. for Hartley, said in a telephone call from Sydney this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Unemployed Now Total 300
Instead of coal being taken from the Ben Bullen open-cut and from dumps in the area, needs for western coal should be met from current production so that mineworkers would be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Criticised by Miners' President
If the Joint Coal Board and its subsidiary, the N.S.W Mining Company, continued to take coal out of dumps while small collieries remained idle, the Western Miners' Federation would be…
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