Coal Board Criticised by Miners' President
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 2
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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strike Threatened Miners' Warning
National Advocate · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 2
SYDNEY, Sunday: The Miners' Federation would instruct certain mining lodges to stop work immediately colliery proprietors installed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pessimistic Outlook Follows Coal Deputation
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 16 March 1953 · page 2
Replying to members of a deputation from the western coal-field in Sydney this morning, the chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. S. F. Cochran), told them they had been rather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Court
National Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 2
Tire Warden's Court. at Bathurst yesterday granted authority to JacK O. Reakes to renter larid at Yetholme owned by No[?] Saunders and Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move to Limit Young Miners
Central Western Daily · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 4
GENEVA. — A formal recommendation that persons under 16 years of age should not be employed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Crisis In Coal Industry, But
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 3
It is perhaps unfortunate for Australia that so many of our political administrators have little or no sense of relative values--and their executives take their cue from this attitude, or possibly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Crisis in Coal Industry Spooner's Claim
National Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 4
CANBERRA, Monday: The Minister for National Development (Senator Spooner) gave figures today which he said made nonsense of the suggestion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deputation To Coal Board Was Waste Of Time
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 17 March 1953 · page 2
Soup kitchens of the dole days would always remain vividly imprinted in the minds of the people of the western coalfields, and every possible weapon would be used by the people and the civic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Deputation To Federal Minister
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 6
Members of the "save the western coal mining industry" deputation which met the Joint Coal Board on Monday will go…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Transfer Of Miners' Scheme Net Acceptable -- Mr. Mara
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 2
Pressure and subtle inducements being emplpyed in an effort to transfer jobless mine-workers from the westrn district to the northern and southern coalfields savored to unionists of industrial conscription, the president of the Western Miners' Federation (Mr. E. Mara) said this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Tribunal in Lithgow
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 2
Mr. F. Gallagher, Coal Tribunal, will preside at the hearing of the miners' general log of claims…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unionist Suspicions Of Western Coal Movement
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 2
Investigations into the dump coal lift from. Wimpey's open-cut, Ben Bullen indicated that the N.S.W. Mining Company had obtained an increased volume of trade which, if distributed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty Mines Idle in North
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2
SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Twenty northern' mines are idle today following a strike by engineers protesting against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Miners Lose Index Finder Joints
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2
Three Lithgow men, as a result of mining accidents, had the first joints of their index fingers amputated at the hospital yesterday. They were Mr. C. S…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lithgow Miners Have Federation Support
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 2
"We are definitely concerned at the number of dismissal notices being issued in Lithgow, and the Federation fully supports its secretary, Mr. J. H. King, in his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rugby League State Mine Football Club
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 3
This team has been accepted in the No. 2 Group competition and should give an excellent display throughout the season…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Much Too Our to Burn Says Expert
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 3
Modern civilisation has evolved in such a way that it now depends on fuel energy derived from coal and petroleum for practically all its activities. Coal and petroleum keep…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Deputation Receives Good Ministerial Hearing
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 4
"The deputation feels satisfied that the Minister for Social Services, Senator W. H. Spooner, intends to do his utmost to alleviate and arrest the present position which is developing on the western coalfields," the Mayor, Aid. H. C. Heffernan, said on his return from Canberra today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Time when Miners Wore Sovereigns For Buttons Recalled by the Death of Mrs. Joseph Cicognani
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 16
Mrs. Annie Maria Cicognani, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Cicognani, formerly of Gulgong, passed away at…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fear Of Further Colliery Dismissals Declares Official
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 2
Miners in the western district feared and apprehended another serious depression like that of 1929-1939 and believed that the issue of approximately 310 dismissal notices during March was the forerunner to a severe industrial recession, Mr. E. Mara, president of the Western Miners'…
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