Renown Miners Register Strong Protest
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 3
The time had come for a searching inquiry into Joint Coal Board administration of Renown Extended Colliery and the filching of contracts which would have meant that it would have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trapped by Coal Fall
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 2
Newcom Colliery employee, MR. E. Beecroft, of Wolgan-road, Lidsdale, sustained multiple…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blue and Gold Ball Bathurst C.W.A. Function
National Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 2
The CWA opened the Bathurst social season last night with a very successful Blue and Gold Ball at the Walshaw Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Protest Wage Hearing Suspension
National Advocate · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 3
NEWCASTLE, Thursday: The central executive of the Miners' Federation today recommended that pit-top meetings be held throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Use Mine Director
National Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 1
LONDON, Friday: Scotland Yard detectives used a mine detector in a two hour search yesterday of the garden of a house near Blackpool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many Lithgow Collieries Idle
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 2
With five western mines reported idle as a protest against the refusal of the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) to continue hearing the Miners' Federation log of claims while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hundreds of Miners Trapped
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 1
ANGANUEO (Mexico), Monday. -- Hundreds of Indians knelt in prayer at the mouth of an explosion-shattered silver…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cochran "Warns" Miners On Strikes
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 2
The chairman of the Joint Coal Board, Mr. S. F. Cochran, yesterday, warned miners that, if strikes persisted and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stoppages Cut Gas Coal Stocks
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 2
SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Gas companies will be prevented from building up big winter reserves because of a sharp…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seven Western Mines Idle To-day
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 2
Resulting from further pit-top meetings this morning another seven western mines were idle today as a protest against the refusal of the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Losses of Coal Northern Dispute
National Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday: Widespread stoppages throughout NSW, involving 50 mines, lost an estimated cool output today of 30,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eighteen Mines Idle
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Eighteen coal mines were idle in N.S.W. today causing a loss of about 8,000 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Atom Check on Gold Fillings
National Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 4
LONDON. Tuesday: Gold going to dentists for fillings now is being "monitored" with an atom ray detector—all because an Australian girl…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.N. O. To Give Marjorie Gold Badge
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 2
A gold badge of the United Nations Organisation will be presented to the champion woman sprinter, Marjorie Jackson, on Friday afternoon, for her example to world youth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Mines Dispute
National Advocate · Thursday 30 April 1953 · page 5
SYDNEY. Wednesday: Twelve NSW coal mines were idle today over the John Darling dispute, causing a loss of 7230 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forty Western Miners Are Out of Work
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 30 April 1953 · page 2
Recent, investigations on the western field had disclosed that there, were approximately 40 members unemployed, Mr. J. H. King, district secretary of the Western Miners' Federation, said today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Western Mine Personalities
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 2
Following is the monthly list of personalities on the western coalfield as contained in the May issue of "The Coalminer"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Salvage Ship Gets Gold
Central Western Daily · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 11
AUCKLAND, Thursday. —The British salvage ship, Foremost 17, put into Auckland today with two…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners Affected by Atomic Dust Headaches Follow Blast
National Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1953 · page 3
SAN BERNARDINO. Friday: Doctors and scientists are keeping under close observation, two mining prospectors who were caught in an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →UNO's Gold Badge Presented
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 4
Appearing at a public ceremony under a steady drizzle of rain on Friday, champion sprinter Marjorie Jackson was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →