Whistles Govern The Lives Of Miners
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 2
Whistle blasts govern the lives of the mine-worker, wailing him underground in the morning and blowing in the afternoons as he comes out into daylight to hear the plaintive notes starting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →World's Biggest Coal Fire
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 2
The biggest coal fire in the world has, for the past 14 years, been burnig through an abandoned coal mine deep under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Injured at State Mine
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 4
Three State Mine employees were injured in accidents at the pit yesterday afternoon and this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ten Years Taking, Coal Reports
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 2
Mrs. M. Mitchell, a Newcastle stenographer, has just completed 10 years in a job which has taken her to every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Killed In Italian Mine Blast
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 1
ROME, Wednesday.-- Between 30 and 35 miners are missing after a fire-damp explosion which killed at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Trapped in Fire Italian Disaster
National Advocate · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 5
ROME, Wednesday: Between 30 and 35 miners are missing after a fire damp explosion which killed at least 13 and injured 20 other in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Executive Farewelled
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 4
Business associates and friends met in Tattersall's Hotel dining room earlier this week to farewell an executive of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dismissal Notices at Tyldesley Colliery
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 2
Issued with dismissal notices yesterday, 51 Tyldesley Colliery employees returned to work pending a conference between the management, the Western Miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Normal Gas Pressures Without Northern Coal
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 4
Northern district coal had not yet reached Lithgow gasworks, the Mayor (Ald. H. G. Coates) said this morning. He was commenting on a report which stated gas supplies had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.s.w. Coal Industry Facing Hard Future
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 5
At best the New South Wales coal industry is faced for several years with a static market and, in fact, it will probably be a shrinking one. The extent to which the industry can hold its markets will depend on the degree to which it can reduce its prices and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Western Mining Personalities
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 2
Frequently seen astride his two-year-old pony Larry, which won him second prize for ponies under 13 hands at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hearing of Miners' Claims
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 2
The president of the Miners' Federation, Mr. I. Williams, said yesterday there was no doubt that the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Easy Rise (25/1) second in Gold Cup
Central Western Daily · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 16
WAGGA, Wednesday. — Orange owned and trained Easy Rise ran a great race in the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Description of Workings for Gold on Main Gulgong-Cooyal Deep Lead
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 18
(Twenty-first instalment of a series of extracts from a Department book on the Magnetic Prospecting of the Gulgong Deep Leads for gold in the district's early days)…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Mine Notices Withdrawn But Dispute Continues
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 2
Following the rejection by the management of recommendations made by the district executive and the check inspector (Mr. J. Watson), Tyldesley Colliery was again idle this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record for N.S.W. MINERS Union Man's Claim
National Advocate · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 5
SYDNEY. Thursday: NSW Coal-miners produced the highest output per man in the world, according to International Labor Office figures…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Coal Surplus
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 17 May 1954 · page 4
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Industrial authorities believe the coal industry is nearing its most serious over-production crisis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Little Colliery's Sympathy Strike
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 2
Pending a compulsory conference called for tomorrow by the Local Coal Authority (Mr. B. W. Cunningham) employees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Medical Examinations Help Coal Mining Industry
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 4
Pre-employment medical examinations on men wanting to enter the coal-mining industry in N.S.W. had resulted in the exclusion from the industry of 590 who were found to be medically…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State Mine Mishaps
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 4
Two mineworkers employed at the State Mine were involved in accidents at the pit last night…
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