Mines Will Be Idle
WOLLONGONG, Mon.—A stopwork meeting of members of the Illawarra branch of the Deputies and Shot Firers' Association has…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
261 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 14
Decline In U.S. Mine Fatalities
WASHINGTON, Monday.—The Secretary of the Interior (Mr. Julius Krug), in a statement promising an early report on…
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NEW YORK, Wed.—When he arrived it the scene of the Centralia mine disaster yesterday the Governor of Illinois (Mr…
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LONDON, Thursday.—While British farmers are still faced with the task of offsetting the heavy damage sustained by both crops and land in the recent floods,…
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LONDON, Thursday.—It is estimated that 350,000 miners are affected by the decision of the German Miners' Union at a meeting at Bochum yesterday, to call out…
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A decision to empower the chairman and electrical engineer to define an area considered necessary to operate a mine on…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—It is expected that all but one of the N.S.W. coalmines will operate normally after the Easter week-end…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Because of the telephone strike, which chiefly affects long distance, calls, Government officials experienced difficulty in learning the true position in the coalfields…
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PARIS, Tuesday.—A motor car driver, challenged by the police near the Swiss border, turned round and raced away…
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LONDON, Wed.—Under an agreement announced in Dublin, Britain will supply Eire with a weekly ration of 11,000 tons of…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Soft coal production, it is unofficially estimated, had returned to about 75 per cent, of normal last night, as Federal inspectors, under Government instructions, worked at high speed to check safety conditions in mines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Seek Weekly Pays
SYDNEY, Thurs.—The hearing of a claim by miners for weekly pays, instead of fortnightly, commenced to-day before the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court To Hear Dispute On Mining Of Corfu Channel
LAKE SUCCESS (New York), Thursday.—The Security Council at Britain's request, sent the dispute with Albania about the mining of the Corfu Channel, to the International Court of Justice…
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WASHINGTON, Friday.—America's second coal mine disaster within a month occurred at Exeter, Pennsylvania, yesterday, when a gas explosion in an anthracite mine 350 feet underground, killed nine of 18 men in the pit at the time. The remainder were…
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FLUSHING, Sun.—Eight British seamen, including a captain, are among the missing as a result of the British steamship Viceroy,…
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WASHINGTON, Sun.—John L. Lewis has instructed United Mine Workers' district officials to permit the reopening of any soft…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—All northern coal mines on the Maitland field may be idle to-morrow because of the failure of efforts in…
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WASHINGTON, Tues. — The Coal Mines Administrator announced 96 per cent of coal nines in the chief districts…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Dr. Thomas David Jones, of Wales, told the Miners' Central Council in Sydney to-day, that there was no…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—The Miners' Central Council to-day voted £150 to the Australian Labour Party and £100 to the Communist…
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