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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1948

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No General Strike By Coal Miners

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Central Council of the Miners' Federation made no decisions to-day on the Queensland strike, but it is new certain that a nation-wide stoppage will not take place The decision by Queensland miners to return to work to-morrow…

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Mine Host Breaks Course Record

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.--Mine Host broke an 18 years' old track record when he won the first heat of the Moorefield barrier trials over six furlongs, this morning…

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Miners' Decision Rebuff To Reds

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Queensland miners who had ceased work in sympathy with striking railwaymen to-day voted to return to work to-morrow. This decision by the rank and file of the Queensland Colliery Employees' Union is interpreted as a severe…

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Safety Imperilled By Coal Strike

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Sun. (A.A.P.)-- President Truman to-day instructed the Justice Department to seek a Federal Court injunction under the…

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Record Mine Option

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 1

PERTH. Tues. Mountain View Gold to-day paid the Day Dawn Options Syndicate a cheque for £127,500 for the Mountain View…

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Wounded Miners

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).--Five Union miners were wounded When the owner oi a non-union mine at Tuscaloona, Alabama,…

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Coal Near Kempsey

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Monday--A report made to the Macleay Shire Council to-day stated a seam of good quality coal had been located 10…

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Coal Strike Not Settled

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.A.P.).--A meeting of Miners' Pension Fund Trustees yesterday failed to achieve an immediate settlement…

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Unrest Threatened In Coal Industry

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--The Miners' Federation to-day advised all Federal unions that serious trouble was threatened in the coal industry and asked for support in any industrial action taken…

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To Decide on Coal Strike

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday. --Miners' leaders will decide in Sydney to-morrow whether to recommend a strike action to miners…

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Gold Found in New Guinea

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 4

PORT MORESBY, Tuesday (A.A.P.-Reuter).--Messages from Lae, Madang and other centres state that gold, is reported, to…

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No Decision On Miners' Demand

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--In a three hour talk to-day between the miners' leaders and the Coal Board, the miners demanded…

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20 Dead in Mine Disaster

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Tues. (A.A.P.).--Twenty miners are dead and about 100 injured, 30 of them gravely. In a violent explosion…

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Miners Deprived of Their Beer

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 April 1948 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--The Sydney beer strike was today criticised by delegates to the Northern Miners' Board of…

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No Subsidy For Gold Production

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tues.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) to-day denied a report that the Commonwealth Government…

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Mining Decision Reserved Until

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

The Mining Warden, Mr. E. I. Cocks, at the Grafton Mining: Warden's Court yesterday, reserved until Monday next his…

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Work Extended At Nymboida Coal Mine

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 May 1948 · page 4

Extended operations at the Nymboida coal mine, including supply of coal to the projected Koolkhan steam power station,…

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Mine Host And Titanic Chosen For Randwick

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Mine Host and Tidal have bright prospects of achieving the hat trick at Randwick on Saturday, former…

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Possibility Of Coal Convention

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun--The Miners' Federation Central Council conference which opens in Sydney to-morrow will discuss the…

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Decrease In Gold Production

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.--Australian gold production during March, decreased by eight per cent. compared with figures for March,…

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