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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

491 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 25

Sentence On Mine official Extended

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--John Hodge King, Western District Miners' Secretary, who is at present serving one month's gaol for contempt of court, had the sentence increased to…

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Statement To-day on Import Coal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY. Wed-- The Premier (Mr. McGirr) said to-night that he expected to make a statement to-morrow on the…

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Coal Strike Featured In American Papers

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wed. (AAP).--Newspapers which at first took little notice of the Australian coal strike are how beginning…

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Question on C0-op. and Miners' Funds

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed. -- Detective Inspector A. A. Wilkes, of the Commonwealth Security Service, called on Mr. G. Booth…

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Would Have Used Army to Move Coal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed,-- Had union labour not been forthcoming to move coal at grass from the New South Wales…

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Miners Reject Return Motion

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

PERTH, Thurs.--The Collie coalminers decided at a mass meeting to-day not to return to work…

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Coal From South Africa

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Three shipments of coal have been ordered from South Africa, the first of which will be received…

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Says Miners Used As Dupes

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.--Communists have used the miners as their dupes in the present coal strike to stage a trial run…

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To Produce Coal For Oil Works

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The Miners' Federation to-day agreed to allow National Coal Mine No. 2 at Glen Davis, to resume partial…

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Coal Will Be Moved To-day

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The State Government will begin the first movement of coal in trucks in the Cessnock area at daybreak…

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Federal-state Pact on Coal Crisis

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) and the N.S.W. Premier (Mr. McGirr) have entered into a pact…

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Two More Miners' Officials Sent To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Two more Miners' Federation officials were sentenced to 12 months' gaol by Mr Justice Foster in the Arbitration Court to-day for contempt…

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Miners Reject Proposals

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--The Coal Mining Unions' Council to-day flatly rejected settlement proposals submitted by the Australian Council of Trade Unions to end the coal strike. The C.M.U. Council instead…

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Statement by Coal Tribunal

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) to-day forwarded the following statement to the…

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Miners' Officials Fined By Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--Mr. Justice Foster in the Arbitration Court to-day fined four officials of the Miners' Federation £100 each for contempt of court…

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Coal Lift Proceeds; No Incidents

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Friday.--The State Government's large-scale coal lift from the northern fields began shortly after dawn to-day under the close scrutiny of civil and…

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Coal Lift Continues

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

NEWCASTLE,. Sun.--The coal lift was continued to-day, when six trains left South Maitland field…

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Ban Coal Trains

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE,. Sun-- The Queensland State Branch of the A.R.U. to-day endorsed the ban imposed by the Commonwealth…

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West Australian Miners Return

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 1

PERTH, Sun.--First sign of a crack-up in the nation-wide coal-strike new running into its fourth week was a decision…

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Coal Lift Almost Completed

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 1

The movement of coal in trucks in the Cessnock area is almost completed and most of it will have reached Sydney by…

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