Miners Must Abide by Arbitration Says Chifley
CANBERRA, Mon.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) will not intervene in the coal crisis as suggested' by the General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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State Must Take Steps on Coal Crisis
CANBERRA, Monday.--The Commonwealth Government has been advised it is powerless to proclaim an effective state of…
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BRISBANE. Tues.--Police from Ipswich and Brisbane are guarding the entrances to two small mines, Mt. Elliott and Normanton…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--The Miners' Federation is considering whether it should disperse its funds secretly…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Emergency Powers Bill, which the State Parliament was hurriedly called to put through both Houses to-day will give the Government…
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ADELAIDE, Wed.--At a monthly stop-work meeting of the Seamen's Union, attended by 220 members, it was unanimously…
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CANBERRA, Wed.-- The Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward) and at least two other Labour members bitterly opposed the National…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Where Will It End? Women's Reaction To Coal Strike
WHERE will it end?" asked a Grafton housewife yesterday, when interviewed on the affect the restrictions and coal strike were having on her home. When a 40-hour week was…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--New South Wales Trades and Labour Council to-day condemned the action of the Mining Unions in calling a general coal strike without having…
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MELBOURNE, Friday .--Seven thousand tons of Indian coal remained unloaded from the Ha[?]gonian Duke to-day when…
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THE Federal Government's investigation into the possibility of importing coal from Great Britain and other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Migrant Musings (No. 7.) COAL
THE situation in the coalfields is not unlike what has been experienced at home since the war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Narrow Escape From Flooded Shaft
LONDON, Fri. (AAP) --While their wives stood anxiously by at a pi head watching the desperate battle between an improvised…
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CANBERRA, Fri.--The possibility of the Government using its newly-formed Defence Production Committee to…
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MR. CHIFLEY, in the House of Representatives to-day rejected a suggestion by Mr. Lang (Ind. Lab., N.S.W.) that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Picket Organisation
NEWCASTLE, Sun.--Only one Northern Miners' Lodge, Aberdare, appointed pickets at the week-end…
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PRAGUE, Sun. (AAP)-- The Czechoslovak Miners Uniform sent a telegram of sympathy to striking Australian miners. The…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said to-night the Federal Government would not be influenced by threats by the Miners'…
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CANBERRA, Sun-- Intensified open-cut mining could give Australia hundreds of thousands of tons of coal within a few…
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ULMARRA, Sun.--The good performer, Green and Gold, owned by the Ulmarra sportsman, Mr. Percy Eggins, was injured during…
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