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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1950

202 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 11

Miners Will Stop If Anti-Red Bill Enforced

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--The Miners' Central Council to-day decided to call stopwork meetings on the Australian coalfields if provisions of the Communist…

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Miners' Threat

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 November 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--The Miners' Federation will take strike action if there is any attempt to employ men in the New South…

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Miners Demand Wage Increase

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 November 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--The Miners Central Council has authorised the calling of aggregate meetings on the coalfields unless the £1 basic wage increase is paid…

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Year's Coal Production May Be Record

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--New South Wales mineworkers by tomorrow will have produced more coal than they did for…

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Dorrigo Rifle Club Dorrigo Regains Gold Cup

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 2

The powerful Dorrigo Rifle team defeated the Raleigh team on the Raleigh range last Sunday by the comfortable margin…

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Miners Boycott Barbers, Cinemas

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 November 1950 · page 1

BROKEN HILL. Fri.--The Barrier Industrial Council has decided to fine unionists £5 in they are found patronising…

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Disputes Threaten Coal Production

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 November 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--Two disputes involving members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union threaten do hold up production…

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Miners' Application

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 November 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, to-morrow will consider an application by mining unions for…

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Wage Increase Cost To Coal Industry

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 November 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--All N.S.W. mineworkers will receive the £1 basic wage increase from the first pay period in…

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Long Service Leave For Miners

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 November 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. H. Gallagher, to-day made an award variation which…

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British Plans for Coal Development

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 November 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Tues.--A development plan for investment of £635,000,000 sterling in the British coal industry was announced…

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Mining Uranium

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 November 1950 · page 3

TAIPEH, Wed. (AAP-Reuter).--Russia is mining uranium in Sinkiang, a western Chinese province, separating Tibet and…

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Gold Reserves Still Low

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 November 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Fri. (AAP).--The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Gaitskell, told the House of Commons last night that the sterling area's gold reserves…

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Mechanisation Could Step Up Coal Production

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Mon.--If the Coal Board plans for mechanisation of N.S.W. mines came to fruition, Australian coal…

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Cushion Springs Were Mads Of Gold

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1950 · page 1

GENEVA, Mon. (AAP). --A smuggling racket was discovered by Customs officers on the…

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Trapped Miners Rescued

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 November 1950 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Fri.--Four men entombed 300 feet below the surface of the Zinc Corporation's mine for 14 hours,…

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Appeal To British Miners

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 December 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Fri. (AAP).-- Britain's mining leaders yesterday decided to call on 970,500 workers in the…

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Coal Record

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 December 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--N.S.W. coalminers are expected to break their all-time 1942 coal record before they go on holidays on…

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Miners End "Stay-In" Strike

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 December 1950 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Fri.--Miners at Stockrington No. 1 colliery at West Wallsend, ended their "stay-in' strike to-day, after…

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Record Coal Production

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 December 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--New South Wales coal miners have made history by passing the 1942 record production of 12,206,000 tons…

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