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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

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Queensland Coal "The Solution"

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 May 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Queensland coalfields, if properly developed, could solve Australia's growing fuel…

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Coal Imports

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 4

NEW DELHI, Thurs. (A.A.P.)--A long-term arrangement for the supply of Indian coal to Australia is expected to result…

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To Carry Coal To Australia

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 May 1951 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Fri. (AAP).--The Indian Government has given Indian exporters permission to spend up to…

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Copies Of Order By Tribunal Sent To Miners

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--The Joint Coal Board to-day posted to 18,000 mineworkers in N.S.W. a copy of the Coal Tribunal's…

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Miners Discuss N. Z. Strike

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--The Central Council of the Miners' Federation did not discuss the Gallagher attendance allowance order at to-day's meeting. The Council suspended standing orders to deal…

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Should Attend Miners' Talks

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- Members of the A.G.T.U. should attend the current miners' leaders talks in Sydney to discuss the Gallagher attendance allowance, the secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr…

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Miners To Help N.Z. Strikers

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.-- The Central Council of the Miners' Federation decided to-day to ask miners to pay a fortnightly…

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Miners' Disgust

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--The Central Council of the Miners' Federation to-day expressed "disgust and amazement" at the…

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Miners Favour Fortnightly Levy

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.-- Reports from lodges showed a practically unanimous vote in favour of a fortnightly levy to help…

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Four Mines Idle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY. Friday.--Only four mines were idle in N.S.W. today. Production loss was 2150 tons…

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Miners Will Hold Meetings

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday--The Central Council of the Miners' Federation to-day decided to call aggregate meetings of coal miners throughout Australia next week…

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"Australia Strangled for Want of Coal"

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 3

Mr McDonald, Premier of Victoria, stated on his return from Queensland recently that the coalfields of…

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Stop Work Meetings By Miners This Week

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--A compulsory conference summoned by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day failed to avert the proposed stop-work meetings of miners this week…

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Northern Miners Accept Award

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Northern New South Wales miners decided to-day to accept the attendance allowance award,…

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Swansea Miners Strike To Press Claim

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. -- As southern and western miners protested against the attendance allowance order to-day…

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Open Cut Mines Must Increase Production

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--The Minister for National Development, (Senator Spooner), said today that future coal…

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Coal Face Explosion Traps Miners

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 May 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.--A coal coal face explosion trapped 79 miners behind a huge wall of thousands of tons of rubble…

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Only Miracle Can Save Trapped Miners

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 May 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Wed., (AAP).--Only a miracle can prevent the death roll rising to 80 in yesterday's dawn explosion…

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Sympathy To Miners

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.-- The president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Williams) to-day cabled the' British Miners' Federation…

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Less Coal Produced

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs. -- New South Wales coalminers this year have produced 352,313 tons of coal less than they did…

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