Brevities From Here And There Miners Stop Work
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Work at all pits at the State coal mino at Wonthaggi stopped yesterday because of a dispute with the management…
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Mining & the mines, 1940
387 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 20
Mines Explode on Beach Theatres Wrecked LONDON, February 7
BUILDINGS in an east coast town were shaken, it is understood, by the explosion of two mines washed up on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"T H E Mine R" Motor Section. Topical Motoring Conducted by "Transmission." New Method Of Power Rating
AT a recent conference of automotive engineers held in New York, the subject of horsepower, as a means of measuring automobile…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →North Mine Disturbance And Court Sequel Miner Convicted of Assault; to Enter Into Bond S.M. Recommends Job Be Given Back
UNFORTUNATELY I must record a conviction. Only the defendant has stated that Burgess had a lamp in his hand at the time of the assault and I have no doubt that he did not," said Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court this afternoon when ordering Henry William Bedell, miner, to enter into a bond of £20 to be of good…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Decorated Hero Killed by Mine
LONDON, February 9.—Chief Petty Officer Charles Baldwin, of Portsmouth, who was decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Owners Will Not Meet Unions Sydney
A leading mine owner declared to-day that coal owners will refuse to meet the unions. He added that the owners' position was that there was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →People Will Support Coal Strike Union Official's View SYDNEY
In preparation for the declaration of a coal strike on March 1, union officials have begun an intense campaign to organise assistance for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Sabotage on Munster Struck Mine Off English Coast London, February 9
SUGGESTIONS, mostly by passengers, that sabotage was responsible for the sinking of the Irish Channel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Demands Served on Coal Owners
SYDNEY, Monday.—The coal owners will today receive the demands from mining unions for a uniform 40hour week for all workers on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Mine Production
Production figures of the South mine for the six weeks ended February 10 are given below. Figures for the corresponding period last year are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Salute Fit
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Mr. Alan Cooper said that Gold Salute is likely to start in the Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday. The chestnut looks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Owners' Position Law Must Be Obeyed SYDNEY
Leading coal owners said today that the owners' organisations were unlikely to go beyond the formal acknowledgment of the men's ultimatum…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners And Young Women Suffer Mostly From T. B. SYDNEY
When the National Health and Medical Research Council meets in Canberra in May it will deal comprehensively with the tuberculosis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Mechanics' Award Will Be Varied SYDNEY
In his reserved judgment given in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court today, Chief Judge Sir George Beeby granted an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Mines Idle Men Want Five Day Week
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—All coal mines in the north, and four in the west were thrown idle today by the action of miners in calling the first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tanker "Strikes German Mine
GRAPHIC PICTURE of the London tanker EI Oso broken in the middle, after having been blown up on a German mine off the west…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Derailment On Mine Lease
A slight derailment of empty trucks occurred on the Proprietary mine lease yesterday, but no damage was done, said the superintendent of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central Mine Deputation Leaves Sunday Travelling By Car
EIGHT of the nine members of the deputation to wait on the Minister forMines (Mr. Vincent) on the question of keeping the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Threat to A.L.P. by Miners Sydney
The Northern Miners' management committee decided that the northern miners'affiliation would be withdrawn from the A.L.P. unless the elected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Form by Oakleigh Gold Salute And Unishak
THE Oakleigh Plate candidates Gold Salute (F. Shean) and Unishak (H. Mornement) ran half a mile in 48¼ sec. on the steeplechase grass at Caulfield yesterday, the first three furlongs in 36¼ sec…
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