Only Six Mines Idle Sydney, July 20
Only six mines were idle on New South Wales coalfields today, compared with 15 idle, of partly idle, on Friday. A total of 1,244 men were involved, and there…
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Mining & the mines, 1942
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Coal Problem For Britain In The Winter
LONDON, July 20.—With winter only a few months off. Britain must again face her most serious home problem—coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Important Coal Conference Today Government Will Brook No Dislocation by Irresponsible Elements
Opinions expressed in authoritative circles tonight confirm the view that tomorrow's important conference in Sydney between Federal Ministers and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans in Centre of Coal Producing Area Linking Up Of German Driving Forces Imminent LONDON, July 20
Reports from Stockho[?] state that the Germans, having by-passed Kamanskaya have now reached Shak[?]tu, which is the centre of Russia's main coal producing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Purge" Of Disobedient Coal Miners
SYDNEY.—Opinions expressed in Government circles today indicate that action, to enforce the two coal provisions agreed upon at yesterday's conference between the Federal Ministers and the miners' leaders will be ruthless wherever the occasion warrants it…
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At the Zinc Corporation yesterday Alf Robins was struck on the hand by a stone which fell from the top of a till. He suffered a probable fractured left…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Warning Sounded by Miners' Leader
NEWCASTLE.—"If we pull our weight in this life arid death struggle against Fascism we shall be able to look forward to a new era," declared…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Stoppages to Be Outlawed! Increased Production Imperative Agreement Between Ministers And Miners' Officials SYDNEY, July 21
Emphasising that an immediate increase in coal production was a matter of grave national emergency, the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, tonight announced vitally important decisions aimed at outlawing by Government regulation strikes and stoppages in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Barrier Miner Wednesday, July 22, 1942 Coal Conference
YESTERDAY a vital coal mining conference, at which every coal mining district in N.S.W. was represented, was held in Sydney. The…
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Stoppages on the coalfields are to be outlawed. At anyrate, that is the purport of the agreement arrived at between the executive officers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Accidents
A. C. Robins suffered a compound fracture of the second finger of the right hand while at work late on Tuesday night. He was taken in the ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Mines Idle
The Invincible colliery in the West when no men were laid Idle by a fresh dispute and four other mines did not work today, but at two of these…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disobedient Miners Purge Threatened By Federation SYDNEY, July 22
A "parge" of disobedient miners who refuse to abide by the decisions of the miners lodges to end unauthorised strikes will follow ratification by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Accident
A. S. A. Gross struck his hand between a truck and leg at the NOrth Mine last night, Suffering a compound fracture of the left index finger. He was given…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Outlawing of Coal Strikes
SYDNEY.—More than 50 delegates from the Northern Miners' Ledges, representing 11,000 mineworkers, were asked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →600 Chinese in Wolfram Mines
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA.—Six hundred Chinese who were taken from Canton and Hongkong to Nauru and Ocean Islands two years ago to work the phosphate deposits are now happily toiling on two wolfram mines in Central Australia. The field recently employed only five white men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Mines Idle One New Strike SYDNEY, July 23
Five mines were id[?] because of strikes in New South Wales today. including one new stoppage at the Metropolitan on the Southern Field. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Coal Mines Idle Yesterday SYDNEY. July 24
Three mines were idle in New South Wales today, involving 810 men and the loss of production of 3,650 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Pledge No Strikes
CANBERRA.—That the Federal Government had handed its powers over the coal industry to the Miners' Federation was emphatically denied by the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin), today. "The Miners' Federation has pledged itself to a continuity of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collieries Idle
SYDNEY.—There were three coal mines idle on the New South Wales coalfields today, but it is not anticipated that the men involved will incur…
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