Thousand Coal Miners Demonstrate
SYDNEY — Trains from the South Coast brought to Sydney today more than a thousand coal miners for demonstration outside…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Mine Manager And Taximan Remanded On Gold Stealing Charge
Kalgoorlie, February 25.—Walter Stanley McColl (50), mine manager, and Robert Kenneth edward Beer (37), taxi driver, were today remanded…
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H. Andrews sustained a contused wound of the right hand on the South Mine yesterday. Alter an X-ray at the hospital he was taken home to 563…
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Further progress in Clearing mine areas in the vicinity of the Great "Barrier Reef was reported in a message received by naval…
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BRISBANE. — Six British type electric mines, adrift inside the Great Barrier Reef in the past seven days, threaten shipping…
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Sydney, February 25.—All mines in N.S.W. and Victoria will be Idle to-morrow when South Coast miners will demonstrate outside Parliament House…
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SYDNEY.— All southern New South Wales coal mines are now idle indefinitely as result of a decision made by a noisy Domain meeting late yesterday. The meeting also decided to urge today's conference…
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G. Graham, of the North mine, was taken to the Hospital yesterday for an X-Ray for a fractured foot. He was later taken home…
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Nine candidates will contest the ballot for the selection of general president of the Miners' Federation. The local ballot will open…
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ADELAIDE. — Gas restrictions are to be reimposed in Adelaida and suburbs from midnight tonight because of the critical coal…
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Sydney, February 27.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. J. M. Baddeloy)introduced a new coal bill to the Legislative Assembly this morning and said that the bill was designed to give the men working in the mining industry the most modern…
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James Hood of 120 Rakow Street, a fitter at the Zine Corporation, bruised his right thigh yesterday and was treated at the Hospital…
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Sydney, February 27.—The Premier. Mr. McGirr and the Miners' leaders conferred for nearly four hours today on matters that culminated yesterday…
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Unimproved capital value of the local mines has been fixed, at £961,531 for rating-purposes. This represents an increase of 13.64…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aggregate Stop Work Meetings Miners Leaders' Decision
Sydney, February 27.—The miners' leaders decided today, to call aggregate stopwork meetings throughout Australia as from next Wednesday to discuss proposals for a general coal strike The aggregate vote of the men will decide…
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CANBERRA.—The coal stoppage was completely unwarranted in view of the needs of the community, the Prime Minister…
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L. Tomeson was taken homo to 475 Beryl Street from the Zinc Corporation last night with a bruised finger of the right hand…
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MINERS' WIVES led more, than 2000 South Coast coalminers in a march through Sydney on Wednesday to Parliament House. The demonstration was held to press for improved conditions and higher compensation rates…
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