Steamer Strikes Mine In Channel Lives Lost, Many Injured
London, June 22.—Five of the crew were killed and eight passengers and five of the crew injured when the 2.950 ton…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Colliery Fire
Cessnock—After sixty-five continuous hours the struggle to save 1,500,000 tons of coal from fire at Bellbird Colliery. Cessnock, miners have had to seal off…
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P. C. Davis (Zincs was treated at a doctor's surgery and then taken home to 247 Brazil Street suffering from a lacerated scalp…
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South 5: G Thempson and B. Stuart L. Gear[?] and D. Davaison; R. Richardson and E. [?]filed. Zing No. 5, R. Arthur and P. Pas[?]…
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London, June 23.—North Sea radio stations flashed a warning to all ships in 40 square miles of the English Channel last night after the discovery that…
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Valuable discoveries of economic importance have been obtained from deep bore by the Geological Survey of Great Britain. So far at a new coal site near…
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Cessnock, June 23.—After a continuous 65 hours struggle to save 1,300,000 tons of coal from the fire at Belibird…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Believed Will Be Attempt Today To Call Off Strike But Mining Officials Are Not Confident
Sydney, June 23.—A general strike on the Australian coalfields on Monday appears inevitable unless a solution can be found tomorrow. A conference called today by the…
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P. J. Arthur (Zinc) received treatment yesterday for a lacerated scalp. C. H. William (Zinc) was treated at the Hospital for an injury to the right…
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Cessnock, June 24.—Miners at Bellbird Colliery this morning removed the last of the hot coal which early this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Works' Programme At North Mine Progresses Plans For New Shaft
Construction work, including the new lamp room and powerhouse, has been completed at the North mine and a lot of interesting plans have been disclosed. Other stages of the North mine large-scale programme, which includes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joint Coal Board Now Considering Strike Prevention Proposals Made By A.C.T.U. Meetings Today Will Decide Strike Issue
Sydney, June 24.—The Joint Coal Board is considering proposals aimed at averting the general coal strike on Monday. The proposals, which have not been disclosed, were put to the…
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Sydney.—Miners prevented the transport of coal by road from the mines to the railhead at Awaba immediately the general strike was begun at midnight last night…
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The annual staff dinner was held on Saturday evening in the North Hall A large and representative Catherine of the staff was present. The function…
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A meeting of the Inter Mine Tennis Association was held on Saturday morning, Mr. W. Harris presiding. The following were elected to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Barrier Miner Monday, June 27, 1949. Miners' Bomb Was a Dud
HAVING flung their atomic bomb at Australia, the coal miners, have found it more or less a dud. Nobody has gone on his knees to plead for mercy from Mr. I. Williams and his windy pack of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Coal Strike Begins Today After Breakdown Of Week-end Conferences Greatest Dislocation Of Industry In Australia's History
Sydney, June 26.—A general coal strike will begin tomorrow which will lead to the greatest industrial dislocation in Australia's history. A desperate last minute bid at a conference today failed to find a settlement formula to avert the stoppage. The strike will involve 23,000 mine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Companies Will Stack Concentrates Mines to Continue Production
The Mining Companies will stock their concentrates as a result of the decision to cancel all ora trains from Broken Hill. This was stated by Mr. G. R. Fisher (president of the M.M.A.), yesterday. He said also that the mines had sufficient…
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R. G. Staker (mitcherson Bros,) was treated at a doctor's surgery yesterday and X-rayed at the Hospital for an injured right hand…
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R. G. Staker (Hutcherson Bros.) was X-rayed at the Hospital yesterday after being involved in an accident. He was later allowed to go home to 85 Wilson…
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