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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

Two Zinc Corporation employees were injured yesterday, they were L. Campbell. 598 Chapple Street, foreign body in left eye, and S. P. Williams…

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Mine Tennis

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3

Finals in the A Grade and B2 sections of the Inter-Mine Tennis Association's competition will be played on Saturday morning…

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Women Will Get Coal

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2

Melbourne.—State Ministers are being, deluded with letters and phone calls from people—chiefly women—offering to help unload…

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Atom Will Oust Coal

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

Sydney.—Professor Marcus Oliphant suid that atomic energy was certain eventually to replace coal os a soudco of power in many…

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Coal Form S. Africa

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 12

Sydney.—The Premier of N.S.W. (Mr. McGirr) said that three shipments of coal had been ordered from South Africa…

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Three Mishaps at Zinc Mine

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 12

L. W. Barker (Zinc) was taken to Hospital for an X-ray and was sent home to 327 Piper Street. He had a crushed third finger of the…

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Two More Miners Officials Are Gaoled

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

Sydney.—Mr. Justice Foster, in the Arbitration Court today, sentenced William Parkinson (president of the southern district of the Miners' Federation) and Morris Michael Fitzgibbon (secretary) to 12 months' light labor at Long Bay Gaol, to be served as far as possible away from other prisoners…

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A.r.u. Will Move Coal

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

Jual, before going to press the following message was received from Sydney:- The State Council of the…

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Railway Men Move Rothbury, Lithgow Coal

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

Sydney.—At meetings later today and tomorrow it is expected that the two key railway unions, the Australian Railways Union and…

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Victoria Is Seeking Coal Supplies From England

Barrier Miner · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2

Melbourne."—The Victorian Government has given the Agent-General in London (Sir Norman Martin) a "blank cheque" to buy as niuch coal as possible from England…

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Coal To Be Moved Friday; Transport Unions Agree To Haul Organisation For Coalfields To Combat Communism

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

Sydney, July 13.—The State Government in a few days will move the coal now in trucks in the northern coalfields. The Premier (Mr. McGirr) made this announcement tonight…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 2

L. W. Barker (Zinc) was taken to Hospital for an X-ray yesterday and was sent home to 327 Piper Street. He had a crushed third finder of the left…

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Withdrawal Of Safety Men If Coal At Grass Moved Recommendation of Miners Central Council

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

Sydney, July 14.—The Miners' Central Council today recommended the withdrawal of all safety men from underground mines if coal in trucks and at grass is moved from the…

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Coal on Way to Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

Sydney.—Police headquaters in Sydney this morning said that no attempt had been made by the miners or Communist sympathisers…

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Free Labor To Unload Coal?

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

Melbourne.—The State Cabinet late last night decided to call for emergency labor to unload coal from the Haligonian Duke and to proclaim the stevedoring industry and transportation of coal from the…

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Trains Take Coal From Areas in the West

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

Cessnock.—The first big consignment of coal for Sydney was lifted by train from Weston at 8.15 this morning without incident. There was no demonstration by the…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 2

William Stewart (North was treated at the Hospital yesterday for an Injured left wrist and hand. He was later taken home to 179 Buck Street…

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Moral Support For Miners

Barrier Miner · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 8

At its half-yearly meeting on Wednesday the Town Employees' Union decided to give moral support to the coal miners…

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Coal For Local Hospital

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 1
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