Mine Accidents
J. speera (North Mine) returned to the mine yesterday after treatment for a foreign body in the right eye. T. H. Delbridge also a North Mine…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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Miners Urged to Stop Strikes Activity By Labor Men In Sydney
SYDNEY.—The emergency committee of the A.C.T.U. and N.S.W. Labor Council officials, today urged the coal miners to abandon the plans for a 24-hours' stoppage next Monday. Representatives…
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Canberra, February 2.—Swift action by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) followed the decision of the Miners Federation today to persist in calling one-day stoppages as from…
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Sydney.—At the risk of their leaders being jailed or fined, coal miners today, are holding a 24-hour stoppage—the first of the one-day, weekly stoppages. The stoppages are in protest against the incentive payment award of…
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THE latest issue of the Sydney Communist paper, according to an exchange, says that, unlike the Australian miner, the Russian…
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Accra. February 4.—Four million residents of the Gold Coast, mostly natives, will vote tomorrow to elect their first Parliament—the first major…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Have No Intention of Calling Off Stoppage Despite Threatened Action, Says Edgar Ross State Plans to Zone Industry To Be Discussed Today
Sydney, February 4—The miners have no intention of calling off their one-day stoppage tomorrow, said the associate editor of the "Common Cause," miners' newspaper, Edgar…
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MEMBERS OF THE MINERS' FEDERATION central (from left),—Messrs. I. Williams (president), W. Parkinson (vice president), and G. W S. Grant (secretary) on whom summonses have been served, ordering them to appear before the Full Arbitration Court in Sydney on Thursday morning…
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Sydney.—Men at the small western mine of Tyldesley (120 tons) [?]ruck in protest against the summonses of central executive…
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Despite industrial disputes elsewhere involving coal production, etc., little or no effect is being felt in this city. Mr. R. I. A. Richards, General…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Loss of 70,000 Tons of Coal Yesterday Mr. Williams Alleges Govt. Provoking General Strike Call To Members To Remain Loyal
Sydney, February 5.—The general president, of the Miners Federation (Mr. I. Williams) tonight called on miners to return to work tomorrow and watch the position from…
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R. Eaton (Zinc Corporation) was admitted to Hospital yesterday alter he received a fractured wrist and lacerations to the face and an injured…
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The Check Inspector (Mr. W. S. O'Neil) visited the 1,700 and 2.300 levels of the North mine yesterday and reported later:—…
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London, February 6.—The British Fuel Ministry has asked radio comedian Wilfred Pickles to spend two months going among miners…
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Sydney.—Summonses are expected to be served on nine members of the Miners' Federation Central Council whose majority vote resulted in the stoppage last Monday…
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Sydney, February 6.—Efforts to find a basis for settlement of the coal and waterfront disputes will be made at a special meeting of the interstate executive of the A.C.T.U. in Sydney…
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W. Robinson (Zinc Corporation) was treated at the Hospital yesterday for a foreign body in the left eye and sent home to 31 Williams Lane…
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The Check Inspector (Mr. W. S. O'Neill visited the North Mine yesterday and later reported:— In company with Mr. A. Grant (shift…
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Sydney.—Mr. M. Meagher, S.M., in the Special Court, sentenced one man to 12 months' imprisonment and…
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Sydney, February 7.—Leaders of the Miners Federation today told the interstate executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions that they were prepared to co-operate with the…
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