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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1940

241 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 13

From Everywhere Coal Shortage

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 4

Lismore Municipal Council has only nine weeks reserve stocks of coal for gas production. In order to preserve these stocks in the event…

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Pupils From Tallong School Despite Coal Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 4

Although it was thought that the curtailment of railway services would affect students travelling by train to attend…

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Conference Talk In North Efforts To End Strike Of N.S.W. Miners

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday: It was announced on behalf of the combined mining unions last night that if the Federal Government or the Federal Arbitration Court convened a compulsory conference to settle the coal strike, the combined mining…

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Mines Destroyed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 2

Five men in a small boat lassoed and secured a floating mine in an English harbour, where it was later destroyed by a naval party…

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The Coal Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 4

The general public will be glad to know that the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, has decided to have a heart-to-heart…

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Mr. Menzies to Go to Cessnock Will Address Miners On

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The sudden departure by car for Canberra yesterday afternoon of the Premier, Mr. Mair, the State Attorney-General, Sir Henry Manning, and the Minister for Mines, Mr. Vincent, is understood to indicate a new and…

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Mr. Menzies and Miners Opinion On Coalfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 April 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: Opinion on the coalfields is that the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, will achieve little success by his…

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Boycott by Miners Threat In The North

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 5

KURRI KURRI, Friday: The Combined Mining Unions' Strike Committee this morning decided to boycott the…

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Miners Boycott Menzies' Meeting "I Accept the Challenge."

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 2

There were only about 100 people in the Kurri Kurri Hall at which the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) this afternoon spoke on the strike…

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SERIAL. "Laracy's Pot of Gold" CHAPTER 8 (Continued) Adam Must Leave the Garden

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 6

It was half a minute before Laracy recovered in stark silence from this cool disclosure. Then he managed to say:…

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Empire Theatre Mining Story Holds Interest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 6

After a lengthy absence, ebony-faced Paul Robeson has returned to the screen and in the Capad presentation, "The Proud Valley,"…

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Mines to be Worked By Free Labor? Strike Must Be Broken

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 23 April 1940 · page 1

There's going to be trouble on the coal fields. So far the miners have more or less had their way, and,…

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Miners’ Leaders Prefer Communism

Yass Tribune-Courier · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 6

During the course of the opposition meeting to that of Mr. Menzies last week, at Kurri Kurri, the president of the Northern Miners…

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Miners and Ultimatum Statement By General President

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The general president of the Miners' Federation, Mr. C. Nelson, declared this morning that the…

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Miners' Strike Search For A Way Out

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: While union leaders are declaring that the striking mine workers will stand firm and refuse to yield…

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Mine Crisis And Meeting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: A vital meeting of the Combined Mining Unions' executive which will be attended by the Federal Labour leader, Mr…

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Coal Strike Must Be Brought to End

The Young Chronicle · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 2

However regrettable it may be, and however unpleasant the temporary consequences may prove, it seems that the time has arrived when something drastic will have to be done to bring to an end the coal strike which for the past seven or eight weeks has been dislocating industry, causing…

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"Caracy's Pot of Gold" Serial. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter 9 (Continued). Seven Creeks Gold Rush

The Young Chronicle · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 6

Out of- that stream of humanity, numbering nearly a thousand, there was not one person who seemed to be curious about the party at the log…

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Coal Strike Anomaly Problem Created For A.R.U.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 5

Strangest of all the effects which the N.S.W. coal strike has produced-on the industrial movement is a…

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Deviation At Yarra Delayed By Coal Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 29 April 1940 · page 3

So fair is the Railway Department in regard to its observance of the regulations banning the carriage of certain heavy goods…

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