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

Mining & the mines, 1940

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Shortage of Coal Germany Looks Ahead

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 5

LONDON, Monday: The Reich Coal Commissioner, Dr. Paul Walter, has appealed to householders, theatres and restaurants to cease heating…

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Mine Leaders Go to Melbourne To Interview Judge In Arbitration

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Leaders of the striking coalminers announced in Canberra yesterday that they would interview the Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court, Sir George Beeby, in Melbourne to-day…

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Coal Strike at Cross Roads Another Zero Hour Near At Hand

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 May 1940 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: When a conference with the Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court, Sir George Beeby, in Melbourne yesterday achieved no results, the leaders of the combined mining unions decided to convene, a…

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Rumours on Mine Fields "No Capitulation" Is One Report

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 May 1940 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday: The statement by the Cessnock Strike Committee last night there would be no capitulation by the…

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Little Coal For Gasworks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 May 1940 · page 1

The orange gasworks has only about three and a half weeks supply of coal, and the council is prepared to impose…

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Miners To Meet Will Vote On

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 May 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: A conference of the combined mining unions decided last night to convene mass meetings of mine…

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SERIAL. "Laracy's Pot of Gold" (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter 10. Mr. Casey Makes an Impression

The Young Chronicle · Friday 3 May 1940 · page 6

If there was one person in the world who would recognise him it was Dick. Laracy backed his horse away and was about to turn him down the lane…

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Leaders Will Urge Men to Maintain Strike Queensland Miners Expected To Vote For Work

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 May 1940 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: "We will recommend to the miners that they fight on," said the president of the Combined Mining Unions (Mr. C. Nelson) yesterday. Addressing yesterday's May Day…

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Norwegian Gold Reserve

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 5

LONDON, Monday: The Norwegian gold reserve, which was worth £22,000,000, is being brought to London…

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May Re-open Copper Mine At Gurrundah

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 6

At the Goulburn mining Warden's Court. yesterday it was disclosed that. Melbourne interests are contemplating taking over a…

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Miners' Vote Want Strike To Go On

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Tuesday Afternoon: The motion urging the continuance of the coal strike was declared carried, by the…

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Voting on Coal Strike Queensland Men Go Back On

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The motion to be submitted to the aggregate meetings in New South Wales to-day and to-morrow will ask for, a continuation of the strike, and will' attempt to throw the blame for a decision not to resume work on the…

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Coal Strike Practically Over, Is View

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Meetings are being held to-day at Wollongong, Bulli, Helensburg and Medway in the south and…

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Small Majority for Work Result Of Miners' Ballot In Northern Fields

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Total votes at aggregate meetings of striking mineworkers on the northern coalfields yesterday showed a small majority—about 200—in favour of a return to work…

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Magnetic Mine How Secrets Were Revealed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 8

This story has been told. But there are points that will bear retelling: before dismantling part of the first magnetic mine…

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Miners' Vote Favours Strike To Go On Ministry May Give Men 48 Hours' Notice

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: Mineworkers on the southern and western coalfields of New South Wales yesterday decided, by overwhelming majorities, to continue the strike. The majority of the strikers in New South Wales. lave thus decided not to…

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Government to Open Mines Free Labour Call On

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Specified coal mine owners will to-day be ordered by the Commonwealth Government to reopen their mines on Monday with available labour. The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies)…

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Police Leave for Coal Fields Going There To Maintain Order

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: To-day 45 police left Sydney to join the batch which left last night for duty on the coal fields, making a total of 100 to leave…

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SERIAL. "Laracy's Pot of Gold" (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter 10 (Continued) Mr. Casey Makes an Impression

The Young Chronicle · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 3

An ounce a day became a household wood at Seven-Creeks as the minimum a minor would designate success, and as everything that was eaten, worn or…

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King Sees Magnetic Mine

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 13 May 1940 · page 5

Photo shows: H.M. King George VI inspects the first magnetic mine salvaged in Britain. It bears the date "1938," which proves that even as Hitler talked of peace at Munich—the Nazis were manufacturing this murderous weapon—…

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