South Coast Mines Idle
SYDNEY: All mines on the South Coast are idle to-day on a union demarcation issue, which threatens to develop into…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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36,000 Tons of Coal Lost
SYDNEY: The Joint Coal Board is conferring today with miners' leaders in an effort to avert the extension of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strike Moves to Civil War in Paris Troops In Full Battle Kit At Some Of The Mining Areas
PARIS, Friday: Striking French railwaymen yesterday occupied the railway station at Chalons-sur-Marn , half-way between Paris ard Strasbourg, causing main-line traffic to be diverted and slowed as France approaches ever closer to industrial paralysis…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Strike In France Railwayman To Hold Referendum
PARIS, Monday: French Communists have issued a call for a one-day strike in the Moselle province to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Joint Coal Board Planning To Build A New Town
The Barton Estate, a rich grazing property of some thousands of acres, near Lithgow, which began as a Government grant 124 years ago, is, in part, to revert back to the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Miners Out at Captain's Flat Men Walked Out At 11.30 This Morning
All the men at Lake George Mines are out, having left the mine at 11.30 this morning. Every man is out, including the safety men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Miners Are Still Out On Strike
PARIS, Wednesday: Although the French railway strikes, organised by the Communist Party, seem to be collapsing, there is still no change in the strike of 350,000 northern coal miners and negotiations there appear to have reached a stalemate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Up . Again
The Municipal Council was notified on Monday night that the price of coal had been increased by 3/6 a ton since…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Efforts To Extend Miners' Dispute
SYDNEY: Prior to a conference to-day in an indeavour to settle the South Coast coal strike, the General Manager of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some Notes on Current Topics Calwell's Girls: Coal And Meat: Mirage Of Socialism
Among the strange things in this mad-house of ours is the story of the Calwell girls. Decent minded people were shocked at the callous attitude of Russia in separating husband and wife. But is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Strike Fed. Government Interested
CANBERRA: The Prime Minister. Mr. Chifley, sold in the House of Representatives today that negotiations were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Strike Continues May Extend
SYDNEY: If miners' leaders who are meeting in Sydney to-day, decide to extend the South Coast coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tiger Tamer's Country Tin Miners Are Front Line Troops
On Selayang Tin Mine, Central Malaya. Here on this valuable British-owned dollar producer, New Zealand Manager Bill Taylor has not had a whole night's rest since the Communist offensive broke in the district nearly three months ago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three French Mines Are Reported to Be Flooded Military Called Out By Government
PARIS, Tuesday: More than 4000 French soldiers and security guards yesterday took over the strike-bound mines in central France to prevent serious damage from flooding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Barricade of Petrol Around One French Mine Many Men Return In Lorraine
PARIS, Thursday: Many strikers and soldiers were injured in a violent battle on the Saint Etienne coalfield in central France yesterday as 1200 factory and other workers joined the striking miners in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bitter Fighting Occurs in French Coal Mines At St. Etienne 25,000 Men Face 8000 Police
PARIS, Friday: In addition to the death in the hospital of a policemen injured in the fighting in the Saint Etienne area of the southern coalfields over 100 persons were injured in the bitter clashes yesterday as the violence engendered by the crippling three weeks old miners' strike assumed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Government Launches Offensive on Mines 'Hour Has Come For Action'
PARIS, Monday: Strikers in France's northern coal areas are strengthening, their defences in anticipation of a Government "offensive" to clear the strike-bound pits. Miners' children who are threatened with want are being evacuates as the strikers' funds run out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Freezing the Earth to Find Coal Novel Method Used In Britain
Mining engineers in Britain are freezing a section of the earth's surface to a depth of over 400 feet. This is a preparatory step to the opening of a new coalmine near Nottingham, which is expected to yield one million…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Horner Censured By Miners
"LONDON: The first shot in the battle to free British trade unions of all Communists was fired yesterday when the Mine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dispute at Kemeira Reported Possibility Of Coal Strike Becoming General
SYDNEY: The Australian Iron and Steel Co. Ltd.'s disregard for the direction of the Joint Coal Board to cease work on the Kemeira Tunnel was not in, defiance of the law, but in the belief that the order was illegal…
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