Captain's Flat "Miners"
SYDNEY: Attempts by the Miners' Federation to enlist miners at Captain's Flat had caused fights and bad feeling in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
211 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 11
First Army Won Coal On Its Way To Sydney Fine Performance By Amateurs
SYDNEY: Coal won by the Army and Air Force personnel is already on its way to Sydney and Newcastle from the northern and western…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Lift
Lt.-Gen. Rowell yesterday denied that the Army had impressed trucks for the coal lift. He said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Early End To Coal Strike Is Prophesied Important Meeting At Newcastle
NEWCASTLE: An early end to the coal strike is expected to follow the conference of the northern miners' lodge representatives being held here…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Will Not Barter on Return to Arbitration Mr. Tully Attacks Communism At Meeting Of Miners
Mr. L. J. Tully, M.L.A., accompanied by Senator J. Armstrong, Minister for Supply and Shipping, and Mr. C. Anderson, President of the N.S.W. Trades and Labour Council, addressed several meetings on the northern coalfields, including a meeting at Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Customs Gold Haul
SINGAPOORE: Gold bars weighing 38 pounds, 384 diamonds, and nearly 80,000 pounds of opium were seized by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Returned to Seamen
SINGAPORE: About £12,000 stearling worth of gold bars seized by Singapore Customs officers from a Chinese seaman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bulli Miners Vote "No" to Militants
BULLI: South Coast miners voted solidly yesterday against a prepared motion attacking northern miners' leaders and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death Battles Among Rats In Idle Coal Mines
According to safety men still working in the idle mines starving rats are killing and devouring each other in the State, Steelworks and Vale of Clwydd collieries. In normal times the rats kill…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For the Coal Fields
A coach load of about 50 troops, evidently on their way to the coalfields, passed through Goulburn at 9 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Underground Mines May Be Worked By Army Eight Mines Chosen For New Task Says The Minister
SYDNEY: Eight N.S.W. underground coal mines, including Burwood, Australia's biggest producer, will be worked by the Army. This was announced by the Minister for Shipping and Fuel, Senator Ashley. Four mines are in the north, two in the west, and the remaining two in the south…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →70,000 Go Back To Work In Sydney Mr. Chifley Warns Coal Miners To Go To Tribunal
SYDNEY: Seventy thousand men and women returned to jobs in Sydney to-day after being unemployed for six weeks as a result of the strike. Work was resumed in many factories this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain’s New Mining Machines
Many new machines, which will help in the further mechanisation and expansion of Britain’s coal industry were recently placed on show for the first time at the Underground Mining Machinery Exhibition opened at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Leaders Turned Down In South And West Preliminary Signs of End Of Strike
SYDNEY: The first major sign of a rapid co- llapse in the six-weeks-old coal strike came to-day with the aggregate meetings of miner's on the South Coast and in western N.S.W. Although many of the 3000 miners at the Wollongong meeting did not vote, the to 539 against the council's recommendation and at Lith gow, it was rejected by 360…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Will Probably Be Back On Monday Overwhelming Vote Has Effect On Leaders
SYDNEY: The Federal Executive of the Miners' Federation will meet later to-day to consider authorising a return to work on Monday. This was announced by the Acting Council President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plans And Hopes For Coal Conference This Week
NEWCASTLE: The Joint Coal Board and miners' representatives will confer this week on means of raising the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All But Three Mines Now at Work Men Out At Ipswich
SYDNEY: N.S.W. miners returned to work in almost full strength and all but three mines were working to-day. The output is expected to be 50,000 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners on Strike at Two Mines They Want Their Cut First
SYDNEY: Miners at Bellbird and the Government-owned State mine, both big producers, went on strike to-day, a day after the resumption of work following the strike…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Coal
It is to be hoped sincerely that the proposals put forward by the Joint Coal Board for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Coal For Miners Three Groups Out
SYDNEY: Three mines in N.S.W. were idle to-day because miners have not been letting their monthly…
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