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

Mining & the mines, 1949

211 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 9 of 11

Miners Out at One Mine Did Not Like The Penalties

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 September 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY: Miners at Excelsior No. 2. in the southern district, went on strike to-day as a protest against the penalty clauses…

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Miners' Pensions To Be Bigger

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 September 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY: The Minister for Mines, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, introduced a bill in the Legislative Assembly yesterday to…

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Petrol From Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: The director of the United States Mines Bureau, Australian-born Professor James Boyd,…

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Council "Receives" Letter On Open Cut Mining Scheme

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 4

Some figures regarding the losses caused by the recent coal strike were contained in a letter received at last night's City Council meeting. was from Sutherland Shire…

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S. Africa Wants To Sell Gold

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Monday: South Africa's claim for a higher gold price than the existing 35 dollars an ounce will be discussed by the International Monetary Fund at its meeting to-day…

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Australia Supports Gold Rise

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The Australian Ambassador to Washington, Mr. Makin told A.A.P. that Australia…

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Municipal Council Supports Open Cut Coal Mining

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 3

The Sutherland Shire, in a let-letter to Monday night’s Municipal Council meeting, sought co-operation for the continuance of open…

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Number One Coal-Getter

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 3

“When it comes to chopping chunks off Britain, even the sea has nothing on Ted Greenslade, a Welsh miner who has just set up…

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Gold Shares Rocket

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 5

Sydney business men and financial houses took the news quietly. Share prices on the Stock Exchange showed little…

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Labour Unrest in England Miners Out In America

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: The London railway men have voted to "go slow" from midnight to-morrow to press the demand by the 450,000 strong, the National Union of Railway men, for an overall 10/- a week wage rise…

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D.P. Workers in Mines in Belgium Problem For Officials

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 8

BRUSSELS: Officials here are wrestling with one of Belgium's biggest post-war human problems—constant abandonment of the mines by displaced persons recruited from Western Germany to aid the Belgian "battle for fuel." Despite repeated Government…

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Coal Board's Hopes

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: The Secretary of the Joint Coal Board, Mr. Neville Stuart, told the Coal Industrial Tribunal, Mr…

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Housing Priority to Miners

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 7

Homeless ex-servicemen and their families are protesting at the broadcast statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, that…

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Urges Gold Price Rise

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 5

Mr Havenga, South Africa's Finance Minister, at the annual conference of the International Monetary Fund,…

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Miners Too Fast For Railway

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 1

In addition to hampering the production of coal in open-cuts on the Mudgee line, the shortage of rail…

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Open Cut Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 1

Sutherland Shire Council is seeking support throughout the country for a proposal that the Federal Government…

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BLUE & Gold Ball Successful Binda Function

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 3

The second Blue and Gold ball sponsored by the Binda Branch of the C.W.A. was held in the Binda…

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Lake George Mine Dismissal Upheld

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Building Workers Industrial Union, failed to get permission from the Industrial Commission, to prosecute Lake…

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South Coast Miners Leave A.l.p

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 1

WOLLONGONG: South Coast miners at pit-top meetings decided in favour of the southern district branch of the…

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Mine Workers and Death of Mates New Policy Now Likely

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 2

In recent months mineworkers have shown an increasing tendency to work instead of taking a day off to attend the funeral of a fellow lodge member, and donate portion or the whole of their day's earnings to the widow and…

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