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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1944

1,369 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 69 of 69

Coal Shortage Affects Sawmills

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY Saturday.—A large Sydney sawmill has closed and others have reduced their output [?] a result of railway restrictions…

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Miners Will Take Only 10 Days Holiday Government Grants Commission of Inquiry

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Saturday.—The miners’ central executive last night issued a statement directing all coal miners to resume work on January 2, the date ordered by the Government…

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Chairman of the Coal Commission

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 4

Mr. Justice Davidson, of the New South Wales Supreme Court, will be chairman of the Commission of inquiry into matters…

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Mass Meetings Of Miners

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 December 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—Every effort will be made to cancel mass meetings of miners called for January 10, which…

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Queensland Miners 16 Days Break Likely

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 December 1944 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday. —It is considered unlikely that many Queensland coal miners will report for work on January 2…

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Soil “Mining” As Economic Necessity

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 December 1944 · page 6

Not Ignorance or carelessness, but force of financial circumstances is mainly responsible for soil exhaustive methods of…

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Call To Miners By Executive

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 December 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. — The Central Executive of the Miners’ Federation to-day issued an instruction to all miners to…

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Coal Warning by Labour Newspaper

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 December 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY Friday—“The Standard,” official newspaper of the Labour Party, commenting on the mines situation says the coal In…

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Allies Beat Shortages in Tin and Coal

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 December 1944 · page 3

The story of how the United Nations got together to overcome some of the material shortages with which the War suddenly…

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Federation Orders Miners to Resume Next Tuesday Call for 100 Per Cent Attendance

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 December 1944 · page 2

Central Executive of the Miners' Federation to-day issued instructions to all miners to resume work on Tuesday next. The…

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Minimum Wage For Miners

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 30 December 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY Saturday.—The Government will have to consider guaranteeing a minimum wage for mine workers for from three…

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