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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1946

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1945 Losses in Mining Industry

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Tuesday—The general manager of R. W. Miller, and Co., coal merchants (Mr. R. V. Brierley), staed that this year’…

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Colliery Staffd Plan Stoppage Soy Arbitration Has Failed

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY Wednesday.—A great many members of the Australian Collieries Staffs Association now believed that the only way to…

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Nationalisation of Coal Criticised Claimed to Be No Benefit to Output

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 3

No one in the British coal industry believes that nationalisation will result in an increased output of coal, said Mr R. W…

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Mine Surveyors’ Examination

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

Messrs. B. A. Heatelow, A. G. May and T. N. White were successful at the examination for Certificates of Competency as…

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Collieries Staffs’s Meeting

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 3

An important meeting of the State Council of the Australian Collieries Staffs Association is being held in Maitland this…

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Coal Miners Resume Work About Half of Steelworkers Return

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2

The coal miners resumed work throughout New South Wales to-day, except at Bulli, on the South Coast. Production to-day is expected to reach nearly the 50,000 ton mark…

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Resumption At The Coal Mines Many Employees In Metal Trades Still Idle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday. — Coal miners resumed work throughout New South Wales to-day, except at Bulli, on the South Coast. Production to-day is expected to reach nearly 50,000…

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Collieries Staffs’ Association Considers High Court Decision

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2

A meeting of the State Council of the Australian Collieries Staffs Association, held at Miss Edwards’ rooms, High-st., on…

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Joint Action by Miners, Seamen and Ironworkers In Future Struggles By Labour And Unions

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—United action by the three unions in the “straggles which the trade union and Labour movement must wage against the employing class of Australia in the next few months and next few years” is forecast by the…

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New Coal Mine Strikes. Richmond Main Idle. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

New strikes occurred to-day at three coal mines, and they included Richmond Main, the second biggest producer in the Commonwealth. A…

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Gasoline From Coal

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 5

Three plants-designed to produce gasoline from coal are under construction in the United States to avert a possible motor…

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Approach to West Australian Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

The Northern Miners Vice-president (Mr. Wv Crooks and the General Secretary (Mr. G. W. Grant) will leave Sydney this week to…

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Strikes at Three Nsw Mines

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY Tuesday— New strikes accrued to-day at three coal mines, and they included Richmond Main, the second biggest…

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MR. R. GIBSON. Appointed Manager of Muswellbrook Colliery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

Mr R. Gibson, who has held the position of manager of Muswellbrook No. 2 (St. Heliers' Colliery) for a number of years, has been appointed…

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Coal Distribution

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 4

CANBERRA Wed—The Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley) expected shortly to complete a comprehensive report on “the…

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Disputes in Coal Industry

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

More than two-thirds of tiie disputes in the coal industry last year had nothing whatever to do with mine management,…

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Coal Losses Through Strikes

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY Wednesday. — More than two-thirds of the disputes in the coal industry last year had nothing whatever to do with…

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Loss Of 3400 Tons Of Coal

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

CESSNOCK Wed.—There was a loss in production on the South Maitland field to-day of 3400 tons, and is due to the idleness of Richmond…

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Two Collieries Resume

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 3

CESSNOCK Thursday,—Richmond Main and Stanford Main No. 2 collieries, which were idle yesterday, resumed work this…

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Presentation to Colliery Manager

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 2

MUSWELLBROOK: Mr. J. W. Teasdale, manager of the Muswellbrook No. 1 colliery for 18 years, and who has resigned to…

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