Workers Needed In Ruhr Mines
LONDON May 16— Between 80,000 and 10,000 German workers will be needed immediately in the Ruhur coalmines are to…
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Mining & the mines, 1946
1,241 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 63
Deadlock in U.s. Soft Coal Dispute
WASHINGTON May 16—The White House has announced that mine owners and the United Mineworkers Association had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunger Affects Ruhr Coal Output
LONDON, May 18.—The Ruhr miners are taking six days to do work previously done in two “through sheer inability to…
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LONDON, May 20—Among 11 survivors of the Norwegian vessel Ramo which blow up in the harbour at Lofotenf [?]on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Losses in New South Wales
Strikes on the New South Wales coalfields so far this year have caused a loss of 498,808 tons. This was revealed by the N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heating Up in Bellbird Colliery
Heating np has been discovered in No. 16 cast section at Bellbird colliery. The area was sealed off yesterday…
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SYDNEY Tuesday — Miners leaders to-day urged the State Government to call a special [?] of Parliament to deal with…
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NEWCASTLE: Struck, by a piece of coal weighing about 10lb which tell from the tender of the Flyer as it raced at about 70…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trouble Looming On the Coalfields Warning by Miners' President
The General President of the Miner' Federation (Mr. H. Wells) told Northern District lodge representatives in Newcastle yesterday…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—After considering many suggestions, the Miners’ Federation believed the proposed legislation prepared by the Minister for Mines (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) was the most progressive, the Miners’ president (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.s. Government and Strikers Direction to Seize Coal Mines
President Truman has directed the Secretary for the Interior (Mr. Kruz) to seize the soft coal mines to-day and operate them,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →President Orders Seizure Of Idle U. S. Coal Mines (Australian Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 22 President Truman directed the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Krug, to seize the stopped coal mines to-day and operate them to “preserve the national economic structure in the present emergency.”…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Baddeley Defends His Coal Bill
SYDNEY Wed.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) denied to-day that the Coal Mining Industry Bill he had prepared renounced…
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A perilously close prospect either of renewed rationing of gas and electricity or of cuts in industry in Sydney and elsewhere is seen unless the New South Wales mines improve their output…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Loss of 3600 Tons
CESSNOCK, Wednesday—The loss of production on the Maitland field to-day is 3600 tons due to the idleness of Bellbird, Aberdare…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Committee To Report On Coal Proposals “Brush Aside” Those Who Stand In Way Of Production
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Those who stand in the way of adequate coal production will have to be “brushed aside,” the N.S.W. Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) stated after a conference between miners representatives and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →2100 Coal Mines Idle in America (Australian Associated press)
WASHINGTON, May 23—The Government is reported to be shutting down, through absence of miners, an Additional 243 coal mines in the first day of the Federal operation ordered by President Truman in an effort to keep the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Mines Idle
SYDNEY, Thursday, Six mines are idle in NSW to-day with a loss of production of about 5000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further Threats To Coal Production Western Miners Urge. General Stoppage in N.S.W.
SYDNEY, Thursday.—With coal stocks at a low [?] two new threats to production have appeared. The first is a recommendation from the western mining district that there be an immediate general stoppage on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Case at Muswellbrook
MUSWELLBROOK In the Muswellbrook Police Court Llewellyn Davies, inspector of collieries, proceeded against the…
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