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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Major point of Opposition criticism the Coal Bill was read for the first time in the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly was that if it was as essential as the Government now claimed, it should have been introduced…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Loss in coal production this week reached the 100,000 tons mark to-day with all southern mines and several pits on other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Friday.—The Prime Minister (Sir. Chifley) said in the House of Representatives to-day that coal stoppages were completely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"We are entering an era not of less coal, (but of less wastefulness of our precious asset," Professor Oliphant, the Australian physicist, told…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The long suffering South Coast miners have been forced to take direct action to get their claims…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DARWIN, Friday.— A British mining expert, Professor Thomas Davis Jones, who arrived by flying boat last night to advise the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday. —Loss in coal production this week reached the 100,000 tons mark to-day, With all southern mines and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More food and more houses will be provided for mining areas in Britain to stimulate coal production as the result of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners leaders will probably submit recommendations for a general coal strike to mass meetings next week unless they receive Government assurances by Monday that their 19-point "New Deal" log will be granted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The loss in coal production this week reached the 100,000 tons' mark to-day, with all southern mines and several pits on other fields idle. More…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More food and more houses will be provided for mining areas to stimulate coal production as a result of a conference between the executive of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The sincerity of both Government coal owners towards miners’ claims was questioned in a statement issued by the Central Executive of the Miners’ Federation following a meeting of the district president…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, February 28,—More food and more houses are to be provided for mining: areas to stimulate coal production as the result of a conference between the executive of the National Union of Mineworkers and Mr- Attlee’s fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—Although a spokesman for the B.H.P. has threatened that steel production will be drastically cut and men thrown out of work unless miners resume work at John Darling and Burwood collieries, the current…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CESSNOCK, Monday. — There is a loss in production on the Maitland field, to-day of 3600 tons; due to the idleness of Pelaw Main,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Where previously, from the point of view, of the dust menace, the South Wales coal mines had been considered the worst in the world, “wet cutting” and the use of water had succeeded in cli[?]inating dust from 75 to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coincident with a statement by the chairman of the joint Coal Board, Mr. K. Cameron, that improved living and working conditions for miners would be the Board’s “first line of attack,” the State Cabinet decided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mass demonstration on Wednesday reduced the working time for all mines by one day. At least 19 mines worked nine dan during the fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—The only fresh industrial dispute on the Maitland coalfields today occupied at Elrington, where the men came out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Before the Central Council of the Miners’ Federation resumed its conference to-day to decide whether or not a general strike should be recommended to the aggregate meetings to beheld on all N.S.W fields…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →