Stop-Work Meetings Of Miners
SYDNEY, Thuns.—The Central Council of the Miners’ Federation decided to-day to call stop work meetings throughout the…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Miners's Council May Be Guilty of Conspiracy Warning Note by Coal Board Counsel
The Joint Coal Board suggested at the hearing before final Industry Tribunal Gallagher this morning that members of the Miners' Federation Central Council may be guilty of conspiracy in calling a one-day stoppage on N.S.W. coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boosting Coal Output in West Coal Board Member Silent
A member of the Joint Coal Board said on Wednesday he could neither confirm nor deny a report that it was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boost Coal Output Coal Board to Spend £6 M.
The Coal Board, the Federal and State Governments, it is believed, are planning to spend £6 million to boost the output on the western…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Co-operative Building Society
The Cessnock Miners' Cooperative Building Society No. 1 has been formed on the provisional committee reporting the he Commonwealth Bank had agreed…
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The Minister for Education (Mr. Heffron), in reply to Cessnock Municipal Council's request for coalmining courses at Cessnock, has advised that…
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All but a small part of the Commonwealth subsidies on coal production will be removed by October 1…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Open Cut Mine Opening at Liddell Output of 500 Tons Of Coal Expected Shortly History Behind of the Mime
The operates division of the Joint [?] Board has already commenced work in earnest on the proposed open cut mine at Liddell, and it is expected that 500 tons of coal a week will be produced shortly from the open cut operations…
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KALGOORLIE, Friday.— John Phillip Parker picked up a stone while examining a 50-year-old ore dump near Norseman and, when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Idle Mines To-day's Loss 2700 Tons
Bellbird and Hebburn No. 2 are the only idle collieries on this field today. Abermain No. 1 men will finish at 1 o'clock to attend a funeral…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Divergent Views on Coal Industry. A.B.C. Forum — Williams-Davie
On the A.B.C. Forum of the Air this week, the Miners' General President, Mr. Williams, and the Secretary of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, Mr. Davie, gave their views. The history of private ownership in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One-Day Coal Stoppage Next Week 10Ss Will Be 55,000 TONS
The central council of the Miners' Federation decided yesterday to call stop-work meetings on all N.S.W. coalfields next week. A one-day stoppage would mean the loss of about…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conspiracy Suggested in Mine Council’s Decision Tribunal Asks For Names of Men Concerned
SYDNEY, Friday—The Coal Board suggested at a hearing before the Coat Industry Tribunal this morning that members of the Miners Federation Central Council may be guilty of conspiracy in calling a one-day stoppage on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Booth Tries To Put Miners’ Case To House Treatt Takes Six Points of Order
SYDNEY, Friday.—The coal industry had been running very smoothy for some days and weeks, and there was no reason why it should be violently threatened, with industrial unrest, said Mr. George Booth (Lab. Kurri)in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bank Backs Miners’ Society
CESSNOCK: The Commonwealth Bank has financed Cessnock-Miners’ Co-operative Building Society No. 1 to the extent…
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Singleton, Saturday. — The [?]teration of the Joint Coal Board [?] commenced work on the open [?] mine at ldadell, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vital Meeting of Mine leaders
SYDNEY, Saturday.—Because of illness, the General President of the Miners’ Federation, Mr. I. Williams, is not attending…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gallagher Forbids Miners Stoppage “Guilty of Serious Crime”
SYDNEY, Saturday.—The Coal industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, who yesterday ordered the Miners Central Council not to hold its proposed stopwork meeting other than outside normal working, hours, told the miners they were guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heated Clash Over Coal Nearly Led To Blows
SYDNEY, Saturday.—Miners’ chief Idris Williams and colliery owners’ spokesman H. Gregory Forster nearly came to blows during a heated exchange before the Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr, Gallagher, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Situation Becomes Grimmer Strikes Break Out in Many N.S.W. Collieries
Strikes broke out in many N.S.W. coal mines to-day in protest against the Joint Coal Board's application for more stringent provisions for holiday and annual leave and Coal Industry Tribunal Gallagher's threat to indict miners' leaders if they persist with plans for holding stop-work meetings on…
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