Miners to Push on with Claims
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Claims for higher pay, shorter-working hours and improved amenities are to be proceeded with by the…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Mr. Menzies on Importance of Coal Production. Statement at Cessnock
The Leader of the Opposition [?] Cessnock this morning that it was impossible to [?] where in england or Astralia without realising that the question of production was a vital one and that the productions of coal was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland M.L.A. To Appear For Communist Mining Unions Demand Withdrawal of Summonses
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Following the serving of summonses on Communist leader L. L Sharkey, the Combined Mining Council (representing practically every union on the coalfields) decided to demand that the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Injured at Cessnock
CESSNOCK, Wed.—Alexander Orr, 21, of Hunter Avenue, Cessnock, a miner employed at Aberdare colliery, severed the fourth finger of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Mines Idle To-day
CESSNOCK, Wed.—Coal loss on the South Maitland field to-day amounted to 3500 tons. The idle collieries were Bellbird,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warning to Trouble Makers Miners Take Action
A conference of lodge delegates representing all northern miners carried a resolution outlawing petty stoppages…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Caught in Mine Blast Man Killed at Broken Hill
Despite courageous efforts by workmates to rescue them, one of two men caught in a blast at South Mine, Broken Hill, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.s.w. Polo Team Wins Gold Cup at Adelaide Carnival
The New South Wales Polo Team won the Australasian Gold Polo Cup on Saturday at Birkslla (South Australia), when it defeated South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Higher Coal Production Is Imperative” “Human Prosperity In What Money Can Buy,” Says Mr. Menzies
“If full employment in this country were to be maintained, there must be higher coal production, far upon coal depends the goods vital to future prosperity,” Mr. R. G. Menzies, leader of the Federal Opposition, told an audience…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heating-up in Colliery
CESSNOCK. Thursday. — Bellbird and Neath West tunnels are still idle, the former because of a heating-up in one of the large…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Miners Endorse Call For Less Hours, More Pay Nationalisation of Mines Urged
A meeting of miners’ lodge executives and committeemen at Maitland town hall fast night adopted the mining unions’ programme for the coal industry, which, among other demands, calls for nationalisation of the mines…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Deposits Near Inverell
.CANBERRA, Thurs.—The Vice-President of the Executive Council, Mr. W. J. Scully, said to-day that coal deposits at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Leader Rev[?]lies To Mr. Mer[?]zies
SYDNEY, Thurs.—The Central Executive of the Mine[?] Federation repudiated the tenement by the leader of the [?]opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Colliery Employee Granted Divorce
At the Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday, before Mr.Justice Bonney, Herbert Ernest Patrick, colliery employee, of Carroll-avenue, Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Greed
In days of old men were bold, And pirates were abounding; Their greed for gold is often told In tales that are astounding…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners' Pension. (To the Editor)
Sir.—I agree with your correspondent in Friday's "Eagle" that it is impossible to live even poorly on the mine pension. This should have been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Only Two Cessnock Mines Idle
CESSNOCK, Friday.—With the resumption of work at Millfield Colliery to-day, the only idle mines on the South Maitland field were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Struck by Fall of Coal
Struck by a fall of coal at Bellbird colliery, James Cousens, 27, of Alexander-street, Cessnock, a miner, received concussion and shock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News in Brief Coal Co. Winding Up
The Newcastle Coal Mining Co. Ltd., which was formed 72 years ago, has decided to windup voluntarily. After…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →South Maitland Soccer Presentation Coal Board Trophies Appreciated
Appreciation of the Joint Coal Board's gesture in making available trophies, was expressed at the South Maitland Soccer Association's annual…
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