Two Collieries Idle
CESSNOCK. Thursday.— Aberdare Extended colliery, which was idle yesterday, resumed work this morning…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Four Men Trapped In Colliery
NEW YORK, May —Rescuers were standing by at Garadville, Pennsylvania, ready to enter the shaft of a burning anthracite…
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BRISBANE, Thurs. — George Stown who was admitted to Cairns Hospital last night with a fractured shoulder and six…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — A majority or the Central Council of the Miners’ Federation declared that the intention of the capitalist class, in trying to confuse the workers and destroy militant unionism, was to force the burden of…
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Drilling tests had discovered coal at Ashford, in the Inverell district, the Vice-president of the Executive Council. (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners’ Council Hits at Arbitration Says Role Is To “Keep Living Standards Low As Possible”
SYDNEY, Friday.—In one of the most trenchant attacks yet made on arbitration, the central council of the Miners’ Federation yesterday declared that the whole history of Arbitration Courts in Australia “reveals their role to keep…
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The inquiry opened at Cessnock races on March 5 into the bone rides of Gold Earth will be concluded by Newcastle stewards at…
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CESSNOCK, Monday.—Losses on Maitland coalfield to-day amounted to 3200 tons. Bloomfield Main was idle because…
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Singleton schoolboys on winter holidays have found a small copper mine on the site of a recently demolished old house in…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—Although none of the coal which was won on the South Maitland field yesterday was hauled because of the one-day…
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Mr. J. Baddeley, M.L.A., informed the Cessnock Electoral Council of the A.L.P. on Sunday that employment, at the Awaba State Mine was entirely…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—-Mr. F. Gallagher, Coal Industry Tribunal, said that there should be no darg limit on miners and that contract miners should be allowed to produce as much coal as they wished…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Federation's Attitude To Mine Pensioners Paxton Members "Disgusted"
disgust was, expressed 'at a meeting of the Paxton Mine pensioners' Association at the "Tack interest of the leaders of the Miners'…
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WYONG, Wed.—The Department of Mines advised Wyong Shire Council that it would prospect for coal in three northern areas of the…
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KURRI KURRI: Hon Pearce 26, miner, of Newcastle-street, Kurri Kurri, received abrasions and lacerations to both legs…
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Drilling operations sponsored by the Federal Government have discovered coal deposits at 341 feet below the ground at Ashford, in the Inverell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Grant of £1961 For Road
The Joint Coal Board wrote to to-day’s meeting of Lower Hunter Shire Council advising that a grant of £1961/10/ has been made to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Should Be Free to Produce Gallagher Against Dargs
The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) sees no reason why the amount of coal produced by individual miners should…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Present indications are if the authority of the Central Coal Reference Board to make awards is challenged in the High Court there will be grave and widespread stoppages on the coalfields, with serious…
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CESSNOCK Thursday.—All mines worked on the South Maitland held to-day. A berdare Extended Colliery is part…
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