No Beer If Miners Strike
Boer supplies would he completely exhausted within a few days if the threatened coal strike started on Monday, the President of the United…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
1,558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 78
Miners' Attitude "Uncompromising" Monday's Strike
The conference between the A.C.T.U. and the Combined Mining Unions' Council on the pending nation wide…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mayor's Appeal to Miners Postponement Of Strike Wanted
The Mayor of Cessnock (Aid. J. Brown) has appealed to miners to call off the proposed strike on. Monday because of to-day's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Agreement At Vital Coal confernce SYDNEY
The conference between the A.C.T.U. and Combined Mining Unions' Council on the pending nation-wide miners' strike adjourned without reaching an agreement, and will be resumed later to-day. Unless there is some solution to-day, it seems inevitable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal to Miners to Postpone Strike. Thousands Of Pamphlets Issued
Thousands of pamphlets were issued in the Cessnock area this morning appealing to miners to postpone the proposed strike on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal for Sydney
Twenty motor trucks moved 1200 tons of Cessnock coal to Awaba on Thursday and yesterday. The coal was taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Help Flood Relief
Miners’ lodges on the South Maitland coalfield are making donations to flood relief. Each lodge which has met since the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Still Sitting
SYDNEY, Sat.—At 10.15 a.m. to-day the joint Coal Board had not announced its decision on the last-minute proposals submitted…
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A general strike of mineworkera could prejudice moves being made to improve their working and living conditions, Mr. K. A. Cameron said on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Will Not Allow Coal To Be Transported by Road
Miners prevented the transport of coal by road from the mines to the railhead at Awaba immediately the general strike began at midnight last night. About 10,000 tons of gas and power coal on the northern fields will now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stocks Near Zero As Coal Strike Starts Owners and Miners Blame Each Other
SYDNEY, Monday.—Power station coal stocks were at a low level when the general coal strike began at midnight last night. Bunnerong has enough coal to supply essential services…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Prevent Transport of Northern Coal Unions Claim That Removal Would Prolong Strike
SYDNEY, Monday.—Miners prevented the transport of coal by road from the mines to the railhead at Awaba immediately the general strike began at midnight last night. About 10,000 tons of gas and power coal on the Northern field will now have to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newdell Out Newdell, nearest open-cut mine to Singleton, was idle today. The mine employs about 110 men. Only safety men are working
It was a "magic ear'" that stopped London's sneezing schoolboy, Michael Hippisley, from sneezing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Transport Of Coal Mines
More than 40 trucks which took part in the haulage of coal from pits in the Cessnock area to the rail siding at Awaba ceased work on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Penalise Miners' Leaders, Says Mr. Treatt. Power Under Coal Industry Act
The Lender of the State Opposition (Mr. Treatt) said yesterday that the State (Government should penailse miners' leaders for calling a strike in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Liner Warned Of Mine
LONDON, June 28. — Homeward-bound with 2000 passengers, the liner Queen Mary, was warned by radio-on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Tax Concessions for Miners
NEWCASTLE: Replying to a suggestion that miners be given income tax concessions to encourage them to produce more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Long Talk on Coal Position
CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Federal Cabinet rose at 1.30 p.m., after a three-and-a-half hour discussion on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Credit For Mine Workers At Cessnock
CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—“There is no justification for the report,” said a Cessnock storekeeper to-day, “that we would not give credit to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EDITORIAL King Coal: A Cruel King
THE public as a whole is probably not very well informed on the present coal crisis. They do know, however, that they are being asked to endure very great hardships. And for the people of Maitland and the…
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