W.A. Miners Back
All miners on the Collie coalfield decided to return to work today. At a mass meeting the…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
1,558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 38 of 78
Risking Lives To Get Coal
Amateur miners, getting coal from a disused mine at Glebe, in the Newcastle area, were gravely endangering their lives,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gasworkers Will Handle “Black” Coal
SYDNEY, Monday.— Gas workers at Mortlake decided by an overwhelming majority to-day to use coal coming into the works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fourth Day of the Coal Lift
CESSNOCK, Monday.—To-day is the fourth day of the coal lift from the South, Maitland fields…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal at Grass on Way to Sydney Police Protect Loaders
Coal at grass on the northern fields is being brought to Sydney today. The decision to move the coal came as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outback Babies Hit by Coal Strike Nurses' Cars Held Up
Hundreds of babies in isolated country areas are unable to get medical attendance because of the coal strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Lift in North Well Organised About 700 Participated In Operations
The lift of coal in trucks from the Northern coalfields, now just about in its closing phase, was an outstanding example of planning and co-ordination. Approximately 700 took port in the operations,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Make Overtures For Settlement Want Government to Join in Peace Conference: Face Saving Plan
Inflexible decision of the Federal Government not to have anything to do with the miners unless they submit to arbitration is regarded as the greatest blow to what many of them realise now as an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Removal of Coal At Grass Began To-day Army Ready To Work Open Cuts If Necessary
SYDNEY, Monday.—The removal of coal at grass on the Northern fields began to-day, and the coal is now on its way to depots at Newcastle. The coal is being loaded in trucks by colliery staffs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Miners’ Meetings in the North Decision of Coal Mining Unions’ Council
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Further miners’ meetings, for the purpose of answering the Labour Party’s propaganda campaign, will be held at Northern coalfields towns from to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open-Cut Mines
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The A.W.U. had not yet been approached to work open-cut mines, the general secretary of the union, Mr. T…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Artificial Gold
Sir John D. Cockcroft, the director of the atomic research establishmentat Hartwell (Eng.), said that gold could now be produced artificially…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners’ Meeting At Singleton
SINGLETON, Tuesday.— An open air meeting at the corner of Pitt and John Streets, Singleton, this morning, was addressed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EDITORIAL Realism and More Coal
AMIDST oil the turmoil arising out of the coal crisis and the consequent upset to industry generally, one hears many suggestions for a solution of the problem. No doubt present difficulties would soon be forgotten,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tractor Orders Being Fulfilled Despite Coal Strike
Motor Tractors Pty. Ltd., of 369-385 Wattle-street, Ultimo, Sydney, the N.S.W. distributors of Fordson Major tractors, advise…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collie (W.A.) Miners Resumed Aggregate Meeting Decision
Miners from the Collie field in Australia, resumed work yesterday. A mass meeting agreed by 240 voice…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Wont Beat the Government." Senator Grant Tells Miners
"I came here to tell you that you won't beat," the Government," said Senator Donald Grant when he addressed a meeting of miners in Cessnock on Saturday. He said that in 1917 the whole trade-union was united in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Removal of Coal at Grass Operation Started Yesterday
Now that all coal in waggons at pitheads in the South Maltland field has been moved, work it proceeding with the removal of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Position Desperate," Says Town Clerk. Coal Supply Problem
Mr. A. E. Border (Town Clerk) said to-day that unless additional coal supplies were made available by next Tuesday local manufacture of gas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Muswellbrook Declares for Arbitration. Miners Urged to Call Aggregate Meetings
At a meeting this afternoon, addressed by Senator Ashley (Minister for Supply and Shipping), Mr. David Watkins, M.H.R., and Mr. Cameron,…
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