Miners' Warning to Reds
London: A campaign against Communist activities in the coalfields has been started by the York…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Comment on Coal Board Officials
SINGLETON; Friday. — There are enough Coal Board officials in this district to wear out any road, said Cr. A. C. Marshall at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Play Centres Approved By Coal Board. Grants Amounting to [?]
Grants amounting to [?]l731 have been approved for three play centres in Kearsley Shire by the Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Only Few Mines Without [?] Service. Eight on South Maitland Field
After a lengthy and intensive campaign by representatives of the Australian Tea Bureau. hot cups of ten are now being served to coal miners in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Monday's Coal Traffic. Railwaymen Want Treble Pay. Compulsory Conference Held
A compulsory conference was called by Mr. Murray Stewart in Sydney to-day to consider a demand by railway workers at Port Waratah…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Enough Coal Board Officials To Wear Out Any Shire Roads"
"There are enough Joint Coal Board officials getting around this district to wear out any of the shire roads," Cr. A. C. Marshall stated' at yesterday's meeting of Patrick Plain Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Mines Idle on Monday Colliery Staffs’ Claim For Treble Pay Refused
Serious dislocation to the transport of coal from pits will follow the decision of Cessnock field colliery staffs to refuse to work on Monday because the “A” division members’ claim for treble pay was refused…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners to Work
By ballot the miners have decided to work the coal mines on Monday next, a public holiday. They will be paid special penalty rates for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Challenge to Coal Board
SYDNEY, Sat.—Business tenants of Frazer House, Pitt-street, Sydney, may challenge the legal right of the Joint Coal Board to move them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Several Large Collieries Idle
CESSNOCK, Monday.—Several of the large collieries in the Cessnock district are idle to-day, and others are only partly manned. Their idleness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Mines Idle
CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—The only Idle mines on the South Maitland field to-day are Millfield and Maitland Main. This means a loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Mines Idle Yesterday
Six pits on the Cessonock field were idle yesterday because members of the Colliery Staffs' Association would not work after they had been refused…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Crankshaft at No. 2 MINE
A broken crankshaft on the [?]reening plant at Muswellbrook No. 2 mine yesterday afternoon cut down production for the day. The men were placed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rev. Redman Says Level Crossings Death Traps. Appeal To Miners
"It seems to me that the Government is wasting a lot of money on advertising road safety" while allowing these death traps to exist. said the Church of England Minister (Rev. M. Redman) when he referred to level crossings at the funeral of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Mines Idle
CESSNOCK, Wed.—Loss In production on the South Maitland field to-day Is exceptionally heavy and is due in a large measure to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Plans for Kearsley
CESSNOCK. Wed.—Kearsley Shire clerk (Mr. J. Grieve I told the council last night the Joint Co[?] Board had advised that it bad…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drowned in Colliery Dam
CESSNOCK, Thursday. — The District Coroner (Mr. W. O. Pickering) returned a verdict of accidental death when he held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further Heavy Loss of Coal
CESSNOCK, Thursday.— Maitland Main, Aberdare Extended and Bellbird collieries are Idle to-day out of sympathy with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Drowned In Colliery Dam. Warning by Coroner
"Despite warning notices, boys repeatedly swim in this dam, where there have been several drowning fatalities." These remarks were made by Kurri…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Grant For School
KUKRI, Friday.—It was reported a meeting of the Kurri Kurri parents and Citizens’ Association that the Joint Coal Board had…
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