Hospital Short of Coal
QUIRINDI: The secretary state that as a result of the coal strike and upon recommendations from the Commission,…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
1,558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 78
EDITORIAL The Coal Problem
THE net result of week-end meetings concerning the coal strike would seem to be that instead of a solution possible, the end, if anything, is farther than every away…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General News Miners' Loss
It is estimated that miners and others in the coal industry in the Singleton area have lost over £1000 a week since the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Calwell Says Miners Back At Work On
The Government had got all the information it wanted from the recent raid on Marx House, the Minister for Information, Mr. A. A. Calwell told the A.L.P. rally in the Domain yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Striking Miners Look on at Minmi Troops Remove Overburden
SYDNEY, Monday. — As striking miners looked on, troops began work on the open cut coal at Minmi, near Newcastle, at 10 a.m. to-day. The actual production of coal at Minmi,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day’s Leader: The Coal Problem Action Demanded by Refugees
HAMBURG, August 1.—Refugees from East Germany held meetings throughout the British zone yesterday to demand action by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Operation Open Cut" Zero Hour Approaches Miners May Consider a Return to Work
As zero-hour approaches of "Operation Open Cut", Singleton district miners are becoming increasingly agitated. Troops assembled at Muswellbrook will take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners’ Query On “Eddie” Ward’s Strike Attitude Effort To Arrange Coalfield Visit
The possibility of the Federal Minister for Transport, Mr. E. J. Ward, coming to the northern coalfields and speaking in support of the miners was discussed at the miners’ protest rally at Minmi yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Federation Is On Shaky Ground Danger of Split Over Rejection of Aggregate Meetings
Miners' Federation Central Council's refusal to sanction aggregate meetings so that the rank and file might express their opinion about returning to work means more milestones of hardship for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Band Heads March at Minmi Rally Miners Protest Against Use of Troops In Open Cuts
MINMI, Monday.—At the biggest political or industrial meeting in Minmi since the fate John Brown closed down his coal mine seme 20 years ago, more than 1500 miners and their wives yesterday carried a resolution…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Council Not To Call Aggregate Meetings Five Delegates Walked Out
SYDNEY, Monday.—Any hopes of an early end to the cool strike appeared to vanish yesterday when the Combined Mining Unions’ Council confirmed a decision of four coal industry craft unions that no aggregate meetings of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Call for Meetings
The Northern Miners' Executive has called a conference of northern miners' lodge delegates for to-morrow morning to consider the coal strike. The decision was made after the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Thumbs Up” For The Miners
LITHGOW, Tuesday: Soldiers passing through Lithgrow to-day from open cut mines were booed and heckled by miners in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1500 Tons Muswellbrook Coal Loaded High Production Figures Reached. Miners Believed Amazed at Servicemen's Performances. SYDNEY
Coal won by Army and Air Force personnel is already on its way to Sydney and Newcastle from northern and western open cut mines. The first train load of 500 tons of coal left Muswellbrook at 7.30 a.m.—a little more than seven hours after Servicemen began…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Lift In Queensland
BRISBANE, Tuesday—The coal Lift from the Queensland mines is expected to increase by 850 tons a a day from to-morrow night, when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Ministers Address Miners Mr. Baddeley's Appeal
Appealing to miners to rally [?] the Government and the-executive officere of the North, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A. said at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Muswellbrook Miners Demand Meeting to Discuss Strike
About 250 miners at Muswellbrook yesterday carried a motion demanding a meeting of delegates of Northern Miners' lodges this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Army Takes Over Muswellbrook Open-cut Mine Soldiers Remove Coal Last Night Heavy Police Guard at Operation. No Incidents :: "None Expected"
WITH ALL THE PRECISION OF A WARTIME MANOEUVRE, THE ARMY TOOK OVER THE MUSWELLBROOK OPEN CUT MINE AT ONE MINUTE PAST MIDNIGHT THIS MORNING…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unity Among Mining Unions Destroyed
Unity among the mining unions had been destroyed, said the President of the A.C.T.U. (Mr. P., j. Clarey) andthe Secretary (Mr.A.E. Monk) after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Favour Aggregate Meetings Ten To One Majority At Cessnock
By a ten to one majority a crowd of between 1500 and 2000 mineworkers decided at a meeting at Cessnock Sportsground yesterday afternoon to recommend to the Northern and Central Executive of their organisation that aggregate meetings…
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