Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

1,558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 47 of 78

Local Miners Tip Resumption Next Week

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 1

Singleton miners' union men tip a resumption of work throughout the State next Monday…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Miners’ Council Calls Aggregate Meetings Seek Policy Endorsement

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The miners' Central Council decided to call aggregate meetings to-morrow and Wednesday, but will not recommend en end of the strike. The meetings will be asked to endorse the Central…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Government Threat to Smash Miners Union “Replace it With Another”

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—If the coal strike continued the Government would complete the process of smashing the Miners’ Federation and replace it with “another organisation which has some responsibility to Australia and the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Communists in Miners' Union Deplored A.L.P. Addresses in John Street

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 3

After hearing addresses by senator J. H. Arnold and Mr H Hawkins, M.L.A. for Newcastle this morning,…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Miners Quaint Demand On State Government Want It to Repair Damage to Labor Through Strike

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 2

Seventy thousand men and women returned to their jobs in Sydney today after being unemployed for six weeks as a result of the miners' strike. Work was resumed in many factories this mottling after…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Reds Still Trying To Delay Return To Work Production From Open Cut Mines Has Been Beneficial to Industry

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 1

In directing that aggregate meetings of miners be held on different days—tomorrow on the Southern fields and Wednesday in the Northern area—the Communist Central Council of the Miners'…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

70,000 Men and Women Return to Work Open-Cut Coal Will Enable Hundreds More To Resume

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday—Seventy-thousand men and women returned to their jobs in Sydney to-day after being unemployed for six weeks as a result of the coal strike. Work was resumed in many factories as a result of the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Miners' Aggregate Meetings

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 3

IF MINERS are credulous enough to believe that the recommendation to be placed be­fore aggregate meetings…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Miners' Aggregate Meetings Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 2

Miners on southern and western N.S.W. coalfields, and in Victoria are holding meetings to-day, which may end the coal strike, now in its sixth…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Ipswich Mine Returns To Work

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Miners at the Rylance-Abermain mine resumed work to-day without waiting for to-morrow’s mass meetings…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Army May Start Own Mines

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 1

Two Federal Ministers yesterday told troops they hoped that production of open-cut coal would become a…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Pay Of Troops In Mines

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 3

CANBERRA: The Minister for the Army (Mr. Chambers) said today that rates of pay for the troops working open-cut mines would be…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Army May Start Own National Mines

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 2

MUSWELLBROOK: Hopes that production of open-cut coal would become a permanent part of Army engineering training were exprared by two Federal Ministers. The Minister for Slipping and…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Appeal to Miners to Go Back to

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY; Tuesday.—An appeal to miners to return work and to arbitration was made by Labour Party lead The N.S.W. Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) [?] miners to vote at aggregate meetings to-day and…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Coal Stocks To Be Built Up

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Troops willcontinue to work in the open cut coat mines even after the miners returns to work, the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Gas Men to Handle Open Cut Coal

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — By 800 votes to 10 gasworkere at the Australian Gas Light Company’s Mortlake works, decided to…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Our Correspondent Page. Mechanisation of Coal Industry

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 5

Sir, From time to time your columns have been filled with the advantages of mechanisation of the coal industry, and the increased safety…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

"Not a Snowball's Chance in Hell" Union Man Tells Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 3

Appealing to mineworkers to demand that aggregate meetings be called by the CMU Council, Mr. J. Shoretell, senior vice-president of the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Coal Strike Is Virtually Ended Pit Work Expected Next Wednesday Week

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Left-wing miners’ officials admitted last night that the coal strike had virtually ended, and a general resumption of work in all New South Wales pits in anticipated for next Wednesday week, August 17…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Far Northern Miners May Defy C.M.U. “Immediate Work” Conference: To Be Held

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 2

MUSWELLBROOK, Tuesday—A meeting at Muwellbrock yesterday of miners from that area and from Singleton decided to call a conference on Thursday of all miners from Greta to Gunnedoh for the purpose of discussing an…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →