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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

1,558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 55 of 78

New Propaganda Drive by Coal Board

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 September 1949 · page 7

Within a few weeks the Joint Coal Board will launch a new propaganda drive "to influence mineworkers to accept its plans and allow daily…

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South Maitland Soccer Coal Board Senior Knockout Competition

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 September 1949 · page 6

The draw for the Coal Board Knockout. which will be played on Sunday, September 11, is as follows (games to be played, on the first…

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Cesnock Band Instruments Obsolete Joint Coal Board Asked To Help

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 September 1949 · page 1

For some years the Cessnock Band has been functioning under great difficulties. Instruments used by members…

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Canberra Notes Industrial Unrest Could End Labor's Rule Communists. Still Dominating Coal Industry

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 September 1949 · page 3

Public reaction to recent industrial and political developments may profoundly affect the result of the Federal election now looming on the horizon. Persistency of petty stoppages in major industries immediately following the recent coal strike, is, worrying Labor Parliamentary members who, earlier, had believed…

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Coal Board Seeks Power Line To Ravensworth Asks Council to Construct: Council to Ask Railway Department

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 September 1949 · page 1

A request from the Operations Division of the Joint Coal Board to Singleton Municipal Council that the Council erect a power transmission line from Singleton to Rayensworth for the purpose of…

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Letters To The Editor the Miners’ Darg

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 September 1949 · page 2

Sir,—During the recent coal strike the miners’ darg was mentioned on numerous occasions hi the press. The question in many people’s…

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Manganese Industry Old Man Hopes to Develop Mine

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1949 · page 1

An elderly man has an area of land at Bowling Alley Point (30 miles from Tamworth), where he hopes to develop a profitable manganese mine…

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Branxton Looking for Bright Future Coal Board Activities

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 September 1949 · page 4

Of the many smaller towns that dot the mop of the luxurious and progressing Hunter River district there is probably not one that has climbed the stairway of industrial, pastoral and agricultural impotence as has the quiet…

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Coal Threat "Miners Will Continue Struggle."

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 September 1949 · page 2

Five Communist tradeunion leaders yesterday attacked the Federal Government for the part it played…

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Miner’s Leg Punctured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 September 1949 · page 1

Cliff Clarke, 23, of 16 Wickham-street, Wickham, a miner employed by Bloomfield Collieries, suffered a severe…

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Gold Production Higher

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 September 1949 · page 4

CANBERRA, Monday.—Australian gold production during June was 27.3 per cent, more than during June last year…

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Threat Of More Mine Stoppages

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 September 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday,—Speaking in the Domain, Communist leaders of trades unions said that there would be further stoppages…

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Hearing of Miners’ Claims Re-opened

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. E. F. Stewart, secretary of the Joint coal Board, told the Coal Tribunal to-day he believed it could…

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Mine Accidents At CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 September 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Tuesday. — William Phillips, 22, of Elizabethstreet, Cessnock, locomotive employed at Kallngo…

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New Threat of Coal Dislocation

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1949 · page 4

Five Communist trade-union leaders on Sunday, attacked the Federal Government for the part it…

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Western Miners' Proposal For Regular Stoppages

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 6 September 1949 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon the Western Miners' Board of Management decided to send a proposal by miners from Ivanhoe Colliery which called for…

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Move to Oust M.l.a. From Miners' Federation

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 6 September 1949 · page 6

The next meeting of the Board of Management of the Northern Miners' Federation will discuss a recommendation that Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A. be…

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Operation of Darg in Collieries Old Miner Tells of Its Introduction In North. (By “Old Timer”)

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 September 1949 · page 2

I was much interested in rite letter of “Miner” on the in Saturday’s issue. “Miner” says for over 20 years he was under the impression that the darg was “limitation of output”. He…

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Coal Price Increased

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 September 1949 · page 2

MUSWELLBROOK, Wed.—Muswellbrook Coal co. Ltd. has advised Muswellbrook Municipal Council of a further increase of 5½d per ton…

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International Plan For Coal

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 September 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Sept, 1.—The Trades Union Congress yesterday carried a motion that the General Council should press for a…

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