Threat of Stoppage in State’s Mines
SYDNEY, Thursday . — Serious stoppages may occur on the New South Wales coalfields if mine-owners persist with their attempts…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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Miner’s Leg Fractured
CESSNOCK, Friday. — Robert Dowell, 24, of Gordon Avenue, Cessnock, a miner employed at Bellbird colliery, received a…
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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17.—Five men, including four pickets, were shot and wounded yesterday in a clash between 100 pickets and…
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Bellbird Colliery employees are conducting a picnic to Taronga Park, Sydney, on March 4. It will be their first picnic for ten…
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Hundreds of windmills built around the coasts of Britain might be able to generate enough electricity…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Move by Mr. Crook on ex-Service Miners' Pensions
Notice of his intention to move that amending legislation be introduced into the next parliamentary session to remove an anomoly from…
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The reply from the Minister for Mines (Mr. Dickson) to Kearsley Shire Council regarding its application for a quarry on 15 acres of Crown land at Bellbird, angered members of the council when it was read at Tuesday night's meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Unreal, Vicious and Provocative, Says Miners' Leaders Owners Move On Holidays
"Unreal, vicious and provocative," was the way the General President (Mr. L Williams) and the General Secretary (Mr. Grant) described the coalowners' move to alter awards governing mineworkers' holidays…
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The District Engineer, Joint Coal Boarl, advised the Municipal Council on Wednesday that unless council undertook to maintain the proposed new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Approves Amenity Project in Principal Board to Consider P.P. Shire's Unwillingness to Confer Council Asked To Submit Separate Proposals
The Joint Coai Board in a letter to the Municipal Council said that the Board had approved of the Council's amenity projects programme in principle with the exception of the improvements of the camping area, sight boards and extensions to the Golf Club House…
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. — Miner’ chief, John L. Lewis, yesterday ordered all coal miners to return to work without delay…
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Robert Dowell (24), of Gordon Avenue Cessnock, a miner employed at Bellbird Colliery, received a fracture of the right…
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CESSNOCK, Monday. — Richmond Main and Abermain No. 2 collieries are again both idle today because the men object to…
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A double-cased gold watch, found at Campbell’s Hill sale yards, was to-day handed Into Maitland police station…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—There is a loss in production on the South Maitland field to-day of approximately 4000 tons…
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.— The Government yesterday won a today extension of the court order banning the coal strike but…
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The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) yesterday adjourned the bearing of an application for inclusion of penalty clauses in the Miners'…
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MUSWELLBROOK, Tuesday. — The district engineer of the Joint Coal Board has advised Muswellbrook Municipal Council that unless…
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CESSNOCK, Wed. — Neville Baker, 18, of Attwater Avenue, Cessnock, a mineworker at Bellbird colliery, fractured his left…
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A miner at Kent Colliery was injured to-day when he was buried by the fall of a ton of coal He was Jack McClenban. 57. of…
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