What Coal Means to Civilization Fields Developed Thousands Of Years Ago
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 11
In these days of industrial unrest, the,threat of strides on the coalfields makes headlines in the daily papers, and throws industrialists into panic. To the general public, coal is import, ant because it provides them with gas, in most cases with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Muswellbrook Coal Company Asks Its Price £97,000 Wanted for Electricity Undertaking in Scone and Upper Hunter
The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 7
Through the Under-Secretary of the Minister for Works and Local Government, Mr. S. Haviland, Muswellbrook Coal Company has stated a price for its electricity undertaking within the Municipality of Scone and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accidents at Collieries
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 1
CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—David McIntosh,, 69, of William-st,. Cessnock, a shiftman employed at Bellbird colliery, received a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Grant of £4,800 Suspended
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 6
The Joint Coal Board had been reluctantly compelled to suspend payment of a grant of £4,800 to Kearsley Shire Council for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Open Cut Mine at Liddel. Proposed Scheme Announced
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 1
Consideration will soon be given to opening ah open cut mine at Liddell, it was stated recently by the Directof of State Coal Mines, Mr. Baddeley…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Moves For Pillar Coal Extraction Proprietors Discuss Machinery Installation
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 3
A meeting of New South Wales Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association decided to set up an advisory committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Resist Machine Extraction Owners Prepared To Press On With Work
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 4
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coal miners would not allow the mechanical extraction of pillar coal, said the general president of the Miners’ Federation, Mr. I. Williams, referring to the appointment of ah advistory committee to assist in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Open-cut Mine Promising Liddell Could Produce Ten Million Tons
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY: Tests at the new open-cut mine field at Lidded indicate that 10,000,000 tons of coal could be won there in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Menzies-fadden Government Threat to Liberties Miners Leader Addresses May Day Crowd
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 1
The continuance of the Meiizies-Fadden Government in office constituted a threat to the liberties and working conditions of the entire Labour movement, the General Secretary of the Miners Federation (Mr. G. W. S. Grant) said in an address at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miner’s Jaw Fractured
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 1
NEWCASTLE, Wed. — John Armstrong, 52, of Davis-street, Speers Point, a miner employed at Waratah colliery suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Plenty Doing" Says Miners' President
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 2
When asked' this week what line the Central Council of the Federation proposed to take on the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →May Day On Coal Fields
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 5
Speaking at the May Day celebrations at Cessnock on Monday, the Miners' Federation general secretary (Mr. Grant)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wage Increase for Open-cut Miners
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 1
In a reserved judgment the Chairman of the Central Reference Board (Mr. Gallagher) yesterday granted a £1 a week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight Northern Mines Idle To-day
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wed.—Strikes broke it In several mines on northern coalfield to-day resulting a big coal loss…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Luna Gold Favoured for Top-class
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 5
Luna Gold, winner of her last three starts at Maitland and holder of the track record for 440 yards, is engaged in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners’ Meeting
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 6
The decision of the central council of the Miners’ Federation to call pit-top meetings to Protest against the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Most Mines at Work
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 5
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Most of the mines in the State are working to-day. Reports from the coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Against Higher Price for Gold
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 1
WASHINGTON, May 4.—The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has recommended the rejection of South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many Miners Decide to Stay at Work Stop-work Meetings On Anti-Communist Bill
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Thousands of N.S.W. miners rebuffed Communists at pit-top meetings to-day and decided to continue working. A big majority of the mines is idle, but Communist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Disputes at Collieries
Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 5
CESSNOCK, Friday. — Aberdare Central colliery was idle to-day because of a wheelers’ dispute. Felton colliery was partly ma[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →