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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—During 1949 strikes and voluntary absenteeism on the coalfields lost 800,000 man-shifts, equivalent to the work of 3600 men for a whole year, said Mr. T. Armstrong (Opposition) in the Legislative Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, May 10.—France is proposing the international pooling of Europe’s vital coal and steel wealth as a necessary step to maintain peace. As a first step, designed to eliminate “the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK, Thursday.—Aberdare Central and Abermain No. 2 are the only idle collieries on the South Maitland field Co-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, May 11.—European Government and Industrial leaders have hopefully greeted France’s dramatic proposal for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killingworth colliery, which was closed in 1929 because of the depression slump in the coal trade, is to be re-opened soon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRUSSELS, May 12.—Fourteen miners were killed, four seriously injured and 18 are still trapped at Tra[?]ognies, near Mons, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Caught in a fall of fall at Aberdare colliery yesterday, Ray Howarth, 40, of Church-street, Cessnock, received injuries to the left leg and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Increased mechanisation in coalmining throughout the world is opening up export markets for the latest tpye of flameproof and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Secretary of the Northern Miners' Federation (Mr. Slmp-son) disclosed this morning that' northern miners' lodges had, by a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →France has suggested an international pooling of Europe's coal and steel industries as a necessary step to maintain world peace. The Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, announced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Belgium's worst mining disaster since 1932 yesterday killed 11 miners, injured four seriously, and trapped 18 others in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal shipments from Newcastle this week totalled 78,200 tons. Interstate shipments were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—The future standard of the working people of Australia is largely in bands of the miners, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, was to-day requested to order a secret ballot to determine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, TUBS.—State Cabinet yesterday was unable to discuss the appointment of a successor to Mr. K. A. Cameron, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the period ending May 6 of this, year, coal production in New South Wales was estimated at 3964,-322 tons compared with 3,737,250 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CESSNOCK, Wed. — William Harden, 87. of Love-street, Cessnock, a miner employed at Elrington colliery, had his left…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, May 17.— President of the United Mine Workers’ Union, John -L. Lewis, yesterday denied that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK, Wed.—When the wheelers threw Richmond Main colliery idle yesterday, following a complaint concerning the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Availability of anything In the iron and steel line depended in the ultimate on more coal being produced, the Department of…
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