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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

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A City Below a City Salt Mining In U.S.

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 1

South Australia is the only source of salt in Australia. Far below the busy streets of the American city of Detroit,…

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To-day’s Leader: The Value of Gold Allied Troops in Major Offensive Forestalling Communist Counter Attack(A.A.P. Reter).TOKYO

Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 1

Allied troops seized jogged, snow-covered heights along the Korean bottle front yesterday, advancing up to two and a half miles in a major offensive designed to forestall a powerful Communist counter-punch…

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Vital Miners’ Meeting Today Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 3

A vital meeting of the Miners’ Federation Central Council to-day will decide whether miners will continue the strike programme…

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Modern Salt Mine Under City

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 6

South Australia is the only source of salt In Australia. Far below the busy streets of the American city of Detroit,…

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Gallagher Criticises , Colliery Proprietors SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 3

Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, to-day strongly criticised the attitude to colliery, proprietors In we present miners’ dispute. After they had objected to the objects of the adjustment of man…

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Weekly Coal Halts Expected to End Aggregate Meeting of Miners This Week SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 2

Miners on the northern coalfields are expected tomorrow to adopt the recommendation of the Central Council of the Miners’ Federation to discontinue the weekly oneday protest stoppages…

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Miner’s Finger Injured CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 3

Lesile Hayes, 84, of Love street Cessnock, a wheeler at Aberdare, had the top of the little finger of his left hand severed to-day when…

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Peak Output From Mines Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 3

With all mines working on the South Maitland field to-day. Coal output was at its highest peak for any working day, during the past…

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Miners’ Motion

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 3

The aggregate meeting of miners at Maitland this morning carried the following resolution: “We reaffirm our complete…

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Millions of Tons More Coal for Prosperity. Prime Minister Appeals to Miners Speech at Cessnock Show Opening

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 1

"I do not want to discuss Industrial grievances or how they can be thrashed out, but I do want to say that Australia cannot be ready for any kind of prosperity unless we get millions of tons more coal than we are getting now," the Prime…

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New Increase In Coal Production

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 3

Some improvement In the U.K. coal situation is Indicated in the latest figures. So far recorded, the production in 1951 totals…

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Small Vote At Meetings Of Miners Support For Recommendation , Overwhelming NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 3

Early voting figures from aggregate meetings on the N.S.W. Northern Coalfield to-day indicated that miners will vote overwhelmingly to end their one-day-a-week stop pages as a protest against the Gallagher award…

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Maitland Miners Vote to Suspend One-day Stoppages ActionBrought Views Before Governments

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 3

By 40 votes to four, a meeting of miners at Maitland to-day supported a resolution to suspend the one day a week stoppages on coalfields and to return to work and await the decision of the Cool Industry Tribunal…

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Colliery Employees Injured

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 3

Freeman Fogg, 64, of Bellbird, [?] top hand employed at Bellbird colliery, received an injury to his right knee when he fell at work…

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Miners’ Vote Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 3

Early returns from miners’ meetings in the south and west indicate overwhelming support tor the northern vote to end the…

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Fumes From Old Mine Workings

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 3

After Cr. J. Prondfoot has drawn attention to [?] from old colliery workings at Anvil Creek, Kearsley Shire…

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Man Injured in Coal Blast

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 3

Small fragments of coal, dred by an exploding charge of powder, struck and injured a wheeler at Rathluba colliery this morning…

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Miners Want the Weekly-stoppages Called Off Unanimous Decision At Singleton

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 2

SINGLETON branch of the Miners' Federation, at a meeting yesterday, unanimously adopted a…

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Two Killed on Colliery Siding Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 1

Two men were struck by a light engine travelling on the Neath colliery siding last night. One was killed outright and the…

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Restrictions on Coal Production Canberra

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 8

The Minister for Fuel and Shipping (Senator G. McLeay) said in the Serrate that Australia would not get full production of…

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