Miners Co-operative Building Society
The membership of Miners 'Co-operative Building Societies subsidised by the Joint Coal Board is now growing so rapidly that two new societies are being formed—by Wollongong and…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
705 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 11 of 36
Coal Supplies Gas
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Sir,—I have just finished reading two pamplets and a number of reports on he I.L.O conference on dust diseases of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Steady Coal Output Needed For Winter
SYDNEY, Monday.— Near-record production is expected on the New SOuth Wales coal-fields tomorrow, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliery Staffs Seek Higher Wages
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The chairman of the Central Coal Reference Board (Mr. F. H. Gal-lagher) today began the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Output Yesterday Near-record
SYDNEY Tuesday.—Today's con[?] output from New South, Wales mines was a near-record, the loss for the day being only…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Owners Slate Coal Board Statements As Wrong, Dangerous
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Coalowners today made a strong attack on the Joint Coal Board aver statements in its brochure, "Coal Facts." They accused the Coal Board of having made "a most mislead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Judgment Today
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Coal Industry Tribunal(Mr. F. H. Gallagher) tomorrow morning will deliver two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Is Food
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Joint Coal Board warned Greater Wollongong Council last night that contributions by Council towards the Board's…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Federal Delay With Mine Pensions
SYDNEY, Thursday. — The Commonwealth Government, by its inaction, might cause a betrayal of promises made to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Threaten Strike On Pillar Extraction
SYDNEY, Thursday. — The Miners' Federation is expected to consider general strike action if the coal owners attempt mechanically to extract pillar coal from mines…
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A Mt. Keira Colliery shiftman was admitted to Wollongong District Hospital yesterday afternoon after he was injured…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. — Mr. Dave Butterick, owner of the "Golden Paddock" in Wedder-burn, Victoria, said today that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Plan To Prevent Machines On Pillars
SYDNEY, Friday. — Miners' leaders today made plans to prevent coalowners from using machines to extract pillar coal from underground mines in three States…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smuggled Gold Hidden in Cooking Fat
ANTWERP, Friday Customs officials who yesterday found gold worth £107,000 sterling hidden in cooking fat in…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A concrete house at Wedderburn may have to be demolished so that a gold reef may be followed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drastic Rationing of Coal Faces N.S.W.
SYDNEY, Monday.—-Unless drastic coal ration ing is introduced shortly to avoid a black winter, cuts in train services, gas and electricity supplies and reduced output from key industries appear…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Northern Miners To Consider "Disciplinary Code"
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A miners' disciplinary code to abolish "irresponsible stoppages" may be re-introduced on the Northern New South Wales coalhelds. A Joint Coal Board spokesman said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Imports Short-Term Measures
CANBERRA, Wednesday. — Coal imports from South Africa and India were only short term measures to overcome…
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