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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1950

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Date for Southern Miners' Case to Be Announced

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Justice Cantor said in the Industrial Commission today a date would be announced on Monday for the hearing of the case against the Southern…

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Colliery Official killed At Mt. Nebo Mine

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 1

Mr. Jean Mouton, assistant manager of Wongawilli Colliery, was fatally injured about a quarter of a mile inside Mount…

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Colliery Officer Killed

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 1

Assistant manager at Wongawilli Colliery, Mr. J. L. Mouton, was fatally injured on Saturday afternoon at Mt. Nebo Colliery Mr. Mouton, aged 5, of 55…

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Man Injured at Colliery

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 6

When he was caught between the buffers of two skips at the Corrimal Colliery on Friday, a miner received probable fracture…

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Appleton New Northern Miners' Secretary

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Mr. J. Appleton, former Assistant Secretary, was today appointed Secretary-Treasurer of the…

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Coal Board Accused of Vandalism

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 1

LITHGOW, Monday. — "The Coal Board's open-cut mining methods could be compared to two wild burrs fighting in a…

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Miners Refused Conference On New Machine

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Joint Coal Board has refused a request by the Miners' Federation for a conference on the use of a new…

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Southern Miners Seek Height Money

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 3

An inspection of South Coast collieries is being carried out by the vice-president of the Southern District Miners'…

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Coalcliff Miners Isolated Says Mr. Parkinson

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 2

Grave concern over the "isolalation" of Coalcliff miners was expressed yesterday by Southern District Miners' Federation…

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Coal Drives Our Trains

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 31

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Police Officer's Tribute To "Terrible" Miners

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 2

"When I heard that I had been transferred to Bulli from the West I remembered all the stones I had heard about the 'terrible' miners that were 'always on strike.' I…

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Coal Board Trophy Presented to Domestic Sc. School

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 7

Inspector F. Cowburn and Mr. Sid Hayes visited the Wollongong Homo Science School yesterday and presented the…

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Presentation to Mr. R. Gold

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 2

At a lunch, hour gathering on Wednesday the empolyees of the Bloom and Rail Mills at the works of A.I. & S., made a…

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New Coal Production Record Likely

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Joint Coal Board figures issued today showed that if New South Wales mineworkers maintained the…

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Britain to Step-up Coal Production

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 5

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).—Britain will soon be using, on a big scale, the British coal-mining machine, the Sampson…

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Miners' Attitude To Korea

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 4

SIR—If the letter over the nomde plume "Southern Miner" in your issue of Tuesday, July 11 was designed to bring me in…

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Miners' Secretary Repudiates Circular on Korea

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. G. Grant) said in Rockhampton today the Central Executive had not discussed the Korean…

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Mine Surveyor's Examination

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 2

At the examination for Certicates of Competency as Mine, Surveyor under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, held at the…

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Mine Surveyor's Examination

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 3

At, the examination for Certificates of Competency as Mine Surveyor under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, held at the Tech…

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South Bulli Miners Reject Compromise: Mine Still Idle

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 2

Miners at South Bulli Colliery rejected a "return to work" recommendation from their union officials yesterday and went…

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