Miners Reject A.L.P. "Interference"
A special meeting of the Southern District Miners' Federation Delegate Board yesterday criticised the State A.L.P. Executive for "interfering" with Miners' Federation members carrying…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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'Understanding' Between Council And Coal Board
Meeting at the Wollongong Council Chambers yesterday afternoon, Joint Coal Board officials and city aldermen…
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More than 50 angry Scarborough Colliery miners conducted a noisy demonstration outside the Wollongong office of the Joint Coal Board yesterday. They demanded to see visiting Joint Coal Board Chairman (Mr. S. P. Cochran) who refused to give them an audience…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parkinson Says Excelsior Mine May Close
A possible abandonment of the Excelsior Colliery undertaking at Thirroul was forecast by the Southern Miners' President (Mr. W. Parkinson) yesterday. He was criticising Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board's Work "Not Appreciated" Says Mr. Cochran
"My only regret is that there seems to be a lack of appreciation for the work done by the Joint Coal Board," commented the Chairman (Mr. S. P. Cochran) yesterday when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Criticise Coal Board Co.-op. Building Scheme
"Large scale and general dissatisfaction prevails in the Southern District because of mal-administration of the Joint Coal Board's Miners' Cooperative Building Scheme," said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Retired Miners' Appeal for Invalid Chairs
There has been an excellent response to the Thirroul branch of the Retired Miners' Association's appeal for invalid wheel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Strike Blamed for Steel Loss
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Chairman of Directors of Broken Hill Pty. Ltd. (Mr. Essington Lewis) said today that his company's profits were lower than an industry such as this should achieve…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"No Change in Policy on Miners' Retiring Age"
SYDNEY, Friday.—Miners' leaders said tonight their union was still opposed to lifting the compulsory retiring age of 60 in the coal industry…
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Approximately 70 miners from South Clifton Colliery, Scarborough, were involved in a demonstration outside the Wollongong Joint Coal Board Office on Thursday when they learned that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Housing Scheme Criticised
Executive of the Southern Miners' Federation at a meeting with Joint Coal Board Chairman, Mr. P. S. Cochrane, on Thursday, criticised the administration of the Coal Board's Housing Scheme for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Superintendent Visiting America
Mr. Harry Campbell, of Corrimal who was recently appointed superintendent of the Corrimal Colliery left by air yesterday for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Mines Idle
Two Southern District Collieries were idle on Tuesday. They were Medway mines, at Berrima and South Clifton…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal Board Plans For Towradgi Park
Joint Coal Board told Greater Wollongong Council last night that a general plan of layout for Towradgi Park…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Extra Shifts Proposed to Safeguard Mine
Wongawilli miners, who have been idle for two days in protest against "bad safety conditions," may work three shifts today to retimber the main roadway of the colliery understanding the eight hours be spent on maintenance work, rather than coal production. He said the company had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Pakinson Seeks Ruling On Miners' Service Leave
The President of the Southern Miners (Mr. W. Parkinson) has made application to the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wongawilli Mine Retimbering
Wongawilli miners worked morning and afternoon shifts yesterday, retimbering dangerous areas in the colliery's main…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Transport has become an amazing source of revenue for both the Federal and State Governments, which no w aggregates £40 mill, yearly, equal to- 120 Tons of Gold
Revenue comes from various sources to make up this amazing figure (Equal to 120 tons of Gold at £12/8/- per ounce) but the first payment into revenue is the Tariff which on vehicles only (excluding the Tariff paid ion rubber for tyres, spare parts, etc.)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Dredge Near Bulolo
ROADS ARE FEW and do a pioneering job in the wild and primitive Territories of Papua and New Guinea, as the fighting services discovered during the war. This is inevitable at, the present stage of development in country so mountainous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Southern Miners' Restored
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today restored to South Coast miners long service leave benefits which he had suspended because of stoppages…
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