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Illawarra · Mining & the mines
705 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 28 of 36
The first annual Blue and Gold organised by Balgownie Town Band last Friday night proved to be the most successful social event of the season, and included guests from Klama, Port Kembla and Thirroul. The walls, stage and supper…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →WHAT WOULD Greater Wollongong do without the coal miners? We don't mean what would we do without the coal they produce. The answer to that one is obvious enough. What would we do without them in a political…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Both the Miners' General President (Mr. I. Williams) and the General Secretary (Mr. G. Grant) will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Miners' leaders to-day decided to await the outcome of Federal Government negotiations on the long service leave dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PHILADELPHIA, Sunday (A.A.P.).— Australian sculler Mervyn Wood won the Philadelphia Gold Cup yesterday. He finished two and a half…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On Thursday officials of the Southern District Miners' Federation, in conjunction with Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Williams) said tonight the Federation's stand on the long service leave dispute had not changed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The solution of Australia's coal problems will be found largely in increased mechanisation of mines, Research Service indicates in a report issued today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With four South Coast collieries idle, and a dispute at a fifth, the union-management relations in the Southern District coal area were described by a union official yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ONE OF THE busiest stretches of railway in Australia. An electric locomotive with a rake of trucks in the 7000ft.; long North…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—General propaganda put out by the Miners' Federation had prevented people from entering the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Striking engine drivers and firemen on the Richmond Vale railway on the Northern New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—A fire roaring through a section of the Cresswell Colliery (Derbyshire) today killed 80 miners. Following rescue attempts lasting over seven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Edgar Ross, Associate Editor of "Common Cause," the official organ of the Miners' Federation, was named No. 1 Communist, and a "traitor" by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Conferences called by the Local Coal Authority (Mr. F. C. Hickman) yesterday to discuss disputes at the Mt. Kembla and Excelsior collieries were successful…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.— The Minister for Labour (Mr. Holt) said in the House of Representatives today at no time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the Legislative Assembly today Mr. Kelly (Labor, Bulli) asked if every precaution was being taken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alfred Henry Hansen, an electrician, of Campbell Street, Woonona, was found dead in the Corrimal Colliery last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The coal industry front in the Southern District was quiet yesterday with the exception of South Clifton (Scarborough) Colliery, which has been idle since Monday, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The management of the Corrimal Colliery will instaLL "dead pilots" on all mine locos following an investigation by Government and union officials yesterday of Thursday…
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