Miners' Wives Protest on Cost of Living
Members of the Corrimal South Bulli and Scarborough Women's auxiliaries attempted unsuccessfully yesterday to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Illawarra · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1950
705 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 29 of 36
Colliery Accident
A 56-year-old engine driver, employed at the Corrimal Colliery injured his right ankle when he fell over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal "Gas" Nears Reality
Remarkable new improvements whereby unlimited quantities of premium motor gasoline can be produced from coal have been announced in the U.S…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COAL enters the chemical age
COAL is a product of infinite complexity. It can be described as con[?] of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur, but that is like saying that a man is the elements which make up [?]is body. To the organic chemist, coal is a mixture of compounds from the simplest existing, such as [?]ethane, up to polymers of vast complexity and [?]uge molecular weight. Nobody has yet come…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scarborough Mine Dispute Settlement Likely
After a stalemate lasting nearly two weeks there is a good chance that an agreement will Be reached in the Scarborough (South Clifton) Colliery stoppage. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Want Service Leave Dispute Ended
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Miners' Federation has approached the Coal Industry Tribunal for a settlement of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Coal Miner to Great Teacher
Mark Starr, Vice Chairman of the US. Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange. He is also one of the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Open-cut Dispute May Affect All Western Mines
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—All Western New South Wales mines may be thrown idle over a dispute which has cased a stoppage at 10 open cut mines since last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scarborough Mine to Resume
Scarborough (South Clifton) miners will probably, end their two-weeks' stoppage on Monday, following a recommendation…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners to Resist Extension of Retiring Age to 62
Threatening "severe repercussions and a dislocation of coal production", Southern raiders' representatives yesterday issued a warning to the Southern Coal Owners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Wives Seek Lower Food Prices
A deputation of South Coast miners' wives met the District Prices Officer (Mr. R. L. Gibson) yesterday morning seeking a reduction in the cost of food…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strikes In B.H.P. Mines Utterly Criminal Gallagher
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) will submit a report to the appropriate authority—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Press for Municipal Markets
A meeting of the Southern District Miners' Delegate Board passed the following resolution at a meeting on Thursday:…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners Oppose Move to Suspend Pensions' Act
The Southern District Miners' Delegate Board is opposed to any move which would interfere with the Mineworkers Pensions' Act in such a, way as to allow miners, retiring at the compulsory statutory age of 60 years, to continue working for an additional…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Council, Coal Board Should Pull Socks Up"
"It is high time the council and Coal Board 'pulled their socks up' and gave Scarborough residents a hall of their own,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.T. Coal Find Confirmed
DARWIN, Monday.—The Administrator (Mr. Driver) today confirmed the discovery of black and brown coal deposits 16 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Protest On Statement About High Earnings
Miners at the South Coast's largest colliery—South Rulli—stopped work yesterday in protest against a statement allegedly made by the mine's manager that they were making…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Western Mines Dispute Ends
LITHGOW, Tuesday.—A two weeks' old dispute which, has caused a loss of more than [?]2,000 tons of coal at 10 western New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fractious Horse Stops Mine
A fractious horse was blamed for the loss of about 300 tons of coal at a South Coast mine yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Contractors Wanted For Coal Bd. Projects
Joint Coal Board projects entrusted to Greater Wollongong Council are behind scheme…
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