Coroner Told Of Electrician's Death At Corrimal Colliery
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 13 October 1950 · page 2
How Alfred Henry Hansen, 38, an electrician, was found crushed between an electric locomotive, a brick wall and an iron grille in the change room of Corrimal Colliery on the night of September 28…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Conference on Concessions for Mine Pensioners
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 13 October 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said in the Legislative Assembly today that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Bulli Miners Elect New Officials
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 13 October 1950 · page 2
Mr. W. Sutherland, who has been secretary of the Old Bulli Miners' Lodge for the past 17 Consecutive years has resigned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Meet Today On Red Bill
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Before they go into the mines tomorrow South Coast miners will hold pit-top meetings to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Court Challenge On Red Bill
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 3
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Miners' federation will challenge in the High Court the validity of the Communist Party Dissolution Bill when it becomes law…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Decision Yet On Miners' Leave
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday. — The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today reserved his decision on a miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Red Re-elected Secretary Of Western Miners
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 3
LITHGOW, Monday. — Mr. J. H. King, Western Miners' Secretary since 1942, has been re-elected unopposed for another…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Retrospective Payments For Miners
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1950 · page 1
South Coast miners will on October 29 receive lump-payment cheques to cover an additional 76. per ton for pick-won coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steel and Coal Held Up at Newcastle
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1950 · page 2
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. — More than 17,000 tons of urgently needed, steel and 10,000 tons of coal are held up at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scarborough Mine Dispute Settled
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 4
A settlement has been effected in the Scarborough (South Clifton) union-management dispute, following a conference between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners And Deputies Reaffirm Agreement
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 11
A meeting of the Southern District Executive of the Miners Federation and the Southern District Deputies and Shotfirers'…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners Strike on Communist Bill
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 2
President of the Southern Miners (Mr. W. Parkinson) has stated that the action of the Federal A.L.P. in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increased Rates for Coast Miners
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 1
Southern District Miners' Executive has been advised by the Industrial Tribunal that the tonnage rate for pick-won coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners. Wharfies Protest on A.l.p. Red Bill Decision
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 3
Wongawilli and Mt. Kembla colliers went home yesterday in protest against the "A.L.P.'s capitulation to the Menzies'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proposed Miners' Pension Increases Announced
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1950 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Proposed increases in pensions to retired miners and wives of miners were announced by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Arthur) tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labour Council, Miners Condemn Red Bill Action
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 October 1950 · page 3
Wednesday night's meeting of the Labour Council heard an address by Mr. Wilfred Burchett, "London Times"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rich Gold Yield From W.A. Mine
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 9
KALGOOLIE, Monday.—The owners of the rich New Mexico mine in the Ora Banda district, Boromini and Party have won…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Today's A.E.U. Stoppage Affects Coal Mines
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 3
The stop-work meeting conducted by the South Coast branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union today will leave one and possibly two Southern District collieries idle. An…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Wives In New Protest
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 2
South Coast miners' wives who recently conducted a protest deputation to the Wollongong Prices Office…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Electrician Shocked
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 October 1950 · page 2
A 28-years-old mine electrician Norman Lockyear, af Sassafras Avenue, Windang, received a severe electric shock whilst…
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