£1 a Week Work Incentive for Miners
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 December 1950 · page 2
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Under a new award announced by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) today, miners in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania will receive over £1 a week extra if they work 10 shifts a fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Mines Stop Over New Award
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1950 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Miners at four collieriers in New South Wales were idle today as a protest against the judgment of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parkinson Says Power Borers Increased Southern Coal Output
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1950 · page 1
Southern Miners' President (Mr. W. Parkinson) said yesterday evidence had been given at the union's log of claims hearing to prove that coal production at every colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Wont Pay More Than 2/6 Fortnight Medical Contributions
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1950 · page 2
The District Executive of the Miners Federation has directed lodge executives, small mines' representatives, and cokeworks' representatives not to allow managements to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Lorry Crashes Into Chost's Creek
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 December 1950 · page 1
Two men were charged at Wollongong Police Station last night after a 6-ton coal lorry crashed through the safety fence at the bottom of Geard's Hill, West Wollongong, plunging down a 10-feet embankment into Ghost's Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Output 12 1/2 Million
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 December 1950 · page 2
SYDNEY, Friday.—New South Wales coal production for 1950 was estimated at 12,780,939 tons, a spokesman for the Joint Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →