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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1950

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£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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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