Coal Shortage May Cut Down Rail Services in Britain
LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).—British railways are planning to cut train services because of the acute coal shortage…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Illawarra · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1951
421 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 22
Red Directive To Miners
LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—-A new Communist directive for miners in "Capitalist" countries throughout the world has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move To Prevent Miners' Strike
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) today called a conference of mining unions and mine company representatives to prevent the threatened general coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal-washing Equipment Intallations
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Many colliery proprietors were examining the possibility of installing coal-washing equipment, the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Miners to Consider Attitude to Glen Davis Today
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation will meet in Sydney tomorrow morning to decide on action aimed at preventing the closure of the Glen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Higher Rates For British Miners
LONDON, Friday (AAP).—The National Union of Mine-workers has accepted the Coal Board's offer of immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners To Back West On Glen Davis
SYDNEY, Friday. — The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation decided today to support any action taken by the Federation's Western District to prevent the closing of Glen Davis…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hand Crushed at Mine
John Lucas, of Hamilton Street, Fairy Meadow, received lacerations to his right hand, when it was crushed by a sprag…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Council Seeks Inquiry On Coal Quality
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Sydney County Council will seek a Royal Commission to inquire into the reason why…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pit-top Mettings on Mines Award Today
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation has called pittop meetings at all New South Wales mines tomorrow to discuss the award made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrorists Derail Coal Train
SINGAPORE, Wednesday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Seventy terrorists attacked and derailed a colliery train at Rawang, near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Famine Hits State's Industries
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Unless miners return to work at 85 coal mines in New South Wales to-morrow, the Joint Goal Board may not be able to avoid rationing coal supplies. Already men are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Protest Stoppages Against Incentive Award
Seven of the eleven major Collieries in this district were idle yesterday as a protest against the Gallagher incentive award. Mines idle were Metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Southern Mines Protest on Incentive Pay
Seven South Coast mines were idle yesterday in protest against the proposed incentive payment. Miners decided to stop work for the day at pit-top meetings in the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners Propose One-day Weekly Stoppage as Bonus Protest
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Central Executive and N.S.W. Districts of the Miners' Federation today decided to recommend a oneday stoppage each week, in protest against the introduction of the attendance bonus in the miners' pay, this year…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bonus Award Mine Stoppages
There were stoppages at Nebo and Keira collieries yesterday. The Miners' Lodges at these mines staged the stoppages as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cochrane States Miners' 'Brazen Attack'
SYDNEY, Friday.—The threat by miners' leaders to call a one-day stoppage each week as a protest against the Gallagher bonus award, with-out first exploring the legal avenues of arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →11 Miners Die In U.S. Blast
KERMIT (West Virginia), Friday (A.A.P.). — Eleven miners were killed in explosions in a small coal mine here yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines Idle
Mount Keira and Nebo Collieries were idle on Friday. Southern Miner's president, Mr. W. Parkinson, stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tenders Joint Coal Board
Tenders are invited for the purchase of: 949 yards 250 V Electric Tailling Cable, 4 core, (2) x 248/018…
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