Workers Given Homes If They Enter Coal Mines "Bribe," Says Southern Miners' Leader
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 12
Housing Commission homes are being allotted to labourers from other parts of the State on condition they enter into the coal mining industry on the South Coast, according to Mr. W. Parkinson, Southern District President of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New Colliery Road
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1
Construction has been commenced on the new access road between the Metropolitan Colliery and the Helensburgh…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Production Increases
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — New South Wales miners produced 7,880,001 tons of coal this year up to last Friday; 137,071 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cochran Answers Miners on Housing
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Joint Coal Board was anxious and ready to deal with any individual in the coalmining industry who had a housing problem, the Chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines' Soccer [?] K.o. Final [?]
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 28
The final of the M[?] competition between [?] and Old Bulli, played [?] paddock last Sunday [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Miners' Soccer Comp. Must Be Improved
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 11
The arrangement of the miners' K.O. competition for 1952 must be changed completely if it is to be more…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mines Minister To Visit South Coast
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 5
The Minister for Mines (Mr. J. Arthur) and a large delegation of members of the Parliamentary Mining Committee will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Manager's Evidence of Dispute at Colliery
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 24 August 1951 · page 7
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The manager of Steelworks Colliery on the Western Field said today that one of four recently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Corrimal Miners 1st. Annual Picnic
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 27 August 1951 · page 10
Corrimal Miners' Lodge will hold its first annual picnic next month. A total of 400 miners, men on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners Protest on Butter
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 August 1951 · page 1
Miners at South Clifton colliery stopped work yesterday in protest against the butter shortage. The stoppage caused a loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Transport Services Can Not Carry Coal Output
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 August 1951 · page 3
The Minister for Mines (Mr. J. Arthur) said in Wollongong yesterday that New South Wales miners were producing more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Now They're Mining Coal By Radio!
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 August 1951 · page 2
Mining coal with radios. Johnny Miner's grandfather wouldn't have believed it. Yet they're doing it at Nebo, Australia's most modern colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Neb Colliery is a Great Eye Opener"—Says Minister
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 30 August 1951 · page 1
"Nebo Colliery is unquestionably a great eye-opener," said Capt. G. Arthur Minister for Mines at Wollongong on Tuesday. The Minister was speaking at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Trainer for Fox Gold
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1951 · page 13
SYDNEY, Friday.—Fox Gold, which has been well supported for the Epsom, has had a change of trainers…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Insufficient Labour Cause of Coal Lack
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1951 · page 4
SYDNEY, Friday.—Reason given by Senator Spooner for the coal shortage was what the Miners' Federation had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Conference
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 15
An agreement was reached at a conference on Friday between Corrimal miners lodge officials, the management, Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Housing for Miners
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 6
The Southern District Board of Management of the Miners' Federation has decided to accept an assurance by the Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Experts Explain Modern Coal Winning
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 6
Prior to the introduction of mechanical loading machines, locomotives etc. to the coal mines by far the greater…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine Cage Crashed Down Shaft
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 September 1951 · page 3
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—A cage carrying four skips of coal crashed to the shaft bottom of Stockton Borehole colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Bulli Miners Protest On Butter Shortage
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 1
Miners at South Bulli stopped work yesterday in protest against the shortage of butter. They carried resolutions…
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