Southern Miners Meet Today
All mines on the South Coast will be idle today when miners attend five aggregate meetings. The meetings have been…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
421 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 6 of 22
Miners To Continue Weekly Stoppages
Members of the Southern District Miners' Federation, at general stop-work meetings at five centres yesterday, decided by overwhelming majorities to continue their one-day-a-week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parkinson Warns Miners Against Provocation
The Southern District Miners' President (Mr. W. Parkinson) at Bulli yesterday urged the miners not to be provoked into a general stoppage. Mr. Parkinson was the only…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owners Seek Variation of Miners' Award
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The N.S.W. Combined Proprietors' Association today applied to the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) for a temporary variation of the…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — President of the Australian Council of Trades Unions (Mr. Monk) tonight flatly denied a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coalcliff Miners Protest on Exile of Waters
Miners at Coalcliff Colliery at a pit-top meeting yesterday morning decided to protest against the treatment of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Continue Stoppages Mr. Williams Defends Dr. Evatt
Meetings addressed by the general, president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Williams) at Wollongong and by the vice-president of the Federation (Mr. W. Parkinson) at Bulli decided almost unanimously to continue the present stoppages one day a week…
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A meeting of the Wollongong Retired Miners' Association yesterday afternoon expressed determination to continue its fight…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mayor Drops Bombshell "No Coal Board Aid for Coledale"
Ald. J. J. Kelly, Mayor of Greater Wollongong dropped a bombshell at a public meeting in Coledale last Thursday night when he told his astounded listeners: "Coledale is not a Coal Board Project…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Stoppages "Unpopular"
SIR,—Please allow me a little of your valuable space to make a few observations on the coal dispute…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Coal stock figures submitted to Cabinet at the beginning of the week have been confirmed by the Auditor-General's Department. An emergency meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victoria to Import Gas Coal From India
MELBOURNE, Friday.—In an endeavour to curb rising prices to obviate more restrictions, the Federal Government will subsidise the purchase of 100,000 tons of gas coal from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Canberra Today Coal Takes Over in Canberra
Coal has taken over in Canberra. All the efforts to move ahead rapidly with urgent economic decrees to put Australia on a semi-war footing have been hindered by the coal crisis…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Methodist Ministers Talk with Miners
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Three Methodist Ministers, two laymen and two leaders of the Miners' Federation discussed the coal crisis at an unofficial luncheon today…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Hopes for a settlement of the present coal dispute will depend on talks by the Central Council of the Miners' federation in Sydney on Friday at 9 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Churchmen Ask Questions on Coal
THE METHODIST MINISTERS and laymen who talked yesterday with the miners' leaders and hope shortly to hear the viewpoint of the Coal Tribunal may…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Committee Wants Help on Coal Roads
The Northern Zone Committee will ask the full council to approach the Coal Board or the collieries which are concerned…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners in Panties
LONDON, Wednesday [?] Miners working in the suffocatingly hot pits of the North Midlands say supplies of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Three Mines Idle
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Only three mines were idle in New, South Wales today for a total loss of 1880 tons. No stoppages…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Delays Federal Coal Legislation
CANBERRA, Wednesday,—The Federal Government was prevented at tine last minute today from introducing legislation to amend the Coal Industry Act, because the New South Wales State…
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