Big Coal Stock to Start Year
SYDNEY, Wed.—Principal coal consumers throughout Australia would begin 1953 with the biggest stocks of coal ever, Chairman of the Joint Coal Board…
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Mining & the mines, 1953
383 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 20
Heavy Losses on British Coal
LONDON. Fri.—A loss of iver £5-million sterling on colliery working in the third quatrer of 1952 is recorded…
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PERTH, Tues,— Chances of finding alive two miners who were trapped by a fall of earth in Baddera lead mine, near Northampton, 400 miles north of Perth, yesterday afternoon, have now dropped to zero…
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SYDNEY, Sun. — More than 23,000 miners throughout Australia will return to work tomorrow, after three…
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Several girls. children of Southern District mineworkers will leave Wollongong on Thursday for a 10-day…
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About 4500 mineworkers returned to work at the 26 Southern District collieries yesterday. The resumption…
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The Southern District President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Parkin son) protested last night against the refusal of the A.I. ,& S. to begin long…
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The Northern Zone Committee meeting accepted Joint Coal Board offer[?] grant £500 towards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Deputys' Exam
At the examination for Certificates of Competency as Mine Deputy under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1912-1947…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—The Electrical Trades Union was today granted leave to intervene in an…
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SYDNEY, Thurs. — General President of the Miners' Federation, (Mr. I. Williams) will visit…
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A shiftman was admitted to Wollongong Hospital yesterday following a fall of coal at Nebo colliery…
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SYDNEY, Thurs. — Representatives of coal mining unions at a conference in Sydney today agreed that their books should be closed and overtime banned…
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A conference in Sydney on Thursday between the Miners' Federation Central Executive and the…
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The Local Coal Authority (Mr. F. C. Hickman) yesterday called a conference between…
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A 35 years old shiftman was injured in a fall of coal at Nebo colliery on Thursday afternoon…
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Three Corrimal colliery miners were treated at Wollongong Hospital after a trolley they were riding…
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Cecil Prozzer, 22, mine worker, of School Lane. Balgownie, who was injured when a trolley capsised in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mechanics' Secretary Denies Mines Executive's Charges
Replying to a statement made recently by the Southern District Miners' Executive, Mr, W. Crane, General Secretary of the Federated Mining Mechanics'…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rest of the News in Brief Britain Faces Coal Crisis
LONDON, Fri.—The British coal industry's biggest post-war crisis developed last night, when miners'…
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