Fatal Accident In Colliery
One of three men injured in Corrimal Colliery last wednesday morning, died in Wollongong Hospital the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Illawarra · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1953
383 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 20
Talks on Miners Service Leave
The Miners' Federation Southern District executive is engaged on a series of conferences with the…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Two miners at the small mining town of Tingha, near Inverell, are reported to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Buli, Mt. Kembla Miners To Resume
Bulli and Mount Kembla miners will resume work gay after a 24-hour stoppage…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Leave Stoppage At Bull Mine
Miners at Bulli Colliery were idle yesterday in protest against the management's failure to arrange…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine-workers Overcome by Gas Fumes
NEWCASTLE, Fri.—Three men were overcome by carbon-monoxide fumes while sealing off a small fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.l.p. to Control Miners' Council; Parkinson Beaten
SYDNEY, Mon. — More than 15 years of Communist control of the Miners' Federation ended today when anti-Communists gained control of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mexican Mine Explosion
MEXICO CITY, Thurs.—Nine men were killed and 11 others injured in an explosion yesterday at a coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big lift In British Coal Output
Coal output in 1952 was just under 225 million tons, according to provisional figures issued by the U.K…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Society Hopes to Complete Coal Memorial
At the annual meeting of the Illawarra Historical Society the President (Mr. J. S. G. Worland)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Council to Check on Federation's Funds
SYDNEY, Fri.—The anti-Communist majority on the Miners' Central Council today moved for an investigation of the funds of the Miners' Federation. By eight Votes to seven,…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—The Miners' Federation Central Council yesterday elected a committee of six to investigate the funds of the Union's Central Office…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flighty's Gold Tipped to Record Treble at Wollongong Tonight
In line for the treble, Flighty's Gold should be hard to beat in the Illawarra Stake, main distance event on tonight's Wollongong greyhound programme…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners To Discuss Hotel Dispute
The senior district executive of the Miners' Federation will attend a meeting of executive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Teacher Of Coal Mining At Tech. College
Mr. William Peascod, M.I.M.E., who recently arrived in this country from England, has been appointed teacher of coal mining…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Carving Models in Coal
IT imght be thought, with reason, that coal miners see so touch coal underground that they would want nothing more to do with it when they reach the surface This is not the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brown Coal Converted To Black
Equipment which will turn brown coal into black coal in two or three months has been developed in the Fundamental Coal Research Laboratory in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coroner Told of Trolley Crash in Mine
The history of the trollies used in the Corrimal Colliery oas studded with accidents, said the President of the Southern Miners (Mr. W. Parkinson) at the Coroner's Court, Wollongong, yesterday. He asked the Deputy Coroner (Mr. W. S…
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"This particular type of transport used at Corrimal is not safe, its whole history has been studded with accidents". This was stated by Miners' Federation President, Mr. W. Parkinson, at an inquest at Wollongong on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Mines Idle Yesterday
Five Greater Wollongong collieries were idle yesterday. About 1100 ment went home after…
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