Miners Order Wives To Leave Hotel Staff
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 1
Two waitresses on the staff of the Hotel Wollongong resigned last night on the advice of the licensee (Mr. John Dorahy). This followed a protest stoppage by miners at Nebo colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Oppose Decision on Hospital
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 February 1953 · page 11
The Miners' Committee of Management yesterday opposed a Northern Zone decision not to build a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners Protest on Youth's Work
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 2
Old Bulli mineworkers alleged at a stopwork meeting yesterday that the colliery's Australian Iron…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Camille Formee, Gold Rosebud In W'gong Clash
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 2 March 1953 · page 9
Camille Formee and Gold Rosebud appear most likely to fight out the finish of the Trustee Stake…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boys Visit Mine
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 2
As the result of an interview Mr. Mil[?]man of the Corrimal Primary School staff had with Mr. Scott, manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Soccer Knock Out
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 29
Southern' Miners knockout soccer competition will commence at Woonona on Sunday next…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Robertson Show 'Best Ever Held' South Coal Successes
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 March 1953 · page 9
Robertson A. and H. Society's show, held on Friday and Saturday, was regarded generally as the best ever held by this Society…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mines Ambulancf Competition
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 3
After being in abeyance, for a number of years the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association Ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Hear Miners' Claims
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 1
The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) pictured, will commence hearing of the Miners' Federation new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bulli Mine Idle On Gas Allegation
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 1
Bulli colliery miners stopped work yesterday in protest against an alleged accumulation of gas in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Mines In West May Close
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 1
LITHGOW, Thurs.—Three western districts coal mines face closure because the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Agreement On A.I. & S. Miners' Leave
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thurs.—The Coal Industry Tribunal, (Mr. Gallagher) suggested today that mineworkers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bulli Colliery Resumes Today
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 1
Bulli Colliery will resume this morning after losing two days' work last week when gas was found in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines' Ambulance Contest Revived: Keen Competition
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 3
"We, in Australia, are not so conscious of first aid in the mines, as they are overseas," said Mr. B. W. Kirton at the presentation of the Southern Collieries' Proprietors' Association Ambulance Shield, at Woonona on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →first Games In Miners' Knock out Soccer Competition
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 11
Soccer football officially commenced yesterday when the miners staged their two games at Woonona in the Southern Miners' Knockout Competition…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners' K.o. Internationals Show Good Early Form
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 15
International soccer players, Charlie Stewart and Bob Young, showed good early form in the Miners' annual knockout…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Jobs for 150 Mine Workers in Southern Mines
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 2
There were vacancies for about 150 mine workers on the Southern field, While there was unemployment in the Northern and Western fields…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners's Case For 35 Hour Week Opened
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 1
The National President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Williams) made a claim for a wage increase of £2 per week and for the adoption of a 35 hour week for the mining industry, at Bulli yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Fearful Of Future Mr. Smart Says
Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1953 · page 1
There was much speculation and fear amongst the mine-workers of the South Coast now that coal production had reached saturation point, the Southern District Miners' Vice-president told the Coal Tribunal (Mr. F. W. Gallagher)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Federation Submits New Claims
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 12 March 1953 · page 1
The Miners' Federation is claiming a 35 hour working week, a minimum of £2 a week increase in wages, a 20 per cent, increase in contract rates and a 25 per cent, marginal increase for afternoon and night shiftwork…
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