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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

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Warning to United Kingdom Miners

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 6

LONDON.—The chairman of the National Coal Board, Lord Hyrdley, told miners that no revision of the wages stricture…

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12 Months Jail Each for Miners' Leaders Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 1

Justice Foster in the Sydney Arbitration Court to-day sentenced the President and General Secretary of the Miner's Federation to 12 months gaol each on…

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"Mine Host" Parts with 33 gns. Ariiah Park

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 1

Well known Ariah Park publican. Mr. Albert Cartwright, has contributed 33 guineas to the 1949 Ariah…

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Rise of 82 P.c. in Australian Gold Output

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 6

Production of gold, in Australia. for the first four months of 1949 was 273,216oz. fine, an increase of 20,799oz., or 3.2 per…

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Government Efforts to Get Coal to Sydney (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 1

The Government is expected to order coal now in trucks to be brought to Sydney a high State Government authority said last night…

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Our Canberra Letter Coal Strike Has Split Trade Union Movement

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1949 · page 4

Current opinion in the Canberra lobbies is that Australia's present crisis, caused by the general coal strike, may mean the…

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Commonwealth Versus The Communist Party Govt. Asks Court for Injunction Heavy Sentences Imposed On Miners' Leaders

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1949 · page 1

THE Commonwealth yesterday afternoon applied to Mr. Justice Foster in the Arbitration Court for an injunction ordering the Australian Communist Party and…

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Two Mo&e Mine Leaders Gaoled (Bv Wire)

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

Two more miners leaders were each sentenced to periods not exceeding 12 months with light labor, at…

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500 Tons of Coal to Newcastle (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

Nearly 500 tons of coal was brought by train from Ayrfiel[?] Colliery, near Branxton, to Newcastle, yesterday, without…

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Temporary Alteration. Postponing Sheep Sale Date to Friday, 22nd JULY (Owing to Coal Strike)

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2

COMMENCING next week Thursday's sale at Homebush has been cancelled. The railways are lifting trucks now on Friday and…

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Coal Strike More Miners Reps. Sentenced Coal Being Removed from Northern Fields

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

Two more representatives of unions--making six in all so far sentenced--yesterday had terms of imprisonment imposed on them by…

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Optimism Regarding Early End of Coal Strike (By Wire). Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 1

In Trade Union and political circles. It is freely anticipated that the coal strike will end shortly. The coal-lift from the northern fields…

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Policy of "Too Little and Too Late" Government's Action in Coal Strike

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 6

Hard pressed by the public demand for firmer action to end Australia's present industrial crisis caused by the Coal Strike, the Federal Government during…

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More Setbacks For Q'land And W. A. Miners Forsake "Jungle Law"

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 1

COMMUNIST trade union leaders, who are supporting the miners' strike, met with a series of sharp rebuff, yesterday. At lunch hour meetings, employees of Sydney's major gas works decided…

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Fined £60 for Carrying Coal Without Permit

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 2

Although the Federal Government is using all types of transport to shift coal to capital cities, a transport driver was fined £60 at the West Wyalong Petty Sessions…

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Coal and the Economic Crisic Dual Threat to our Living Standard

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 6

On top of the drastic cut in production caused by the general coal strike, Australia now faces added hazards arising from the world economic un-balance which is…

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Miners Will Meet A.C.T.U. SYDNEY, Monday Afternoon

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 1

Representatives of the Combined Miners' Unions will meet representatives of…

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Filth Week of Strike; Miners Resuming in Other States (By Wire) Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 1

The Trade Union movement is being rapidly disintegrated by Communist inflltrators, who are using key Unions to achieve their political objective of the…

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Forbes Police on Duty at Western Mines Army Begins to Lift Coal at Grass

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 1

SERGEANT ANDREWS and Constable Harding, of Forbes police, are on duty in the Cullen Bullen area, near Lithgow, where the lifting by Army troops of coal at grass began early to-day…

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Coal Strike Aggregate Meetings to be Called Return to Work Likely

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 1

The Coal Mining Unions council decided on Wednesday to call aggregate meetings to discuss a return to work…

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