Shopgirl Dismissed Miners Urge General Strike Sydney
A mass meeting at Portland ast night decided to extend the strike among the western miners over the dismissal of a girl from a butchers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1944
60 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 3
P.o.w.'s in Coal Mines
Probably 20,000 war prisoners, including many Australians, were engaged on forced labour in coal pits in Upper Silesia, said Pte. L. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Threat to Discipline Miners. Melbourne
A threat to discipline the miners throughout Australia by refusing to introduce a Commonwealth scheme of miners' pensions and to prevent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Situation. Canberra
On the score it would be difficult to arrange mass prosecutions, the Federal Government intends issuing summonses against men at only one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Cuts Will Cause Unemployment
Workers disemployed through coal rationing would have difficulty in securing other jobs, the Minister for War Organisation of Industry (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Crisis. Sydney
There is increasing alarm in New South Wales over the prospects facing both secondary and primary industries as a result of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Open Column the Coal Position (To the Editor.)
Sir,--A lot has been said and written about coal, but it is not generally realised how bad our record has been in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Price
Last week the Commonwealth Bank announced an increase of 2/- to £10/2/- an ounce in the price of fine gold. The price of sovereigns has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hot Coffee for Miners
The Minister for Labor, Mr. Hollo way, said in Canberra on Monday that tea and coffee services would shortly be introduced for coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Coal Strike Threatened. Sydney
A threat of a general strike in the coal-mining industry has developed as a result of the Full Court's recent decision to invalidate the award of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Christmas Holidays
Mine workers are expected to take 14 days' leave at Christmas, irrespective of any decision made by the [?]ederal Government. The period…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Talks No Decisions Reached Canberra
No decisions were reached, and no guarantees given on controversial issues to any section of the coal mining industry by the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Strike Threat
A general coal strike was threatened because miners resent wages being garnisheed for unpaid fines, the Miners' Federation stated on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Crisis. Sydney
The Government's order to cut the miners' Christmas holidays from 16 to 10 days will lie defied. This was decided upon at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Warden's Court. Taree, Monday, December (Before Mr. E. R. Harvey, P.M.)
William J. Shaw applied for authority to outer portion of property owned by Archibald Beatfie, in the Parish of Bootoown Neither…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Crisis
The Miners' Federation has completed arrangements to defy the Federal Government, on the question of miners' holidays. On Wednesday the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Warden's Court. Taree, Monday, December 11. (Before Mr. E. R. Harvey, P.M.)
William J. Shaw applied for authority to enter portion of properly owned by Archibald Beattie, in the Parish of Bootoowa. Neither…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chifley Hits Miners
"If the U.S. Fleet had not come to Australia the miners to-day would not be asking for 16 days holiday—thay would be working…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Baker's Creek Prospects
The promoter of the Baker's creek Gold Mining Company, Hillgrove, Mr. Thos Snow, of South West Rocks, has made a promising report to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Situation. Sydney
The conference between the Federal Government and the A.C.T.U. and Miners' Federation yesterday proved abortive. The conference was…
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