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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1940

476 stories in Murray's papers · page 19 of 24

Miners’ Federation Stands by Italian Unionists Newcastle

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 July 1940 · page 3

The president of the Northern Miners’ Executive (Mr. T. Hoare) said to-day that his executive would oppose labor being put into the Stockton…

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Rewards for Detecting Floating Mines Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 8

The Federal Government will pay rewards for the detection of floating mines in Australian waters. Regulations gazetted to-day prescribe the…

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Mines Hem in Nazis Lose Many Ships LONDON, July 7

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 July 1940 · page 1

R.A.F. bombers, according to the Air Ministry, have obtained outstanding results in mining the Baltic and the bells from the most eastern…

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“Gold Will Be Of No Value” BERLIN, July 10

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 11 July 1940 · page 5

“Frankfurter Zeitung” states that the gold hoard in the United States amounts to 80 per cent, of the world’s gold, which will have…

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Mining Lease Woman From the Rock Sees Oil Prospects Through Dream BALLARAT

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 July 1940 · page 8

[?] of North Ballarat who said he had plant and [?] capital to work the iron [?] known to exist on a…

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Miners Behind Government Will Overthrow Hitler and Gangsters LONDON. July 13

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 July 1940 · page 6

Speaking in the name of 700,000 British miners, their wives and families. Mr. Lawther, president of the Mine Workers’ Federation, broadcasting in…

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Turned Potential Profit Into Loss Coal Strike and Railways SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 July 1940 · page 2

Speaking at the Millions Club to-day the assistant Commissioner for Railways (Mr. F. C. Garside) said N.S.W. Railways account showed a…

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Will Extra Shift Be Worked in Mines? Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 July 1940 · page 3

Neither the Federal nor State Governments had approached the Miners' with n view to having an worked in the coal mines…

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Too Much Coal Britain After the Markets LONDON, July 17

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 July 1940 · page 6

Cargoes from vast supplies of British coal, which have accumulated as a result of the submission of France, are being shipped to…

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Missed Gold But Fund Fortune

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 July 1940 · page 3

After unsuccessfully trying his luck at the Thames (W.Z.) goldfields. Richard White turned to wharf and railway way contracting and found fortune…

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Speeding Up Coal Production Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 July 1940 · page 2

The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) will discuss coal production with the central executive of the Miners’ Federation in Melbourne on Friday. It is…

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Gold Hoard in Fireplace Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 July 1940 · page 3

A smoking chimney at a cottage In Thistle street, Blackall, was responsible to-day for the unearthing of a small fortune in gold coins…

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New Mining Award The Men Dissatisfied SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 30 July 1940 · page 3

Standard hours for the coal mining industry in Australia will not be altered under the award delivered yesterday by the Chief Judge of the…

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Missed Gold But Found Fortune

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 1 August 1940 · page 4

After unsuccessfully trying his luck at the Thames (N.Z.) gold-fields, Richard White turned to wharf and railway contracting and…

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More Coal May Be Produced Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 August 1940 · page 6

The question of coal production for the purposes of the war effort was discussed by the Prime Minister and officials of the Miners’ Federation to-day…

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Yugoslavia Seizes British and French- Owned Mines Production for Nazis ROME, August 1

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 August 1940 · page 1

[?] publishes on the front, page a despatch from Belgrade stating that British and French mines owned in YugoSlavia had been taken over by…

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Mine-sweeper Sunk London. August 6

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 August 1940 · page 6

It has been officially announced that the mine-sweeping trawler, H.M.S. Marsona has been sunk as a result of striking a mine. There were no…

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Coal Strike Cost Miners £160,000 SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 August 1940 · page 7

The Miners’ Federation has struck a 5 per cent levy to defray the cost of the recent coal strike, which amounted to £160,000. The interstate conference…

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Miners and A.L.P. Executive Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 August 1940 · page 6

The central council of the Miners’ Federation to-day decided by nine votes to six that the question of the expulsion of the New South Wales…

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Another Miners’ Union Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 8

The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission to-day gave one of the shortest Judgements on record, when it dismissed the appeals of the northern…

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