Mine Manager Fined CESSNOCK
At the police court yesterday Indris Evans, manager if Stanford Main No 2 colliery, was fined £5 with £5 13[?] costs for having attempted to alter a…
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Miners Still Object to Daylight Saving CESSNOCK
The decision of the coalminers in the Kurri district to ignore daylight saving time is receiving, support from several miners’ lodges on the South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Stocks Low in S.A. ADELAIDE
Coal stocks in South Australia were the lowest for 20 years, owing to strikes in NSW mines, and many industries were being carried on on a hand to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Coal Mine Owners Ignored SYDNEY
Owners of mines on one of the largest coalfields in Australia—the north—have not been invited to attend the coal conference arranged by the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Six Collieries Idle Sydney
Six collieries are idle in New South Wales to-day--one of them as a protest against daylight saving. At the pits the men did not start work until…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Defy Mr. Curtin SYDNEY
In de[?]ance of the order given by the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) that daylight saving was now the law of the land and must be obeyed, miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →12 Mines Idle SYDNEY
Reports from NSW coalfields today revealed that 12 mines, three more than yesterday, were idle. Almost 3000 men are employed at the pits…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners To Cut Holidays Mr. Curtin Agrees SYDNEY
A Cabinet sub-commitee has been appointed to consider all aspects of the coal mining Industry with the ultimate aim at slepping up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Curtin Can’t Gaol Miners Admission In House SYDNEY
Employing a total of more than 2000 men, 9 nits were idle on NSW coalfields today. Hold.ups, which included two fresh stoppages,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Miners Prefer Jungle Rule” SYDNEY
At the sitting of the Central Coal Reference Board today, the chairman. Judge Drake Brockman declared that a section of the mining community did not like…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To Save Coal P.M.’s Reasons For Daylight Saving CANBERRA
Parrying a rapid fire of questions on daylight saving in the House of Representatives today, the Prime Minister repeated his assertion that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Stoppages in N.S.W. SYDNEY
The position on the coalfields was not improved today when three fresh disputes at Hepburn No. 2, Elrington and Stanford Main No. 1 were reported…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Government May Take Over Mines. London, October 8
According to the "Daily Herald," War Cabinet is considering proposals for taking over the coal mines and putting them under State control…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Curtin’s Call for More Coal Sydney
Following receipt of a letter front the Prime Minister today in which he pointed to the deterioration in regard to coal stocks throughout Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR P.O.W. Must Work in Germany Some in Coal Mines And Quarries SYDNEY
Germany is making full use of Australian prisoners of war, working them nine hours a day. with every second Sunday free…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Stoppages Production Curtailed
CANBERRA. Tuesday: Owing to coal mining stoppages, food., production for civilians and war industry will possibly be drastically curtailed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clash Pending — Mr. Curtin and Miners Prime Minister Says Crisis At Hand. CANBERRA
In a telegram today to miners’ officials, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) stated that drastic curtailment of war industry and food production now appeared unavoidable because of falling coal production…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Will Not Nationalise Coal Mines Mr. Curtin Gives His Reasons CANBERRA
One of the major reasons why the Government has no intention of nationalising the coal mines is that the compensation which would have to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rationing of Coal Believed Inevitable Ministers Concerned At Position CANBERRA
Ministerial view of the present position in the coal industry is that rationing of coal for transport services and essential industry is appreciably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Fed Up—mr. Curtin’s Attitude” Blunt Statement by Miners’ Leader SYDNEY
In a blunt statement today the miners’ general president (Mr Wells) said that he was fed up with the attitude of the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) on the question of coal production problems. Mr Curtin seemed to think that all the miners had to do was to work…
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