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Mining & the mines, 1943

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9 Days’ Holidays for Miners Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 December 1943 · page 2

The Minister for Supply (Mr Beasley) has determined that miners may be granted leave over the Christmas period from December 24, 1943, to…

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More Coal Stoppages Garnishee Protest Meeting Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 December 1943 · page 3

Stoppages at coal mines to-day involve 700 men and a loss of 2900 tons of coal. Three mines are completely idle and one…

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2000 Miners Stop Work As Protest SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 December 1943 · page 2

Protesting against the system introduced last week of ga[?]isheeing miners wages for the payment of court fines, about 2000 men stopped work at five collieries on the…

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Mine Manager’s Conviction Set Aside Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 December 1943 · page 2

In the High Court today the conviction obtained at Cessnock against Idris Evens, manager of Stanford Main No. 2 colliery, on a charge under the National Security…

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Miners Warned Stoppages May Have Serious Effect SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 December 1943 · page 2

The president of the Miners' Federation (Mr Wells) tonight warned that unless miners worked continuously until their Christmas holidays began, war…

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Miners To Meet Dr. Evatt SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 2

Representatives of the Miners' Federation will meet the Attorney-General (Dr Eva[?]t) in Sydney next Friday to discuss the whole matter of…

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3000 Tons of Coal Lost SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 5

Including two unavoidable stoppages, three coal mines were idle and another was pertly idle on NSW coalfields today. The production loss was estimated at over…

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Miners’ Ultimatum on Glen Davis Stoppage SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 December 1943 · page 2

The secretary of the Western Minors[?] Federation (Mr J. Jamieson) today threatened that unless the Government intervened in the Glen Davis shale…

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Coal Company’s Order Nisi Against Reference Board SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 December 1943 · page 1

On the application of the Pacific Coal Company Ltd, of Teralba, Newcastle, M[?] Justice Williams in the High Court Chambers today granted…

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One Colliery Idle Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 2

Millfield colliery, producing about 600 tons of coal daily, was the only mine Idle in N.S.W. to-day…

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3000 Miners May Strike SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 2

Unless there is a settlement of the Glen Davis dispute by Wednesday, general stop-work work meetings will be held throughout western field. This was stated in an…

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Only One Mine Idle Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 3

Only one coal-mine, Millfield, which ploys 100 men, and hag a daily production of 600 tons, was idle in NSW today…

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Amusements “The Gold Bush” at Hoyts

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 4

“The Gold Rush,” ch[?]rlic Chaplin's greatest comedy, opens at Hoyts today With that genius which Is peculiarly his own. and against the background of the…

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Australia's Biggest Mine Idle SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 December 1943 · page 2

Because of a dispute among boys employed on screens, the Burwood colliery, Australia's biggest producing mine, with 3450 tons daily, was idle…

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Amusements "The Gold Rush" at Hoyts

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 December 1943 · page 4

It has been said that to combine comedy and pathos in a film production and not destroy the illusions of the audience requires a truly great artist. In "The…

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Amusements “The Gold Rush”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 December 1943 · page 4

Charlie Chaplin loves slapstick. In “The Gold Rush," now at Hoyts for the last time today, the little man who is the stooge, not for any individual, but for the…

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5750 Tons of Coal Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 December 1943 · page 4

Three mines on the north were idle today, resulting in production loss of 5750 tons…

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Two Mines Idle Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1943 · page 4

In addition to Millfield-Greta. where a tin[?]bering dispute is still unsettled. Wallar[?] mine was [?] on the northern NSW coalfields today [?] to a fall of [?]…

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May Face Serious Coal Shortage SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 December 1943 · page 2

Because of the shipping dispute in Melbourne and Newcastle a serious shortage of coal may be experienced in Victoria, South Australia and…

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Rutherglen Gold Dumps

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 2

Rutherglen Gold Dumps Ltd., which suspended operations in May, 1942, because of labour shortage, shows loss of £564 for the year to April 30…

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