Miners Want Industry Socialised SYDNEY
Nationalisation of the coal mining industry as an urgent immediate necessity, acceptance, of the inevitable advance of mechanisation and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining & the mines, 1945
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10,000 Germans to Work Czech Coal Mines PRAGUE
A prison camp for 10,000 German workers who will be employed in coal mines, is being prepared at Thos[?]a, near P[?]sen. Coal production in Czecho-Slovakia is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal for Victoria Will Permit Return to Normal MELBOURNE
Coal on the way to Melbourne is expected to permit industry to resume normal operations next week. The State Coal Committee has Informed the Dunlop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Loss Down to 28,000 Tons Sydney
Loss of coal production this week was 29,000 tons, which was an improvement of 21.000 over the previous week. Only two mines were idle today. As…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold Ingof Smugglers PARIS
Nearly 100 arrests have already been made in connection with the smuggling of gold [?] by an organisation of “Flying Crooks” operating…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There’s Gold Behind the Grumpy
Girls from the age of 14 are a confounded nuisance, according to a London magistrate. Hear, hear. When they're not banging doors they’re letting in draughts, and when they do go outside it is lo ogle pimply-faced youths of the opposite sex or stuff themselves with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Mines Have to Be Swept Before Fleet Can Sail into Singapore LONDON
A South-East Asia Communique [?] Anal days of [?] into sweeping will be necessary before a clear lane of safe water will be ready for the fleet and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners’ Demands on Owners SYDNEY
National convention of miners in Sydney today decided to serve on the colliery proprietors claims to be covered by national agreement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners’ Union Set Fines for Disobedience SYDNEY
The Miners’ National Convention today adopted a scale of penalties for members adjudged guilty by lodge committees of refusing to accept…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Audacious Theft of Gold Canberra
In one of the most audacious thefts in years a consignment of Imported gold worth nearly £2000 was stolen on Monday somewhere in transit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Modern Mining
We notice that a recent survey of Britain's coal mines has resulted in a report which recommends that gasification should…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There’s Gold in Them Thar Teeth
When will nations acknowledge the utter stupidity of burying their gold in secret places the moment war breaks out ? New Zealand, which had but a miserly £7 million worth, has just finished recovering it from all over the place. Up-to-date belligerents make their nationals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →7100 Tons of Coal Lost Sydney
Coal production loss today was 7100 tons from three northern, two southern and two western mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia Needs 12½ Million Tons of Coal a Year SYDNEY
Australia required to produce a [?] of 12.500.000 torn: of coal annually over a live-year period to rebuild her coal reserves to ensure two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nine Collieries Idle SYDNEY
Strikes at nine collieries in NSW today resulted in a total coal loss of 11.700 tons—the highest for several weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Coal Loss in N.S.W. SYDNEY
Coal production loss today was 10.730 tons from nine idle mines. The secretary of the Miners’ Federation (Mr Grant) said today that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“State Ownership of Mines Too Costly” SYDNEY
The Chairman of the Coal Commission (Mr. Justice Davidson) told the inquiry today that nationalisation of the coal industry would cost the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Back to State Control of Mines ? CANBERRA
A big development in the present control of coal production is expected shortly. It is believed the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Concerned by Coal Strikes Wool Despatch Delayed
At the monthly meeting of the Henty branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, held in the School of Arts on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Control of Mining Will Receive Early Consideration CANBERRA
Retention of its wartime powers over the coal mining industry was to receive the early consideration of the Government, the Minister for Supply…
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