9 Collieries Idle in Nsw Sydney
There were stoppages at nine collieries in NSW today. Consequently coal losses rose to 11.650 tons. Last week the northern field had its…
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Miners Support Indonesians SYDNEY
Central council of the Miners’ Federation today condemned the “action of the British Government in supporting the anti-democratic way of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →9 Collieries Now Involved SYDNEY
Nine collieries are now involved in the Newcastle and Port Kembla steelworks strike. Since the Broken Hill Pty. Co…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Shortage Affects N.s.w Holiday Trains
Train services in New South Wales will be reduced to an absolute minimum during Christmas and New Year holidays because of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Guarding Mine Sydney
Police at Byron Bay are guarding a mine, which was washed on the beach several days ago. It is believed to be a relic of the First World War…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labor Government Criticised by Miners’ Leader Sydney
Widespread stoppages on the coalfields owing to growing discontent against the prolongation of the steel disputes were forecast by the Miners’…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners’ Grave Ultimatum to Prime Minister Chifley GIVEN 48 Hours to Settle Steelworks Dispute All Coal Production To Cease If No Solution
Ultimatum to the Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, that unless he intervened in the next 48 hours to settle the steel dispute at Newcastle and Port Kembla to the satisfaction of the federation of unions involved steps would be taken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threat by Seamen and Miners SYDNEY
Australia is faced with a nationwide stoppage of coal production and shipping if the present steel disputes at Newcastle and Port Kemble are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prime Minister and A.C.T.U. Rebuke Miners Mr. Chifley Refuses to Bow to Ultimatum From the North ‘Stoppage Would be Disastrous To Nation’ MELBOURNE
Both the Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, and the Emergency Committee of the A.C.T.U. today rebuked the N.S.W. northern miners for the threat to the Government to cause a cessation of coal production unless the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →80,000 Mines Still Afloat CANES
Naval experts from Britain, France. Russia. America and Greece are conferring on the problem of dealing with the estimated total of 80,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners To Make Grave Decision On Friday May Usher in Period of Serious Industrial Unrest “Chifley Government Facing Crisis” SYDNEY
The Federal Labor Government, in the opinion of prominent trade unionists, is facing the worst industrial that has occurred in this country since 1941. Communist-inspired moves, still In the threatening stage, include a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Shortage May Throw Trousands Out Of Work MELBOURNE
Shortages of foal and steel in Victoria are so serious that it appears inevitable that thousands of employes in various industries must be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Industrial Front Coal Fields Idle To-day Communist Plan to Paralyse Industry Sydney
THE first step towards the Communist plan to paralyse Australian industry was taken to-day, when the whole of the northern coal mines were idle. Coal from this field is supplied to most Interstate industries, and as they have little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seamen, Coal Miners and Steel Workers Join Hands Big Tie-up of Industry Appears Almost Certain Thousands To Lose Jobs Next Week Early SYDNEY
Seaborne supplies of coal and steelworks products will not be transported after midnight on Sunday. The Federal Executive of the Seamen’s Union made this decision today in support of the strikers at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Appeal to Miners and Seamen ACTU President Asks Them Not to Strike SYDNEY
Any cessation of work contemplated by or recommended to the rank and file of anions was definitely an union in character, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia Facing Its Most Disastrous Industrial Upheaval 500,000 Men Expected to Lose Jobs Drastic Rail Cuts; Seamen Leave Coal Ships(From Our Special Representative)SYDNEY
Zero hour in what some competent observers contend may prove the most disastrous industrial upheaval in the Commonwealth began at midnight tonight when, in fulfilment of a decision of the Seamen’s Union to support the strike of Newcastle and Port Kembla steelworkers, all N.S.W. coal ships were tied up. Real showdown, however, is scheduled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest News the Coal Crisis a Grave Situation Sydney
Coal miners throughout NSW are voting today on the recommendation of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners-Seamen Plunge Nation Into Industrial Anarchy Both Decide on General Strike Electricity, Employment, Transport and Gas Critically Affected SYDNEY
N,S.W. coal miners voted today in favor of a general strike throughout the State. They also gave their central executive auth 17, Against 2005. lia. Votes counted were: For the strike 2764, Against 1932. Seamen in Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Port Adelaide also…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supplies of Coal Are Short for Victorian Trains
Top : Drastic cuts have been announced by the Victorian Government Railways in train services because of the miners’ strike. Even the “show”…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Germans May Cause Economic Chaos in France Obstruction to Movement of Coal LONDON
German obstruction, described by the French Minister for Industrial Production (M. Marcel Paul) as “Intelligent sabotage based on…
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