Mines Swept Up in Corfu Channel Albania Protests at British Action London
An Admiralty report states that minesweepers of the Royal Navy operating in Corfu Channel on November 13 swept up 22 moored…
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Nine Killed in Sea Mine Explosion London
Nine members of the crew of a trawler were killed when a mine became entangled in their nets and exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Star Gold & QUESTING Look Likely Randwick Double(From “Glenloth.”)
Star Gold and Questing should each win at Randwick this afternoon. Other good wagers may be Dutchman and Kuvera Hope. KINDERGARTEN STAKES NECH[?] Won the Gimcrack Stakes like a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners’ Union May Split Newcastle
First move against the decision of the Miners’ Central Council last week to reopen nominations for the general presidency came at the weekend…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truman’s Appeal to Miners WASHINGTON
Mr Truman has announced that Mr John L. Lewis (President of the United Mine Workers’ Association) has rejected the Government’s proposal for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russia Has Its Coal Troubles LONDON
Moscow radio states that “Pravda'” has demanded an investigation of unsatisfactory work in Russian coal mines which have not reached the targets set…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fortune in Gold Sensational Strike At Kalgoorlie KALGOORLIE
Estimated to contain 15 cwt. of gold, six tons of stone has been broken out of a rich pipe at the Dawn of Day Options mine in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truman to Fight Coal Miners’ Leader Washington
The Secretary for the Interior (Mr Krug) has declared that the Government will keep the nation’s 3300 soft coal mines open regardless of any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ruhr Coal Exports May Cease LONDON
The H[?]burg correspondent of the “Daily Express” says that coal exports from the Ruhr may cease as a result of an appeal by the mayors of Larger towns in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Mine Not Worth 2/-” Returns Fortune Perth
A powerful mining company 18 years ago twice narrowly missed the rich reef, bearing free gold in lumps visible to the eye, which is paying a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gun Battle In Tel Aviv After Terrorist Outrage Three British Police and Airmen Killed Mine Blows Up Lorry: Precautions In London LONDON
Three British policemen and a Royal Air Force sergeant were killed and six British policemen were injured when a lorry in which they were travelling was blown up by a mine in a street of Sarona, a suburb of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →79,000 Miners Stay Home New York
Over 79,000 soft coal miners, representing one-fifth of the country’s bituminous mining force, stayed away from their jobs today, two days before Mr John L. Lewis,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners to Put Demands to Mr Chifley SYDNEY
Miners leaders are trying to arrange a conference with the Prime Minister in Canberra next week to discuss the demands for all-round improvement in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrorists Threatened With Excommunication Mine Explosion Rocks Jerusalem British Police To Be Punished; Attack On Jews LONDON
Jewish religious heads in Jerusalem have announced that they will excommunicate terrorists and their groups. Another double mine was exploded in Jerusalem…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Want Steel and Coal Nationalised Brisbane
The Trades Union Congress of Queensland today called on the Commonwealth Government to nationalise the steel and coal industries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wants Week’s Ban On Coal Haulage SYDNEY
Australian Railways Union State Executive is considering a request from Port Waratah railway men that a ban on [?] of coat from Northern NSW…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Walk Out No Return to Work Until New Contract Signed Washington
Mr. William Green (President of the American Federation of Labor) stated today that coal miners who had voluntarily walked out would not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining of British Destroyers One Severely Damaged LONDON
In reply to a question in the House Commons for a statement on the mining of the destroyers. Saumarez and Volage in Corfu Channel last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Leader Cited; Contempt Charge American Coal Strike Washington
The Justice Department has announced that. Federal Judge Goldsborough has ordered Mr John L. Lewis (the president) and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Mines in Corfu Channel LONDON
The Admiralty states that it has been established that 22 mines swept up in North Corfu Channel, off the coast of Albania, on November 13 were of…
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