Wangaratta Aluminium Factory Criticised by Mining Journal
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 March 1946 · page 5
A leading article in the “Industrial Australian and Mining Standard” of March 1. criticises what it terms the “useless” aluminum factory at Wangaratta. The article,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“New Deal” For Coal Industry Suggested by Labor M.P. CANBERRA
Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 March 1946 · page 1
Some form of national direction of the coal Industry with at this critical stage some financial assistance by way of grants or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleges 28,000 Workers Died In U.S. Coal Mines Union Leader’s Amazing Assertions WASHINGTON .Friday
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 16 March 1946 · page 2
Demanding improved working conditions and more adequate accident benefits for coal miners. Mr John L. Lewis rend the following “indictment”…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mines Stoppage Threat SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 1
Stoppages in south coast coal mines may occur next month, resulting from the action taken by the Southern District Miners’…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Belief, Crew of Mining Plane Safe SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 4
Belief that members of the crew of the Qantas flying boat, Circe, which was reported lost while on a mercy flight over Java in February, 1942, are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Unhappy More Trouble Forecast
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 2
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A warning that trouble is brewing in the mining industry, was given by the General President of the Miners' Federation, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Gold Reserves Returned London
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 1
Gold reserves of the Bank of France amounting to over £250,000,000. which were removed from the country just before its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Henty Challenge Temora For Marshall Gold Cup
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 8
Henty's challenge for the Marshall Gold Cup has been accepted by Temora, for Sunday, and Henty will make the trip in an omnibus, leaving at 5,30 am., and returning after the match. There is room for a few supporters, as the bus seats 25, and anyone…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →10,000 Ton’s of Coal Lost Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 1
Nine northern coal mines were idle today, involving a loss of about 10,000 tons. All southern and western mines worked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reds Are Criticised in Coal Report Industry “Tottering”; Big Production Fall CANBERRA
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 1
The Australian coal industry in its major fields was a tottering industry as the result of constant industrial troubles in the form of incessant pit-top meetings, absenteeism, stoppages of production and strikes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Tottering Coal Industry
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 2
Report of the Government Board of Inquiry presided over by Mr. Justice Davidson into the coal mining industry in N.S.W. is critical of both owners and miners, but more severe in the latter case on account of their long and rebellious history. The industry, says the report, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Seek Better Conditions SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 1
Application for improved conditions for miners was heard today by the Coal Industrial Authority. It includes 15 days’ annual…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Mines May Close Another Strike Threat SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 1
There will be another big coal strike about the middle of April that will close down all mines if the judgment of the Central Reference…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →400 000 Miners to Strike Washington
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 March 1946 · page 2
Mr John L. Lewis president of the Workers’ Union has notified bituminous coal operators that 400,000 miners will refrain from going to work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →30,000 Tons of Coal Lost SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 March 1946 · page 1
Almost 30,000 tons of coal have been lost this week through strikes and breakdowns. More than 9000 tons were lost today by continued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →400,000 American Miners to Strike Washington
Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 2
The Secretary for Labor (Mr Schwelienbech), after conferring with mine-owners and union leaders, stated that there was no possibility of averting a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners May Strike Again “Tension Mounting on N.S.W. Fields” Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 2
Tension is again mounting on the NSW coalfields, according to the general secretary of the Miners’ Federation (Mr Grant), who said that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Leaves Grim Legacy 41 Ships Sunk by Mines Since V.P. Day LONDON
Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 2
Forty-one ships have been sunk and 31 have been damaged by mines in European waters since VP. Day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Discussions at Canberra CANBERRA
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 2
Recent decisions which the miners’ leaders said threatened to cause a general strike in NSW and Queensland, will be referred to the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →14 Fishermen Die; Trawler Strikes Mine Oslo
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 1
Fourteen fishermen were killed when a trawler from Lofoten Islands struck a mine and sank within a few minutes before the crews of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →