Some Notes on Current Topics Coal or Oil
Our coalminers claim that they want security, but they seem to have to pay- turvy ideas as to how to get it. We have the best…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining & the mines, 1946
525 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 27
Paralysis If Miners Strike Sydney Facing Grim Days Sydney
It the miners staged another coal strike industrial chaos in Sydney would be worse than the Christmas blackout said the deputy manager of the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Control of Coal Mines Sweeping Powers For Commission SYDNEY
Sweeping powers for a commission of three are proposed in the draft legislation prepared by the State Minister for Mines (Mr Baddeley),…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hidden Gold
When Jack Smythe heard the wonderful stories of quickly-won wealth which drifted back from the Victorian goldfields, he forsook his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Cup Fashions
Top : Youthful visitors, with Mrs Peter Bell (loft), Miss Beth Rechle and Miss Anne McLaurin. Centre: Mrs Sam Bowler with Mrs Arthur Hughes and Miss Joan Bowler…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Crisis in Victoria Melbourne
All authorities concerned attended a conference to-day to discuss Victoria’s coal crisis, involving threats of electricity and gas rationing, train cuts, closing of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truman May Seize American Mines New York
Steel production throughout America is falling drastically as the effects of the coal shortage are becoming more widespread…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria’s Coal Crisis; New Climax Train Service May Be Cut Melbourne
If increased supplies of coal could not be secured from NSW., train services would have to be cut at the end of next week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners’ Threat on Use of Machines SYDNEY
It was learned that at this morning’s conference with the Premier the general secretary of the Miners Federation (Mr Grant) told Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Smoke And Flames Belching From Mine NEWCASTLE
Smoke and flames are belching from the mouth of a second wine on the Maitland coalfield, following the outbreak of a fire at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Coal; Industries Closing in Melbourne Melbourne
As the supplies of coal in Melbourne slowly dwindle to extinction point, many Melbourne industrial firms are preparing to close down sections of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All Coal Mines May Be Closed Lack Of Explosives; Union’s Threat SYDNEY
Production at all coal mines throughout Australia, except the open cut pits, will cease within a month unless the strike at Nobel’s explosive factory at Deer Park, Melbourne, which began at midnight last night, it settled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Picture Record Of Nazis’ Crimes Took Gold From Dead Victims’ Pockets NUREMBERG
The War Crimes Tribunal this morning watched for 20 minutes a film showing stocks of gold-filled teeth and gold dental bridgework…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →21 Miners Believed Killed in Explosion Charleroi (Belgium), Wed
Twenty-one miners are reported [?] have been killed following an explosion last night in a coal mine at [?]odelinsart an industrial suburb of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paralysis Grips America Sequel to Strike of Miners Washington
American Associated Press says at the Association of American Railroads has announced that 51,000 railway men have been laid off as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shrunken Coal Supplies
One of five coal storage yards of the Australian Gas Light Co.. Sydney. Yesterday they had a total supply of 400 tons, compared with a normal supply of 100,000 tons. Dotted lines indicate normal and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Supplies Moving Freely SYDNEY
Coal supplies are coming in freely, and the dancer of railorning of gas and electricity appears unlikely. There will be a big clearance to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Edifice Radly Injured Sydney
Gold Edifice was seriously injured in a fall yesterday and will not be a starter at Canterbury to-morrow. His owner (Dr. G. Carroll), said he might not race…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Paralyses American Industry 2½ Million Workers Soon Without Jobs New York
The New York “Herald-Tribune” states that paralysis is creeping throughout the nation’s economic system as a result of the soft coal strike, which Is now In its 39th day and already restrictions which were never considered necessary even in war time are being imposed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truce in Coal Mines Strike in Usa New York
Despite the coal mines strike truce, all railway and other conservation measures are continuing for the present, states the New York “Times.”…
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