Millions In Gold To Be Sought Two Big Salvage Expeditions in N.Z. Waters Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 August 1947 · page 1
Two big salvage projects to raise a vast fortune in gold are being planned by an Australian syndicate. It is proposed to salvage £350,000 worth of gold bullion…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Hours Deadlock
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 August 1947 · page 1
The question whether the British coal miners will work an extra half-hour a day, as Mr Attlee wants them to do, or instead work two Saturdays a month,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twin Girls Killed in Fall Down Mine Tamworth
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 August 1947 · page 1
Twin three-year-old girls were killed when they fell down a 20ft. dry well near Singleton today. They were Lorarine and Elaine Shearer,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →20 Dead in Second British Mine Disaster Men Trapped Following An Explosion LONDON
Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 August 1947 · page 1
Twenty miners are dead and five others were admitted to hospital suffering from severe burns as a result of an explosion at the Morison North pit on the Annfield Plain, in the Country of Durham, early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Dismissed for Absenteeism LONDON
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 August 1947 · page 1
Dismissal notices for “persistent absenteeism”—the first issued since the coal mines were nationalised—have been served on four miners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →104 Dead in English Mine Disaster
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 August 1947 · page 1
One hundred and four miners lost their lives after an explosion had swept through the William pit workings, at Whitehaven, Cumberland. PHOTO SHOWS : A general view of the scene at the pit after the disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Will Work Extra Time SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 1
Unofficial check of voting tonight indicated that western and southern NSW miners had voted in favor of working on “back” Saturday (every…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strike Extends in Britain London
Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 5
Five-hundred night-shift workers at the Hatfield colliery and 700 night-shift workers at the Frickley colliery carried on the strike started by day-shift workers in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Coal Strikes Extend LONDON
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 6
At least 10 pits in the South Yorkshire coalfields area were either totally or partially closed last right by unofficial strikes by 15,000 miners in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners to Work Back Saturdays From September 6 SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 1
Following a majority decision by NSW miners to work on back Saturdays every second Saturday until the end of the year, first of the extra shifts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →English Coal Strike Costly LONDON
Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 5
An official of the Coal Board in the north-west region, where the Gr[?]methorpe strike has already cost more than 100,000 tons of coal, said…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pennant Semi-Finals Glenly Oust Gold in Men’s C Grade
Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 6
As a result of semi-finals in three grades of the Albury winter pennant competition on Saturday, the following learns will meet in the finals next…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →5000 Miners Stay on Str[?] London, M[?]
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 2
Despite their leaders’ appe[?] of Grimethorpe and [?] pits in South Yorkshire are [?] strike Frickley and Mitchell [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Back Saturday Work in Mines Jeopardised Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 September 1947 · page 2
Working back on Saturdays on NSW coalfields this year will be held up unless a claim by Federated Enginedrivers Firemen’s Association for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More British Miners Strike LONDON
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 1
The Yorkshire coal strike situation became worse today when four [?] in the Barnsley area, previously unaffected became involved as the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →T.U.C. Urges Miners To Increase Output LONDON
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 3
“There is no justification for the present stoppages on the coalfields,” said Andrew Naismith (Weavers’ Union) in opening the Trade Union…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Coal Loss in N.S.W, SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 2
The heaviest coal loss in NSW for several months—a deficit of 10,250 tons—occurred today following stoppages at 11 collieries. The trouble at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steel, Iron, Coal Next? Unions Urge Their Nationalisation Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 September 1947 · page 1
The Trade Union Congress today pledged full support to the Commonwealth Government in its proposed nationalisation of trading banks, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →40,000 British Miners on Strike Threat To Industry LONDON, Wednesday
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 September 1947 · page 1
Nearly 40,000 miners in more than 35 south Yorkshire pits are on strike, Twenty-one pits are wholly idle, while the remainder are only partially…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Coal Strike 50,000 Miners Out LONDON
Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 September 1947 · page 1
With 17 more pits involved in the strike during Wednesday, there were 48 pits affected in the Yorkshire area. About 50,000 miners are on strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →