Corfu Mines Albania Denies Knowledge Lake Success
Hysni Kapo (Albanian representative spoke for three hours at to-day’s meeting of the security Council in replying to the British charges of the…
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Mild Gold Rush at Temora . TEMORA
Residents of Temora district have started a mild gold rush at Sebastopol, where a rich gold reef has been found…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.S.W Miners To Ask For Concession Fares To Stage Demonstration at Parliament House
The South Coast planers [?] for Concession railway [?] and special bores if the Railway Department refo[?] a special train…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →20,000 Tons of Coal Will Be Lost All Western and Southern Mines Will Be Idle Next Wednesday Sydney
All mines on Western and Southern NSW coalfields will be idle next Wednesday as a protest against the delay in hearing the outstanding…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Slate Mine Wanted At Cessnock MAITLAND
Cessnock wants a State coal mine. The deputy Mayor of Cessnock (Ald Brown) said at a council meeting that Slate mine would go a long way…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →2½ Years Gaol For Stealing £6000 In Gold PERTH
George Laurence Durant, miner, was convicted in the Quarter Sessions today on a charge of having stolen mail bags containing gold bullion valued at £6000. He was sentenced to be imprisoned for two and a half years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Coast Miners To Demonstrate Some Will Hitch-hike to Sydney SYDNEY, Sunday
More than 1000 South Coast miners plan to board four ordinary trains Wollongong on Wednesday morning to travel to Sydney for a mass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smuggling Gold Latest Racket Close Customs Watch in Sydney Sydney
Customs checks at airports and on the waterfront are being tightened up in an effort to defeat the operations of a gang of smugglers which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Talks Off General Coal Conference Government Modes on In- Definite Postponement Sydney
The Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley) advised miners leaders today that the general coal conference convened by the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Strike Settled Cape Town
It is officially announced that agreement has been reached on nearly all for settlement of the goldminers strike in [?] which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Threaten General Strike Sydney
A general strike throughout [?] coalfields is threatened by the Miners’ Federation of the general conference on the real Industry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disease In British Mine Workers LONDON
“It will be necessary to attract 108,000 men into the mining industry to increase manpower to 730,000, the figure the Government set for 1947, said Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Asked to Have Patience Mr. Baddeley to Introduce Reforms Sydney
State Cabinet is to be asked by the Minister for Mines (Mr Baddeley) to increase miners pensions by 5/ a week. Present pensions are £2 a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bunnerong Again Faces Coal Crisis SYDNEY
Bunnerong power house has only 24 hours’ supply of coal and the fuel position was never worse, said the chairman of the County Council (Cr F G…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Chifley Appeals to Miners Not to Strike Sydney
The Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) [has appealed to the Miners’ Federation not to stage a general strike in the [?] industry to enforce claims for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines Threaten Shipping Off Coast of Queensland Broke Away During Cyclone BRISBANE
Shipping off the north Queensland coast is threatened by sis British type electric mines adrift inside the Barrier Beef…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russia Wants U.n.0. to Drop Complaint Corfu Channel Mine-Laying Lake Success
Russia asked the United Nations Security Council today to drop the British complaint that Albania, had allegedly laid mines in Corfu…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →500 South Coast Miners Stage Demonstration Will Stay On Strike Until Demands Met SYDNEY
More than 1500 South Coast coal miners, after demonstrating outside Parliament House today, decided to stay on strike until their demands…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines Are Harmless Canberra
British electric mines reported to have broken adrift on the Queensland coast were harmless, Minister for the Navy (Mr Riord[?]n) assured Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Coal and Transport Crisis
Thousands of tons of coal and loaded railway trucks are being held up at the Yorkshire coal mines because of snowed-up main lines and sidings. Scene at the Brodsworth main colliery, near Doncaster, where coal is being mined only to lie idle in trucks at the pit heads. The…
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