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Miners’ leaders decided today to call aggregate stop-work meetings throughout Australia as from next Wednesday to discuss proposals for a general coal strike. Aggregate vote of the men will decide whether there…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Premier (Mr McGirr) and miners’ leaders conferred for nearly four hours today on matters that culminated yesterday in total stoppage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The State Minister for Transport [?] Stoneham) visited Wonthaggi [?] try to bring about a [?] of the Wonthaggi miners’ strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Minister for Mines (Mr Badd[?]ley) introduced a new Coal Bill to the Legislative Assembly this morning and said the Biil was designed to give men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A move may be made at a special meeting of the Miners’ Central Council in Sydney next week to defer the threatened nation-wide coal strike. Council will meet on Monday and Tuesday to decide on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Daily stoppages in the coal-mining industry and some other stoppages, were completely unwarranted in view of the needs of the community, the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More food and more houses will be provided for the mining areas to stimulate coal production, as a result of a conference between the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia’s principal steel-producing industries may have to close down soon unless more coal is de[?]red to their plants. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anthony Arnold Markham lsmay, aged 32, clerk, was sentenced to be imprisoned for three months when he appeared in Kalgoorlie…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) urged miners yesterday to refrain from general strike action which, within the next few weeks, threatens the employment of over a million Australian workers. Mr. Chifley said : “I deplore any action such as contemplated which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Miners’ Central Council will decide tomorrow whether to recommend a general strike action to aggregate meetings of 15,000 miners on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No betting boards will be permitted at the two-day Albury Gold cup meeting following the decision of the Albury Race Club committee last meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Miners’ Central Council decided today to recommend a no strike poli[?]y to aggregate meetings of 15,000 miners [?] the three NSW…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A suggestion by Mr Abbott (CF NSW) that at least half of the £25,000,000 gift from Australia to Britain should be in gold, was rejected by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Instructions were broadcast to miners on the NSW coalfields tonight to return to work to-morrow after they had voted to-day against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Tasmanian coalminers have been ordered to strike and as from tomorrow morning coal production in the State will cease until the dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Members of the joint Coal Board will tour NSW coalfields next week outline to miners’ lodge officials the board’s plans to improve…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ leaders and coal owners’ officials clashed at the coal conference today, which was attended by the Minister for Supply (Senator…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The British Control Office for Germany and Austria has announced that Ruhr coal production has increased sufficiently to permit April exports to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The 6597-ton American freighter, Exanthia, bound for Genoa from Alexandria, struck a mine oft Pianosa Island on Wednesday…
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