115 Miners Dead Centralia (Illinois)
Sixteen more bodies badly mutilated by an explosion which occurred in the Centralia coal mine on Tuesday were brought to the surface this…
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Waterfront Trouble Again Threatens Mines May Not Now Close Sydney
Unless a satisfactory reply is received from the Stevedoring Industry Commission by Monday regarding shift periods at Port Kembla,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communist Wins Miners- Presidency Ballot Sydney
Mr I. Williams, secretary of the Victorian Miners Federation, and a member of the Communist Party, has won the ballot for the general…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Outlook Will Be Bleak If Brown Coal Supplies Fail Melbourne
Industrial outlook for Easter will be grim if brown coal supplies from Yallourn fail and private mines at Bacchus fail and private mines at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines Stoppage Averted Wollongong
Threatened stoppage on Monday of members of the Illawarra branch of the Deputies and Shotfirers’ Association has been averted. A fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →400,000 Miners To Stop Work; Six Days Of Mourning WASHINGTON
A work stoppage throughout the soft coal industry from April 1 to April 6 to mourn for 111 miners killed in the Centralia mine (Illinois) disaster, has been called by the president of the United Mineworkers’ Federation (Mr John L. Lewis)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →602 Mines Destroyed Off Queensland Coast MELBOURNE
Navy Department announced today that 602 mines had been destroyed by the 20th Minsweeping Florilla off the North Queensland coast since operations commenced in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All South Coast Mines Idle To-day WOLLONGONG
A stop-work meeting of members of the Illawarra branch of the Deputies and Shot Firers’ Association has been called for tomorrow and as a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Danger of Mines Dispute Spreading Wollongong
An inter-union dispute is now threatening to dislocate coal production in South Coast mines, and the dispute may spread to other fields…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Wrote Farewell Notes as Death Neared New York
The Centralia “Evening Sentinel” today published farewell notes found in the clothing of 13 of the Centralia [?] mine victims, scrawled on pages…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Demands Resignation of Minister Sequel to Mine Disaster Washington
The Secretary of the Interior (Mr Julius Krug) announced yesterday that 518 Government-operated soft coal mines employing 40,000 miners,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Wives Sway Menfolk to Strike 10,000 Workers At Krupp’s Idle In Sympathy LONDON
Miners’ wives gate-crashed a meeting of Ruhr miners at Bochum yesterday, says the Daily Mail’s Essen representative. They thrust stewards aside and shouted to their husbands to strike for more food. Other wives picketed pitheads in several Rohr areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Union Leader Moves To Close 2564 U.S. Coal Mines WASHINGTON
The president of the Miners’ Federation (Mr John L. Lewis) today moved to extend the soft coal mining shut-down indefinitely by calling on the Government to close all but two of the nation’s 2566 bituminous mines as unsafe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nation-Wide Coal Strike In U.S. Appears Certain New York
A nation-wide soft-coat strike beginning immediately is considered a virtual certainly. It has been learned that district officials or the United Mine Workers’ Association have passed down word that members must not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Most Miners at Work SYDNEY
All southern and all western coal mines worked today and in the north only Abermain Nos 1 and 3 collieries were idle. Miners who worked on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bumper Bars Were Gold PARIS
When challenged by police near the Swiss frontier a motorist turned his car and drove off at top speed. He was pursued by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →400,000 Miners Stay Away Safety Issue at Stake Washington
Reports from the coalfields indicate that most of 400,000 soft coal miners failed to resume work yesterday when the six day mourning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Return of U.S Miners to Work Washington, Wed
Mr John L. Lewis (president of the United Mine Workers’ Union) has telegraphed district presidents, instruc[?]ing miners to resume work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Seek Weekly Pay Days Sydney
Hearing of a claim by miners for weekly pay instead of fortnightly, [?] to-day before the Coal Industry Tribunal and will conclude…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tie-up Threat on Maitland Coal field SYDNEY
Moves are being made to obtain a formula that will bring about a resumption of work at Abermain No 1 colliery on the northern NSW coalfield…
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