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Mining & the mines, 1948

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Straight Talk to Miners Warning by P.m.-premier Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

The Prime Minister and the N.S.W. Premier to-night made a joint appeal to the Miners’ Federation to settle disputes by arbitration.- They said that the miners should not…

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“No Discrimination in Coal Distribution”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 5

CANBERRA, Mon.: The Federal Government will stand firmly behind the provisions of the Coal Industry Act, which is…

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Coal Crisis May Become Worse

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 10

SYDNEY, Mon-: With the State Cabinet delaying a decision on power rationing in the hope of increased coal output,…

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"Scraping Coal Bins" Victorian Railways N Serious Position

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.: The Railways Commissioners announced this afternoon that rail coal supplies had reached…

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Slight Rise in Coal Prices

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA Tues.: All subsidies at present paid on coal production will be eliminated over the next three months. Elimination…

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Cabinet Still Undecided Talks on Coal and Power Rationing

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—State Cabinet is considering; a plan from the Joint Coal Board to rearrange its rationing of coal to…

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Coal Crisis Industry Shut-down in Adelaide Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 3

Adelaide’s desperate coal position to-day resulted in the imposition of the most drastic restrictions yet ordered among the innumerable electricity and gas cuts in recent years through the same cause…

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Mechanising the Mines

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 11

SYDNEY, Thursday : The Joint Coal Board has placed orders overseas for £3,000,000 worth of machinery to mechanise the NSW mines,…

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Britain Flying Coal Into Berlin

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 14

LONDON, Friday : RAF Transport Command resumed the air shuttle supply service into Berlin at dawn today, reports the British…

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Grim Coal Position Victorian Cabinet Hears Bad News

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.: The Joint Coal Board has made it clear there will have to be further drastic restrictions in…

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S.A. Premier’s Ultimatum on Coal: Grave Implications ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 1

A challenge to New South Wales to send more coal to South Australia or run the risk of cuts in industrial raw materials such as iron ore, limestone gypsum dolomite and other basic commodities was thrown out to-night by the Premier (Mr Playfrod)…

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Striking Miners Ordered Back to Work

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY. Sunday : The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr Gallagher) has ordered striking miners at Collie (WA) to go back to work…

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Thieves Get 400 Lb. of Pure Gold

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 2

PARIS, Sunday: Police today announced the theft of about 400 lb pure gold, valued at more than £100,000, from Orly airport…

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Coal Crisis S.A. Facing Widespread Unemployment Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 3

So far below the barest needs is the latest coal cut imposed upon South Australia by the Joint Coal Board in Sydney, that a large number of consumers are openly urging the local Coal Committee to defy…

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Miners’ Claims to Be Heard To-day

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr Gallagher) will begin in Newcastle tomorrow the re-hearing of an…

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52,000 Tons of Coal Won Yesterday

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 9

SYDNEY, Mon.: Nearly all NSW mines were working today and there was a big improvement in production to…

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Miner’s Federation To Press For State Ownership of coal Mines SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 3

The Miners’ Federation will ask a full executive meeting of the ACTU in Melbourne tomorrow to support nationalisation of the coal industry. Resolution to this effect will be placed before the meeting by the miners’ general president (Mr I. Williams) who will represent the federation,…

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Had Gold Tailings; Man Gaoled

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 11

PERTH, Tues.: Detectives who searched a house at Cottesloe, Perth, found £130 worth of gold tailings, alleged to have come from…

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Natives Seek Fabulous Gold Reef

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 3

KALGOORLIE, Tues.: Two mission natives, Jimmy - and Jacky, set out from Cook township today on their fifth search…

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Why Coal Is Short Board Chairman’s Explanation

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday : The chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr K. R. Cameron) said tonight that the consumption of NSW…

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