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384 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 20
Stoppages at five northern colleries and subsequent disputes in the coal industry have inflicted dractic gas rationing on much of NSW caused thousands of Unionists to lose pay and threatened complete dislocation of industry, through lack of electric power in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday : The Prime. Minister wanted increased production and industry was anxious to help, but the shortage of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DARWIN, Tues.: Snake plague in the Finnis River area, about 50 miles south of Darwin, is harassing tin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tues.: The secretary of John Lysajrht (Aust.) Pty Ltd (Mr J. Gould) said today that the coal shortage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday : Coal loss today totalled 7679 tons due to stoppages at 10 mines: Miners at Cessnock No. 1 demanded that hot…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Joint Coal Board will take action to outlaw all unauthorised stoppages on the N.S.W. coalfields. The board will apply to the Coal Industry…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →CANBERRA, Wed.: A New Zealand Government representative visited South Africa recently to negotiate for the supply of 100,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wed.: Deposits of at least 52 .million tons of coal were contained in 8500 acres of land at Awaba, acquired by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday : The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr F. H. Gallagher) will hear an application by the Joint Coal Board next…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BROKEN HILL, Friday: Albert Maxwell Groves, 23, trucker, was killed instantly today when he fall 80 feet at New Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →This superb piece of British craftsmanship, a gold box, was recently given to Princess Elizabeth by the Royal Society of Arts. The box, which took four craftsmen six months to make, can be used for either cigarettes or trinkets. It weighs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Sunday : Aggregate meeting of coal miners may be called as a protest against the decision of the Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Sun.: Mine detectors are being used to search for the missing will of the fabulously wealthy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All mining unions, covering 23,000 mineworkers on Australian coalfields, have agreed to a common policy against the Joint Coal Board’s decision seeking to impose penalties on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A suggestion that the State Government should take over the Oaklands coalfield and develop it to its fullest extent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUTCOME of the sitting of the Coal Industry Tribunal in Sydney to-morrow will decide whether nation-wide action will be taken by the Miners’ Federation on the holiday dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday : Unless there was a remedy to the coal shortage it must inevitably lead to a decline in the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →AUCKLAND, Wed. : The closing of all six underground coal mines at Huntly, 65 miles south of Auckland today as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Wed.: Communists are now concentrating on getting control of Mt. Isa, where the lead mines form an important defence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PRINCETON (Indiana), Wed.: At least 12 miners were killed by an explosion in King’s Mine…
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