Miners’ Voting on Saturday Shifts
SYDNEY, Tues-: Early returns from three NSW coalfields today showed a majority vote in favor of the working back Saturday…
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Victoria to Buy Coal From India Melbourne
THERE appears to be good prospects of Victoria obtaining substantial quantities of coal form India. Following discussions which the Minister for Transport…
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THE back (alternate) Saturday shift will be worked only on southern N.S.W. coalfields tomorrow Disputes involving railwaymen and mine deputies prevent the Saturday shift being worked on the northern and western…
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NEWCASTLE, Mon. : Chairman of the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr Gallagher) this afternoon ordered striking miners…
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I HILL, Tues. : Em-Broken Hill mining [?] receive a lead bonus for each full week they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →17 Mines Idle in N.s.w Yesterday
SYDNEY, Tues.: Of 17 mines Idle on NSW coalfields today, 16 were on the northern field. THESE included nine in the J…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Acquitted on Gold Trafficking Charge
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions Jury today acquitted a former Qantas flight steward on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Big Loss of Coal in Nsw
SYDNEY, Friday : Nearly 65,000 tons of coal have been lost on the NSW coalfields this week through strikes and other hold-ups…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Denial of Agreement Employment of Poles in Mines
SYDNEY, Wed. : The miners’ general president (Mr L Williams) tonight denied a report that the Miners’ Federation had…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →All Australia’s Gold Going to Britain Fire-side Chat by Mr. Chifley Dollars Again Loom Lately In Address CANBERRA
THE Prime Minister, in his third “report to the nation” broadcast to-night, appealed to motorists and newspaper companies to economise in the use of petrol and newsprint…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Dozens of Gold Bars Seized”
SYDNEY, Monday : Crew members of a British motorship revealed today that dozens of gold bars were seized by Hong Kong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Smuggler Gaoled
SYDNEY, Tuesday : Thomas Henry Arrowsmith, 54, manufacturing: jeweller, of King’s Cross, was sentenced in Quarter…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: South Coast miners intend to go ahead with their plan to hold stop-work meeting next Wednesday…
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PARIS, Mon.: The Communist controlled General Confederation of Labor to-day announced that a general strike of most of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Coast Mines Will Be Idle To-day
SYDNEY, Tues.: All South Coast mines will be idle tomorrow for a loss of 10,000 tons of coal while miners decide whether they will…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Miners’ leaders on northern and western NSW coalfields will be asked to meet on Monday to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Avert Coal Stoppages
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Joint Coal Board has called a conference of miners’ leaders in Sydney tomorrow to try to avert a…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Miners’ leaders, after a four-hour conference with Joint Coal Board today, decided that…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →District Tin Mining Applications Before Court
Increasing interest is being taken in tin mining in the Mullengandra and Dora Dora districts. The record high price of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Gold Reserves and [?] Dollars Reduced [?]
LONDON, Tues.: The [?] Information unit of the [?] announced today that the [?] area holdings of gold and [?]…
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