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Mining & the mines, 1948

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Gold Reserves and [?] Dollars Reduced [?]

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Tues.: The [?] Information unit of the [?] announced today that the [?] area holdings of gold and [?]…

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N.S.W. Miners’ Leaders Call For Coal Stoppage Failure To Settle Tunnel Dispute SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 October 1948 · page 1

MINERS’ leaders to-night called for a general strike on the N.S.W. coalfields after a conference to-day had failed to settle the Kemira tunnel dispute…

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Miners Will Stay Out Situation in France Better

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 16 October 1948 · page 14

LONDON, Friday : There is no sign of a break in the French coal strike; but railway workers are returning In increasing…

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Coal Board’s Drastic Order to Company Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 16 October 1948 · page 3

THE Joint Coal Board to-night issued an order aimed at Coal Board to-night issued strike and preventing a State-wide stoppage. The Coal Board’s order directed Australian Iron and…

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Talks Reopened to End Coal Strike

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 5

PARIS, Sunday : The French Government has reopened talks with the Communist and non-Communist onions in an effort to…

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[?] Miners’ Strike May Become State-Wide Meetings to Be Held by Men Company Refuses To Obey Board’s Order SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 3

[?]OUTH COAST miners to-day agreed to continue their strike following the refusal Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. to obey the by the Joint Coal Board to cease work…

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All Miners May Now Strike

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: The Central and NSW District Executives of the Miners’ Federation today decided to…

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All Safety Men To Be Called From Coal Mines Grave Turn in the French Strike Tear Gas Used On Miners LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 1

THE French coal strike situation became worse to-day following Communist miners’ decision to permanently withdraw safety teams from all pits, states Reuter’s correspondent in Paris…

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Dispute with Miners at Critical Stage Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 October 1948 · page 3

IMPORTANT moves on the part of the Joint Coal Board and union executives to-morrow are expected to decide whether a State wide coal stoppage over the Kemeira tunnel dispute is to be…

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Poland’s Big Coal Output

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 7

The output of coal in Poland in August was 6,017,501 tons (1.1 per cent in excess of the target). The average output per man-shift was…

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Troops Used Against Miners Situation Still Tense in France

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Wed.: French police and armed forces began at dawn today to clear strikebound mines in central and…

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Coal Board to Prosecute Company Strike Settlement Hopes Better

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: The Joint Coal Board today issued a summons against Australian Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. for allegedly…

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Cr. Cramer’s Remedy for Coal Troubles

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 9

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Australian industry at present could pay more for the Australian-produced coal, chairman of the Sydney…

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Forts to End Coal Strike Talks To Be Resumed To-day SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 3

[?]NTER-UNION conference held yesterday will be resumed to-morrow in the hope of reaching a settlement of the South Coast coal [?]rike over the Kemeira dispute…

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1200 Strikers Battle With Troops In France Violence in Coal Strike Paris

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 1

A VIOLENT battle to-day flared up at St. Etienne, where 1200 workers—including some factory workers who had joined with the striking miners— attacked with stones and sticks the troops who…

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No Settlement of Miners’ Strike

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 October 1948 · page 15

SYDNEY, Friday : Inter-union negotiations on the Kemeira tunnel dispute reached a deadlock today and the position…

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Dockers Refuse To Unload Marshall Aid Coal Defiant Stand by French Reds “Miners To Stay Out Until Victory Won” PARIS

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 October 1948 · page 1

THE Dunkirk dockers, as a mark of sympathy with the striking miners, have refused to [?] a Canadian ship carrying Marshall Aid coat to France…

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Food-liquor Refused Tunnel Workers Miners To Intensify Picketing SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 3

THE Central Council of the Minister’ [?], which meets in Sydney to-mor-row, is considered certain to agree to intensify the Picketing of Kemeira tunnel area where…

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Miners’ Threat To Meet Force With Force Danger of Civil War Growing Troops Used Against Strikers LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 1

THE Paris correspondent of the “Sunday Express” says that reports from nearly every minefield indicate that the striking miners are hardening in their resolve to meet military action by force…

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151,000 Tons of Coal Lost New Effort to Settl Strike

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, wed.: ACTU [?] will re-open negotiation with the Miners’ Central Council in Sydney tomorrow in…

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