Five Years for Gold Smuggler
PERTH, Tues.: Convicted on a charge of illicit exportation of gold, Israel Hertz Kinstler, 43 years, engineer, was sentenced to five years’…
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384 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 20
Deluge on Goldfields 10 Inches in 24 Hours
PERTH, Sun.: A cyclone about which storm warnings [?] over the weekend veered down outside the…
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SYDNEY, Tues. — The coal loss to NSW today was 7540 tons, when seven collieries were idle, and partial stoppages occurred at four…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Official figures released today show that 14,821,104 tons of coal were produced in Australia last year…
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LONDON, Wed. — Lord Pakeham, in the House of Lords disclosed that the efforts by the British Government to reduce drain…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Minister for Shipping and Supply (Senator Ashley) warned coalowners’ and mineworkers’ representatives at a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Did Not Buy Gold for China -Jeweller’s Court Story
SYDNEY, Thurs.: A city jeweller who had complained to the police that he had been robbed of £800 In a gold deal…
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Many people are apt to think of miners as tough individuals, coalgrimed and heavy-handed. Maybe they are all that—they have to be…
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CANBERRA, Tues. — Australia’s gold production in 1947 increased by 13.7 per cent over the previous year, according to the acting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rail and Sea Blockade of Queensland by Unions Miners Apply Ban on Loading of Coal Strikers Get Support From N.S.W. And Victoria BRISBANE
Trade union leaders in N.S.W. expect to completely blockade the movement of goods by rail and sea to and from Queensland by the end of this week. Waterside workers and railwaymen’s national leaders at separate meetings in Sydney, to-day made these decisions in support of the month-old…
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LONDON, Sunday: Rumania will nationalise the mines transport, oil and telegraph and telephone services under the new…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Miners at nine western mines stopped work today for a loss of 4000 tons of coal…
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SYDNEY, Toes.: The Joint Coal Board took action today , to avert any redaction in the output of BHP (Newcastle)…
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PITTSBURGH, Wed.: The [?]ike over pension rights [?]ong the soft-coal miners [?] spread to 350,000 of the…
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BRISBANE, Wed.—Coal miners at Booval in the Ipswich district will return to work tomorrow morning. The men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia May Face Coal Crisis Big Losses On Northern Fields NEWCASTLE
Unless the continual heavy stoppages on the northern [?]alfields are arrested, Australia may face a crisis at Easter [?]hen all mine-workers take holidays on Good Friday and [?]aster Monday…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: One-hour stoppages were held by waterside workers in all Australian ports today as a protest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Fight with Qld. Premier General Coal Strike Likely SYDNEY
If the Miners’ Central Council on Tuesday decides to call a general coal strike in support of Queensland railway strikers, all industry will be paralysed, a Joint Coal Board…
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LONDON, Sun.: Four armed men burst into the premises of a bullion broker in North London, beat up two brothers and a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland Strike Rebuff to Strikers Miners’ Decision; Rowdy Meeting
BRISBANE, Mon — Ipswich coal miners today overwhelmingly rejected a resolution calling for more aggressive strike…
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