Nation-Wide Coal Mine Tie-Up Un ilkely Miners’ Leaders in Long Discussion No Decisions On Qld. Strike SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 3
The Central Council of the Miners’ Federation made no decisions to-day on the Queensland strike, but it is now certain that a nation-wide stoppage will not take place…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners’ Rebuff to Communists Queensland Men to Return to Work
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 3
BRISBANE, Tues.: Queensland miners who had ceased work in sympathy with the striking railwaymen today, voted to return…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →13 Coal Mines Idle
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 3
SYDNEY, Wed.: After two successive working days of almost full production, 13 NSW mines were idle today for a loss of 8700…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →13 Coal Mines Idle
Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday. — Thirteen coal pits were idle today making a total coal loss of 10,000 tons. All except one of the stoppages were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oaklands Coal Mine Estimated to Contain 200 Million Tom
Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: While Victorian and South Australian industries and railways have been starved for years for want of Mack coal a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Found Four Ban of Gold In Jeweller’s Room”
Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 8
MELBOURNE, Thurs—On a charge of [?] post[?] a Sydney manufacturing jeweller was fined £20 and ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wagga Gold Cup
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 14
Nominations for the Wagga Gold Cup of 1¾ miles, run on Wednesday, April 21, close on April 5. The race carries stake money of £805…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Heavy Coal Losses Through Strike
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 5
SYDNEY, Fri.: Coal owners’ representatives tonight estimated that coal lost through strikes on the NSW coalfields so far this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Sales Total £6 Million
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 3
LONDON, Fri-The Treasury has announced that gold sales for March totalled £6,000,000 sterling. The Government borrowed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Seek to Drive Hotelkeeper Out of Town
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 14
LITHGOW, Fri-Coal miners today imposed a black ban on the Zig Zag Hotel, Vale of Clywdd, to operate “until the present…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →“Victims’ Gold Teeth Went to Nazi Bank”
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 5
WARSAW, Friday. — The Nazis grained many tons of precious metal from the murder of four million Polish citizens in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Asked to End Coal Strike 400,000 Men Out
Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 2
WASHINGTON, Sunday. — On the grounds that its continuance would “imperil national safety,” President Truman has instructed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal in Riverina
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1
A black Coal mine, believed to be capable of eventually producing 1000 tons a day is being developed in the Riverina; within 41 miles of a Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Illegal Disposal of Gold
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 4
SYDNEY, Mon.—A former airline steward, Augustine Desmond Cahill, was charged in a Special Federal Court today with having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal in Riverina Claim by Company
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1
A black coal mine, believed to be capable of eventually producing 1000 tons a day, is being developed in the Riverina, within…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soft Coal Strike May End
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 2
WASHINGTON, Wed.: The possibility of an early end to the soft coal strike was indicated today when the president of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Union Miners Shot by Owner
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 8
TUSCALOOSA (Alab.), Wed.— Joe Avery, the owner of a non-union mine, yesterday shot and wounded five union miners…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Uranium Rash likened to Yukon Gold Rush
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 5
FLIN FLON (Manitoba), Wed.— The atomic age equivalent of the Yukon gold rush—a uranium rush —has hit this northern Manitoba…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Position Critical In S.A. Train Services Almost at Standstill
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 8
ADELAIDE, Wed.—Through continued failure of the coal authorities to honor undertakings regarding supplies to this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Resentment at Coal Board’s Action
Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 8
CANBERRA, Thurs. — Resentment at the action of the Joint Coal Board in announcing a new plan for the coal industry…
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