Coal Crists No Unemployment Benefits Sought at Albury
MO applications have been made in Albury for unemployment benefits. Stating this yesterday the District Employment Officer…
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FiRE Causes Loss of 1½ Million Tons of Coal
CESSNOCK, Thurs.: After 65 continuous hours’ struggle to save 1.500,000 tons of coal from fire at the Bellbird Colliery,…
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EMERGENCY legislation to meet the coal crisis was authorised to-night by the Emergency Cabinet Committee appointed by the Slate Government. It was announced that an Emergency Food Controller would be…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: The collier Kooliga is to be moved from her berth at the gas wharf to make way for the collier Firby,…
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An Albury businessman went to his butcher yesterday morning. “Come in and get warm,” said the…
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CERSNOCK, Fri.: Miners, at Bellbird colliery, this morning removed the last of the hot coal which, early…
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THE Joint Coal Board is considering proposals aimed at averting a general coal strike on Monday. The proposals, which have not been disclosed, were put to the Coal Board late to-day by ACTU leaders and members of the Coal Mining Unions’ Council…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: In a special message to all Australian mine workers, Mr. I. "Williams, as chairman…
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Because of the gas restrictions, ' some city hotels have been compelled to alter their meal hours, others are cooking over…
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SYDNEY, Sunday : Legislation empowering the Government to take over the control of food supplies, transport, power…
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A GENERAL strike will begin on the coalfields to morrow, which will lead to the greatest industrial dislocation in Australia's history. A desperate last-minute bid at a conference to-day failed to find a settlement formula to avert the stopple. The strike will involve 23,000 mineworkers in N.S.W., Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria and…
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CANBERRA, Mon. : The president of the NSW division of the Liberal Party (Mr W. H. Spooner) said tonight that the…
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SYDNEY, Monday : Officials of he -Miners' Federation will not draw their salaries during the strike…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—No moves to settle the coal strike are reported to-day, as the State and Federal Governments prepare for a long drawn…
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A FORMER Premier of N.S.W. (Mr. A. Mair) declared yesterday that the time had arrived v/hen Australia must realise that she was gradually but surely being brought to…
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ADELAIDE, Mon. : The Railways Commissioner (Mr Chapman) announced today that the conversion of 38 of the…
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THE President Minister (Mr. Chifley) will not intervene in the crisis as suggested by the general president of the Miners’ Federation (Mr. I. Williams). Mr. Chifley made this clear in a statement to-night. He reiterated his stand that settlement of the crisis lay in the hands of the Coal Industry Tribunal…
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The Commonwealth Government has been advised that It is powerless to proclaim an effective state of emergency to…
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THE Emergency Powers Bill, which the State Parliament was hurriedly called to put through both Houses today, will give the Government power to take over any mine for the immediate purpose of winning coal. The Minister for Local Government and chairman of the Emergency Co-ordinating…
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MELBOURNE. Tues.: Five hundred members of the Communistled Seamens’ Union pledged full support, at a slopwork meeting…
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