Challenge to Legality of Coal Board
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Legal constitution of the Joint Coal Board will be challenged in the High Court…
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Federal Govt. Import Coal Canberra
THE Federal Government is investigating the possibility of importing coal from Britain or other countries in an effort to all[?]viate the coal crisis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Will Not Risk Lives of Miners” Sydney
IT would not be wise to take any action at this stage that might cause public opinion to turn against the Government, especially action that might result in risk to the miners, the Chief Secretary and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Moves In Sydney Today To Try And End Miners’ Strike SYDNEY
DEVELOPMENTS in Sydney tomorrow will give an indication how long the coal strike is likely to lost. A.C.T.U. leaders will confer with miners’ officials in another attempt to find a formula of settlement for the strike. N.S.W. Trades and Labor Council at a special meeting will define…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wharfies Refuse to Unload Coal
MELBOURNE, Fri.: The call to waterside workers to unload the 7000 tons of Indian coal from the collier…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Trapped by Wall of Water
LONDON, Fri.: A wall of water seven feet high swept through a Forest of Dean pit in Gloucestershire yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Condemned At Rowdy Meeting Of Labor Council SYDNEY
N.S.W. Trades and Labor Council to-day condemned the action of the mining unions in calling a general coal strike without having made full use of arbitration and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Strike May Now Develop Into A Prolonged Struggle SYDNEY
THE nation-wide general coal strike, now five days old, is developing into a prolonged struggle which may take weeks to settle. A conference to-day between Australian Council of Trade Unions’ officials and Miners’ Federation leaders failed to break the deadlock. These discussions were followed by a stormy meeting of the N.S.W. Trades and Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Answer to Mr. Chifley Sydney
IN a statement to-day, the Miners’ federation, under the heading “Miners’ Answer to Ben Chifley,” declares Mr. Chifley’s declaration that arbitration had made grants to the miners and that their present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Miners’ Threats Will Not Influence Govt.” CANBERRA
THE Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said tonight that the Federal Government would not be influenced by threats by the Miners’ Federation. He said this view was entirely supported by the Government of N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Crisis Lang Bitterly Criticises Chiefly Sydney
MR J. T. Lang, M.H.R., writing in the current issue of his newspaper “Century,” under the heading “Chifley Can’t Dodge His Responsibility,” bitterly attacks the Prime Minister on ids handling of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Crisis Treatt’s Plans Fro Getting Coal Sydney
THE Leader of the State Opposition (Mr. Trealt) will submit a four-point plan to settle the coal strike to State Parliament next Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Protecting Miners at Work
BRISBANE, Monday : Protected by 12 members of the police force, six Queensland coal mines in the Ipswich area were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Minister’s Appeal to Miners
SYDNEY, Monday : The Minister for Mines (Mr Baddeley) issued a statement tonight recommending the miners to go back to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Support From Mine Area Labour
Two Labour Party Federal councils for electorates covering large sections of the northern Coalfields on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Leaders Just Miss Mine Trap
BOLOGNA, Mon.: Italian Communist leader, Palmiro Togliatti, and Left-Wing socialist leader, Pietro Nenni, missed a landmine…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court Challenge to Coal Strike Act
SYDNEY, Friday, noon:- The validity of the Court order made yesterday by the Federal Arbitration Court, in ordering Federal Unions to pay to the Registrar moneys withdrawn from banks last week, was challenged in the High…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How 35 Hour Week Will Affect Miners
CANBERRA, Mon.: Introduction of a 35 hour week in the coal mining industry would reduce the effective working force…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prime Minister Talks on the Coal Crisis
THE Prime Minister , Mr. Chifley in his broadcast to Australia on Sunday night, said that the whole economic and social life of this nation was approaching complete disruption. Mr. Chifley was speaking on the general coal strike, how in its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Federal Government, Fearing Bloodshed, Will Not Move Coal CANBERRA
THE Federal Government will not initiate any immediate move to transport to industry 36,000 tons of coal tying at grass on N.S.W. coalfields. Federal Ministers agreed to-day that the quantities at grass could benefit industry only to a minor degree, and that attempts to move it might precipitate bloodshed. Federal Cabinet to-day received a report that -75 per cent of the industrial movement was opposed…
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