More Trains Leave with Coal
NEWCASTLE, Sunday : The coal lift was continued today when six trains left South Mait[?]and field…
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Collie Miners Back to Work To-day
PERTH, Sunday : First sign of a crack up in the nationwide coal strike now running into its fourth week was a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Army Will Be Used to Defeat MINERS—P.M.’s Hint Canberra, Sunday
HINT at the possibility of the Government mobilising the armed forces for the temporary control of open cut mining in the near future was contained in a Report to the Nation broadcast of the Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Right Wing Unionists Believe End Of Miners’ Strike Is In Sight SYDNEY
RIGHT Wing union officials said tonight that they believed the end of the coal strike was in sight. They said an early settlement hinged on fresh negotiations to be opened by A.C.T.U. officers in Sydney this week with Coal Mining Unions’ Council leaders. If the A.C.T.U. can break down the attitude that gaoled miners’ leaders must be…
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Commenting on this recent suggestion, Mr. David Fairbairn Liberal Party candidate for Farrer, said that the record of Government…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: The steamer La Verdon, carrying 9000 tons of coal, left England on July 15 for Melbourne, the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Calide Miners Ready to Resume
BRISBANE, Mon: A meeting of miners at Callide open-cut, 82 miles from Gladstone, today decided to return to work not later than…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Coal and the Economic Crisis
On top of the drastic cut in production caused by the general coal strike Australia now faces added hazards arising from the world…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Berlin Well Stocked with Food, Coal
LONDON, Mon.: Berlin, now had such strong supplies that the air lift may be reduced to a skeleton service…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →6000 Tons of Coal on Move
NEWCASTLE, Mon.: A start was made today to move 6000 tons of coal at grass, on the northern coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →These Miners Glad to Be at Work Again
PERTH, Monday: Coal miners who returned to work at Collie to-day after a -three weeks’ stoppage declared that they…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Many Locos. Now Using Oil Instead of Coal
SYDNEY, Mon; About 70 of the State’s coal burning locomotives have now been equipped with oil-burning jets…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Casey Sees Coal in Plenty in Open Cuts
NEWCASTLE, Mon.: After a week-end spent visiting miners’ homes and inspecting open cuts between Newcastle and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal & N. S. W. Govts. Determined To Crush Miners’ Strike SYDNEY
THE Commonwealth and N.S.W, Governments will not have anything to do with the proposed talks launched by the miners’ leaders to settle the coal strike. The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) and the N.S.W. Premier (Mr. McGirr) will adhere to their stand that the strike can only be solved by the Coal Industry Tribunal. In these circumstances, with two of the principal parties absenting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Well for the Coal- Fields
MELBOURNE, Tues: The Ministers for Immigration (Mr [?] will attend rallies organised the ALP on the coalfields on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japs to Dump Coal Into Sea
TOKIO, Tues.: The Kyushu Maritime Bureau has decided to dump over 20,000 tons of coal in the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Break In Coal Strike Believed Near SYDNEY
FIRST sign of a break in the coal strike front in N.S.W. came to four small northern coalfield towns to-day when miners supported back-to-work proposals. The four towns are Singleton, Muswell-brook. Gunnedah and Curlewis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Open Cut Mining Counter to Reds”
CANBERRA, Tues. : One of the outcomes of the coal crisis could be the development open cut mining to a degree and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Dumped” Coal Will Be Reclaimed
TOKIO, Wed.: Over 20.000 tons of Japanese-mined coal to be dumped in the sea off Kyushu will be placed in shallow water, from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Haligonian Duke Coal Watersiders’ Ban Remains
MELBOURNE, Wed.: Victorian members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation will not unload coal from the…
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