Singleton Miners Want Aggregate Meetings Called
NEWCASTLE, Mon.: A meeting of about 50 miners at Singleton today carried a motion instructing the Northern Miners’ Executive to…
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Coal From S.A. on Way to N.S.W.
SYDNEY, Mon.: The first shipment of imported coal from South Africa—30,000 tons—is now on its way to coal starved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plans Completed To Use Troops As Miners Ultimate To The Strikers On
FEDERAL Ministers and the Joint Coal Board today completed plans for army labor to work N.S.W. open cat mines from next Monday. Meetings of Federal Cabinet in Canberra and N.S.W. Cabinet in Sydney tomorrow will decide whether the plans will be ratified…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seamen Declare Coal “Black”
MELBOURNE, Tues.: The Victorian secretary of the Seamen’s Union (Mr W. Bird) today advised tag masters that all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board’s Substantial Profit
LONDON, Tues: The National Coal Board finished the first quarter of 1949 with a surplus of £3,832,650—£3,311,724 more than the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Federal Cabinet Endroses Open Cut Mines Plan CANBERRA
FEDERAL Cabinet , with Army labor the decision to work open cut mines in N.S.W. with Army labor if the coal strike is no settled by August 1. Cabinet was told that sufficient coal would be won from the open…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scottish Miners to Visit Russia
LONDON, Wed.: A delegation of six, representing the Scottish area of the National Union of Mineworkers, will leave Edinburgh…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners Call Aggregate Meetings Monday Troops to Be Used in Open Cut Mines No Later Than Tuesday Sydney
COAL Mining Unions’ Council to-day decided to call aggregate meetings on the coalfields to take a vote on the coal strike. The meetings, which are expected to be held on Monday, will decide whether there will be a return to work next week…
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LITHGOW, Wed.: Coal trains hauling 2000 tons of crushed coal from Ben Bullen and Renown sidings to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Troops in Open Cut Mines by Tuesday Sydney
TROOPS will commence to work the open cut mines in N.S.W. not late than next Tuesday, the Federal and State Government decided to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hollway to Prosecute Miners
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The State Government intends issuing summonses under the Essential Services Act against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deregistration of Miners’ Union Sought
BRISBANE, Thurs.: Deregistration of the Queensland Colliery Employes’ Union and its parent [?] the Australian Coal and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Security Police Raid Miners’ Offices
BRISBANE, Thurs.: Security [?] today raided the headquarters of the Miners’ Union at [?] near Ipswich…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Moscow’s Interest in Miners’ Strike
MOSCOW, Thurs.: The Soviet journal “New Times,” said today that the London dockers’ strike and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unparalleled Bungling; Chifley Government and Coal Strike
"Hundreds of thousands of Australian unemployed, and those suffering in other ways because of the strike, should realise that, months…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Coal Problems Address by Mr. Heery
COAL miners and mine managers might play golf together and regard each other as splendid fellows, but on the job their was bitterness and hostility and sometimes batted, said Mr. G. Heery, speaking on coal mining problems to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Declares New Outlook on Coal Needed Sydney
A NEW outlook and a new policy towards coal-production were imperative, the N.S.W. president of the Liberal Party (Mr. W. H. Spooner) said to-night. “In future, people will not be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A.L.P. Opponent of Miners’ Strike Bashed Lithgow
MR. H. J. BLACKBURN, secretary of the Hartley District A.L.P. Assembly, was attacked and bashed to-night near his home in Mort’s estate, Lithgow. He was taken to Lithgow Hospital, where three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bolder-miners to Be Issued with Live Ammunition Sydney
TWO forces, comprising more than 1300 troops, arrived on the western and northern coalfields this afternoon. The men were wearing marching equipment and carried rifles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Leaders May Recommend That Men Stay On Strike SYDNEY
THE Miners’ Central Council is not expected to oppose the holding of aggregate meetings on the coalfields, but may recommend to the meetings that miners stay on strike. Miners leaders said to-night they believed miners would vote solidly…
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