Coal Strike Over
The general coal strike which has paralysed industry for seven weeks has collapsed. By a four to one majority…
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Miners’ Move on Gaoled Officials
SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Miners’ Federation today consulted its legal advisers with a view of obtaining the release…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners To Resume Work On Monday Morning SYDNEY
FIRST reprisal by Communists following the ending of the coal strike occurred to-day. The miners will resume work on Monday. The Communist-controlled Executive of the Coal Mining Unions’ Council late to-day decided not to invite five Right-Wing delegates to a meeting of the C.M.U.C. in Sydney to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Open Cut Coal Arrived at Albury Yesterday
THREE trucks of open cut coal arrived at Albury yesterday for the gas works here. This was announced by the manager of Albury Gas Company (Mr. H. W. Turner). The gas making qualities of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Act May Soon Be Repealed
CANBERRA, Fri.: Repeal of the National Emergency Coal Strike Act, under which trade union…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Troops To Be Used In Bargaining With Miners SYDNEY
MINEWORKERS will be asked to work extra shifts if they want troops withdrawn from N.S.W. open cut mines. Unless they agree to work the extra shifts, troops will continue to produce coal from open cuts. The bargaining point is believed to be the working of “back”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Troops Out Of Mines As Strikers Resume SYDNEY
PREPARATIONS were completed at the week-end to reopen the coal mines to-morrow after the seven weeks strike. First coal trains from the northern N.S.W. field will leave Newcastle to-morrow and interstate shipments are expected to leave Newcastle by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Lodge Bans Communists
NEWCASTLE, Mon.: North Wallarah miners’ lodge, at a pit top meeting this morning, carried a motion by 120 votes to 10,…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A Joint Coal Board spokesman said tonight that mine workers should review the custom of stopping…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Paper’s View on Miners’ Defeat
LONDON, Mon.: Describing the collapse of the Australian coal strike as capitulation by the Communist led mining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sank Notes As Clue to Missing Gold
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Police today appealed to all banks, shopkeepers and financial organisations to be on the alert…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Cost N.s.w. Railways £2 Million
SYDNEY, Mon.: The Minister for Transport (Mr O’Sullivan) expressed tonight what he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Liberal Party Assails Chifley Govt. Accused of Using Policy of Opposition During the Coal Strike CANBERRA
THE principles adopted by the Chifley Government daring die coal strike were not those of the Labor Party, but of die Liberal Party, the Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party (Mr. Menzies) told the party’s Federal Council to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Powerhouse Wasted Huge Amount of Coal”
SYDNEY, Tues.: Bunnerong powerhouse, Sydney’s main power source, had wasted 287,000 tons of coal in five years, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Albanian’s Story About Gold Tailings
KALGOORLIE, Tues.: An fishmonger, Xhevit Osman, 35, was sentenced to imprisonment for four months today after…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A.c.t.u. Condemns Coal Strike
MELBOURNE, Tues.: The Coal strike was one of the most tragic happenings in the Industrial history of Australia, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Leaving for S.a. This Week
SYDNEY, Tues.: First shipments of NSW coal for South Australia since the strike ended will leave Newcastle towards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Owners’ Warning On Lag In Coal Supplies Effective Discipline Code Necessary SYDNEY
N.S.W. colliery proprietors warned to-day that an effective code of discipline was needed among mineworkers if the lag between demand and supply of coal was to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strike Act Repealed
CANBERRA, Wed.: Attorney-General (Dr Evatt) today announced the repeal of National Emergency (Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal at Our Back Door
It is to be hoped that the Federal Government’s plans to give Australia more coal include provision to open up new fields and to extend existing ones. That important coal deposits have been neglected can be…
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