Miners’ Federation to Pay in £23,000 SYDNEY
THE Miners’ Federation will pay into the Arbitration Court to-morrow most of the £23,700 withdrawn from banks during the coal strike…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining & the mines, 1949
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Declares Miners Were Deceived
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Miners were “deceived and deluded and not given a true picture of their actual position as far as their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners in Dispute Over Bath Water
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Miners at the Lithgow mine, Steelworks, who did not work yesterday because…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners to Quit Over Alleged Red
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Several mine workers at Preston Extended colliery at Gunnedah, who have objected to working with an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners’ Reprisal Move Against Labor M’s.P
SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Minister for Mines (Mr Baddeley) said tonight that he was not intimidated by the resolution by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£10 Bonus for Troops Who Worked in Mines
SYDNEY, Thurs.: The 2000 troops who manned open cut mines during the coal strike each received a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Normal Gas in Albury When Railways Can Haul Coal
Restoration of full gas supply in Albury depends on the arrival of coal. Albury Gas Co has been advised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dispute May Close All Broken Hill Mines Broken Hill
A LOCK-OUT along the entire Broken Hill line of lode is threatened by the Mining Managers’ Association as a counter to the union threat of weekly stop-work meetings. At a conference between the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board, Colliery Owners Clash Over Coal Losses Sydney
THE Joint Coal Board and colliery proprietors clashed over how much coal had been lost on the N.S.W. coalfields this week by “avoidable st[?]ikes.” The Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Case for the Miners”
Sir,—Mr Gollan’s “case for the miners” is irrelevant. There is no occasion for a Communist to defend these workers against whom…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rail Chief Complains of Inferior Coal
SYDNEY, Fri: The Commissioner for Railways (Mr Garside) said tonight that the Railway Department was receiving a very inferior type…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →R.a.a.f. Trucks to Shift Queensland Coal
CANBERRA, Fri.: Eight RAAF tank carrier trucks, each of 20 tons capacity, will be sent to Queensland Callide brown coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →20 Million Tons of Coal Lost in Seven Years
SYDNEY, Sun.: Strikes and absenteeism on NSW coalfields between January, 1942, and June, 1949, had caused a loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Production of Coal
SYDNEY, Mon.: NSW mineworkers produced more coal today than in any previous shift since they ended their seven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrong Gold Price Forcing Depression
Sir Walter Massy-Greene, a director of some of Australia’s leading gold-mining companies, stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to the Editor Miners Begin to Doubt
Sir,—Mr. Gollan, our Communist candidate, who presumes to set himself up as the champion of the miners, seems to overlook the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pilot Charged with Gold Smuggling Attempt Sydney, Monday
A Qantas pilot, committed for trial in the Special Federal Court today on a charge of having attempted to take gold out of Australia without the consent of the Commonwealth Bank, claimed he was not guilty and reserved his defence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Colliery to Resume Production
SYDNEY, Tues.: Bellbird colliery, which produces about 1600 tons of valuable gas coal daily, will resume work tomorrow,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court’s Rebuff To Miners’ Union
SYDNEY, Tues.: The Miners’ Federation had no right to enlist into its union metalliferous miners at Lake George mines,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Winders’ Strike Off
LONDON, Wed.: Yorkshire coal mine winders last night called off their strike. Work will be resumed today…
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