Future Policy of Miners’ Federation Under Review Sidney
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 3
FUTURE policy of the Miners’ Federation will be discussed to-morrow by miners’ officials released from gaol to-day by the Arbitration Court. These officials will confer with the acting Miners’ Central Executive, which held office while they were in gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.s. Has 25 Billion Dollars of Gold Buried
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 1
PERTH, Wed.: America bad 25 billion dollars’ worth of gold of Fort Knox and was not anxious to accumulate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Leaders Condemn A.l.p
Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thurs.: The miners general secretary (Mr G. W. S. Grant) today opposed a decision by his central…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clue to Missing Gold Bullion
Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Detectives investigating the disappearance of £3100 worth of gold bullion while in [?] from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Decide to Return to Arbitration SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 1
THE Miners Federation decided to-day to re-submit claims which caused the seven-week coal strike to the Coal Industry Tribunal. This means that the Communist miners’ leaders have completely capitulated to the stand taken by the Federal and N.S.W. Labor Governments…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“All Soldier-miners to Get Bonus”
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 August 1949 · page 12
SYDNEY, Fri.: An army spokesman said today that all soldiers sent to coal areas during the strike had been credited…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Coal in Crippled Ship Still Smouldering
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 August 1949 · page 3
PERTH, Fri.: Coal in the hold of the British freighter Avismoat is still smouldering, and the captain has radioed Fremantle port…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Red Documents and Gold Stolen From Train? Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 August 1949 · page 3
A COMMONWEALTH Bank official told the Royal Commission on Communism Ho-day that he believed documents relating to Communist Party transactions were stolen when £3160 worth of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners’ Claims Before Tribunal
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 August 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Mon.: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr Gallagher) decided today to reopen the hearing of the miners’…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oil Industry in Coal Strike
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 30 August 1949 · page 2
It is fitting that the general public should know what the oil industry has done to maintain them in a state of reasonable comfort during the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Gold Smuggling Attempt “Mug of the Piece” Released on Bond
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 August 1949 · page 8
SYDNEY, Mon.: A man who was arrested while attempting to [?] of gold out of Australia was released on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Russian Mines Impress Scottish Visitors
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 August 1949 · page 14
LONDON, Tues: Mr William Pearson, a member of the Scottish miners’ delegation which is visiting the Soviet Union, last night gave hi…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Coal Strike Costly to Sydney Council
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 August 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tues.: Power restrictions during the coal strike reduced the Sydney Council’s revenue by £283,000, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Open Cut Mines May Be Abandoned
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 August 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tues.: The Joint Coal Board decided today to investigate early next week whether four open cut mines…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“No Present Intention of Closing Wonthaggi Mine” Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 August 1949 · page 10
THE Government had no present intention of closing the State coal mine at Wonthaggi, but would watch further developments carefully to see whether the mine was worth retaining, the Premier (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coorabin Coal
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 September 1949 · page 3
A vast field of first class coal, but neglected because of Interstate jealousy, was how Mr. K. L Webster (Clear Hills) recently described the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners May Withdraw M.L.A.’s Membership of Federation
Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 September 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Sun.: A recommendation that Mr. George Booth, MLA, be deprived of his membership of the Miners’…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Decision on Miners’ Claim on
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 September 1949 · page 10
SYDNEY, Mon.; A decision on the miners’ claim for long service leave will be given by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Baddeley Gets Mines Job
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 September 1949 · page 3
SIDNEY, Tues.: State Cabinet today decided to recommend to the Governor-in-Council the appointment of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All Mines at Work
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 September 1949 · page 10
SYDNEY, Tues.: Output of the NSW coalfields today was about 55,800 tons, all mines having worked. There was a abort stoppage…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →