-Gold Buying Spree
NEW YORK. Wed:—Foreign Governments are buying hundreds of tons of gold from America's hoard at Fort Knox…
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Man Dies After Mine Fall
MELBOURNE, Fri: After having been trapped in the shaft of the disused North Garden Gully mine at Ironbark…
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MELBOURNE, Tues : The State Government today ordered 100,000 tons of South African coal at a cost of about £5/7/ a…
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SYDNEY, Frl.: The Joint Coal Board has warned the. Miners' Federation that industry will be drastically short of coal in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill Miners Earn £22 a Week
MELBOURNE, Fri.: An average income of £1170 a man on full time employment was received by nearly 1200 employes of Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Multiple Shifts in Open Cut Mines May Cease
LITHGOW, Fri: Multiple shift work in open cut mines may cease following the lead given by western miners to-day…
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SCRANTON, (Pennsylvania) Sun.: The soft coal strike would continue “until the battle over the welfare fund is won”, president…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: The gradual yearly withdrawal of youths from the coal mining industry is referred to as “disturbing” in…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: The State executive of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen’s Association has decided that its…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday : The Joint Coal Board is expected to decide shortly whether it will issue an order to New…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: A Joint Coal Board spokesman said tonight that reports that coal rationing to industrial users was…
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SYDNEY, Fr[?].: NSW miners have now officially advised the Joint Coal Board that they have rejected the board’s proposal…
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SYDNEY, Fri: The Joint Coal Board was at liberty to obtain ejection orders against tenants of Frazer House, Bridge st, city,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →70 German Miners Killed in Explosion
BERLIN, Sun.: Seventy German miners were killed when a powder supply depot blew up in a uranium mine explosion near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →32 Mines Idle Yesterday
SYDNEY, Mon.: More than 12,000 tons of coal was lost when 32 mines were idle today. Although Hartley's Labor Day…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: An official of the Joint Coal Board said today there would be sufficient coal to meet requirements over the…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: New South Wales miners will have to produce an average of 186,000 tons, of coal a week between…
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LONDON, Friday : The Fuel! Minister during a debate in the House of Commons yesterday on the National Coal Boards 1948…
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SYDNEY, Fri: The Miners’ Federation would fight tor toe retention of the Coal Industry Tribunal, the general secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Spent 15 Years in Siberian Salt Mines
SYDNEY, Friday.: A Ukrainian watchmaker, who escaped- to Germany in 1944, after serving 15 years in the Siberian salt mines,…
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