Coal Production Increases
SYDNEY, Sun. Coal production in NSW has been at near-record level since the end of the coal strike, a Joint Coal Board…
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Miners Will Take Three Weeks Holiday SYDNEY
THE Miners’ Central Council today endorsed rank and file decisions by miners to take three weeks’ holiday at Christmas. Central councillors decided to…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday: The United Mineworkers yesterday paid 1,420,000 dollars in contempt fines for failing to obey a court order…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Pensions for miners in Victoria will be increased from £2/12/6 per week to £2/15/ and allowance for miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reds May Lose Control OS Miners' Federation Communists' Biggest Setback Since War Yesterday Sydney
LABOUR Party suppers may gain control of the Miner's Federation from the Communists in the new year as the result of ballots lot for officials' position now going on in two States. Already Communists have suffered the biggest setback since the…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Research Service, an organisation maintained by many organisations, including the Employers…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.-Workmen digging foundations for a new hospital at Mudgee, in western NSW, have found gold…
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SYDNEY, Thurs: Miners’ Federation has decided to affiliate with the Mining Department of the Communist-dominated World Federation of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Miners Fatally Overcome by “Black Damp” Gas CESSNOCK
TWO miners collapsed and died when they descended into a pocket of deadly “black damp” gas in an abandoned section of Millfield colliery yesterday. They were: JAMES WILSON, 35, mines’ deputy…
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NEWCASTLE, Fri: ALP supporters have captured control of the Miners’ Northern NSW Board of Management, which is…
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WASHINGTON. Fri.: Trade and financial officials here reacted cautiously to the announcement by Britain’s Sir Stafford…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners Censure Politicians
SYDNEY, Mon: For their actions in the general coal strike recently, Members of Parliament who are members of…
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Australian gold production for the year ended June was 940,376 fine ex., which in 34,914 fine, oz. above 1947-48, but nearly 50 per cent,…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: A 62 year old man who asked the Divorce Court today to order his wife to return to him said he had the…
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SYDNEY, [?] A [?] [?] speker[?] today [?] NSW [?] on recent production…
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LONDON, Wed.: Provisional figures issued by the Ministry of Fuel last night showed that the coal output last week was 4,520,300…
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SYDNEY. Thurs: Only one NSW mine was idle today when about 60,000 tons of coal were produced…
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SYDNEY, Fri: There were no idle coal mines in NSW today. Production for the day is estimated! at 60,000 tons, which is the highest…
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BERLIN, Mon.: Four hundred miners were killed in a fire in Soviet zone uranium mines at Johunnegeorgenstadt on November…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oaklands Coal Field Handed Over by R.s.w. Government to Victoria for Development
Estimated to contain more than 300 million tons of good quality coal suitable for locomotive and power stations the Oaklands coalfield in the corowa district has been handed over by the N.S.W. Government to Victoria…
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