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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

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Red, Wharfies, Miners May Be Prosecuted CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 16 April 1949 · page 1

WITH all the facts to hand of the allegedly seditious statement by Mr. Nevin Healy, chairman of the Western Australian Communist Party, the acting Attorney-General (Senator McKenna)…

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Miners Seek More Pat; Shorter Working Week

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues: The Coal Mining Unions' Council served on the employers a log of claims seeking a shorter working week, more pay and…

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Coal Cuts Goods Services

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY. Thursday : All railway goods yards and sheds in NSW will be closed from midnight tonight until midnight next…

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Minister Hopes for More Coal

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 April 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.: The Minister for Fuel and Shipping (Senator Ashley) said today that as the result of talks he had with…

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Coal Production Up in N.s.w

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 April 1949 · page 12

SYDNEY, Mon.: Coal production in NSW in the first [?]ree months, of this year exceeded the 1948 first quarter production…

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Tin Mining at Mullengandra

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 2

A treatment plant is being installed at Mullengandra tin mine and it is expected that production of ore will commence next month…

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Coal Shortage Hits N.s.w. Railways

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 April 1949 · page 10

SYDNEY, Wed.: Because of the serious shortage of coal, all railway goods yards and sheds would closed from midnight on Thursday,…

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McKENNA May Prosecute Miners' Leaders

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 7

CANBERRA, Thurs.: The acting Attorney - General (Senator McKenna) stated to-day that the question of legal…

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Move Against Miners' Leaders SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 5

NOTICES of motion expressing: no-confidence in the national leadership of the Miners' Federation will be discussed by the central council in Sydney next week…

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Victoria Buying Queens Land Coal

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Friday : The State Government intends buying 30,000 tons of coal from Queensland to meet the needs of the State…

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Only Half of Strikers Return to Mine

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 11

SYDNEY, Monday : Although the strike at the Lake George Mine, Captain’s Flat, his been settled, a little more than half…

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Alleges Miners Refused Work

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday : The Central Council of the Miners’ Federation today condemned the the Lake George Mining…

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Victorian Miners May Strike

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.: The Central Council of the Miners’ Federation decided today to call general strike of Victorian…

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Split Develops in Miners’ Federation

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday : A split has developed in the central executive of the Miners’ Federation. The miners’ general secretary…

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Miners’ Vital Decision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 11

SYDNEY, Wed.: The Miners’ Central [?] to—day that rank-and-file slopwork meeting of Australian…

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Wonthaggi Miners Will Ask Federation To Stop Vic. Coal

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday : wonthaggi miners at a stop-work meeting today, decided to ask the Miners' Federation…

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Miners Reject Arbitration

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Miners’ C[?] Connell declared today in a [?] that the Miners’ Federation “[?]ever has and never…

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Coal Deposits Located in Inverell District Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 5

DRILLING operations sponsored by the Federal Government have discovered coal deposits at 341 feet below the ground at Ashford, in the Inverell district. The seam has so far been drilled to a…

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Trapped Miners Found Dead

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Fri.: Four miners who were trapped in a burning coal mine at Girardville, Pennsylvania, since last…

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Victoria Threatened with Coal Blockade Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 1

FEDERAL intervention in the strike by Wonthaggi miners, which threatens to become a coal blockade of Victoria, was sought today by the Premier (Mr. Hollway). In some quarters it is claimed that the strike is a part of a plan by…

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