Miners to Get Pav Increase
SYDNEY, Mon.: All NSW mineworkers will receive the £1 basic wage increase from the first pay period in December…
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Miners to Hold Nationwide Stoppage
SYDNEY, Mon.; Miners’ Federation Central Executive will call nation-wide slopwork meetings on the coalfields on a date to be fixed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Communists Win Miners’ Union Offices
MELBOURNE, Tues: Wonthaggi miners have returned office their Communist and militant executive. The voting resulted: President,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ship Sinks After Striking Mine
KIE[?] Tues.: The German Waterways Administration reported today that the 127.1 tons Norwegian motorship Nestun had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Deal for Miners
SYDNEY, Wed: A bill before State Parliament is designed to give miners a fair deal and attract young men to the mining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Long Service Leave for Miners
SYDNEY, Wed. : Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr F. H. Gallagher), today made in award variation which provides that miners who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. Holds Less Gold
WASHINGTON, Wed.: US holdings of monetary gold declined more than £595,982,142 in the last 12 months, Treasury records show…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners Couldn’t Hear Cup; Stop Work
SYDNEY, Wed.: About 150 South Coast miners staged a stoppage today because they claimed they didn’t get out of Excelsior No. 2…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Lock Holds Up Arms Production
FRANKFURT, Sun.: American authorities yesterday reported that a serious coal shortage is crippling West Germany’s…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →To Discuss Oakland Coal Today
Best means for developing the Oaklands coalfield will be discussed by the Murray-Murrumbidgee Development Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Electricity, Coal Discussed At Urana Meeting
The newly-formed Murray-Murrumbidgee Development Committee decided at Urana yesterday to send deputations to the NSW, Victorian and Federal Governments seeking the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →£635 Million Plan For U.K Coal Industry
LONDON, Tues.: A development plan for the investment of £835,000,000 in the British coal industry was announcement by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Left Wingers” Win Miners’ Ballot
WOLLONGONG, Fri: Left-Wing officials, have been re-elected, to key executive positions in the southern district branch of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Miners’ Basic Wage Demand
SYDNEY, Sun: The Miners’ Federation will insist on the payment of the £1 a week basic wage increase with the miners’…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Allegedly Stole Coal
A 34 year-old driver was arrested yesterday by Detectives Smith and Lundie following reports that coal had been stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Springs Mode of Gold !
GENEVA, Mon.: The cushion springs in a car were found to be made of gold when exalted by Italian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal “Drought” May Be Broken by 1952 CANBERRA
If the Cool Board plans for the mechanisation of NSW mines came to fruition Australian cool production could probably be brought up to a level sufficient to meet [?] Commonwealth demands by the end of 1952…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Assurances to Miners
CANBERRA, Tues.: Assurances to allay the fears of coal miners that they might suffer as the result of proposals to mechanise the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Britain to Buy Coal
LONDON, Tues.: [?] Europe’s greatest coal-producing country—is to spend 20,000,00 to 25,000,000 dollars buying coal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners Trapped, But Not in Danger
BROKEN HILL, Thurs.: Four miners are trapped in a 30ft. mine shaft following the collapse of a drive-way…
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