5 Million Tons of Coal Short This Year Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 3
Australia will be nearly five million tons of coal short of her requirements this year unless there is a substantial increase in the N.S.W. output, Research Service states in a report issued today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plenty of Coal—by 1953 MELBOURNE
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 3
By 1953 the Commonwealth’s coal production should be 18.8 million tons a year, which would provide a surplus of 800,000 tons over requirements for 1953. the interstate executive of the A.C.T.U…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Mine Union Not Guilty of Contempt
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 1
WASHINGTON. Fri.: The United Mine Workers’ Union was found not guilty of civil and criminal contempt charges in failing to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Hopes for Coal
Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sunday : The Minister for Fuel and Shipping Senator McLeay, will hold a conference in Sydney tomorrow on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. Coal Strike Ending
Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 3
WASHINGTON, Sun.: The united mineworkers’ strike in the soft-coal mines appeared yesterday to be over except for formal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Talks on Coal
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 10
SYDNEY, Mon.: The Minister for Shipping and Fuel, Senator McLeay, conferred for three hours in Sydney today with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mine Hostess of the “Half-way”
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 7
Mrs J. Parolo, who is about to celebrate her 80th birthday, is one of the best known personalities in the Brimin district. She has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →U.s. Miners Back with More Pay
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 3
WASHINGTON, Mon.: Representatives of the United Mineworkers’ Union said the mine owners yesterday signed a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Subsidies for Overseas Coal
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 5
CANBERRA, Wed.: Possibility of subsidising imported coal will be studied at a conference between the Minister for Fuel (Sen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Board Chairman Resigns
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 1
CANBERRA, Wed. : Chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr K. Cameron) has tendered his resignation to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Worldwide Tenders for Coal
Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 2
CANBERRA, Thurs : Commonwealth Ministers, in conference with Victorian and South Australian Ministers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wonthaggi Miners Support Victorian Tram Strikers Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 1
A stopwork meeting of Wonthaggi miners today called upon railway workers, seamen and other workers to join forces to bring about an early settlement of the tram strike by urging the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Acute Coal Shortage Critical Situation at B.H.P. Plant
Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 3
NEWCASTLE, Thurs.: Because of an acute, coal shortage, critical situation was looming at Newcastle B.H.P. plant and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rise for U.s. Miners
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 1
WASHINGTON, Friday : A new contract signed today gives the Mineworkers Union hard coal miners a daily wage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Killed in 300ft. Fall
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 3
PERTH, Fri: Two miners who fell 300 feet down a mine shaft at Big Bell Colliery this morning were killed instantly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Appeal to Wonthaggi Miners Melbourne
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 1
An appeal to the Wonthaggi miners-to resort to arbitration for the settlement of their claim was made by the chairman of the local Coal Reference Board (Mr L. Ramsay) today. Mr Ramsay warned the miners’ union that the strike for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.S.W. Miners Making Rod for Own Back —Sen. McLEAY. CANBERRA
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 3
New South Wales miners were making rods for their own backs by forcing coal imports and further development of mines in other States, Minister for Shipping and Fuel (Senator McLeay) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Militants Move for Mines Hold Up
Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 2
SYDNEY, Sun.: Following the decision of the chairman of the Coal Reference Board (Mr Gallagher) to suspend one week’s long…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →12 Coal Mines Idle
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 5
SYDNEY, Mon.: Twelve mines were idle or partly idle today over disputes and other Industrial matters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Explosion Kills Five Children
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 3
JERUSALEM, Tues.: Five children were killed, and 12 others injured in a mine explosion here…
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