Miners in NSW will help NZ strikers
SYDNEY, Fri.: Returns from miners’ lodges show that 67 pit-top meetings yesterday favored imposition of a levy in support of…
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Vital move by Mr Firbairn, MHR, on Oaklands coal
Discussing the leading article in last Monday’s “Mail,” “Why Not Oakland Coal?” last evening, Mr David Fairbairn, MHR, stated that if investigations he making at Yallourn (Vic.) and on the northern…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: A compulsory conference summoned by fee Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr Gallagher) today failed to avert the proposed stop-work meetings of miners this week. Miners held weekly one-day stoppages early this year in protest…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: Open cut coal production in NSW last week was a record. Open cut mines produced 59,332 tons and underground mines…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Miners’ Federation will call for industrial action to resist legislation for court-controlled union ballots…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Northern NSW miners today decided to accept the attendance allowance award but ensure tint it “fails in its…
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SYDNEY, Wed: The Miners’ Federation should avoid a clash with the Federal Government at the moment so that it could…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: As southern and western miners protested against the attendance allowance today, 60 Swansea miners in the…
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The Central Executive of the Miners’ Federation today asked the ACTU to call a conference of unions to draw up plans to have the…
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ADELAIDE, Sun.: Although be was unable to divulge any details until he has presented his report to the Victorian Cabinet,…
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STOCKHOLM, Sun.: Two miners were killed and four slightly injured in an ore mine explosion in Stallberg yesterday…
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The record quantity of 5,316 oz. of gold worth [?]97,000, was won from the rich Noble's Nob mine at Pennant Creek in April. All that…
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The record quantity of 6313 oz. of gold worth £97,000, was won from the rich Noble's Nob mine at Tennant Creek in April. All that gold, the…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: As a result of a strike at four northern mines in protest against the [?] attendance bonus…
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LONDON, Tues. —A coal-face explosion trapped 79 miners behind a huge wall of thousands of tons of rubble at Easington colliery, Durham, at dawn to-day…
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LONDON, Wed: Waiting wives, mothers and other relatives broke down and sobbed at the pithead at the Easington Colliery,…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: About 85 per cent of NSW mines worked 10 shifts during the fortnight ending May 18 and qualified for…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The Country Party Government had been in office for nearly a year, but had not imported one lump…
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LONDON, Thurs.: Hope had been abandoned for the 60 miners entombed in Easington Colliery, Durham, the…
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PERTH, Fri.: Three men were killed and one seriously injured when a trolly fell 650 feet down an inclined shaft at the Sons of…
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