No Decision by Miners
SYDNEY, Mod.: Central Council of the Miners’ Federation reached no decision today on whether to call a one-day mine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining & the mines, 1951
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Miners to Hold Aggregate Meetings
SYDNEY, Tues.: The central council of the Miners’ Federation today decided to call aggregate meetings of miners in four States…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Shortage Will Cause Cuts in Essential Services SYDNEY
Cuts in essential services—gas, electricity and railways—are inevitable because of cool shortages. Cool will be short because of floods in the Hunter Valley coal basin and because of the miners’ decision to hold one-day stoppages each week. (The miners’ decision has yet to be ratified by aggregate meetings)…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Britain’s Coal Shortage
LONDON, Wed.: The Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry try of Fuel and Power (Mr Alfred Robens) said today that…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Govt. May Use Crimes Act Against Miners, Watersiders CANBERRA
If present industrial unrest conferees the Government will probably next week meet it by invoking the Crimes Act against strike leaders. It was learned authoritatively today that the Government was determined to bring the industrial situation to a head, even to the extent of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Delay in Miners’ Pensions
SYDNEY, Thurs: Delay had occurred in paying miners’ pensions and compensation under the new Astate Act, the Minister for Mines,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Position in Vic Desperate
MELBOURNE, Thursday.: The coal position in Victoria was now desperate and the whole State would have already blacked wt…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Miners in 4 States to Hold Weekly Stopages Sydney, Thurs
Miners at aggregate meetings in four States today voted in favor of holding a one-day stoppage each week as a protest against incentive payments. It is expected that the Central Council of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →“Time People Got Burragorang Coal”
SYDNEY, Fri.: If the facts of the Burragorang coal scandal were fully appreciated by the public, the McGirr Government…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners Ordered Not to Hold Weekly Stoppages Sydney, Friday
Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) today issued orders aimed at prohibiting threatened one day a week stoppages by coalminers. Mr. Holmes, K.C. (for the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners May Abandon Weekly Stoppages
SYDNEY, Sunday.: Quarters close to the miners’ leaders expressed the hope tonight that a final clash between the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners May Call Off Proposed Weekly Stoppages Sydney
Central Council of the Miners’ Federation will meet at 2 p.m. in Sydney tomorrow to decide whether to abide by an order issued by the Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr Gallagher, prohibiting the calling of a one-day-a-week stoppages…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jubilee of Australian Gold Hargraves' Discovery of 1851
Edward, Hammond Hargraves, who had a sheep holding on the Bathurst plains, went to California in search of gold in 1849, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Decision By Miners
SYDNEY, Tues.: Central council the Miners’ Federation reached no decision today on whether to go ahead with plans for calling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.k. Miners Produce More Coal
Miners at about 700 pits out of a possible 835 in the UK have been working the voluntary Saturday shift in response to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Rationing Off
SYDNEY. Wed.: Chairman of the Joint Coal Board, Mr Cochran, tonight announced the lifting of coal rationing as from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Decide to Hold Weekly One-day Stoppages Sydney
Central Council of the Miners’ Federation today decided to call one day a week stoppages of miners in NSW, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria, commencing next week, until their claims are met. Voting in favor of the proposal was nine to six…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Fadden’s Minute Warning to Coal Miners Canberra
A last-minute warning on the Government’s determination to act against any stoppages on the coalfields was issued to miners by the acting Prime Minister (Mr Fadden) tonight. He said that the miners leaders should know before they concluded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swift Government Action Follows Miners’ Strike Decision T Shots Fired in Threatened Upheaval Canberra
Swift action by the acting Prime Minister (Mr Fadden) followed the decision of the Miners’ Federation today to persist in calling weekly one day stoppages as from Monday next. Immediately the miners’ decision was announced, Mr Fadden…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Troops Ready to Go Into Mines
BRISBANE, Sun.: Troops said here tonight that they had been alerted and told they would to into the mines…
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