Miners’ Stay-in Strike
NEWCASTLE. Thurs.: Twenty-seven miners at Great Greta colliery began a stay-in strike this afternoon in protest against…
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Miner’s bathroom will cost £15,000
BRISBANE, Thurs.: Miners at Mt. Mulligan State colliery are to have a bathroom faced with cream tiles. The…
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CANBERRA, Thurs.: A Pakistan Government mission which will investigate the possibilities of obtaining large quantities of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Export Prospects Good
SYDNEY, Sun.: Australia had good possibilities of increasing her coal export trade, chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Militants Keep Hold on Miners
LITHGOW, Mon.: Left-wing officials have retained control of the western district of the Miners’ Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Miners Begin Sixth Day of “Stay Put”
NEWCASTLE, Tues.: The stayin strike at Great Greta mine will enter the sixth day tomorrow. The miners’ northern junior…
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TORONTO, Tues.: A prediction that the official price of gold, under American leadership, would be…
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NEWCASTLE Wed.: Three coal mines were, idle today, in sympathy with the Greta colliery stay-in strikes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three for trial on £14,000 gold theft charge
PERTH, Thurs.: Three men charged with theft of £14,000 worth of gold bullion from Kalgoorlie railway parcels office were committed in Kalgoorlie Police Court today for trial at the next sessions of Perth Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →“Stay-put” Miners Determined
NEWCASTLE, Fri.: The Great Greta stay-in strikers showed no weakening today in their determination to continue their…
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NEWCASTLE. Fri.: A stabilisation scheme for the coal industry was outlined by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Arthur) to a…
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NEWCASTLE. Fri.: Three ALP supporters have won the senior positions in the northern district of the Miners’ Federation…
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LONDON, Sun.: Without a higher price for gold, the Commonwealth and the world, as a whole, cannot get back to a…
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LONDON, Tues.: Commonwealth Ministers from nine countries met today to consider the South African resolution…
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NEWCASTLE, Tues.: The Pakistan Government had ordered a trial shipment of 8000 to 10,000 tons of northern…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: Production of inferior coal in NSW should either be halted or severely curtailed, the chairman of the…
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CANBERRA, Thurs.: Federal Cabinet has decided on immediate action to stabiles conditions in the N.S.W. coal industry. The acting Minister for national Development, announcing this tonight, said the action followed preliminary…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Left Wing president of the Miners’ Federation (Mr Idriss Williams) has been re-elected with an…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Truman Gives Miners Big Wage Increase
WASHINGTON, Thurs.: President Truman last night gave the nation’s soft coal miners a one dollar and ninety cent (about 17/)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Migrants to Work in N. T. Wolfram Mines
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A number of Cypriots are about to leave Melbourne to work in the wolfram mines in the Northern Territory…
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