Coal Mining Two Shifts a Day Proposed SYDNEY
Mining circles hold out little hope of the Miners' Federation agreeing to a two-shift day in the mines…
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Mining & the mines, 1944
400 stories in New England's papers · page 9 of 20
The Coal Stocks Problem
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Commonwealth Coal Commissioner, Mr. Mighell, will visit Newcastle at the week-end or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trod on Land Mine Two War Correspondents Killed in Italy
SYDNEY, Saturday.—Mr, Roderick MacDonald, Sydney Morning Herald war correspondent, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliery Closed
The Coal Commissioner has given the owners of Neath colliery permission to close that mine until the dispute which kept it idle for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Extraordinary Decision Coal Supplies to Armidale Stopped
The callous disregard Canberra bureaucrats have for the welfare of country residents was strikingly manifested on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Supplies to Armidale Schools Stopped
The callous disregard Canberra bureaucrats have for the welfare of country residents was strikingly manifested on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prompt Protest Ensures Coal for Armidale
When the Hon. D. H. Drummond, M.L.A., was informed on Monday of the stupid action of an official of the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Mines Four Idle SYDNFY. Friday
Including a fresh stoppage at Richmond Main in the north, four pits are idle on the N.S.W. coalfields to-day, and the production…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →26,500 TONS Coal Loss For the Week SYDNEY
Including a fresh stoppage at Richmond main in the north four pits are idle on the N.S.W. coalfields to-day, and the production loss is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Cut Causes Coal Strike Sydney
“No butter, no work,’ has been the slogan adopted by miners at two large northern collieries— Richmond Main and Pelaw…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Newcastle Mines Idle
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Five collieries on the Newcastle field were idle to-day as a protest against the reduction in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strike Threat Miners and Butter LITHGOW
The Secretary of the Western Millers’ Federation, Mr. S. A. Roy, said last night that unless the Government reviewed the decision to reduce…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Threaten General Stoppage Unless More Butter LITHGOW
The secretary of the Western Miners' Federation (Mr. S.A. Roy) said last night the unless the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Butter, No Boots, No Coal SYDNEY
With, 15 coal mines idle to-day, coal loss is estimated at 13,000 tons. Four of the stoppages are as a protest against the reduced butter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Miners Stick to Job
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A Labour member of the visiting British Parliamentary Delegation, Mr. F. Collinridge, said last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drastic Cuts in Gas Sydney Gas Companies Have Only Week's Coal Supply
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coincident with reports from Melbourne that drastic cuts in the industrial,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Second Front Appeal to Miners [?]ly Four Pits Idle To-day MELBOURNE
Appealing to miners throughout Australia to work to maximum production in view of the second front, the general secretary of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners' Leaders at Loggerheads Trouble Over Second Shift Proposal MELBOURNE
Strong disagreement between the president (Mr. Wells) and the secretary (Mr. Grant) of the Miners' Federation has developed over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Mines Idle 1200 Tons Lost To-day SYDNEY
Only two mines—Elrington and Millfield, Greta, in the north, both of which produce a total of about 1700 tons per day, are idle on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Monty's Narrow Escape Unhurt When Ship Strikes Mine LONDON
General Montgomery's ship struck a mine as he was going to Normandy, but he was not injured states the naval…
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