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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

402 stories in New England's papers · page 12 of 21

Police Will Guard Western Coal Lift [?] Settlement [?]cted Soon

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 1

[?]onday, — More that 100 police left [?]ow to-day to co-operate in the [?] western Field to-morrow. [?]lothes police went to Lingow by…

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Hope Centres in Wednesday’s Talks on the Coal Strike

The Inverell Times · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday,— The Central Executive of the Combined Mining Unions’ Council will meet representatives of the A.C.T.U. in Sydney on Wednesday at 11 o’clock…

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Reply From Coal Board Tamworth's Request for Muswellbrook Coal

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 5

[?]MWORTH: The New Wales Joint Coal Board [?]ot yet replied to a reby Tamworth City…

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“North Miners Anxious to Resume.”

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: Organisers of the A.L.P. anti-strike, campaign on the northern N.S.W. coalfields said last night that mineworkers in those areas were now anxious to get back to work. The organisers Senator J. J…

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Steps to Win Ashford Coal

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 2

North-west country council at its meeting at Inverell on Friday. decided to approach an member of the coal Board…

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Armidale Has 12 Days' Supply of Coal

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 8

Secretary of the Joint Coal Board has advised the Town Clerk (Mr. F. W. Milner) that Armidale would receive…

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Estimated Output of N.s.w. Open-cut Mines

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The Minister for shipping and Fuel (Senator Ashley) said to-day that if all open cut mines in N.S. Wales were worked three shifts a day, seven days a week, they could produce 100,000 tons of…

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Maitland Flood Could Help End Coal Strike Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 2

Moves behind the scenes during the past 48 hours have given hope that the Coal Mining Unions Council, at talks to-day after taking stock of situation, will act to bring an…

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Coal Strike Hits Primary Producers Government's Hal[?] Measures Criticised

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 7

Reports reaching the Government in Canberra from the State capitals during the four weeks of the coal strike have…

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Mining Unions Council May Act To End Strike

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Moves behind the scenes during the past 48 hours have given hope that the coal mining unions council, at talks today after taking stock of the situation, will act to…

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Miners' Union Has Stranglehold On Community

The Uralla Times · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 4

The Miners' Union has a virtual monopoly Which has long been chocking production and lowering living standards. Now…

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Coal Strike Hits Primary Producers Government's Half Measures Criticised

Guyra Argus · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 3
Also in The Uralla Times

Reports reaching the Government in Canberra from the State capitals during the four weeks of the coal strike have…

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[?]nists Isolate The Miners

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 4

[?] development which has most astonished minor is lack [?] evel moral encoura[?] other unions and [?] hostility of the great majority. [?] in view of the measures the Federal…

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Steps to Win Ashford Coal

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 13

INVERELL: North West County Council has decided to approach a member of the Coal Board to ascertain the best…

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[?] Worn Decision If Most Miners Vote Magistrates' View On Coalfields

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 1

[?] Friday. — Moderate elements on the [?] that if a large percentage of the [?] of the Miners Federation can be [?] decision at Monday's aggregate…

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"CAOLING All Right, But We Must Get Coal" —Bruxner

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 6

"The role of the, Communist Party, as the agent of a foreign power actively working to wreck the economy of this…

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Coal for Gas Works

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 4

Armidale City Council has received 40 tons of coal from the Railway Department to assist in keeping the…

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To the Editor Hard-worked Miners

The Inverell Times · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 4

“Old Bushman”' writes: Much sympathy is continuously expressed with the poor coal miner in the onerous and dangerous…

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2,500,000 Tons of Coal at Muswellbrook

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 5

Engineers have estimated that in the Muswellbrook open-cut: field there is more than 2,500,000 tons of high…

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