No Luncheon Scheme for Miners
The suggested scheme for the distribution of packed luncheons to miners on the Cessnock field will not materialise…
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Mining & the mines, 1939
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Brief Session Miners' Central Council SYDNEY
The annual conference, of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation began to-day and adjourned until to-morrow. Only a brief session was held…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fuel From Coal and Crops A.W.U. Convention Sees Urgent Need Telegram to Cabinet Request for Miners' Support SYDNEY
The convention of the Australian Workers' Union to-day sent a telegram to the Federal Cabinet urging the manufacture of fuel from coal and power alcohol…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Industrial News Miners' Year Report to Federation Council Progress of Inquiries Sydney
The report of the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation, which was presented to the annual meeting of the council to-day, described the last 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Old Mine Shafts As Fuel Oil Dumps in Time of Emergency Discussion In Newcastle
In time of war emergency, sufficient fuel oil could be stored in disused mine shafts to serve the needs of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dust Diseases South African Expert Gives Evidence Research Needed Coal Safety Commission SYDNEY
Before the Safety and Health in Mines Royal Commission to-day, Dr. Frank William Simson, of the South African Institute of Medical Research, who is on a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Small Mines Defended At Inquiry "Work Small Outcrop with Profit" Witness Favors Stone-Dusting SYDNEY
small mines served a good purpose, said George Mason Hindmarsh, assistant superintendent of Wongawilla, Mt. Keira and Bulli mines, in evidence before Mr. Justice Davidson to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Port Busier Imports and Exports Up in 1938 Strike Hit Coal Trade Big Increase in Machinery Landed
Imports at Newcastle last year ruse £399,212 in value compared with 1937, and oversea exports, excluding coal, increased by £322,626, according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Not Changed Monetary Policy of Britain Chancellor Explains Revaluation of Gold Reserve (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, February 6
The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon) said to-day that no change in the monetary policy of Britain was involved in the Currency and Bank Notes…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Industry Approves Restriction on Mining Crown Coal "Due for Years"
The announcement that the State Cabinet had decided to enforce its policy and refuse a pplications to mine for Crown coal on certain stated conditions, was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dust Peril in Mines Not So Acute Now Southern Collieries' Conditions Court Told Of Improvement SYDNEY
Statements made at to-day's sitting of the Royal Commission inquiring into mine safety suggested that some…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Three Mine Workers Injured
Alfred Skyrm, 36, of Cumberland-street, Cessnock, a miner employed at Aberdare Central colliery, was struck by a fall of coal yesterday, and received…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners' Council Sydney
To-day's scssion of the annual conference the Miners' Central Council was devoted to internal affairs. No statement was issued by the executive officers…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Central Research Station Urged for Coal Industry Analyses of Dust Favoured Mine Superintendent's Evidence SYDNEY
George Mason Hindmarsh, assistant, colliery superintendent of Australian Iron and Steel Ltd., was further examined by Chief Inspector Jack at the Safety and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Northern Miners Dispute at Wallarah
Wallarah colliery, at Catherine Hill Bay, wes thrown idle yesterday by a dispute. The Assistant Secretary of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Miners Killed by Avalanche Tokio, February 8
Ten miners were killed and 10 seriously injured when an avalanche baried the village of Sugino. Eighty miner were reseued from the debris…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Serious Effect on Coal" Increased Railway Freights SYDNEY
The increase of 10 per cent. in freight rates, which the Raliway Department is to put into operation on March 1 next, will have a serious effect on the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wallarah Colliery Resumes
Wallarah Colliery resumed work to-day. It had been idle since Wednesday when the men decided at a pit-top meeting not to resume work owing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Reserve Revaluation Bill Passed LONDON
The bill amending the currency and Bank Notes Act and providing for revaluation of the gold reserve of the Bank of England passed through its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lockout Claimed Dispute at Old Bulli Mine WOLLONGONG
What the miners claim to be a lockout has occurred at the Old Bulli mine. Some of the miners were notified to start work at 11 a.m., instead of 7 a.m., and…
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