Miners' Dockets Third Issue To-day
The third issue, of dockets since the commencement of the strike will take place in various centres to-day. Prior to each distribution a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1940
2,068 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 46 of 104
March by Miners At Northern Extended
More than 350 miners marched to the Northern Extended mine at Teralba to-day to demonstrate against the moving of coal into a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Price of Gold at Mint Sydney
The Commonwealth Bank to-day fixed the price of gold lodged at the Mint yesterday at £10/13/3 per ounce fine, Sovereigns are £2/9/0 each…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nears Million Tons a Month German Coal Export to Italy London
It Is officially announced In Rome that coal imports from Germany in April were 986,000 tons. They are expected soon to reach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Menzies May Act To-night Regulations to Open the Mines But No Drastic Move Until After Meetings CANBERRA. Friday
It is expected here that the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) will not delay after to-night the issuing of the regulation to reopen the mines, hut that no drastic action to carry the regulations into effect…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Mass Meetings Early Next Week Government Believes They Will Return to Work Action Withheld After Dramatic Wait at Canberra
Aggregate meetings of miners will be held early next week to decide whether they will end the strike. The Federal Government had regulations to reopen…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Duff Coal Being Used
Down to the despised duff coal—the poorest quality—became of the coal strike. There was little call for this duff coal while the mines were working, and it accumulated in a big dump at Neath Colliery, near Cessnock. Now it is being loaded on to trucks to provide fuel for essential services…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Railways Save Coal. Melbourne
Since the beginning of the coal strike the Victorian Railways have saved 23,500 tons of coal by curtailing train services…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Coal for Italy London, May 3
It is officially announced in Rome that coal imports from Germany in April were 986,000 tons. They are expected soon to reach 1,000,000 tons a month,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Price of Gold at Mint Sydney
The Commonwealth Bank to-day fixed the price of gold lodged at the Mint yesterday at £10/13/3 per ounce fine, Sovereigns are £2/9/ each…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Doorkinobs a Short Story by Margaret Dollison
Lynn was lying tense and wide awake in her comfortable bed. In three days she was going to New York—a young newspaper woman with a determination for a career, though she may not have looked the part. Red, unruly hair, grave, grey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Convoy Lorries Coal Hauled to Ship for Overseas Three Trips Made
Fifteen lorries, convoyed by a strong police escort, Hauled coal from Northern Extended Colhery. Teralba, to an overseas ship in Newcastle harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rank and File to Decide Miners' Meetings on Tuesday Vote In North May Decide Issue
The terms of the recommendation to be made to the mass meetings of miners on the Northern Coalfields on Tuesday are still a close secret. It is generally believed, however, that it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Preliminary Action to Open Mines Government Issues Regulations Strong Protection for Volunteers; Picketing Prohibited Canberra
Preliminary action to reopen the coalmines was taken by the Federal Government to-night. Using its powers under the National Security Act the Government issued regulations enabling it to instruct…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →How Coal Strike Affects Victoria
Wood, instead of coal, in the tender of this engine, shows how the coal strike has hit Victoria. A train pulling out of Flinders-street Station, Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold in Tasmanian River Launceston
Gold worth more than £1,000,000 at current rates is believed to be recoverable from tailings of the Tasmania mine in an arm of Tamar River, near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Supplies From Qld. Are Unlikely Sydney
"It takes Queensland all its time to supply its own requirements." said Mr. Nelson to-day, when asked about the prospect of N.S.W. getting coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Expected to Call Off Strike Miners in Queensland BRISBANE
It is expected that the Queensland miners will call off the coal strike at their aggregate meetings to-morrow and on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Readers and Coal Strike Women at the Meetings (To the Editor.)
Sir,âMr. H. Scanlon, in his address at Cessnock lost Friday night, advised the women to attend the aggregate meetings on Tuesday. Well, let us go. After…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Continue Coal Strike Recommendation for Mass Meetings Free Labour a Gamble, Says Mr. Orr Sydney
The miners' leaders will recommend that the coal strike be continued at the aggregate meetings in the north on Tuesday and in the south and west on Wednesday. This announcement was made by the President of…
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