Mining Disputes on South Coast
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Government had agreed that legislation should be submitted to solve the cause of mining…
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Mining & the mines, 1941
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Soviet Captain and Officers to Get "Gold Room" Party
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—"Sir Thomas Cordon will be pleased. . . ." That is how the invitation reads for a hastily arranged party for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No General Holdup in Coal Mines Over Enginedrivers
There will be no general extension to Newcastle for the present of the Maitland enginedrivers' dispute, which is now holding up production at mines on the Coalfields. This was decided by a meeting of F.E.D. and F.A. men at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Price of Gold
The Commonwealth Bank fixed the price of gold lodged at the Mint on Tuesday at £10/14/ per ounce fine. Sovereigns are £2/9/3 each…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Visit of Tasmanian Coal Board Chairman
The Chairman of the Tasmanian Coal Board of Reference (Colonel Clark), who is on a holiday, visited Newcastle yesterday He paid a courtesy call to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Watched Miners' Pensions Bill Read First Time
In the gallery of the Legislative Assembly last night was a small group of keenly interested onlookers, including the president (Mr. J. Kellock) and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners in Dread of Mechanical Loaders. Says M.l.a
SYDNEY, Thursday.— "Miners work in continual dread when a mechanical loader is installed," said Mr W. Davies, M.L.A., to-day, "for its din…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial News Ban More Mechanical Units Appeal by Miners' Leaders
SYDNEY. Wednesday.—Immediate Government prohibition of further mechanisation of coalmines was a prerequisite of continued production in the cool industry, the President…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Council to Get Legal Advice Mining at Beresfield
Tarro Council was asked yesterday by Beresfield Progress Association to declare the noise of blasting operations by Kent Collieries Ltd., at Beresfield, a nuisance,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Retire Miners on Pensions at Sixty Mr. Baddeley Also Proposes Control for Machine Pillar Extraction
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Two bills to prohibit the employment of men over 60 in the coal and oil shale mining industries, to provide pensions for miners, and to control the extraction of pillars by machines were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →26,000 Tons of Coal Lost Idle Mines on Northern Field
When 24 mines on the Northern field were idle yesterday, because of the dispute between the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association and South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Claim 35 Hour Week
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A 35-hour week is claimed in the log filed by the Miners' Federation. It is expected that the hearing of claims will begin on August 18…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Powers of New Coal Commissioner
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The new coal commissioner has extreme powers to control every aspect of the production,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tasmanian Coal Industry Disputes, But Not Stoppages
"OUR LOCAL disputes in Tasmania never cause cessation of work, because the matter is quickly settled by mutual arrangement—and both sides…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Provisions of Miners' Pensions Bill All to Retire at 60
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Coal and Oil Shale Mine Workers (Pensions) Bill, 1941, which has been introduced in the Legislative Assembly by the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Coal Control Menzies Says It Is Rationalisation Not Nationalisation
MELBOURNE, Friday.—In announcing the new coal control regulations the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) emphasised that they were designed to rationalise and not nationalise the industry by controlling production and distribution to build-up stocks at strategic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Full Control of Coal Industry Repatriation Chief is Made Commissioner
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Full control of the coal industry in Australia had been placed in the hands of a new authority—the Commonwealth Coal Commissioner, the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Coal Control
The new control of the coal industry will be judged by the manner of its operation and the results it achieves. In theory there can be no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Contracts for Coal
All contracts for the supply of coal to Government establishments were let through the State Contracts Control Board, the Minister for Education has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Old Diamond Mine to Open
NEW YORK, July 2 (Air Mail).—The only diamond mine in the United States is to be reopened after 20 years of idleness. It lies in Arkansas…
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