Miners' Executive Wants More Lodge Interest
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the meeting of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation to-day, the General Secretary brought under notice the poor number…
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Mining & the mines, 1941
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All Mines Idle on South Coast
WOLLONGONG, Wednesday: All mines on the South Coast are idle to-day. It was stated yesterday that a mistake had been made in the count…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miner Neighbors Injured in Adjacent Mines
KALGOORLIE. Wednesday.—Two miners who reside opposite each other in Davis Street. Boulder, were injured simultaneously in adjacent mines…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shaft Being Sunk Little Hope for Miners
LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Underground efforts to rescue the two entombed miners, Noel Cameron, 30, and James Young, 43, in a tunnel at the Renown colliery,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lambton B Miners Ceased Work Protest Against Unfired Charge
After having completed half a shift, Lambton B miners went home yesterday when an unfired detonator charge was found in coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Entombed Miners' Bodies Were Recovered at Dawn at Cullen Bullen
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Gathered around a shaft sunk during the night, hardened miners wept as the bodies of two mates were brought to the surface at Renown Colliery, near Cullen Bullen, to-day. About 300 miners had been digging in relays for 40 hours and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Production "Leave It to Me," Says Mr. Baddeley
SYDNEY, Wed. — An attack on the Federal Government "for interference with coal mining production through the new coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Bodies Recovered
LITHGOW, Wednesday.—The bodies of James Young and Noel Cameron who were buried under a fall of coal in Renown colliery at Cullen Bullen shortly…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday.—The Western Mines Rescue Squad was called to a fire in the Vale of Clwydd colliery yesterday. As a safety measure underground…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Southern Miners on Strike
WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—All South Coast mines went on strike to-day, since it was ascertained that the vote taken on Monday at the aggregate…
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The Commonwealth Bank fixed the price of gold lodged at the Mint on Tuesday at £10/14/ per ounce line. Sovereigns are £2/9/3 each…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Amended Levy Suggested Miners' Pensions Bill
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An amendment to be submitted in committee, that the levy to be imposed under the Coal and Shale Mineworkers' Pensions Bill should…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Motions To Disallow Coal Regulations
CANBERRA, Thursday: In the Senate to-day Senator Arthur (Lab., N.S.W.) gave notice that he would move for the disallowance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hydraulic Stowage "Impossible," Say Coal Proprietors
Coal owners in the north describe as "an impossibility" the suggestion that the hydraulic stowage System should be introduced for the extraction of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Special Train for Funeral of Mine Victim
LITHGOW Thursday.—Fifteen hundred miners from 18 mines in the Lithgow district went by special train to Portland to-day to attend the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move to Amend Miners' Pensions Bill Defeated
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Certain departures in the Coal Miners' Pensions Bill from the recommendations of the Royal Commission on coal mines, safety and health were criticised by Mr. Richardson (U.A.P., Ashfield) when the Bill reached the committee stage in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →France Gave Belgian Gold to Reich
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—The Bank of France has given 230,000,000 dollars' worth (£71,875,000 Australian) of Belgian gold to Germany. This was revealed by M…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Concern at Mine Deaths Minister Advises Men to Resume
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—"We do not want a recurrence of what I saw this week. Nineteen lives have been lost in the mines of New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Coal Regulations to Come Into Effect on October 1
Action is being taken to have the Coal Mines Regulation [Amendment) Act, which provides for far-reaching changes in collieries, gazetted to come into operation as from October 1 next. OFFICIAL information to this effect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Central Council Pledges Support of Oil From Coal Scheme
SYDNEY, Friday: Support of the State Government's proposal for the extraction of oil from coal was pledged by the Central Council of the Miners' Federation to-day. Council decided to call upon the Federal Labor Party to bring…
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