Victorian Govt. to Discuss Miners' Pensions Scheme
SYDNEY.—The Victorian Government will meet district mining officials to-morrow to discuss a miners' pensions scheme similar to…
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Mining & the mines, 1941
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No Appeals on Local Issues Coal Board Amendments
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Power to appeal against decisions by local coal reference boards in purely domestic disputes would be withdrawn if amended regulations were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Efforts to Avert Coal Strike Army May Act in America
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Last-minute efforts are being made in Washington to avert a strike of 53,000 coalminers in pits owned by United States steel companies…
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Burwood and Lambton B collieries were idle to-day. The dispute at Burwood arose over the holiday pay Issue, and Lambton B men went home…
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Struck by an Iron bar while at work at Bloomfield Colliery this morning, Frank Leslie Wiseman (41), lorry-driver, of Newcastle-street. East…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Neath Miners' Officials
By 53 votes to 17. Mr. W. Purcell defeated Mr. W. Smiles in the ballot for the position of President of Neath Miners' Lodge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pickets Clash with Mine Workers Shots Are Fired As U.s. Coal Upheaval Opens
NEW YORK, Monday (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.)—Violence broke out on the coalfields and shots were fired to-day when 53,000 miners in "captive" pit (owned by the steel industry) went on strike demanding a closed union ship…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Neath Mine Dispute Adjusted
A temporary settlement in a domestic dispute at Neath Colliery was reached last night at a meeting of the lodge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stockton Borehole Miners Played Quoits
A section of Stockton Borehole miners stayed down the mine yesterday and played quoits instead of working, because it had been learned that although…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Stand-over" Denied by Miners
SYDNEY: A suggestion that miners were employing "stand-over" methods was denied by the General Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Truth in Miners' Claims on Stoppages, Say Owners
SYDNEY, Monday.—There was absolutely no truth in the assertion by lodge officers that colliery proprietors were provoking stoppages, the Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Price Down
The Commonwealth Bank announced that for gold lodged at the Mint on Saturday' and Monday the price had been fixed at £10/13/ per ounce fine, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Pensions Proposals For Victoria
SYDNEY: Messrs. Nelson and Grant, of the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation, said to-day on their return from Victoria that a satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Discuss Miners' Pensions Victorian Premier's Promise
MELBOURNE. Tuesday.—A promise by the Premier (Mr. Dunstan) to call a conference of miners' officials and representatives of the Government to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines Discovered In Coastal Shipping Lanes
SYDNEY: Two floating mines have been discovered and destroyed in the shipping lanes on the New South Wales and Victorian coasts within the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Reject Russian Note on Mines
LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—The Japanese Government has refused to accept the Russian reply to Japan's recent protest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Holiday Pay For Miners Good Conduct Money"
The unequal and unjust application of penalty clauses in the miners' award for annual holiday leave had meant that miners had always regarded the pay as good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Owners, Miners to Confer on Holiday Penalty
SYDNEY.—Efforts to avert trouble on the coalfields over the holiday penalty dispute will be made at a conference of owners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Concern at Spread of U.s. Coal Strike
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The spread of the coal strike in the United States is causing concern to the authorities. The miners' demand for a closed shop is the cause of the strike. Many other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Connell's Reply No Bias by Chairman of Coal Bd
An implication that chairmen of local reference boards were not independent because of their former association with the…
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