Victorian Miners' Claims
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—It has been left to the Chairman of the Coal Mines Central Reference Board to decide whether claims by the Victorian miners…
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Mining & the mines, 1942
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No Work for Small Mines
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Coal Commission has no immediate prospect of work for a number of small mines in the Newcastle district. This was stated by…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Federal Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward) has been asked by the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation to call a conference…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Although, under the Miners Pensions Act, miners of 60 will be compulsorily retired, the provisions of the Act may be suspended so…
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LONDON, Jan. 1.—Six people were killed and 44 are entombed following an explosion at 8.30 a.m. at Sneyd colliery, Staffordshire…
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The compulsory conference called by Judge Drake-Brockman to deal with the Richmond Main colliery dispute was held in Newcastle to-day…
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SYDNEY: The new coal fuel. produced by Dr. James Chapman, Macquarie street oral surgeon. is to be tested by the N.R.M.A.— Probably next…
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Richmond Main and Stanford Main No. 2 Collieries, which were idle this week, are expected to resume on Monday…
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LONDON, Jan. 2.—Sixteen bodies have been recovered from the Sneyd colliery in Staffordshire, where an explosion occurred yesterday. When rescue work…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Moorefield Races Panurge Wins Peter Moore Gold Cup
Panurge, one of the most improved horses of the season, won the Peter Moore Cup at Moorefield this afternoon in a thrilling…
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MELBOURNE.—Gold Salute, the £10,000 horse belonging to Mr. Alan Cooper, will soon be making time in his gallons at Mentone in preparation…
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Thomas Caddis, 30. of Holmesville, a wheeler employed at Rhondda Colliery, was crushed between a horse and a skip to-day. He was taken to…
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All collieries on the Cessnock field should work to-day. Those due to resume include Stanford Main No. 2, where a dispute occurred before the new year over the filling…
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SYDNEY.—"At the request of the northern vice-president (Mr. McBlane) I am arranging for miners' officials and representatives of the employers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TEN J. AND A. Brown Mines Strike Nearly 10,000 Tons a Day Lost
Ten coal mines in the J. and A. Brown, Abermain-Seaham group will be on strike from to-day as the result of a decision yesterday by the Merger Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Owners Appeal to Mr. Curtin "Twenty-three Mines on Strike in North and South"
SYDNEY, Monday.—Combined colliery proprietors, in a telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) urged to-day that the Federal Government take the necessary action to ensure continuity of coal production…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Commenting to-night on the miners' pension scheme, the General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Grant) said…
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Four Northern mines—John Darling, Aberdare Central, Aberdare, and Maitland Main—were idle yesterday because men eligible for the pension desired to continue…
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CANBERRA: The Minister for Social Service (Mr. Holloway) will visit Sydney on Thursday to discuss miners' pension and housing with authorities there. Mr. Holloway has been tusked by…
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SYDNEY: Thirty-two mines in the north and south, employing about 15,000 men, are idle to-day. All men who were on strike…
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