Tonkin's Oil From Coal Plan Is Criticised
SYDNEY: "The suggestion are not novel and would not relieve the present liquid fuel shortage, as a plant of the size suggested…
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Mining & the mines, 1942
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Ten Mines Will Be Affected Minister's Decision on Loaders
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Ten mines with an output of more than 25,000 tons daily will be affected by a decision to be given by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Judge Has Decided Miners' Claims No Announcement Because Decision is Disputed
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Judge Drake-Brockman said to-day that he had reached decisions on the miners' claims for a 40-hour week and overtime, but would not announce them because a decision of the Central Coal Board was in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Discontinue Hospital Levy
Two hundred members of the New South Wales Coal and Shale Mineworkers' Union—men encased at collieries in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines As Underground Factories
Worked-out sections of old mines add of some now in use could be used effectively for underground aircraft and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Conference on Mine A.r.p
Ventilation and A.R.P. problems, including the linking up of mines to provide measures against air attacks. were discussed at a conference of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jurisdiction Is Extended Local Coal Boards
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward) announced to-night the amendment of coalmining regulations to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prevent Afternoon Shift in Mines Mr. James Appeals to Minister
CANBERRA, Friday.—To avoid possible trouble in certain mines, Mr. R. James, M.H.R., to-night recommended to the Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward), whom he is assisting, that he prevent the introduction of the afternoon shift…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners and Socialism
Sir,—"Sirius," who wrote on "Miners and Socialism," is ignorant of the facts of socialism, and the life of a miner. As a student of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil From Coal Industry
Cessnock Official A.L.P. is to Join with Newcastle A.L.P. in sending a deputation to ask the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cooper Leases Gold Salute
MELBOURNE.—Mr. A. E Cooper has leased Gold Salute to Trainer S. Murphy for a year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial News Work at the Mines
Hebburn and Bellbird groups of mines worked full time during the fortnight. Generally the district had little lost time. Details, as furnished by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seek Grant for Oil From Coal
At the invitation of the Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley), Cessnock branch of the Official Labour Party is to send representatives on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Mines Did Not Work To-day
SYDNEY.—Four coal mines are not working to-day. They are South Clifton and Corrimal (southern district), Invincible…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Strike Averted by Mr. Curtin Operation of Richmond Main Award Deferred
A threatened strike at Richmond Main colliery has been averted by the intervention of the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin). At the week-end Mr. Curtin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cabinet and Coal Miners
CANBERRA: Cabinet will consider on Thursday how to prevent further stoppages of work in the coal industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sand in Machinery at Mine
LITHGOW, Monday.—The discovery of a quantity of sand in machinery at Invincible colliery at Cullen Bullen and the fact that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Mines Idle in State
SYDNEY: Corrimal (South Coast) and Invincible (Western District) mines ore still idle to-day, but all others are reported…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pensions Act of Miners Is to Be Modified
SYDNEY: The miners' pension scheme which provides for compulsory retirement of miners more than 60 years of age is to be modified, said the Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flouting of Coal Board Decision "Mean Break Up Of Board," Says Judge
SYDNEY, Monday.—Judge Drake-Brockman told the Central Coal Reference Board to-day that if the Miners' Federation continued to flout a decision concerning Richmond Main Colliery it would mean the breaking up of the…
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