Warning Given on Dwindling Reserves of Coal
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 July 1943 · page 3
SYDNEY.—The Commonwealth Coal Commissioner (Mr. Norman Mighell) warned to-day that coal stocks in NSW were so low for electricity supplies that there was the greatest need for economy so that the production of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Would Tell Miners to Spin Tops
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 July 1943 · page 3
SYDNEY, Friday.—Asked to adjourn the hearing of an application by the Miners' Federation affecting a South Coast mine which is idle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Scanlon Asks Miners to See Political Picture
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 July 1943 · page 4
Appealing to members to keep working where possible, the miners' Northern President (Mr. H. Scanlon) last night urged them to see clearly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Record of Wallarah Miners
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 July 1943 · page 3
The secretary of Wallarah Miners' Lodge (Mr. Cahill) today denied the loss of 20 minutes' production last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Mines To Resume
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 July 1943 · page 2
Three mines idle on the Northern field of Friday—Stanford Main No. 1 (four days), Pacific (two days), and Aberdare (one day)—will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Miners Gassed at Kalgoorlie
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 July 1943 · page 2
PERTH, Sunday.—Overcome by fumes at the Great Boulder mine, Kalgoorlie, three men died before aid could reach them. They were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Shortage May Restrict Rail Services
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 July 1943 · page 2
SYDNEY.—Proposals for restriction of civilian rail services should the coal situation deteriorate further will be discussed at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Disputes Wave of Strikes Condemned
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 July 1943 · page 3
SYDNEY — The present strike wave on the Northern Coalfields was a condition which had followed each…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident At Colliery
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 July 1943 · page 3
When he was caught by a fail of coal at the Stockton Borehole Colliery this morning. Gilbert Ambler, 35, of Wallsend, a miner,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mechanics Turn Down Merger with Miners
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1943 · page 3
The membership of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association has rejected by a majority of 255, a proposal to amalgamate with the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Miners Defended "Have Not Shirked Duty"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1943 · page 3
LONDON, July 19.—The Miners' President (Mr. Will Lawther) in a presidential address to the conference of the Mineworkers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →100 Delegates for Conference on Miners' Code
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 July 1943 · page 3
About 100 delegates from northern miners' lodges will attend Monday's special conference to discuss the application of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Mines Breakdown and Two New Strikes
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 July 1943 · page 3
Coal production losses mounted in the north to-day when a mechanical breakdown combined with two new industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lodge Obligation to Make Strike Code Work Miners' Delegates to Confer
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1943 · page 2
A special conference of delegates from Northern miners' lodges will be held at Newcastle next Monday to discuss aspects of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →220,000 Tons of Coal Lost in West Since Year Opened
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 July 1943 · page 3
SYDNEY.—About 220,000 tons of coal was lost in western NSW in the first six months of this year, the Secretary of the Western Coal Owners (Mr. W. R. McNally) said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lost Shirt Kept Mine Idle
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 July 1943 · page 3
SYDNEY.—The loss of a shirt from the bath house laid Wallerawang Colliery Idle to-day, the Western Coal Owners' secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Draft Youths to British Mines
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 July 1943 · page 1
LONDON, July 20.—After referring to the invasion of Sicily, the Minister for Labour (Mr. Bevin) in a speech to the mineworkers'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gunnedah's First Coal Board Claim
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 July 1943 · page 4
The first claim by Gunnedah miners' lodge was heard by Maitland Coal Board of Reference yesterday. It asked the management to pay employees at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Not Worried About Mechanics' Threat
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 July 1943 · page 4
The decision of the Federated Mining Mechanics' delegate board that the company's weighman at Muswellbrook colliery must transfer from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Old Convict Mine Shaft Revealed Subsidence at Mental Hospital
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 July 1943 · page 3
WHAT MINING EXPERTS believe to be the air shaft of a small mine worked by convict labour 100 or more years ago, was revealed…
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