Coal Board Decisions Deferred
Maitland Cool Board of Reference yesterday heard one claim from Millfield Greta lodge, and Newcastle Coal Board heard three claims from North Wallarah…
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Mining & the mines, 1943
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Pay For Miners Working On Public Holidays
SYDNEY.—Rates of pay for contract miners who work on public holidays, were the subject of long argument before the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kurri Mines. Sympathy Strikes Continue
An appeal to miners in the Kurri district to call off their sympathy strikes had no effect to-day when men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Increased Pay for Some U.s. Miners
NEW YORK, July 22.—The President of the Mineworkers' Association (Mr. John L. Lewis) announced that the Association and Illinois coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Contract Miners' Claim Fails
SYDNEY, Friday.—An application by the Miners' Federation for a variation of the award to give first-class shiftmen's minimum rates on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Search for Victorian Miners
MELBOURNE; Friday.—The Deputy Director of Manpower (Mr. D. Cameron) has issued instructions to National Services Officers in…
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LONDON, July 23.—Delegates to the Miners' Conference at Blackpool accepted the executive's proposals for reorganisation of the Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Stocks Dwindle in Melbourne
SYDNEY.—The Coal Commission has been Informed that coal stocks for maintenance of Melbourne gas have been reduced to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines Likely To Start On
Four of the collieries Idle on the South Maitland fields yesterday may resume operations on Monday. Richmond Main and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Position Is Serious Official View Of Miners' Leaders
SYDNEY. — That a serious view of the coal position is taken by the executive is evident from the tone of the latest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Mines to Resume
Four Northern mines idle on Friday are expected to resume to-day. They are Stanford Main No. 1 Richmond Main. Pelaw Main and Abermain No…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nazis Have New "Sucking Mine"
LONDON, July 25.—The Germans have invented a new "sucking mine," which is already being used effectively against tanks, troops,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Coal Code Mr. Curtin's "Most Drastic Action"
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Circles close to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) believe that in his revised code for the coal industry he has taken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"New Coal Regulation Not Helpful to Federation Plans"
New Government regulations against coal strikes would not help the efforts of the Miners' Federation to achieve continuous production by its own internal disciplinary measures, federation leaders, Messrs. H. Wells (general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aberdare Central Fire Mine Managers Prepared to Open New Working Places
Many of the 600 mineworkers who lost their jobs as a result of the sealing of Aberdare Central Colliery, to-day besieged colliery managements on the Coalfields. Few were able to get any assurance of immediate work,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Big Cessnock Mine; Now Sealed Off Three Men Escaped; 81 Horses Rescued
A big fire causing dangerous gas broke out underground in Aberdare Central colliery, one of the biggest in the North, on Saturday night. The mine had to be sealed off yesterday. Of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stricter Control of Coal Industry Speedy Action Under New Code To End Disputes
CANBERRA, Sunday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) announced a revised code for the coal industry designed to arrest stoppages, to counteract falling output, and to raise production to meet demands which are expected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Action Against 400 Miners
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Crown Law Department is preparing 400 prosecutions on the Northern coalfield under the anti-code strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Confer on Strikes
The General President (Mr. Wells), Northern Vice-president (Mr. McBiane), Northern President (Mr. Scanlon) and District Secretary (Mr. Simpson) at the conference of miner's lodge delegates held at Newcastle yesterday to discuss anti-strike measures…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Explosions at Week-ends
The fact that the worst fires and explosions in coalmines on the Northern fields had occurred at week-ends was more than a coincidence,…
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