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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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Miss Diana Reeve of Sydney (standing) addresses the conference of Miners' Federation women's auxillaries. Sitting, left to right, areâDistrict President (Mrs. D. Fraser), National Secretary (Mrs. G. Scanlon) and National Vice-president (Mrs. F…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Resumption of work at most Northern collieries involved in last week's stoppages is expected to-day as the result of meetings at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA: Replying to the coal-miners' demands to nationalise the coal mining industry or to take Government control of the industry, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) said to-day that under the National Security Act the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a total war effort all women not engaged on home duties should take full-time work on the factory front, said Miss Diana Reeve, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Percival Walters, manager of Bloomfield collieries, appeared to answer two charges at a special sitting of Cessnock Police Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A recommendation that all mine managers become servants of the Government instead of being controlled employees of the owners will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Prime Minister declares that affairs in the coal industry have reached a crists which is gravely affecting the war effort…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY.—If supplies continue at the present rate the County Council has sufficient coal for 22 weeks, but if supply was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three resumptions occurred at northern mines to-day but a new stoppage at Stockton Borehole brought the number of idle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines idle on the Northern field yesterday were—Bellbird (safety issue affecting the reopening of a sealed off tunnel); Stanford Main No…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Monday.—Proposals of the Miners' Federation published in "Common Cause," for "improving the position of the coalmining industry, went beyond the original programme of 13 points submitted to the Coal Commission, said the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty-four hours after pumping operations had begun, a coal hulk which had settled i n mud in deep water in an Australian port after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Mineworkers' Pensions Tribunal may be Riven power to vary or waive the term of disqualification imposed on widows whose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Miners' Management Board to-day complained that the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) had accepted the advice of coal owners' representatives in preference to that of practical mine-workers. The Board deplored Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Monday.—In a telegram to the miners' officials the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) stated that drastic curtailment of war industry and food production now appeared unavoidable because of the falling coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The miners' Northern Board of Management decided yesterday to seek an explanation from the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beasley) who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Tuesday.—One of Britain's two secret mine-layers—ships with a speed of 40 knots—has been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Of the four mines idle on the Northern field yesterday, only one was due to a new stoppage. This was at Stockton Borehole, where the men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Oct. 12.—The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Gwilym Lloyd Georfge) today opened the debate in the House of Commons on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four collieries idle in the north to-day were:—BELLBIRD (500 men—1700 tons): Third day of hold-up…
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