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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1943

1,593 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 65 of 80

Not Tolerate Garnishees Payment of Miners' Absentee Fines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 2

The threat of the Government to recover by garnishee fines imposed on miners for absenteeism would not be tolerated by the federation,…

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Coal for Trains State to Seek Less Drastic Cut

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. — The New South Wales Government has interceded on behalf of the Railway Department and urges the Federal…

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Conferences with Coal Parties

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA —Coal industry problems including production, rationing and its effect on industry generally and probably the…

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Miners Impatient Over Compensation Rates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

The federation was becoming impatient with the attitude of the State Government in delaying action to implement a promise made to increase the…

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Aberdare Miners and Fine Payments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 2

Aberdare miners' lodge decided on Saturday to refer to the Northern executive demands made to them for payment of absentee fines by…

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Full Production at Northern Mines

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

Northern miners' leaders who will leave for Canberra this afternoon to confer with the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) will…

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Counsels' Points In Mine Managers' Case

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 2

"Manager must know that they must not insist on what they call their rights. if insistence on them will necessarily produce a…

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Industrial News Miners Apply for Contract Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

"Newcastle Cool Board of Reference to-day will deal with an application by the Northern Miners' Federation for the introduction of contract…

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Coal Output Up by 52,000 Tons

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

Coal losses this month, with only four more working days to go, are only 80,750 tons, compared with 133,000 tons last month, an…

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U.S. Idle Miners Warned Government Will Control

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—The Chairman of the War Labour Board Mr. Davis) has warned the 22,000 striking coalminers in Alabama that…

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Appointment of Deputy Mine Manager Gives Court Reasons

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

At a special sitting of Cessnock Police Court over which Mr. R. Atkinson, S.M., presided on Saturday, George Pellow, manager of…

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"Men Must Go Back to Mines," Say Experts

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday.—"Loss of men from coal mines to the Armies and war industries must be stopped at once and the loss…

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More for Dogs Than Children Miners' Auxiliary Urges Child Welfare Reform

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 2

The Organising Secretary of the Child Welfare Reform Association (Mr. R. W. Taylor) told the Women's Auxiliary of the Miners'…

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Four Collieries Idle To-day

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Three mines and part of a fourth are idle in New South Wales to-day. Coal loss for the day is 2200 tons 1470 men…

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Mines' Rescue Stations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 3

Nominations for the election of committees for mines rescue stations in the South Maitland Newcastle. Southern and…

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Coal Board Decisions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 3

A claim by the Northern Miner's Federation for the introduction of the contract system for miners machinemen and wheeler's employed at Stockrington…

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All Northern Mines Worked

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 3

All mines on the Northern field worked full shifts yesterday. It was the first time in several months that there was not an idle mine on the…

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Industrial News Mine Mechanics' Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 3

The delegate board of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association endorsed the action of the executive in submitting an application to amend…

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Not Enough Coal in 1944

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 1

WASHINGTON. October 25.—The United Nations will barely squeeze through the winter on the basis of present coal production, according to…

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Mr. Curtin Will Appeal for Reasonableness Government Hopes From Coal Conferences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday.—Important policy decision by the Federal Government will hinge upon the outcome of conferences of…

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