Ice-box Tragedy Miners' Appeals on March 13
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 3
LONDON.—Known as the "Spider Killer" Theodore Coneys wins found guilty of murder and sentenced to Imprisonment for life Appeals lodged by the two miners who were sentenced to gaol by: Mr R. C. Atkimson. SM at Cessnock Police court on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Mines Will Be Idle Management Board Disobeyed
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 2
All but three of 11 Northern collieries idle on Friday are expected to work to-day. In defiance of an order to resume…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Demand Is Made for Aggregate Meetings on Gaoling of Miners
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 3
Millfield-Greta miners to-day demanded aggregate meetings so that the federation could discuss its attitude to counter the imposition of penalties such as those on Saturday on absentee miners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Comb Out In Mines New Policy to Be Acted on
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 1
CANBERRA.—Many undesirables have wormed their way Into ranks of coal miners to avoid military service and are using…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Appeal Against Gaol Sentences Millfield Greta Expected To Work To-day
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 2
Immediate lodgment of appeals staved off the goal sentences imposed on two miners convicted at the special Court at Cessnock on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Discuss Gaol Sentences for Mine Absentees Miners' Board to Meet To-day
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2
Northern Miners' Federation policy towards the gaoling of mineworkers for absenteeism will be discussed to-day at a special meeting of the Board of Management. This was the main development…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Electrocuted in Mine
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 3
While boring at North Wallarah colliery, Thomas Sault, 30, of Gates head, near Charlestown, was electrocuted. He was standing in six…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Board Takes Stand on Gaol Sentences
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 3
Protection for northern miners against the "tyranny" of prosecutions was promised to-day by the Management Board of the Northern Federation. The board protested emphatically against the methods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Berlin Says Mines Were Laid Off Auckland
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 1
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Berlin Radio, quoting "Voelkischer Beobachter" revealed that a German raider mined the Kauraki Gulf, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Some Liable for Call-up Miners Defied Union Discipline
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday—Following their alleged refusal to accept union discipline some mineworkers have been excluded from the coal industry and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diminishing Coal Stocks
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coal tocks for general industry in New South Wales were enough for about three weeks on January 1, figures released…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Willis on Mines Manpower
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 3
"It is not my business at present," said the Chairman of the Central Coal Authority (Mr. A. C. Willis) when he was asked at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' General Sec. Visits Collie
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 3
SYDNEY.—Miners at Collie (WA) welcomed the New Year over cups of tea, says the miners' general secretary (Mr. G. W. S…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to Editor Miners' Leadership
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 4
Sir,—The tendency of your paper in recent months to attack Communists openly and by inference is most noticeable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Discipline in the Coal Industry
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 2
The first working week of 1944 was not a happy one in the coal industry. In the Northern District as many as 12 mines were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In North Only Two Mines Are Idle
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 3
With the exception of Western, where both collieries were idle, all mining areas on the Northern fields to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Board Calls Millfield Penalties Vicious "Will Protect Members from Tyranny"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 2
Protesting against "vicious penalties" imposed on two employees of Milifield Greta colliery, the Northern Miners' Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Losses
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 4
Sir,—On January 7 comment upon the disastrous coal losses was made by three men each of considerable repute, and representative of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Willis's Report on Miners
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 3
SYDNEY. — Manpower authorities have acted on the recommendation of Mr. A. C. Willis that certain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Best Coal Output Since Christmas
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 3
With only two mines idle yesterday, coal production in the North was the best since January 3, when the collieries reopened after the…
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