Canberra Coal Talks
SYDNEY.—Threat by northern miners to take industrial action if any attempt is made to collect fins by Rarnishee or to impose gaol…
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Mining & the mines, 1944
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Scraper Loaders at State Mine
LITHGOW, Friday.—Scraper loaders for mechanical loading of coal are being installed at the State Mine. No further mechanisation is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hopes Miners Will Reconsider Leave
The Secretary of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association (Mr. R. W. Davie) said that no expression of opinion on the possible…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Open-cut Mining Production
Production from Cessnock's open cut collier has now risen to 200 tons a day. The target for full-scale production…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to Editor the Coal Industry
Sir,—Since the beginning of the war, coalmining has been the most publicised of all the industries, and the constant stoppages have caused…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Laid Mine Idle One Day 28 Youths Fined
Twenty-eight employees of Stock-rington No. 2 mine, near Minmi, were each fined. £5, with 8/ costs, by Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Forde Tells House Need Coal for Big Attack in Pacific
CANBERRA, Friday.—One of Australia's greatest fighting offensives was being mounted, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aberdare Miners' Officials
Former officers of Aberdare Miners' Lodge have been reelected for the first half year of 1945. The ballot for the election of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →15 Wheelers Fined Absenteeism at Colliery
On charges of having absented themselves from work without reasonable excuse on October 27, 29 wheelers employed at Aberdare…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners at Canberra Hopeful
CANBERRA: The Government is in a conciliatory mood and miners believe that then will get their demands or at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inspection of Coal Bridge
A party headed by the Mayor (Ald. Norris) inspected the coal line that the bridge has outlived its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Coal for Extra Christmas Trains
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Railway officials believe the coal position will not be sufficiently improved by Christmas to permit extra trains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Coal Output Has Been Doubled
LONDON, Sunday.—General De Gaulle announces that French coal production has been nearly doubled in two months and is about half…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Output Goes Down in the Northern District
. . . .While Federal and State Government chiefs conferred in Canberra today coal production loss rose to a new record for recent weeks. Production was affected at eight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Dismissals in Newcastle Feared Grim Industrial, Transport Setting for Coal Talks
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Fear of heavy retrenchments in vital war industries at Newcastle and other center and emphasis on the fact…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Progress in Parleys on Coal Production Government and Miners Differ on Vital Points
CANBERRA, Monday.—Little, if any, progress towards solving problems on the coalfields is believed to have been achieved through the conference to-day between the Miners' Federation and the Commonwealth Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Conferences
There have been many coal conferences. Those held yesterday were exploratory rather than determinative, but they were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Southern Mine Leaders Re-elected
SYDNEY, Monday.—The returning officer for the election of officers for the Southern district of the Miners Federation announced to-night that Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Large Mines Resume Work
The resumption of two larne collieries in the north today stepped up coal production by 4000 tons. Six collieries are still idle. There…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Claims May Be Granted in Part
CANBERRA.—While no decisions were made at the Government coal conference, it is understood that coal miners' rpresentatives were left with the distinct impression that their demands would be dealt with by Full Cabinet without hostility…
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