Queensland Miners to Take 16 Days
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Queensland miners will take 16 days' holiday at Christmas, said the Secretary of the Queensland Colliery Employees'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1944
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Mine Work Will Cause Belmont to Forfeit
IF Newcastle District Cricket Association adhered to its plan to play a round of competition fixtures on the Anniversary Day holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners Taking Extra 6 DAYS Defy Government
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Miners Federation representatives who conferred with the A.C.T.U. said that, despite the Government regulation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dispute Over Ventilation Bellbird Mine Idle To-day
Bellbird colliery, Cessnock, will be idle because of a claim of insufficient ventilation in certain places. The men have agreed to work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Re-elect Wells As Leader
SYDNEY.—The Miners' Federation membership has returned to office the General President (Mr. H. Wells) by a majority so big that it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unlucky Series Of Injuries In Mine
A series of accidents over the past 16 years was described to-day at the Workers' Compensation Compassion by Jack…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Crisis "Jobs in Melting Pot"
They said that the miners' leaders had admitted the necessity to have discipline within their own organisation to have effective control…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Foot Broken by Fall of Coal
Thomas Botham, 50, of Seventh-st., Boolaroo, a miner at Stockton Borehole colliery, fractured his left foot when a large piece of coal fell on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Davie on Coal Problems "Insecurity From Crazy Irresponsibility"
SYDNEY, Thursday.—"It is silly to have romantic pictures of new enterprises while existing enterprises, and thousands of workers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Driving Labour Out of Power:—mr. Forde Holiday, Garnishee Orders May Be Challenged
CANBERRA, Thursday.—"If the miners want the forces of reaction to regain power, then are going the right way about it," the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) told the General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Wells) in a telegram…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Enemies Share Same Coal Mine
GERMANS AND AMERICANS occupy same coal mine.—While Private Ronald H. Meade, of Toledo, Ohio, stands guard, German miners set out the coal on the American side of the mine at Alsdorf, Germany, half of which is occupied by the Germans and half by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Claim Compensation
Applicants in the cases heard by Judge Perdriau at the sitting of the Workers' Compensation Commission in Newcastle yesterday were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →80 Garnishees on South Coast Miners
Eighty miners at Excelsior Colliery (South Coast) had their wages garnisheed yesterday. The Southern President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One-day Stoppage Each Week Planned by Miners
SYDNEY: One-day mine stoppages each week in 1945 to force the Government to negotiate their demands, will be discussed at pit-top meetings, to be arranged throughout Australia by the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A.c.t.u. Says No to Miners' Points
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Interstate Executive of the A.C.T.U. rejected the proposal from the Miners' Federation that a stoppage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Problems
Sir.—The public meetings which the Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Harrison) proposes to call in his electorate to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Miners' Holiday
Sir,—Although National Security Regulations limit the miners' Christmas holidays to 10 days, it is obvious, according to the attitude of the "big"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Outside" Unions and Miners
If aggregate meetings of miners are called to discuss the new policy, not yet officially announced, of the Central Council, it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →20 Mines Worked Full Time
Full time was worked by 20 collieries in the district during the fortnight. Two weeks are available before the holiday shut down. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Link With Home for Children
"WOODLANDS", Wallsend, is considered ideal for the purpose to which the United Protestant Association is applying it—a home for…
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