Guarantee Minimum Mine Wage
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Government would have to consider guaranteeing a minimum wage for mine-workers for three to four years after…
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Mining & the mines, 1945
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A Test of the Miners' Solidarity
The response which miners make to the instruction of the Central Executive that they return to work to-morrow will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extra Transport To Get Miners Home
Collieries are due to reopen tomorrow to get into production again for another year, and the Miners' Central Executive has directed that the Government's instruction for a resumption after the 10-days' break should be obeyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Want Transport to Get Home
More than 2000 miners and their families, who have been holidaying at Lakeside reports, hope that transport authorities will provide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Mine Union in Britain
LONDON, Monday.—British coalminers yesterday became members of a new trade union—the National Union of Mine Workers. They…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners (Without Families) Go Back to Coalfields
FROM EARLY yesterday afternoon till late last night trains carried miners to the Coalfields, where mines will resume at 7 o' clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Except Five Mines Resumed in State Today
All but five collieries in New South Wales resumed work today in accordance with directions from the Federal Government and Miners' Federation Executive. Absenteeism was higher than in preceding years, ranging…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain Urged to Conserve Her Reserves of Coal
LONDON, Monday: "Britain has coal reserves for only 40 years and should prohibit the export of its valuable by products. She wastes more than half the coal she produces."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Will Seek Public Ownership of British Collieries
LONDON, Tuesday: The National Union of Mineworkers, formed on Monday, will seek public ownership of the coal mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holidays for Miners
Sir,—Mr. Meek halls thrown a stone in the water, but the ripples have not reached him yet. We of the mining community are not prepared…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Prepare to Resume
Miners at John Darling colliery prepare to go below after their 10-day vacation. Top left: Men ascending steps to the cage which lowers them to Victoria (mechanised) seam. In less than 30 seconds the cage drops 600 feet. Top right: Two men fill their bottles with cool water, a pressing need in humid conditions underground. Below: Men complete with electric headlamps…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Uses For Our Coal
THE COAL INDUSTRY cannot progress until the troubles which at present beset it. from whatever cause they spring, are straightened out and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Many Cessnock Miners Batching This Week
The holidays over Cessnock bestirred itself yesterday. All pits in the district, except Stanford Main No. 2, worked, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Most Miners Resume After Holidays Absenteeism in North Was 15 Per Cent
Absenteeism at Northern mines which resumed yesterday after the 10 days' holiday averaged slightly more than 15 per cent. The rate of absenteeism ranged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Leaders Discuss Inquiry
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Central Council of the Miners' Federation, which will begin its sitting to-morrow, will discuss the scope of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early S[?] with Coal Inquiry
CANBERRA,—The first sittings of the Commission appointed by the Government to inquire into the problems of the coal industry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Mines Resume: Four Still Idle
Of the eight mines idle yesterday four restarted today, including Burwood. employing 650 men and producing 3450 tons daily…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World Talks for Miners Urged for Postwar
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The British Mineworkers' Federation was wholeheartedly in favour of the nationlisation of coalmining, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foot Hurt in Fall of Coal
Bert Hilditch, 50 of George-street, Homeville, received lacerations to his right foot in a fall of coal at Seaham No. 2 colliery Boolaroo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Hold-ups, Less Absentees at Mines
ALTHOUGH the rate of absenteeism at Northern mines was considerably reduced yesterday, the improvement in production…
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