Miners' Board to Review Stoppages
The miners' Northern Board of Management will begin its sitting in Newcastle to-day. First matters to be discussed will be the continued stoppages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1945
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Eight Mines Idle in North Today With eight mines on the northern coalfields idle today, production loss due to stoppages was about 4500 tons
Biggest of the collieries which did not work were Hebburn No. 1 (which normally produces 1200 tons daily), and Stanford Main No. 2 (1100 tons)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Support for Printers
The miners' Northern Board of Management yesterday decided unanimously to support the printers in their fight for a 40-hour week for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Board Tells Miners to Resume
The Miners' Northern Board of Management yesterday instructed members at Pelton, North Wallarah, and Northern Rivers collieries to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Loss Again High Today
With stoppages at seven mines and partial idleness of two others today, coal production loss on the northern field…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wireless Charges Not Reduced For Aged Miners
Mining pensioners in New South Wales arc not to be granted broadcast listeners' licences at half fees. This information is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fears 60,000 Tons Coal Loss in Mine Meetings
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Sixty thousand tons of coal will be lost because of the proposed stop-work meeting of miner throughout Australia to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Better Coal Output Today
Six mines on the northern coalfields were idle today, but coal production loss due to the stoppages was about 5000 tons less than yesterday's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Drive in Britain "Herald" Service
LONDON, Sept 18.—An all-out drive to raise an extra 8,000,000 tons of coal meaning an extra ton a week from each mine has begun in order…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pelton Miners Reject Union Advice to Resume
PELTON miners' lodge rejected the recommendation of the Northern Board of management to resume immediately and to allow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Manager Fined For Mining Breaches
The Manager of Hebburn No. 2 colliery (William H. S. Rowe) was fined a total of £5/16/ by Mr. I. Beaver, P.M., in Kurri Kurri Police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Horses Case Again Adjourned
At Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday charges against two deputies of Hebburn No. 2, Thomas Doyle and Walter Sutton of having caused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Seize Jap Gold
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19. A.A.P.—The Allies intended to seize Japanese gold, which was variously estimated to be valued at 300 million to 2000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Loss Was 4145 Tons
Burwood and Pelaw Main collieries resumed yesterday. The loss for the day was 4145 tons. All Southern and Western mines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters to Editor Miners' Holiday Pay
Sir,—It seems almost incredible that the magnanimous gesture of the Federal Government in granting payment for the two days' V.P…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blunt Talk to British Miners "Herald" Service
LONDON, Sept. 19. A.A.P.—"I'm going to have coal and nobody is going to stop me, even if I have to dig it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal Govt. Won't Take Control of Mines, Says Mr. Chiefly
CANBERRA: No useful purpose would be served by the Commonwealth faking control of Australian coal mines, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley), said in the House of Representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Union Behind Coal Drive
LONDON, Sept. 20. A.A.P.—The National Executive of the Mineworkers' Union conferring in London, decided not to protect or to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Chance of Mine Nationalisation
CANBERRA, Thursday.—There is no likelihood of the Federal Government notionalising coalmines. The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Few Miners Over 60 at Work
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Only a small percentage of mineworkers remained in the industry during the war after they had reached the…
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