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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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The cooperation of the Miners' Federation, urged by Mr. Justice Davidson in the report of the Commonwealth Board of Inquiry into the coal industry, is unlikely to be given according to the Miners' General President (Mr. R. Wells)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"There are indications that if the award made by Judge Drake-Brock-man in September, 1945, does not become operative within a fortnight,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →If an award made by Judge Drake-Brockman last year does not become operative within a fortnight there will be a strike of members of the Colliery Staffs' Association. Stating this at Cessnock, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Friday.—Improved living and social conditions, imposition of discipline, and observation of the law and agreements were the only remedy for meeting the disturbing industrial turbulence in the coal industry, said the report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Justice Davidson's conclusions about the coal industry, based upon a year's investigation and the hearing of voluminous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CONFERENCE as to whether the Commonwealth or State will control the coal industry in New South Wales will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Tin M[?] won the Punchbowl Trial Handicap at Canterbury this afternoon from Open Air and Generator…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"There is little likelihood of any cooperation by the Miners' Federation with the report of the Commonwealth Board of Inquiry, which is based chiefly upon sectarian issues, discipline of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Friday: "Princess Gold", daughter of the White Rajah of Sarawak (Sir Charles Brooke) and widow of the second Earl of Inchcape,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To try to reach a settlement of the dispute involving coal trimmers meal times, representatives of the union will meet the stevedores in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Friday.—The impact of absenteeism on production during the war years is revealed in the report…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A conference of junior members of Northern Coalfields miners' lodges decided to form youth clubs in the larger coalfields towns…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DUNGOG.—The Maiden Handicap at Dungog Jockey Club's meeting this afternoon was a one-horse race…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →CANBERRA, Friday. —Discipline in the coalmining industry should be firm, but it should not be tyrannical, the Commonwealth Board of Inquiry states in its report. It was felt, it was stated, that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A plan for youth clubs on the Coalfields, financed by the Miners' Federation, the Federal Government and business people was adopted by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—A plea that comradeship formed on the battlefield between young peers and coal miners should be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Friday.—The coal industry in its major fields was tottering. Mechanisation of mines in New South Wales had been so greatly retarded that n this respect the mines were the most backward in the world, said Mr. Justice Davidson in the Commonwealth Board of Inquiry report…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Charles Brown, manager of Pacific colliery for 11 years, died on Saturday. He was 62. Mr. Brown was born at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Executive of the Miners' Federation today appeared before the Central Coal Authority in Sydney in connection with matters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As is usual with reports of inquiries into the coal industry, the comments of the Commissioner (Mr. Justice Davidson) appear to…
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