Miners Support Communist Link
LONDON, May 20. A.A.P.—The Executive Committee of the National Union of Mineworkers in the Lanca-shire area has decided to support…
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Mining & the mines, 1946
1,987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 34 of 100
Three Northern Mines Idle
Only three collieries on the northern field were idle today. Two of them, however, were big producers, and the loss for the day…
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MELBOURNE Monday.—The arrival of coal from Newcastle has eased the gas position, but the withdrawal of brown coal from industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lodge Men Confer On Mining
Representatives of all miners' lodges in the Northern District met in conference at Federation House yesterday to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"More Coal"—condition for 5-Day Week "Herald" Service
LONDON, May 20.—Methods to reconcile the claim of Britain's 700,000 miners for a five-day working week and the Fuel Minister's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Tie-up Threat Miners to Meet on Nobels Strike
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Miners' Federation has called a special conference in Sydney to-morrow on the dispute at Nobels' explosives factory,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Research
It is true, as the Minister for Postwar Reconstruction (Mr. Dedman) says, that a small community like Australia must specialise…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Sittings
Coal Reference Board sittings this week will be—Thursday claims from Stockrington No. 2 and Whitburn: Friday, several matters in dispute at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Northern Mines Idle
Three mines are idle in the north today for a coal loss of about 3300 tons. They are Bellbird and Aberdare,…
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LONDON, May 21. A.A.P.—"To maintain our place in the industrial race, we may have to take other steps even more drastic than this,"…
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A ventilation dispute caused Aberdare colliery (1500 tons) to be idle yesterday. Other mince idle were Bellbird…
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LONDON, May 21. A.A.P.—Mineworkers in the Yorkshire, Durham and South Wales areas voted by large majorities against the…
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Not long after a bus carrying schoolchildren had passed over the spot yesterday morning, an old mine cave-in caused an opening about 6ft…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sub-Committee To Advise On Coal Bill
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The coal conference decided to-day that a sub-committee should make recommendations on the Baddeley Coal Bill and the Davidson report "so that the industry could be placed on a sound basis"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S Govt. Seizes Mines To Avert Hold-up
WASHINGTON, Tuesday: President Truman today ordered seizure of the country's soft coal mines, to take effect from tomorrow. The mines will be worked under the control…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The Government has reported the shutting down through absence of miners of an additional 243 coal mines in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Judge Orders Colliery To Give Man Job
SYDNEY: A colliery company today was ordered to find an injured employee a light job or pay him £5 weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Bill Criticism Answered
Remarks of the Leader of the State Opposition (Mr. Treatt) at Goulburn this week gave an entirely distorted picture of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State Coal Bill "Not Renouncing Arbitration"
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) said to-day that the principle of arbitration was not being renounced in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Why Not This Bargain on Coal?
The Miners' Federation is pressing the State, and to some extent the Federal, Government for a new deal. At the same time, every…
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