One Coal Dispute in State
Only one mine was idle in the State yesterday because of an industrial dispute. It was Belmont, on the Newcastle field where there…
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Mining & the mines, 1946
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Transvaal Mines Give £150,000 to Britain
JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 18. A.A.P.—The Transvaal Chamber of Mines has announced a donation of £150,000 by the mining industry to…
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Prank Hillary (25), of Melbourne Street, Aberdare, a lorry driver, employed at Abermain Colliery, fractured fingers on his" left hand when…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Compensation Payments Colliery Reply To Union On Hebburn Issue
Though mines on the northern coalfields are still working well, first threat of serious interruption of production has developed from the dispute at Hebburn No. 1 and No. 2 collieries concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Keep Young Men in Mines British Proposals
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Coalmining as a "promising career to many young men" was the aim of a scheme presented to the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →16 Ships Sunk by Mines Since War
LONDON, Jan. 20. A.A.P.—Since the war ended, 16 ships, totalling 71,182 tons, had been lost through striking mines, said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Dispute Threat to Mining
A hold-up in the coalmining industry is threatened unless a dispute over compensation payments at Hebburn No. 1 and No. 2 is settled by negotiation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seek Legal Opinion on Compensation Hebburn Colliery Claims
The Northern District of the Miners' Federation yesterday referred the action of the management of the Hebburn No. 1 and No. 2 to its legal advisers. Men at both pits worked yesterday…
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SYDNEY: The Miners' Federation is seeking three weeks' annual paid holidays. This and other claims. said the miners' general secratary (Mr. G. w…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Claims to Be Heard
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The miners' claim for three weeks' annual paid holidays and other claims would come before the Central Coal Authority in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Slack Coal Yield 400 Tons Daily
Although slack coal has been recovered from the old Wallsend C pit railway embankment for nearly five weeks, the daily yield is still…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.S.W. Coal Output At 10,176,254 Tons Was Down Last Year
SYDNEY: Coal output in N.S.W. last year totalled 10,176,254 tons, compared with 11,042,939 tons the previous year. Northern output was 6,774,770 tons compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Abermain Colliery
A fire in Abermain No. 1 colliery was found before it got out of control. The fire was seen by a shiftman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advice Favours Miners
The Miners' Northern President (Mr. W. Crook) said yesterday that he had received legal opinion from two sources upholding the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Allege Provocation
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—"Common Cause," official organ of the Miners' Federation, alleges that provocation by managements had followed good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria Wants More Coal
CANBERRA, Wednesday—Demands for a better deal in the distribution of New South Wales coal supplies will be made by Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman's "Oyster Bed" Was Mine
CAIRNS, Wednesday.—A woman resident of Port Douglas, while gathering oysters alone the seashore, recently found some excellent specimens…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nationalised Mine May Close Down
LONDON, Wednesday.—The first pit in England to be nationalised (Clifton Colliery. Nottingham), which the Government took over three years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Mines Idle in North
Idleness of three Northern mines yesterday caused a loss of 3000 tons All are expected to resume to-day. They were—Stockrington No. 2…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Back from I.L.O. Coal Talks
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Officials who arrived in Sydney to-night by air after having attended the London conference of the I.L.O. on the…
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