Ten Mines Idle in North Today ; Heavy Coal Loss
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 6
Nearly a quarter of the total production of the northern coalfields was lost today when 10 mines were idle, principally as the result of local disputes. The loss, which amounted to 9855…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 5
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coalmines Regulation Amendment Bill passed the third reading in the Legislative Assembly to-night…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley), in the Legislative Assembly to-night, gave notice of his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Pensions Commonwealth Overrides State Govt
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 4
SYDNEY: The State Government has again been forced to submit to the Commonwealth Government on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Miners Promise to Maintain Output
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 1
LONDON, March 18. A.A.P.—The Executive of the National Union of Mineworkers visited Number 10 Downing-street, and gave a pledge to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Tribunal to Sit To-day
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 6
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal will meet to-morrow to hear a claim by the Miners' Federation for a 35-hour week…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 6
The coal production loss through out the State yesterday rose to 8300 tons as a result of the idleness of seven mines in the North, one in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →May Be Coal Strike in Queensland
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—All Queensland mines would he idle from next Monday unless colliery owners put into effect a decision to increase the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Court Moves To Stop New Coal Trouble
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 3
WASHINGTON, March 18. A.A.P. —The Supreme Court ordered yesterday that its mandate in the case of the miners' leader. John L. Lewis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Bill Passes Committee
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 3
The Coalmines Regulation Amendment Bill passed through the committee stages in the Legislative Council early this morning. When the bill went into…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 5
SYDNEY, Wednesday—The threatened general coal strike in Queensland was averted to-day when the coalowners agreed to pay increased…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 5
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The State Parliamentary Labour Party to-day agreed to a recommendation by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddelay)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Shifts Battle Heating-Up In Pacific Colliery
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 3
With three shifts of men working round the clock in a race to prevent damage threatened by heating-up in a section of the workings, Pacific Colliery at Teralba was still out of production today…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 5
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — It was decided at the second sitting to-day that the Coal Industry Tribunal had the power to fix hours of work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Cargoes For Other States Rise
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 2
Though production losses due to stoppages of work on the northern field this week have been much heavier than last, total…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 5
With strikes at eight mines and stoppages at two others, the coal production loss in the northern district yesterday was 8700 tons…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 3
AMSTERDAM, March 20. A.A.P. —The Greek freighter, Alexandra (4355 tons) struck a mine off Terschelling Island, and is reported to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven Northern Mines Idle
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 2
Another heavy output loss doe to stoppages of work on the northern coalfields today brought to a close a week In which local…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A bill to increase pensions payable under the Coalmines Pensions Act was read a first time in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North Mines Have Dust Problem
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 2
The amount of dust in Northern mines was not comparable with those in Wales, but there was a dust problem and it had to be tackled, said Professor D. Jones last night…
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