Coal Output in North Improves
WITH the return to work of men at Burwood, Stockton Borehold and the Northern Extended collieries yesterday, coal production in the…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
2,102 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 106
U.S. Miners Beat Gun On Stoppage
NEW YORK, April 1. A.A.P.—Thirty-five thousand of the 400,000 soft coal miners, who will be idle this week, jumped the gun yesterday on Mr. John L. Lewis's midnight deadline for the six-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Disaster Sequel: Official Resigns
NEW YORK, April 2. A.A.P.— the Governor of Illinois (Mir. Dwight H. Green) arrived at the scene of the Centralia colliery disaster yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strike Threat In Open Cut Mines
The South Coast mine dispute was settled yesterday. A strike now threatens from next Tuesday at all open cut mines in New South Wales on a demand by the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Food Riots Among 350,000 Ruhr Miners
LONDON, Thursday.—Hunger demonstrations and strikes In protest against the food shortage are spreading throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Stocks at Lowest Ebb for Months: 80,000 Tons Loss at Easter
With coal reserves at their lowest ebb in months, output of 80,000 tons will be lost to the State by miners' Easter holidays. Essential consumers have been provided with all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →111 Miners Died Here
The scene of the Centralia, Illinois, mine disaster last week when 111 miners were traooed below the surface by an explosion. This air view of the tipple of the Centralia Coal Co., Mine No. 5, shows activities of rescue workers, squad cars and ambulances…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Pensioners Want Higher Rate
Dissatisfied with the recent weekly increase of 5/, Belmont-Swansea branch of the Retired Mineworkers' Association decided to ask the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Crew Mans Coal Hulk
The hulk, Mombah, now discharging a cargo in Newcastle, carries a full crew although towed by a tug from port to port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Best Coal Day For Weeks
New South Wales yesterday had its best coal production day for several weeks. The only idle mines were three in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wives of German Miners Urged Strike
LONDON, April 3. A.A.P.—The wives of German miners gate-crashed into the delegate meeting of Ruhr miners at Bachum, which decided on to-day's strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Soldiers Injured by Camouflaged Mine
JERUSALEM, April 3. A.A.P.— Two British soldiers were seriously injured when an electrically detonated mine, camouflaged as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strike Averted in Open Cut Mines
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The threat of a stoppage at New South Wales open cut mines has been averted. The State Secretary of the Federated Enginedrivers and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Secret Coal Agreement: Lang's Claim
SYDNEY.— Secret agreements had been entered into between the McKell and Chifley Government for the control of other…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Industry to Get More Coal
LONDON, April 4, A.A.P.—The Board of Trade has announced that the Government is making an additional coal allocation to industry of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Unions to Hold Talks
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Grant) said to-night that he had called a conference for Tuesday of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →518 U.S. Mines Ordered Closed 600,000 Tons Daily Loss
WASHINGTON, April 4. A.A.P.—The closing, for safety reasons, of 518 Government operated soft coalmines has been ordered by the Secretary of the Interior (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Adelaide Coal Stocks Low
ADELAIDE: Coal stocks expected on Wednesday will relieve the gas and power position, but it is likely that rail services will be further curtailed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Convicts To Work In Mines, Farms
PARIS, April 6, A.A.P.—All convicts serving less than five years will be employed in agriculture, the mines, reconstruction work, and textile…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Only One Mine May Be Idle After Holidays
SYDNEY: All but one colliery in N.S.W., Abermain No. 1, where a demarcation dispute remains unsettled, are expected to resume work tomorrow after the Easter holidays break…
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