S.A. "Forced" to Develop Own Coal Resources
LIVING a hand-to-mouth existence for Newcastle coal, South Australian industry was looking forward to the…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Week's Coal Loss May Be 40,000 Tons
COAL production loss for the first working week of 1947 is expected to approach 40,000 tons, representing almost the output of a full working…
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With 13 pits in the Northern District idle and two on the South Coast, the coal production loss yesterday was 14,255 tons, another bad…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poland Exceeded Coal Target
WARSAW, Jan. 10. A.A.P.—Poland exceeded her coal target for 1946. She produced 47,288,000 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Candidate for Miners' Presidency
Mr. Jim Comerford, who is President of the biggest miners' lodge in Australia (Richmond, Main) has been nominated by Hebburn No. 1 Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Want 35-Hour Week
PARIS, Jan. 10. A.A.P.—An International Conference of coal experts, from nine nations, called by the World Federation of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peace Talks On Coal Likely
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Miners' General Secretary (Mr. Grant) has proposed a "peace conference" to end discontent in the coal industry. Mr. Grant said he had told…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strikers' Wives To Resist Coal Loading
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Wives of gasworkers will meet in Port Melbourne Town Hall on Monday night to organise counter-propaganda…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Police Fire On Coal Train Looters
BERLIN, Friday.—German police fired over the heads of 300 coal-train looters near Cologne in the British Zone. Previously, the looters pelted with lumps of coal civilians who attempted to disperse them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Grant Hits Delay in Finality
SYDNEY.—The delay by the Federal and State Governments in appointing the new joint Coal Board was criticised today by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Export Low For First Working Week
Coal shipments from Newcastle for the first working week of 1947 were low. For other States, only about 32,000 tons left the port, against the average over the concluding weeks of 1946 of between 45,000 and 50,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Accidents
Frank Coxen, 39, of Church Street. Cessnock, a wheeler at Aberdare Colliery suffered a lacerated right knee when he was kicked by a horse…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nine Mines to Resume
At least nine mines of 13 which were idle on Friday are expected to work to-day. They are: Maitland Main, Neath,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Mobs Raid Coal Trains
BERLIN, Sunday. — Germans sometimes to the number of 400 have been raiding coal trains in the Ruhr for fuel in the bitter winter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Little Hope Held For Trapped Miners
LONDON, Sunday.—The 14 miners who were trapped after an explosion in Burn Grange chale mine at Midlothian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Equipment Lack Hindered Mine Rescue Work
LONDON, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—Attempts to rescue 14 miners trapped in Durngrange Pit, Westcalder, Midlothian, were hindered by lack…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wounded Rabbit Led Men to Coal
SINGLETON, Sunday. — A wounded rabbit led a hunting party at Glendon Brook, 16 miles from Singleton, to an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Get 7/-A Week wage Rise
SYDNEY: An application by the Miners' Federation to the Central Coal Authority (Mr. A. C. Willis) for a wage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Court Asked To Set Aside Fines On Miners
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—Briefs have been filed requesting the Supreme Court to set aside fines of £1,093,750 imposed on the union…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improved Coal Output
With only one mine idle in the Northern District, coal production yesterday was better than on any day last week…
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