6 Injured In Mine Runaway Smash
Six mineworkers employed at Lambton B colliery were injured when loaded runaway skips crashed into an underground transport vehicle yesterday afternoon, Sixteen men were being…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Miners For: A.E.U. Against Resumption
The Abermain No. 1 Miners' Lodge today adopted a suggestion by the Local Coal Authority (Mr. J. Connell) for a resumption of work. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Chief To Probe Cause Of Lambton Accident
SYDNEY. — Northern Miners' president (Mr. W. Crook) will immediately call for a full report on yesterday's serious accident at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Coal For Melbourne; End Gas Cuts
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The State Coal Committee announced to-day that metropolitan gas companies would probably be able to lift gas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move To Scale Down Coal-Hewing Rates At Maitland
SYDNEY: The Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association and the Northern Collieries Committee today applied to the Coal Industrial Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) for reduction of hewing rates for contract miners who will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Should Be One Mining Union, Says Mr. James
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—One combined union should be formed for all workers in the coalmining industry, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Day's Coal Loss 4570 Tons
Yesterday's coal production less was 4570 tons. This was brought about because of the idleness of four northern mines and partial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Meet on Queensland Coal Control
SYDNEY Thursday.—The miners General President (Mr. Williams) will leave for Queensland to-morrow to attend a meeting of Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Get More Sick, Annual Leave
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal Mr. Gallagher) to-day awarded coalminers in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania additional annual and sick leave…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Call For Report On Mine Smash
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Northern miners' President (Mr. Crook) said to-day that he would call for a full report on the accident at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Film Broken Hill Mining
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A complete film depicting mining operations at Broken Hill is to be made by the Commonwealth Film Laboratories at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →End Interunion Disputes; Coal Board Move
SYDNEY. Thursday.—Members of he Joint Coal Board proposed to a conference of mining unions to-day that an independent chairman be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sharp Rise In Northern Coal Figure
Coal production this week showed a sharp upward trend, the loss of about 15,000 tons being less than on any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cut Week-end Trains Unless More Coal
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Unless railway coal supplies improved it was proposed to curtail certain passenger services at week-ends from June 6,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man, 82, Saw Coal Won
Mr. H. Gow, 82-year-old Newcastle Rugby Union official, accompanied members of Queensland Rugby Union team underground when they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vic. Railway Coal Position Is "Desperate"
MELBOURNE: The coal shortage was bringing Victorian railways closer and closer to a desperate situation, said the Commissioners today,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners: A.e.u. Meet Tomorrow on Demarcation
Members of the Northern Executive of the Miners' Federation will confer with Cessnock officials of the Amalagmated Engineering Union…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →14,240-Ton Coal Loss Was Week's Highest
A COAL production loss of 14,240 tons for the State yesterday was the highest for the week, mainly because all mines on the South Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →B.H.P. Washes Coal; Gets 1000 Tons Ash
About 1000 tons of refuse, containing 60 to 70 per cent ash is washed from coal at the B.H.P. Steel Works each week. The getting rid of this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Coal Next Week-end or Rail Cuts Mr. Hartigan Says Stocks "Critically Low"
Coal supplies held by the New South Wales Railways were critically low, the Commissioner (Mr. Hartigan) said in Sydney yesterday. Unless additional supplies were received before next week-end, there would…
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