Polish Miners For British Pits
LONDON. Thursday: The executive of the National Union of Mine workers agreed to the employment of Polish miners in British pits…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1947
2,102 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 106
British Miners Come Back to Pits "Herald" Service
LONDON, Jan. 16.—Britain's miners have begun a march back to the pits. In the first full week under nationalisation, they produced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chief Mines Inspector to Retire
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) said today that the Chief Inspector of Coalmines (Mr. Hay) would enter on sick…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strikes Continue at Three Mines
Productions at three Northern District mines was interrupted by industrial disputes yesterday, and another was idle for repairs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →11,000 Arrested for Stealing Coal
LONDON, Jan. 17. A.A.P.—Eleven thousand people were arrested in Hamburg last week for stealing coal, says the Hamburg correspondent of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goldfields Children See First Heavy Rain
KALGOORLIE—Children played in the nude in the streets at Menzies during a heavy downpour yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Church To Coal
THE FATHER of Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Parmoor, was a great ecclesiastical lawyer, and his son evidently follows his footsteps,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ship Hits Mine; 400 Dead
ATHENS, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—About 400 people are reported to have been killed when the liner Chimarra, bound for Piraeus, struck…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Production In Ruhr Increases
LONDON, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—The North German Coal Board to-day announced that the newly-introduced system awarding the Ruhr miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Output Lower Today
In the worst working day on the northern field since January 10, nearly 10,000 tons of coal were lost today as a result of stoppages. Six mines were out of operation and there were partial stoppages at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hurt in Coal Fall
Edward Mahoney, 30, of Macquarie-street, Wallsend, received a deep cut above the right knee in a fall of coal yesterday at Rosewood colliery, 12…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Nominated as Miners' Leader
Aberdare miners' lodge decided last night to nominate the Victorian District Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Williams) for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Confer on Mines Safety Measures
SYDNEY, Monday.—Miners' compensation officers and district check inspectors conferred in Sydney to-day on safety measures in mines and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Loss Exceeds 6000 Tons
WITH production at a standstill at four mines and only half production at John Darling and Burwood, the Northern District was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Industry Hit by Coal Cuts
LONDON, Jan. 20. A.A.P.—Cuts in coal allocations of such severity that the steel output may be forced down by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Owner "Sacked" by Board
LONDON, Jan. 21. A.A.P.—A former colliery owner, Mr. George Elliott, who was suspended from his Job as unit…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burwood Miners at Federation House
Burwood contract miners working in the Borehole section went to Federation House yesterday to meet district miners' officials to air their claims about rates for machine coal complaints about explosives. Photo shows some of the men outside Federation House…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Query Nominations For Miners' Presidency
THE QUESTION of the eligibility of certain members to contest the ballot for the election of a general president…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blames Coal for Power Failures
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Inability to obtain the right type of coal and difficulties in carrying out maintenance on a daywork basis were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Owners Want to Blast Old Mines
An application for permission to blast in allotments fronting Grinsell-street, Kotara, to collapse and fill disused mines, was made by six…
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