State's Coal Loss 4700 Tons
The coal production loss throughout the State yesterday was 4700 tons. Northern mines idle were…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Britain Gets U.S. Coal
Britain is so short of manpower in her mines that she is importing coal from the United States. This grab is unloading the first…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday.—A conference of lodge officers of the Western District of the Miners' Federation unanimously decided to recommend…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Have Coal Board Chairman Visit Queensland
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Arrangements would be made for the Chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. Cameron) to visit Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →2682 British Miners Lost Jobs By Strike
LONDON, Aug. 27. A.A.P.—The North-east Division of the National Coal Board announced that 2682 miners of Grimethorpe colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Ballot On Back-Saturday Work Held Today
Members of the Miners' Federation throughout N.S.W. today voted on the proposal to work back-Saturday shifts until Christmas to help provide a reserve of coal to tide over the mine workers three weeks' annual holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australian Again Nominated For U.S. Mines Post
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. A.A.P.—President Truman has nominated the Australian-born Professor James Boyd, of Colorado, as Director of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Point Works
The Chairman of Coal Point Progress Association (Mr. W. Stewart) said Lake Macquarie Shire Council Engineer (Mr. Webb) had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Premier To Meet Miners
BRISBANE, Thursday.—The Premier (Mr. Hanlon) will meet representatives of the Board of Management of the…
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LONDON, Aug. 28. A.A.P.—The German News Service in the British zone in Germany states that the miners of the Achenbach coalmines…
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The State's coal production loss yesterday was 5000 tons. Richmond Main in the north did not work because of trouble over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wonthaggi Miners Volunteer to Build Up Stocks
MELBOURNE: To counterbalance the probable shortage of coal which may result from the Wonthaggi coalminers taking their Christmas holidays, the miners themselves have decided to work an extra half day each week to build up stocks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Record for Coal Shipments to Interstate Users
This week's coal shipments from Newcastle for interstate and island consumers will be a record for the year. Nearly 70,000 tons will have left the port by the week-end. The heavy shipments follow the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cavil Miners At Greta; "No Places To Work"
Greta Progress Association decided to ask Whitburn miners' lodge to confer with the Northern Executive with the view of seeking a conference with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Extra Mine Shift Early Vote "For" in South, West
An unofficial check of voting last night indicated that Western and Southern New South Wales miners had voted in favour of working on back Saturdays until the end of the year to build up a coal reserve…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move For Coal Board Control Of Glen Davis
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley) will be asked to seek the cooperation of the Joint Coal Board in raising the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wildcat Coal Strikes Hit Britain: 17,000 Men Out
LONDON, Friday: Wildcat coal strikes, which threaten to wreck Britain's all-out drive for coal, have started in Yorkshire. FIFTEEN THOUSAND men from 10 mines are out in sympathy with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Dispute Extending in Britain "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
LONDON, August 28.—Three thousand men at the Hatfield colliery, near Doncaster, and 3400 at Frickley have stopped work in sympathy with the Grinethorpe miners, says Reuters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Miners' Leader Calls Coal Strike "Blackmail"
LONDON, Saturday: The Minister for Fuel and Power (Mr. Shinwell) will visit the coal strike areas in Yorkshire tomorrow and address the miners on the general situation in Britain. At 5 p.m. yesterday, 16,701 miners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Agree On Coal Board Plan For Queensland
BRISBANE, Friday.—Queensland miners have agreed to the appointment of a Queensland Joint Coal Board, of two State Government…
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