Miners' Portraits Dominate Realist Art Show
The most striking work in the Trades Hall exhibition of pictures from the Sydney studio of Realist Art, is a series of studies of miners…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
2,102 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 74 of 106
Disputes May Hit Extra Mine Shift
Coal production on the first back Saturday will be considerably reduced unless disputes at a number of mines are settled before to-morrow. Fifteen mines were idle and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Topics of the Day Lent Miners Cars
MINERS usually driven to work in the 1929 ex-ambulance which figured in the anniversary parade on Tuesday, were not left without…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Agree To Resume At Grimethorpe Pit
LONDON, Sept. 11. A.A.P.—The striking Grimethorpe miners to-day unanimously agreed to return to work on September 15, says…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Claims Rich Gold Find At Wagga
WAGGA, Thursday.—A local prospector. William Palmer, 65, claims he has found rich gold-bearing quartz on a property five miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Good Prospects Of Big Output At Mines Tomorrow
Miners from collieries in the Teralba district, who have been idle as a result of a dispute which began at Northern Extended Colliery some time ago, have agreed to resume work and there are good prospects of securing peak output from the first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bevin Has Found No Gold In The American Hills: Derision Instead Don Iddon's New York Diary
NEW YORK, Thursday: It is almost a week since Foreign Minister Bevin went prospecting for American gold, but the only nugget dug up so far is a large, jagged piece of derision…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Call Conference On Mt. Kembla Colliery Dispute
SYDNEY, Friday.—A compulsory conference had been called in Wollongong on Monday to discuss a dispute between the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliery Bath House, Offices To Cost £15,000
LITHGOW, Friday.—A change house and bathrooms, and administrative block would be erected at Wallerawang colliery at a cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Coal Trouble Likely In Britain
LONDON, Saturday.—With the end of the Yorkshire coal strike almost in sight, 6000 members of the Yorkshire Deputies' Association decided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →35,000 British Miners Still Out On Strike
LONDON, Sept. 12. A.A.P.— Twenty-five pits, employing about 35,000 men, are affected by the Yorkshire strike, compared with 28 pits…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Coal Output Expected First Back
Although the dispute which has held up production at the Teralba group of mines was settled yesterday, two of the collieries are not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Explosion
HAMBURG, Sept. 14. A.A.P.—An explosion in the Castro-Rauxel pit, near Dortmund, killed six coal-miners, reports Reuters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Check on Unionism in Mines
A check will be made today at collieries where there are non-unionists or unfinancial members by stewards of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Says Coal Trucks Brakes Unsafe
Concern with the condition of brakes on colliery waggons serving some mines on the Newcastle field was expressed at a meeting of Port…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.S. Experiment To Get Gas, Oil From Old Mines
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. A.A.P.—The Bureau of Mines announced that it had succeeded in an experiment to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Corvette Sunk by Mine Off Cairns 2 Dead, 26 Injured; Seaman Missing
Two seamen were killed and 26 injured when the Australian corvette Warrnambool (780 tons) struck a mine and sank off Cairns on Saturday evening. One seaman is missing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Man Accused Of Illegally Exporting Gold By Plane To East
SYDNEY: A Singapore bank sent £25,000 to a Sydney manufacturer to pay for the illegal export of gold, it was alleged in the Federal Court today. The manufacturer, also described…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grimethorpe Miners Back
LONDON, Sept. 15. A.A.P.—Miners at Grimethorpe colliery, South Yorkshire, resumed work to-day. The men had been on strike for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Demand Workers' Clubs
A meeting of officials of mine lodges decided at Cessnock last night to demand that the Government amend the Liquor Act to restore rights clubs had before the Act was amended last year…
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