Every Northern Colliery At Work Today
For the first time in more than two months, all pits on the Northern Coalfields were working today. Since the Miners' Federation began its war on unauthorised…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Anomalies Alleged in Miners' Pensions
Cessnock branch of the A.L.P. will invite Mr. R. James, M.H.R., and the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) to attend a meeting of the branch on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Communists Take Valuable Manchurian Mine
PEIPING, Sept. 28. A.A.P.—The Chinese Communists were reported to have captured Government mines, tapping one of the world's largest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Are Miners Entitled to Annual Holidays?"
Sir, — All workers should be entitled to annual holidays to allow them to recuperate after having worked continuously the period for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.Z. Miners May Stage Beer Strike
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday: Miners on the west coast of the South Island threaten a beer strike if the price is raised…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Abermain No. 1 Wins Mines Ambulance Title
The annual mining ambulance team competition, sponsored by the Northern District Colliery Owners' Association, and held yesterday at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Accident
Noel Angwin, 25, of Crawford Estate, Millfield, a clipper employed at Maitland Main Colliery, suffered injuries to his pelvis when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →All Mines Worked In State
All coalmines in New South Wales worked yesterday. The estimated output was 51,000 tons. It was the first day free from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipping Dispute Threat to Coal Output
Coal supplies to Sydney and the States for industry, railways and public utilities will be curtailed if, as expected, Australia's coastal shipping is held up by a strike of marine engineers to-morrow over the Corio…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Use North Coast Coal For Power
GRAFTON, Monday.—Clarence Liver County Council will support investigations to ascertain whether North Coast coal deposits would be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Killed in Fall Down Mine Shaft
KALGOORLIE, Monday.—John William Lopham, 5, was killed when he fell 280 feet down an abandoned mine shaft. He was playing with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Production May Suffer From Ship Strike
Indications today were that the threatened shipping strike which may seriously affect coal production in the North will not be fully felt until next week. Colliers are likely to continue running until the end of the week at least…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trains Delayed by Derailment of Coal Truck
Three early morning, trains bound for. Newcastle from To-ronto and Teralba were delayed from 15 to 20 minutes this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scottish Miners Resume Work
LONDON, Sept. 30. A.A.P.—Thirteen- thousand miners, whose dispute last week immobilised 43 Scottish collieries, have resumed work on the understanding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State Mines To Work
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coal mines in New South Wales would work next Monday, Six-hour Day, a spokesman for the Joint Coal Board said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kearsley Deputation On Mine For Greta
Mr. T. Williams, M.L.A., has advised Kearsley Shire Council that he has arranged for a deputation from the council to wait on the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal Board Aid Sought For Paxton
The president (Cr. W. Varty), Councillors A. Johnson and J. Palmer, the Engineer (Mr. L. Grattan) and the Cessnock Welfare Officer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal Reserve Threatened By Deputies' Dispute
The mine deputies' dispute on the northern coalfields has dealt a blow at the possibility of securing a coal reserve sufficient for the Christmas holidays. Approximately 25,000 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£2500 Coal Board Grant For Wangi
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Lake Macquarie Shire Council has been offered a grant of £2500 by the Joint Coal Board to restore the camping area at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Deputies Stop, Throw 25 Mines Idle
Twenty-five mines on the Cessnock and Maitland fields, with an aggregate daily output of about 22,000 tons, will be idle to-day and to-morrow because of a stoppage called by the Maitland Deputies Association…
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