Mine Pension Legislation This Session
SYDNEY, Monday.—Legislation will be introduced into the State Parliament this session to provide a 7/6 increase in the pension for…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Miners' Holiday Leave Hearing Adjourned
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Coal industrial Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day adjourned until August 16 consideration of how the miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Hero Speedy At Broadmeadow
Gold Hero sprinted smartly over four furlongs in 51 3/4sec on the cinders track at Broadmeadow this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →130,000 Miners On Strike In U.S.A.
NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): More than 130,000 brown-coal miners are on strike in support of a demand for 100 dollars (£31/15/-) a month pension at the age of 60…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Long Service Leave Claim Heard When Output Improved
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) told the Miners' Federation to-day it would he untimely to hear a claim for long service leave until coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ipswich Miners Defy Union
BRISBANE.—Three hundred miners at Ipswich, Queensland's biggest coalfield, today decided to lefy their union executive's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Oppose Hiring Claim
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) will consider submissions to-day coalowners' representatives to amend an award providing for employment of members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board For Queensland
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A State Coal Board, with sweeping powers over industry throughout the State, will be set up under the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Output Is Decreasing
Coal production on the northern field has grown progressively worse since Monday. Today's loss was 6500 tons, with nine mines again idle. Abermain No. 2[?] was idle for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Notice Given; Mines Pensions Bill
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddelcy) gave notice in the Legislative Assembly to-day of a bill to amend the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →6000 Tons Lost; 11 Mines Idle
Eight coal mines were idle in the North yesterday for a loss of nearly 4000 tons. Losses in the Southern and Western fields from three idle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Seize £800 in Gold
MELBOURNE. — Detectives who raided a house at Essendon yesterday seized more than £800 worth of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Miners Strike On Pension Issue
NEW YORK, March 16. A.A.P.—Dozens of mines in the rich Pennsylvania field were closed when miners struck to support the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A question by Mr. McCaw (Lib., Lane Cove) whether a Housing Commission home at Beverley Hills had recently…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Children to Get Holidays on Part-paid Basis
SYDNEY: Three hundred children of men employed in the coalmining industry in the Newcastle, Cessnock, Lithgow, Muswellbrook, Wollongong and Gunnedah districts will be given assisted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Fires
Professor David's warning to coalmining authorities when they began mining in and around Cessnock has been ignored. If the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Strike Spreads In U.S.
NEW YORK, March 17. A.A.P.—The pension rights strike has spread to 350,000 of the nation's [?]00,000 soft coalminers; and has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Riot Deaths in Gold Coast
LONDON, March 17. A.A.P.—Some people were fatally injured in rioting at Kumasi, 120 miles north of Accra, capital of the Gold Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Brief: U.K. Coal Output
Britain's coal output last week totalled 4,228,500 tons, compared with 4,229,200 tons the previous week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some Mines Stop To-day Unions Protest; Brisbane Clash
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Union moves to-day in protest against police action in Brisbane against demonstrators included a decision that Western miners stop work…
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