Council Mining Bill Passes First Reading
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Local Government Amendment Bill, to enable councils to operate mines for the supply and distribution of…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Welsh Factory for Dusted Miners
A factory at Llwynpie, Rhondda, Wales, and nine others to be built, will provide jobs for exminers suffering from lung dust…
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Maitland City Council decided to make representations to the Joint Coal Board when its supply of coal was cut below the tonnage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Explosion Kills 170; Hundreds Hurt
TRIESTE, March 18. A.A.P.—Between 170 and 300 miners are believed killed and hundreds injured in an explosion at Arsa…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Sought To Develop Bauxite Field
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Australian Aluminium Production Commission, which was interested in deposits of bauxite discovered in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queue Of Ships At Cranes; Coal Shortage
Inadequate supplies of coal at the cranes this week have caused an accumulation of colliers awaiting cargoes for interstate…
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WASHINGTON, Thurs.: The Government today ordered a virtual embargo on bituminous coal exports and a 25 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Losses in Coal Action On Strike In Queensland
Many New South Wales mines will he idle to-day in protest against the police clash with Brisbane strikers on Wednesday and the Queensland Government's anti-picketing legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Suggest Big Stoppage
The Northern Miners' Board of Management decided today to suggest to the Central Council that a nation-wide 24-hour stoppage be called. The board discussed the Queensland strikers' position…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →24-Hour Mine Stop Unlikely
Because the Central Council will meet in Sydney on Tuesday, the special meeting of the miners' Northern Board of Management in Newcastle to-day is unlikely to call for a 24-hour stoppage next week in…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Decisions of the Miners' Federation Central Council in Sydney on Tuesday will probably decide whether the Queensland strike will cause an industrial crisis…
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Greater Newcastle Council was too seriously engrossed in its present undertakings to consider acquiring and operating its own coal mines, the Lord Mayor (Alderman Quinlan) said today…
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The Northern Miners' Board of Management decided on Saturday to demand the immediate repeal of the Queensland anti-picketing…
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With the coal loss confined to 2900 tons today Northern mines worked comparatively well. Five pits were idle, Aberdare Extended. Cessnock, Caldare…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday. — The Chairman of State Coal Commission of South Australia (Mr. P. G. Bice) said the coal position in this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Heard F.e.d.f.a. Claims
SYDNEY: An application for increased wages and increased shift penalty rates for members doing continuous process work in the coalmining industry in N.S.W. was made today by the Federated…
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SYDNEY: The Miners' Central Council, which opens in Sydney today, may now reject a proposal for a national coal stoppage, as a protest against anti-picketing legislation in Queensland…
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Frederick Blakey, 40, of Estelleville, West Wallsend, had the toes on his right foot crushed when a skip ran over them in Stockrington…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Miners at Booval and Rosewood to-day rejected a three point resolution dealing with miners' participation in the Queensland railway strike…
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SYDNEY: Approaches have been made by the Sydney County Council to the Minister for Supply and Shipping…
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