Coal Loss Down to 2850 Tons
The coal production loss throughout the State yesterday was 2850 tons, all the result of disputes in Northern mines. All mines…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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U.s. Miners Ordered to End Strike
WASHINGTON, April 22. A.A.P.—Judge Goldsborough has issued an injunction ordering the United Mineworkers of America to end…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Most U.s. Soft-coal Mines Work Again
PITTSBURGH, April 23. A.A.P.—Operations are virtually back to normal in soft coalmines, with over 85 per cent. of miners working as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Order Inquiry On Stoppage At Colliery
The Northern Board of Management yesterday ordered Stockrington No. 1 committee to investigate the stoppage at that mine. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Sentenced On Gold Charge
PERTH, Friday. — Geoffrey Robert Curtis, 46, miner of Kalgoorlie, was sentenced in Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day to four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Check Petty Stoppages Formula Adopted By Miners' Board
The Northern Miners' Management Board yesterday adopted a formula aimed at eliminating petty stoppages. The formula provides that members who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Means Test for Miners' Pensions
THE AMENDED Mineworkers' Pensions Bill provided one of the few pensions pair without the means test. Mr. G…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Approval Of Mine Peace Code Likely
General rank-and-file approval of the formula adopted by the Miners' Northern Management Board for elimination of unauthorised stoppages is considered certain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Board Imposes Fines
Fifteen wheelers employed at Stockrington No. 1 were each fined £3 by the Northern Miners' Board of Management today for having caused a stoppage at the mine last Thursday and Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aid Gold Mines In Remote Areas
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Mr. Chifley to-day denied that the Commonwealth Government contemplated giving subsidy to promote…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Support Rehabilitation
The miners' Northern Management Board today endorsed a Joint Coal Board's scheme for experiment in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Board Fines Wheelers
The Northern Miners' Board of Management fined 15 wheelers £3 each yesterday for having caused a stoppage at Stockrington No. 1 colliery on Thursday and Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Richmond Main May Be First Fluorescent Lit Colliery
SYDNEY.—Richmond Main Colliery, once the show mine of the former "coal baron" John Brown, may be the first mine in Australia to be given fluorescent lighting at the coal face…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Board For Christmas, Easter Leave
The Northern Miners' Board of Management decided yesterday in favour of a fortnight's leave at Christmas and a week at Easter,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heaviest Coal Loss of Month in North
After a day of almost peak production yesterday, today's coal output loss in N.S.W. due to stoppages was the heaviest of the month — more than 8000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Won 1,118,000 Tons Coal In February
CANBERRA, Tuesday.âAustralia produced 1,118,000 tons of black coal in February, compared with the 1938-39…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Miners' Lodge
The Northern Miners' Board of Management granted an application by members from Taylor's Blackhill Borehole mine for permission to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rehabilitation Centre For Miners Praised
The Joint Coal Board's rehabilitation scheme at Jervis Bay for injured mineworkers had great prospects, the Northern Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board to Finance Clubs
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Under a "50-50" agreement reached with the Miners' Federation, the Joint Coal Board is to provide loans for the establishment of workers' clubs on the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Losses Rise To 7660 Tons
There was a loss of 7660 tons in coal production in the Northern district yesterday. Six mines were idle and another was only…
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