Coal Board To Take Over Mine Insurance
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Control of all coalmining workers compensation insurance will be nationalised from next week…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Coal Ships Diverted
SYDNEY.—The movement of coastal cargo from Sydney this week is expected to improve with the diversion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Use Their Strength Wisely
The Northern Board of Management of the Miners' Federation has gained prestige by can selling the aggregate meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines Being Swept Near Islands
SYDNEY.—Magnetic mines, laid by aircraft during the war, are now being cleared from Australian waters by the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Strike Called Off Cabinet May Reject Cuts
Striking miners at Burwood, Stockrington No. 1 and No. 2, Stanford Main No. 2 and Gunnedah collieries decided yesterday to return to work this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blair Athol Is "Answer To Coal Shortage"
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The answer to Australia's acute coal shortage lay in Queensland's expanding production, the Federal President of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dollar A Day Increase For U.S. Miners
WASHINGTON, June 27. A.A.P.—The President of the United mineworkers of America (Mr. J. L Lewis) and the United…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Position in Newcastle Industries Is Still Critical
The coal position as it affects principal Newcastle consumers remains critical. There is no immediate prospect of industrial and transport restrictions necessitated by the fuel crisis being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners "Not to Blame"
SYDNEY, Monday.—The greater demand for coal and official bungling, not the miners, were among the real causes of the coal difficulties, the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation said to-night…
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No new developments occurred today in the coal position which has forced Newcastle's heavy industries to adopt drastic production restrictions and led to gas rationing and severe rail cuts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fully Restore Mine Pension Cut
All mine pensioners previously receiving either the invalid or old age pension who had suffered a reduction because of an increase in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Mines Back, But More Idle
The return of work yesterday of the five mines idle last week on the machine-cut coal issue was offset by the idleness of seven other mines in the North. The coal production loss in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Mine Inspections By U.S. Expert
Mr. W. M. Merritt, of the United States Bureau of Mines (Health and Safety Division), began an inspection of mines on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Liberals Would End Restriction on Coal Output
SYDNEY, Monday.—The scrapping of dargs and removal of restrictions on the output of coal, included in the Liberal Party's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Tribunal Inspects Burwood
The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) and the Federal Coal Liaison Officer (Mr. James, M.H.R.) in Burwood colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Subsidies Ending; Little Effect Expected
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Subsidies on coal production will be eliminated gradually over the next three months. The only effect will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven Mines In North Idle; 5290-Ton Loss
Four mines returned to work in the northern district yesterday morning, but seven others were idle. The rise coal production loss for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Coal Plan Would Mean More For Gas, Power
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—State Cabinet is considering a plan from the Joint Coal Board to re-arrange rationing of coal to New South Wales industries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Board Plans To Buy Coal Mines: Spend Millions
SYDNEY: In an effort to step up production, the Joint Coal Board is negotiating to purchase small mines and collieries capable of mechanisation or more mechanisation. Millions of pounds are involved in the negotiations which, if successful,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Coal Production Today: Only 2 Mines Idle
With only two mines throughout the State not working today, output of approximately 54,000 tons of coal is expected—the highest production for weeks. It is understood that today's…
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