Coal Board 'Has Plans For All Fields'
SYDNEY, Thursday. — "The Coal Board, in discharging its responsibility to develop the coal industry to a position where it can…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1948
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Tribunal Takes Names Of Mine Leaders Sequel To Stop-Work Decision By Council
SYDNEY: There was a surprise move in the miners' holiday clause case today when the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) called for the names of those members of the Miners' Central Council who yesterday had decided on a one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Week's Coal Shipments
Coal shipments from Newcastle for interstate consumers this week totalled 52,200 tons. Of this quantity Victoria will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bank Backs Miners' Building Society
The Commonwealth Bank has financed Cessnock Miners' Cooperative Building Society No. 1 to the extent of £100,000, which will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brown Coal Report for Victoria
CANBERRA, Friday.—The report by two German scientists on the production of gas from brown coal mined at Yallourn, Victoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Extra Coal for Newcastle Gas
The Coal Board has promised to allow New castle gasworks an extra trainload of coal a fortnight. This will increase the present gas coal quota in Newcastle by about 175 tons a week, and will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Defy Gallagher: Meetings On
SYDNEY: In defiance of the Coal Industry Tribunal, aggregate stop-work meetings will be held on all coalfields throughout N.S.W. next Thursday. This was decided by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Day Stoppage in Mines "Conspiracy" Suggested
SYDNEY, Friday.—A representative of the Joint Coal Board suggested at a hearing before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) this morning that members of the Central Council of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Crisis In The Coal Industry
Through blunders by both sides the coal situation is drifting from bad to worse. We have expressed the opinion that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Could End Problems: McGirr
Given an opportunity to function, the Joint Coal Board would eventually solve most of the difficulties at present causing unrest in the Australian coal industry, the Premier (Mr.McGirr) said today on his arrival in Newcastle. The board had adopted a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →26 Pits Are Idle In State: Miners Protest On Coal Case
Twenty six mines were idle (for the loss of 22,630 tons) today when the coal-crisis hearing was resumed before the Tribunal (Mr. F. Gallagher). Of the 14 pits idle in the north, 11 stopped in protest against the Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russians Made Women Win Coal
HAMBURG, August 1. A.A.P.—A group of 370 middle-aged aged women—the first batch of German women prisoners of war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Give Coal Board Chance": Premier
Given a chance to implement its long-range policy, the Joint Coal Board would establish the greatest peace yet in the coal industry, the Premier (Mr. McGirr) said in Newcastle on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Shortage: McGirr's View
The reason for the present coal shortage was not that output was not up to standard, but that the demand for coal was greater, the Premier (Mr. McGirr) said in Newcastle on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.z. Coal Strike Ends
AUCKLAND, August 1. A.A.P.—Reuter. —The strike of deputies at Waikato coalmine was settled to-day. Work will be resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →McGirr Has Coal Talk With Unions
For an hour and a half today the Premier (Mr. McGirr) discussed the coal crisis and industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Services Will Be Maintained Enough Coal For Day Stoppage
Most public utilities, including the State railways, will have sufficient coal to maintain present services if aggregate meetings on New South Wales coalfields are confined…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letter Box Coal Solution
The only solution of the coal position is abolition of the con-tract system. The contract system has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lead to Miners Still Uncertain
SYDNEY, Monday.—Miners' leaders will not decide on the recommendation to be placed before stopwork meetings of New South Wales miners on Thursday until the Coal Industry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press Miners' Plans Unchanged
SYDNEY: The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Grant) said this afternoon that too fact that the federation intended to…
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