Miners' Leader Denies Threat To A.W.U. Men
SYDNEY, Friday.—The report that members of the Australian Workers' Union employed at the Kemira rock tunnel were told they…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Tunnel Work to Stop Board's Order To Avert Coal Strike
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Joint Coal Board to-night directed Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. to cease work on the Kemira rock tunnel from to-morrow…
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All three B.H.P. mines on the northern coalfields were affected by stoppages today. Two of them were completely…
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SYDNEY: The full executive of the A.C.T.U. today intervened in the South Coast coal dispute. It invited representatives of the Miners' Federation and the…
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Struck by a coal fall in Rising Sun colliery yesterday, David McNaughton 29, miner, of Warner's Bay, had his left eyelid lacerated…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Central and New South Wales district executives of the Miners' Federation decided to-day to recommend a Statewide coal strike on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Strikes Pickets Prevent Entry To Mines
PARIS, Oct. 18. A.A.P.—Strike pickets barred the entrances to the strikebound mines in many regions following the decision of the Communist-led miners' union to withdraw its security maintenance…
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SYDNEY: Miners' leaders this morning conferred with the A.C.T.U. executive, which is seeking a formula to settle the South Coast coal strike and avert the threatened tie-up of coalmines throughout N.S.W…
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Lake Macquarie Shire Council was advised last night that the Joint Coal Board had approved a grant of £831 for the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Hopes for averting a State-wide coal strike rest on a meeting between the Australian Workers' Union and the Miners' Federation to-morrow…
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Coal production losses yesterday were the highest for several days. Eight northern mines were idle, and about half production was lost at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Divert Coal Traffic At Belmont
A proposal, if adopted, would divert coal traffic from Evans-street, and thus eliminate a dust nuisance caused in that street by…
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SYDNEY: Three-way talks which opened in Sydney this morning between the Miners' Federation, the Australian Workers' Union and. the A.C.T.U. in an attempt to avert a threatened…
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Brigades were called to two bushfires in the district yesterday. They were put out after a large area had been scorched. Houses…
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LONDON, Oct. 20. A.A.P.—The National Coal Board is claiming 10/ damages per man from 1200 miners at Whitburn colliery, South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Southern Miners May Resume Soon
SYDNEY: Miners have deferred their plan for a general coal strike on the South Coast strike issue and it is hoped that by tomorrow a settlement will be negotiated for a return to work by the Southern miners…
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Production was resumed at five coalmines in the North yesterday, but three other mines stopped. Strikes were continued at three…
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A domestic dispute involving members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Mining Mechanic's Association at Hebburn No. 2 colliery may spread to all mines in the South Maitland…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The State Government should revoke its prohibition on the use of machinery on coal pillars, the Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.k. Probe Into Coal Board
LONDON, Oct. 20. A.A.P.— Fundamental weaknesses in the structure of the National Coal Board are revealed by a special committee appointed in May to conduct an investigation, says the labour…
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