Sticks and Stones Fly in French Mine Strikers' Battle
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 2
PARIS, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Striking miners would "fight like lions" to preserve their right to strike, said the secretary of the Communistled Miners' Federation (M. Victorin Duguet)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board To Give Holiday To 264 Children
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 2
The Joint Coal Board will sponsor 132 children from the northern coalfields attending National Fitness Council vacational camps…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Body Gets £400 Piano From Coal Board
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1948 · page 2
The Chief Welfare Officer of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. Carrington), handing over to Cessnock-Kurri District Entertainment and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Year's Coal Yield "One of Best"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 2
SYDNEY, Thursday.—In the past six months, miners in New South Wales had done a magnificent job, and, as a result, this year's output was expected to be one of the best in the industry's history, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Talks To-day on Coal Dispute
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The inter-union conference held yesterday will be reopened to-morrow in the hope of setting the South Coast coal strike. The attitude adopted by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Talks Continue, But No Work
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 4
SYDNEY: Although negotiations are continuing for the settlement of the South Coast coal strike, now in its third week, there is no chance of a general resumption of work next Monday. After inconclusive talks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Back Saturday Coal Slump
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 October 1948 · page 1
Back-saturday coal production on the northern coalfields slumped heavily today when six mines were idle. The first of the back-Saturday shifts this year on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schooner Strikes Mine, Sinks
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 1
LONDON, Oct. 24. A.A.P.—The German schooner Maja (150 tons) struck a mine and sank en route from Aabenraa, in South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Industry Asked; Aid Coal Board
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 1
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Mr. Chifley appealed to night to employees and employers in the coal industry to sink their differences and cooperate with the Joint Coal Board to produce coal "desperately…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.K. Coal Production Behind Programme
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 2
LONDON, Oct. 24. A.A.P.—Although Britain had this year produced 8,500,000 tons more coal than up to the corresponding time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Council Debates Course of Strike in South
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 3
SYDNEY: The Miners' Central Council, which is the governing body of the Miners' Federation, is expected to decide this afternoon whether the 16-day-old South Coast coal strike is to end…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →100,000 Troops And Police Guarding French Mines
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 1
PARIS, Mon. (O.S.S. and A.A.P.) One hundred thousand troops and police are now concentrated on French coalfields to prevent further hostile moves…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strike May Spread: Miners' Leaders Consider Action
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 3
SYDNEY: The South Coast coal strike remains unsettled and the Miners' Central Council is now considering whether it will extend the stoppage to all coalfields throughout New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Miners Went Quietly
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 1
PARIS, Oct. 25. A.A.P.—Strong forces of troops and police began ejecting strikers from coalmines in northern France to-day. No opposition was encountered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supported Striking French Miners
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 3
Mr. Arthur Horner, General Secretary of the British National Union of Mineworkers, returns by air to Britain from Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Ask For Inquiry On Police
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 2
Members of the Burwood miners' lodge decided at a pit-top meeting yesterday to seek an open inquiry into police activities in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →5500-ton Coal Loss In North
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 2
There was a coal production loss of 5500 tons in the North yesterday. The position was—Abermain No. 2: Continuation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Coal Exports
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 5
LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—British coal exports exceeded 1.300,000 tons during September—an increase of 300.000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Reject Tunnel Plan
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Central Council of the Miners' Federation to-day rejected a formula to settle the Kemira tunnel dispute. The formula was proposed at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miner Hit by Coal
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 3
Struck by coal in Blackbutt colliery yesterday, Alec McAlister, 28, miner, of Wallsend-road, Shortland, suffered fractured ribs, bruised left…
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