Lakes Amenities Dela Worries Joint Coal Board
Delay in providing amenities in various parts of the Lake Shire is causing the Joint Coal Board concern. The Coal Board's welfare officer (Mr. E. Wallwork) told the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
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Council To Inquire On Coal Board Aid
The Joint Coal Board advised Newcastle City Council Finance Committee last night that it would contribute £1178/8/2 towards the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Hint of "Grave Moves" Over Statement by Sen. Ashley
SYDNEY: Grave developments might follow a statement by the Minister for Fuel and Shipping (Senator Ashley) that miners' wages and conditions were not a matter for the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →4 Trapped In Burning Coal Mine 800 Feet Below Surface
NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.): Four men are trapped 800 feet underground in a burning anthracite mine in Girardville (Pennsylvania). Compressed air is being pumped down the smoke-filled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ashley's Reply To Miners' President
SYDNEY: The Minister for Fuel and Shipping (Senator Ashley) today reiterated that miners' wages and conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rise for Miners Was "Mistake"
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Commenting on the threat by the Miners' Central Council to call a stoppage of work at Wonthaggi…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Approves Blackalls Amenities
A meeting of Blackalls Progress Association Amenities Committee was told that the Joint Coal Board had agreed to improve Blackalls…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Railmen Threaten Coal Loading
The loading of colliers at Bullock Island will cease at 6 a.m. to-morrow if four members of the Australian Railways Union carry out a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Mines Idle In State Today
Three collieries on the northern coalfields were idle today for a production loss of 2300 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Council To Discuss Log of Claims
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—To-morrow the Miners' Central Council will discuss action to be taken on the new log of claims formulated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Council Decides: Call Stoppage If Leaders Charged
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The miners' Central Council decided to-day that rank-and-file stopwork meetings of Australia miners would be called immediately if legal action were taken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Firm May Go to High Court
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Northern Collieries Ltd. may challenge in the High Court the jurisdiction of the Central Coal Reference Board and its power to make an award…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Point Rates "Not Spent in Area"
Coal Point Progress Association will ask the Minister for Local Government (Mr. Cahill) how rates collected in its area by Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine Host to Run in S.t.c. Sprint
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mine Host will return to work next week to begin a preparation for the Winter Handicap, the first leg of the Sydney Turf Club's July double…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners To Hold Meetings If No Conference On Log By May 19
SYDNEY: The Miners' Federation Central Council decided today to call aggregate stop-work meetings on the coalfields unless a conference to consider a new log of claims is called by May 19. Such a stoppage would lose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Asked; Stop All Coal To Victoria
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Wonthaggi miners decided to-day to ask the Miners' Federation Executive and Central Council to stop…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Blockade Threatened
MELBOURNE.—A Victorian blockade of N.S.W. coal, threatened by the Miners' Federation, would acect gas supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Viewpoint for Brotherhood
The Northern District President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Crook) is to address the Tighe's Hill Methodist Church Brotherhood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Press Trapped Miners
GIRARDVILLE (Pennsylvania):—AFter 50 hours of ceaseless toll, res[?]crews are still trying to reach four miners trapped 1100 feet below…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →High Coal Production Continues
The high coal production of the past week was maintained on the Northern Coalfields to-day when only two mines were…
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