4500 Tons of Coal Lost
Coal production lost throughout the State yesterday was 4500 tons. All but 200 tons was lost in the north…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Mr. Gallagher Against Dargs in Mines
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) said to-day that he saw no reason why the amount of coal produced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Grant To Cessnock Eisteddfod
The Joint Coal Board has approved a grant of £100 to the Cessnock Musical and Literary Society towards defraying the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sudden Strike Holds Up Coal Transport
A lightning strike yesterday by train crews on the South Maitland Railways held up transport of coal from mines on the field…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letters To the Editor Miners' Contract Rates
AS a contract miner, I wish to know when the leaders and Board and Council members will try to get a rise in the contract…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →36,000 British Miners Out As Strike Grows
LONDON, May 9. A.A.P.—Fifty Lancashire coal mines were idle to-day as the number of strikers in this week-old stoppage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Contentious Matters For Mining Unions
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Coalmining Unions' Council, which will meet in Sydney to-morrow, will discuss three issues which could…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →65 Lancashire Mines Idle
LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.)—All 65 pits in the Lancashire coal-fields are now idle, with 50,000 men now on strike…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Lancashire Miners On Strike
LONDON, May 10. A.A.P.— All but one of Lancashire's 65 coal pits were idle to-day, and the number of strikers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Talks Called On Miners' Claims
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A conference on the mining unions' log of claims is to be held in Sydney on May 19—the day on which the time Emit set by the unions would have expired…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Coal Plant Expert Arriving
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Minister for Postwar Reconstruction (Mr. Dedman) to-night announced the impending arrival in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Drops Kemira Case
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Joint Coal Board to-day withdrew proceedings in Central Court in connection with the Kemira tunnel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bore For Coal In Wyong Shire
WYONG, Tuesday.—The Department of Mines advised Wyong Shire Council that it would prospect for coal in three northern areas of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Stoppage Threatened On Court Challenge
Coalmining members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at 20 mines on the Northern coalfied will hold aggregare meetings on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines Work Despite F.E.D.F.A. Stoppage
A stoppage of work by members of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association on the Richmond Vale Railway today did not cause any interruption of production at collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ms.L.A. Name Mr. Baddeley For Coal Post
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A committee of State Labour Parliamentarians has recommended to the Premier (Mr. McGirr) that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board in Hours Case
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. W. S. Winning, representing the Joint Coal Board, appeared "in the public interest" before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day in the miners' 35-hour week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Advice On Prosecution Of Miners
SYDNEY.—The Joint Coal Board said today that no advice had yet been received from the Acting Attorney-General…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Adelaide In Chaos On Coal Shortage
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Adelaide's worst power cut yet, because of the desperate coal posicause caused 10,000 men and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Oppose Court Challenge Move Mine Mechanics Plan Stoppage
The Federated Colliery Mechanics' Association will hold aggregate meetings in the northern, southern and western districts on Monday on Northern Collieries Ltd.'s proposal to challenge in the High…
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