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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
2,299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 115
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Mr. Chifley said in the House of Representatives to-day that the Federal and New South Wales Governments might have to consider abolishing the Coal Industry Tribunal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: In an eleventh-hour bid to avert a general coal strike on Monday, the Joint Coal Board chairman (Mr. Cameron), will make a nationwide broadcast to miners tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Reports on drilling tests for coal at Ashford, in Inverell district, New South Wales, continued to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Curse the miners and their Commo leaders!" is heard on all sides, particularly from the workers and the womenfolk…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Mayor of Cessnock (Ald. J. Brown) today appealed to miners and their leaders to postpone their threatened strike. Himself a former miner and miners' lodge officer for many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A motion by Ald. McDougall, that Newcastle City Council ask the coalmining unions to call off the strike proposed for next…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): The Belgian cross-Channel steamer Princess Astrid (2950 tons) struck a mine and foundered three miles off Dunkirk yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Preliminary assays of 100oz. of gold to the ton are reported in the richest gold strike at Tennant Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The outcome of a meeting of the Coalmining Unions' Council in Sydney on Thursday is expected to decide…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.—The miners did not want a general strike, but if they were forced to go no strike they would not shirk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Marjorie Lawrence, Australia's dramatic soprano, who has arrived in Sydney from Melbourne, said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stockton vehicular ferry services would be reduced to conserve coal, an officer of the Department of Main Roads said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: Some sources close to the coal crisis believe that miners' leaders may call off the threatened coal strike. They base this belief on these…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bellbird miners have been working in shifts under dangerous conditions for 48 hours in a desperate effort to save 1,500,000 tons of Australia's best gas coal from loss by fine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, June 22. A.A.P.—British coalmines were run at a profit in 1948—the second year of nationalisation. The National Coal Board,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the Ironworkers' Association at the City Hall yesterday endorsed the miners' claims and called on the Government, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Royal Newcastle Hospital and Rankin Park Hospital had sufficient coal and coke to carry on general activities, the Secretary (Mr. Sharpe)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Replying to Mr. Cameron, the General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Williams) said: "If the general public wants to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—The chairman of the National Coal Board (Lord Hyndley) said yesterday he was disappointed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—No import licence was needed to import oversea coal, but so far no applications for permission to…
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