Miners Read A.l.p. Pamphlets
Planes dropped A.L.P. pamphlets at Cessnock yesterday. Miners in Vincent-street read the pamphlets…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
2,299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 115
Miners' Stand on Gaolings "Release Before Negotiations"
SYDNEY, Friday.—Coal strike settlement terms must now include the release of any union official who is gaoled and the waiving of all fines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Officers To Show Cause; Contempt Case
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Miners' Federation, its President, Idris Williams, and Secretary, George William Sweeney Grant, have to show cause why they should not be dealt with for a reach of Mr. Justice Kelly's order to pay to the Registrar of the Arbitration Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suburban Support For Miners
Meetings supporting the miners' case were held at Merewether on Saturday and Lambton Park yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Leaders On Gaol Prospect
It was quite possible that members of the Northern Miners' Executive would be in gaol in a day or so, the Vice-president of the Executive (Mr. H. Cockerill) said at public meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Log "Would Have Been Upheld"
Had the miners' leaders allowed the Coal Industry Tribunal to complete the matter, it could almost have been guaranteed that 95 per cent., if not 100 per cent., of the miners' claims would have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cabinet To Consider Moving Coal Piles
SYDNEY: State Cabinet today will consider whether it will take steps to move all coal in trucks on the coalfields. This, it is estimated, amounts to 58,000 tons. The question to be decided is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Talks On Moving Coal At Grass
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Talks will be held in Sydney this week on how to move 36,000 tons of coal on New South Wales coalfields. State Cabinet to-morrow will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cabinet Likely To Reject Plan On Mines
SYDNEY, Sunday.—State Cabinet to-morrow will probably reject the move by several A.L.P. branches for nationalisation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labour "Must, Will Get Coal" President Warns At A.L.P. Conference
Labour must and would get coal, the State President of the Australian Labour Party (Mr. Ferguson, M.L.C.) told the Labour conference in Maitland yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many People Searching For Coal At Old Hillside Mine
For the first time since the depression men, women and children are digging and picking over coal at the old Hillside Colliery at Glebe. Miners, steelworkers and clerks are among those carrying…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imported Coal Delivery
MELBOURNE: Coal imported by the Victorian Government from Britain and India was on the water…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gaoled Miners' Leaders Ill
SYDNEY, Monday.—Minister' leaders Messrs. Williams and Grant will seek hospital treatment while serving their year's sentence in Long Bay gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Guard Miners' Leader
Police, on guard against demonstrations, surround the General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. G. W. S. Grant) as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Open-cut Mines "Menace"
The Northern District Check Inspector (Mr. Barrett) said last night that nothing like the 50,000 tons of coal mentioned by the State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter Box Future Of Mines
The proposed "first step" in the complete nationalisation of the coal mines is what one expected from the McGirr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaolings "Will Not Get Coal"
Gaolings would not coal, the Northern Executive of the Miners' Federation stated yesterday. The executive said they were appalled at severity of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pensioner Asked For Bag of Coal
An old-age pensioner appealed to the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) yesterday for a bag of coal. The pensioner wrote: "I wish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Coal Delayed By Seamen's Meeting
The collier, Hetton Bank, arrived in Newcastle this morning from Sydney to load the first coal cargo since last Tuesday, but it is not expected to sail till tomorrow because of the seamen's 24-hour stoppage today. The Hetton Bank can take a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Officials Rush To Miners' Council Meeting
BOOVAL (Qld.).—Leading Queensland coal union officials are rushing to Sydney today to attend a hastily-convened special meeting of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation…
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