Mine Leaders Before Arbitration Court
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2
SYDNEY: Acting General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Parkinson) told Mr. Justice Foster in the Arbitration Court today that he knew of no steps having been taken to comply with the court's order to produce money withdrawn from the bank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mass Meeting As Miners' Demonstration
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2
THE mass demonstration the miners are planning for Newcastle on Saturday morning will take the form of a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aberdare Miners Open Relief Centre
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 7
ABERDARE MINERS' RELIEF COMMITTEE opened a depot for the issue of fruit and vegetables yesterday. Pictures show.—Top left: W. Hill, an Aberdare Central miner, making preparations for his departure to the Lake. Top right: Women leaving the Aberdare Relief Centre after receiving an issue of vegetables; from left, Mrs. F. Horsefield, Miss Elaine Sellers, T. Johnson and Miss Merle McLauchlin. Below left: Mrs. W. Radimey receiving a basket of oranges at the Aberdare Miners' Relief Centre. Others in the picture are Messrs. S. Jones, M. McCart, H. Tomlinson and G. Welsh. Bottom right: G. Johnson and D. Andrews digging out a supply of coal near an old colliery working at Glebe…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Moves For Oversea Coal
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Premier (Mr. McGirr) said to-night that he expected to make a statement to-morrow on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wallsend Families Searching For Coal
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 9
Hundreds of Wallsend families are now searching for coal at more than 14 old Wallsend workings. At the old Cooperative Colliery, which has been closed for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miner Fined For Stealing Coal
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3
in the Newcastle Court today a miner told Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., that he had taken coal from a railway truck because his child was ill and he had no fuel at his home. The miner, George Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Store" Head Questioned On Miners' Funds
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Detective Inspector A. A. Wilkes, of the Commonwealth Security Service, called on Mr. G. Booth, Labour M.L.A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collie Miners To Resume If Claims Heard
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1
Collie (W.A.) coalminers have agreed to resume immediately power is given to the Local Coal Reference Board determine the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letters To The Editor Appeal to Miners
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2
I APPEAL to the common sense of the miners to make a sudden ending to this groundless dispute. There is no doubt in my mind that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Move To-day To Unload Coal
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Wednesday—Cabinet will meet to-morrow morning to decide the Government's course of action to unload 6700 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clergymen Met Mr. Chifley On Coal Crisis
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Four Methodist ministers flew to Canberra to-day to confer with Mr. Chifley and Dr. Evatt on the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Atomic Energy 'Certain' To Displace Coal Eventually
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 6
SYDNEY: It was certain that atomic energy would eventually displace coal as a source of power in many industries, said Professor Marcus Oliphant to-day. The famous Australian atomic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seamen's Ban Holds Up All Coal Shipments
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2
No further shipments of coal from Newcastle will be made until the seamen's ban has been lifted. There is still a quantity of coal at the Basin, mainly from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vital Union Decision Today On Shifting Of Coal
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY: The two key railway unions—Australian Railways Union and the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen—are expected at meetings today and tomorrow to endorse the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Transport Men Offer to Shift Coal Premier Confirms Northern "Lift"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Land Transport Group of Unions decided to-day to haul coal in railway trucks and at grass on the New South Wales coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Requested From Miners' Home Stocks
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 4
The Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) will ask miners, through the Miners' Federation, to give some of their personal stocks of coal to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Coal From Ayrfield
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1
A TRAIN from Ayrfield colliery carrying about 250 tons of small coal arrived in Newcastle yesterday afternoon. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Allowed By Federation
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Miners' Federation to-day, agreed to allow National Coalmine No. 2 at Glen Davis to resume partial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collie Miners To Stay Out
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3
PERTH, Thursday—Collie coalminers decided at a mass meeting to-day not to return to work. They rejected alternative proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This Is Coal At Grass
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1
THE TERM, coal "at grass," puzzles many people. On the South Maitland field, when mines are working, coal is…
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