Greta Miners Want Strike To End
Greta miners today expressed a wish to go back to-work. They said that earlier voting of 85 to 16 in favor of the strike would be reversed if a meeting were called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
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Communists "Use Miners For Trial Run"
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Communists had used the miners as their dupes in the coal strike to stage a trial run for the time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Atomic Energy To Replace Coal—Oliphant
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Coal is certain eventually to be replaced by atomic energy as a source of power in many industries, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Colliers To Take Coal To Sydney
All coal now being brought from the pit-heads will go to Sydney by rail unless seamen call off their ban on colliers. There is no coal at the Basin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South African Coal Cargo Due In August
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The first of three cargoes of coal the New South Wales Government has ordered from South Africa will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Enough Gas Coal for Week in Newcastle
Newcastle Gas Company had. enough coal to last until near the end of next week on the present gas rationing scale, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£100 Fines On Four Mining Leaders
SYDNEY: Four mining officials — John Parkinson, William Thomas Smith, Thomas Welsh and Arthur Lewis Mountjoy — were each fined £100 in the Arbitration Court today for contempt of court. Before imposing the penalties…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move By Miners To Declare A.L.P. Meeting ' Black'
A move to have A.L.P. meetings on the coalfields declared "black" was made yesterday by more than 100 Maitland miners when they met at Cohen Park to form an area committee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No 'Incidents' As Big Coal Lift Begins In North
Coal trains from the Cessnoek field began to arrive in Newcastle this morning. There were no "incidents" as engines, manned by senior salaried officers of the Government railways service, hitched…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Beaten On Lift Reds Now Rely On Coal Ban
SYDNEY: Militants, having failed to prevent the coal lift, are now banking on unionists refusing to work plants in which the coal will be used. A.L.P. and moderate union…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Lift Start at Daylight Big Police Guard On Railways
A start will be made at daylight to-day to move the first trainload of coal standing in trucks in the Cessnock-Weston area. It is believed that the work will be continued throughout the day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swansea Meeting Supports Miners
Support for the miners' stand was expressed at a public meeting attended by about 250 people at Swansea yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Thieves Are Busy
LITHGOW.—Coal-stealing from Lithgow homes is so prevalent that residents have rigged booby traps, chained dogs near coal heaps and set rabbit and rat traps. And these are not the only precautions that Lithgow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Coal Lift Starts
The coal lift from the Cessnock end of the Northern Coalfield began early yesterday when coal in hoppers and trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners "Used As Guinea Pigs"
The Communists were only using the miners as guinea pigs to wreck the Labour Government, Mr. J. J. Maloney told a meeting at Cessnock yesterday. Mr. Maloney, who is research…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rosewood Miners Make A Show
BRISBANE, Friday.—The State Government has granted the town of Rosewood full electric power for its centenary show to-day and to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Colliers For Sydney Coal
Because of the seamen's ban on colliers all coal for Sydney will be carried by rail. All Newcastle colliers except the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Guard On Coal Train
A policeman leans over the rails of the guard's van of a coal train leaving Aberdare colliery for East Greta Junction…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Women Volunteer to Unload Coal
MELBOURNE: The unloading of the 6700 tons of coal from the "black" Halegonian Duke, with volunteer tabor is planned to begin early next week. The Premier (Mr. Hollway)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mayor's Appeal To Miners For Pensioners
The Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) asked the Northern Miners' Secretary (Mr. J. Simpson) yesterday to place before miners his appeal for…
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