Wallsent Miners Vote to Continue Strike
About 100 mineworkers voted at Wallsend meeting today to continue the coal strike. The president of the Central Area Committee (Mr. J…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Gas Unions To Handle Haligonian Duke Coal
MELBOURNE: Coal unloaded from the Haligowan Duke will be used for gas making by members of the unions employed at gas works. This was decided by a meeting of 10 unions with members…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Victorian gas employees have not decided whether they will handle coal unloaded from the Haligonian Duke…
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Members of the Army handled the early coal unloaded by the Navy from the collier Haligonian Duke, in Melbourne. In the…
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OPEN CUTS.—Map. shows the location of all open-cut mines (indicated by black squares) in New South Wales coal areas…
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BRISBANE.—Ipswich miners decided at Booval today by 330 votes to 323 not to discuss settlement terms unless they included the release of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unionists To Cart Melbourne Coal
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Members of the Transport Workers' Union will begin transporting coal from the Haligonian Duke to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Lift Endorsed By Railmen
A combined meeting of Broad-meadow and Port Waratah sub-branches of the Australian Railways Union yesterday endorsed the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters To The Editor Miners Thanked
I WOULD like to thank those miners of Greta and the Leaconfield colliery who jointly provided free coal for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Teachers For Governments In Coal Strike
Newcastle branch of the Teachers' Federation dealt with five motions and amendments, two points of order and a motion of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Talks On Coal Peace Planned "End Of Strike Near" Observers Declare
3SYDNEY: Proposals for ending the month-old coal strike will be submitted to the Coal Mining Unions' Council on Wednesday by the A.C.T.U. The executive of the C.M.U.C. today accepted, the proposal of…
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SYDNEY: The importance of each industry would be judged individually by experts when open-cut mines became available, said the Emergency Electricity Commissioner (Mr. Conde) today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Seamen Support Miners
A stopwork meeting of members of the Seamen's Union in Newcastle today carried a resolution in support of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Letter Box Open-Cut Mines
Despite high-sounding Government advertisements that have already cost more than £100,000 of taxpayers' money, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Shortage Of Gas Coal
SYDNEY.—A grave shortage of coal for gas had developed, the Minister for Local Government (Mr. Cahill)…
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WHATEVER the outcome of the strike, the Governments must give earnest consideration to one point: the building up of a stock-pile to prevent industry ever again collapsing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proud Support For Miners—Labour Council
Newcastle Trades Hall Council was proud to have allied itself with the miners. This was said yesterday by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners at Two Centres Call For Meetings
Fifty miners at Singleton and 40 at Lidsdale, Western district, yesterday carried motions, calling for aggregate meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steady Rise In Open-cut Coal
Open-cut coal production in New South Wales has risen steadily from 45,000 tons in 1940 to 104,000 tons so far this year. The Government had set…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lift Of 16,000 Tons Of West Coal Begins
LITHGOW: Under icy cold conditions the first trainload of open-cut coal moved from Renown Siding at 11.30 this morning. Loading operations continued both at Renown Siding and Ben Bullen…
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