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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

2,299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 67 of 115

Three Mining UNions Declare Against Mass Meetings

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 30 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: A serious blow to the proposed aggregate meetings of miners next week was the announcement today that three militant unions on the Combined Mining Onions' Council would oppose the meetings…

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Call for Mine Meetings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 2

Public meetings at Boolaroo and Swansea on Saturday called by the Labour Party decided to urge mineworkers to seek aggregate meetings…

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Politicians "Cannot Break Miners' Union"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Miners' Federation was that perfect that politicians could not break through of, Mr. J. Hitchcock, a member of…

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2000 Mines Attend Cessnock Meeting

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 2

Half an hour before today's mass meeting of miners on the Cessnock Sports Ground began 1500 men had packed into the grandstand and were standing around the loud speakers. The meeting was called…

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Protest Over Army's Coal Role

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 3

Mineworkers held an open air meeting at Minmi yesterday to protest against the proposed use of Army personnel in the open…

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Transport Man Warns Miners Of Sanctions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 2

If the worst came to the worst, the Land Transport Group would impose sanctions on mineworkers, the Assistant State Secretary of the…

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Miners Meet At Cessnock To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

Rank and file members of the Miners' Federation in the Cessnock district will hold a special meeting this afternoon. This, it is understood, is because of Sydney decisions at the…

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Picketing Attempted At Q'land Mines

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 7

BRISBANE.—Picketing was attempted when 53 of the 81 men at the three Caledonian mines in the Rosewood district…

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Berlin Home Fires to Get More Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

BERLIN, July 31. A.A.P.—The Western Powers authorised Western Berlin City Government to issue for domestic heating eight times as…

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Army Will Make Start On Coal At Midnight

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 3

LITHGOW: At 12.1 a.m. tomorrow Army, Navy and Air Force personnel will begin the first shift of winning coal from seven open-cut mines in the western coalfields. When the signal is given…

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S. Aust. Won't Need Our Coal Soon

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 7

ADELAIDE.—In three or four years South Australia would be independent of N.S.W. coal and would not be affected by…

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5 Moderates Leave Mine Council Meetings Off; Farce, Says Chairman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday—The Acting Chairman (Mr. W. Blair) and four other moderate delegates today walked out of a meeting of the Coalmining Union's Council originally called to fix a date for…

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Injured At Colliery

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 4

Thomas Johnson, 49, of Cruickshank St., Bellbird, fractured his left ankle today when struck by a piece of timber…

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More Queensland Mines Resume

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday.—Three of the largest Caledonian mines west of Ipswich commended production this morning…

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Gold Smuggling Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: Gold weighing 24 ounces was seized on Saturday from William John Hunter (28) air pilot employed by Qantas…

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Coal for W.a

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 3

PERTH, Monday.—The Premier (Mr McIarry) to-day announced the British Ministry of Fuel had approved the release of 7000 tons…

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Minmi's Coal Output Hampered By Water

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 2

Production at Minmi open-cut mine today was hampered by water in the open cuts and reconstruction of the culvert washed out by recent rain. Seven trucks have been impressed to haul the coal from…

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Deputation Of Miners Save 'End The Strike'

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 1

Lodge representatives from the B.H.P. and Gully Line mines today led a deputation to the Miners' Federation office in Newcastle to ask that the strike be called off and mineworkers return to arbitration. Members of the deputation in…

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EDITORIAL One Cure For Recurring Coal Famines

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 6

WHATEVER turn developments in the coal crisis may take this week, public opinion will demand the vigorous prosecution of open-cut mining on a permanent basis…

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Food Sent to Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 August 1949 · page 2

Relief for distress in the coalfields was coming in the form of food front trade-unions and trade-unionists in Sydney, the Northern…

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