Area Meetings for Miners
Area meetings of miners have been called for this week, starting to-morrow The meetings were called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
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Mechanised Mines May Be Worked
The Government was examining the possibility of working mechanised underground mines in the event of the coal strike…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pilot Charged With Gold Deal
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A Qantas Airways pilot, remanded in the Special Federal Court to-day till August 22, was alleged to have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Army Minister "Pleased" With Coal Production
Goal production at open-cut mines and deliveries to rail heads had exceeded expectations, the Minister for the Army (Mr. Chambers) said to-day. He added that no detailed figures of coal production by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →15 Coal Trains For Sydney Today
SYDNEY: The first train carrying open-cut coal arrived in Sydney at 2 a.m. today. Fourteen more trains from the Northern and Western fields are expected to arrive by tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1300 Troops Winning Open-Cut Coal
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Thirty Regular Army officers and 1273 other ranks are winning coal from northern and western field open…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Army Wins Coal At Muswellbrook
A scene at Muswellbrook open-cut coalmine yesterday, as equipment operated by Army personal won coal from the mine on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stole Coal, Three Fined £5 Each
Three men were each fined £5, with 4/5 witnesses' expenses, by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Meetings "Imminent" Pressure In North Grows
Miners' aggregate meetings were imminent, the Northern Miners' Vice-president (Mr. Cockerill) told mineworkers at Singleton yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sabotage At Open-Cut Mines Is Suspected
CANBERRA: Sabotage, the Government suspects, may have been responsible for breakdowns yesterday in machinery being used in open-cut mining in the Lithgow district. Commonwealth investigation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trains Haul First Coal Won by Troops
Troops took more than 2600 tons of coal from Muswellbrook open-cut yesterday. Military authorities estimated that 4000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nationalisation Of U.K. Mines Attacked "Herald" Service
LONDON, August 2.—After nationalisation miners' work remained in far too many cases as uninspired and grudging as before, Sir Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Count Of Heads Indicates Miners' Lodges In Favor Of Meetings
Aggregate coalfields meetings are expected to be held early next week to decide whether or not the coal strike should continue. Moderates this afternoon, after counting heads at the Northern miners' delegate conference, were confident that the conference would vote in favor of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →20 Tons A Day Now Coal Need At Zara-street
Oil firing of boilers at Zara-street powerhouse has cut coal consumption from 900 tons a day to less than 20 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Protest At Miners' Pension Delay
A meeting of the Cessnock branch of the Retired Mineworkers' Association decided to protest to the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Work By Arny Discussed
SYDNEY.—The Minister for the Army (Mr. Chambers) said today he intended to discuss with the Joint Coal Board the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Delegates At Federation House
Top: Delegates at the conference of Northern miners' lodges at Federation House yesterday. Below (left): Acting Secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Troops Compete On Coal-Winning
TROOPS working the open cut at Muswellbrook have organised a competition among themselves to see which shift gets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Strike "Part Of World Struggle"
NEW YORK, Aug. 3. A.A.P.—"Trud," a Moscow trade-union daily, has described the Australian minerworkers' strike as "part…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain Is Still Losing Gold
LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Britain is still losing gold heavily to Belgium and Switzerland…
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