Northern Miners' Conference Has Made No Decision
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 August 1949 · page 1
After three sessions totalling nine hours of discussion, the Northern miners' lodge delegates' conference in Newcastle had still not reached a decision at lunch-time today…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1949 · page 3
Miners' area committee meetings arrange for to-day at West Wallsend and Teralba have been postponed…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1949 · page 1
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Officers of the New South Wales Criminal Investigation Branch were investigating reports of sabotage of…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1949 · page 1
The miners' lodge delegates conference which opened in Newcastle yesterday to consider requests for aggregate meetings adjourned till this morning without making…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 August 1949 · page 1
PERTH, Wednesday.—Professor D. W. Phillips, who is on his way to Sydney to take the Foundation Chair of Coal and Metal Mining…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letter Box The Coal Strike
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 4
Your correspondent, N. M. Nesbitt, poses a number of questions, some of which a child could answer and other which…
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The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1
LITHGOW: Two men employed at Lithgow gas works were suspended early today for refusing to handle coal won by…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The miners' Acting President (Mr. Hamilton) would not be granted permission to use an amplifier in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Minister "Not Against A.W.U. Miners"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Fuel (Senator Ashley) said to-day that he would not oppose any move by the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Miners May By-pass Their Leaders
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 3
IPSWICH: A meeting of Aberdare No. 8 miners at Bundamba this morning decided to move for mass meetings independent of the Miners' Union executive unless the executive called mass meetings by Monday. The meeting, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Coal Plan for Army Mechanised Pits Survey
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 3
A survey of at least 10 mechanised underground mines on the New South Wales coalfields is being made for the Federal Government, which is considering using troops to work…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 4
SYDNEY, Thursday.—An increase of 10/ a week in shift allowance was granted to Newcastle coal cranedrivers by the Industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Cap Best Investment For Meeting At Canterbury
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 12
Gold Cap, trained at Broadmeadow by K. Tinson, appeals in the first division of the Ashbury Mixed Stakes at Canterbury tomorrow. Gold Cap is to be ridden by J. .Thompson. Homeleigh Dick is selected for…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 2
Northern Miners' Board of Management members who voted against the lodge delegates' conference decision were condemned…
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The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 3
LITHGOW.—A schoolboy staged his own "coal strike" at a Lithgow school this week…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 1
CANBERRA. Friday.—The Commonwealth Government has sponsored the Victorian Government for the regular supply of coal…
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The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 3
About 4000 tons of coal are expected to be railed from Minmi and Muswellbrook open-cuts today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dutch Mines Strike-free For 40 Years
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 5
While the fearful ghost of coal-strikes stalks over Australian and looms over many other countries, one…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 3
The lifting of electricity restrictions for brick and the making will have no appreciable effect on the production of bricks and tiles…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1949 · page 2
Open-cut coal has for the first time become a factor in an obstinate industrial dispute. It was not until 1940 that open-cut…
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