Army To Make Early Start On Deep Mines
SYDNEY: Troops would go down underground mines as soon as Army technical personnel was available to guide their operation, the Minister for Fuel (Senator Ashley) said today…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Miners' 'Work Day' May Be Aug. 15; Prospects Surveyed
SYDNEY: The Miners' Centra I Council will meet tomorrow and it is predicted that its meeting may be adjourned until Monday This would mean that it would be impossible to hold…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Fright Campaign' At Lighgow Against Coal, Railmen Believe
LITHGOW: While detectives are puzzled by a report that two shots were fired into the Lithgow railway yard yesterday, some railway men handling open-cut coal believe they are the victims of a "fright" campaign. These men believe that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Warned Of Penalties
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Striking miners faced a number of penalties, the Federal Minister for Health (Senator McKenna) said to-day at an A.L.P. rally in the Domain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Recommendation To Miners' Meetings
SYDNEY: The Miners' Central Council recommendation to go before aggregate meetings of miners was released today. It seeks a direction to the Central Executive to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strike Lessons "Invaluable"
The coal strike had provided the community and workers with a number of valuable lessons, Mr. D. O. Watkins, M.H.R., said in an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Communists Pledge Support For Miners
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A resolution supporting the miners' claims and demanding the repeal of fund-freezing legislation, the release of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Miners May Act Alone
IPSWICH.—Unless the Queensland Colliery Employees' Union decides to call a mass meeting by Wednesday, rank…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →530 Deaths In Uranium Mines
BERLIN, August 7. A.A.P. — The British-licensed Berlin "Telegraf" said yesterday that since the beginning of 1949, 530 persons had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Polish Coal Offer To Government
CANBERRA.—An offer of 20,000 metric tons of Polish coal at £3 2s 6d sterling per metric ton had been referred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protests Over Plans Of Miners' Council
Calling of aggregate miners' meetings for the southern and western coalfields of N.S.W. before those scheduled for the north has caused widespread protests among moderate northern officials. It was learnt today that the Northern Management Board had demanded last week that all aggregate meetings should be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Naval Rating May Man Coal Ship
To ensure that Tasmania gets urgently-needed coal, naval ratings may be called upon tomorrow to man the interstate freighter Dalby. Seamen refused in the middle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Union Leader Attacks Coal Meeting Plans
The basis on which the Miners' Central Council decided to call aggregate meetings tomorrow and Wednesday was "straight out politically dishonest," Mr. J. Shortell told a public meeting at Kurri today. Mr. Shorten, who is senior…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fights To The Death In Mine Depths
FIGHTS to the death are going on in the big mines in the Cessnock district. They are among the rat population…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters To The Editor Coal Board Amenities
THE tree-planting scheme, cited as one of the amenities given to mining districts by the Joint Coal Board, is being proceeded with in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →30,000 Tons Of Coal In Week
For the first week's operation of open-cut mines by troops 30,495 tons of coal was delivered to rail heads. Troops working Muswellbrook…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Gas Workers Refuse To Declare Army-Won Coal 'Black'
SYDNEY: Gas union officials who argued that coal mined by troops be declared "black" were hooted and jeered by a lunch-hour meeting of nearly 1000 gas workers at the Australian Gas Light Co.'s Mortlake works today. The meeting, which lasted an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter Box Miners' Meetings
At last the C.M.U.C. has been granted aggregate meetings. Every unionist who has been following the strike since its…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Troops Surpass Coal Target
SYDNEY: Servicemen engaged on coal production at open-cut mines produced more than 45,000 tons in their first week's operations, exceeding Army estimates by nearly 6000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freighter's Coal For Tasmania
Top: Some of the gas coal to be loaded on the Dalby in Newcastle today for shipment to Tasmania arrived at the Basin branded "To Ben Chifley with love from the boys." Below: Members of the Dalby's crew standing on the deck of…
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