Direction To Miners Expected
SYDNEY.—The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation will meet in Sydney this afternoon to consider directing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
2,299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 72 of 115
No Consideration For Striking Miners
Striking miners could not expect special, or any, consideration to advance their community while they persisted in refusing the basic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Move Against Mine Preference
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Cancellation of an award giving preference of employment to financial members of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Branxton Miners' Confidence. In Executive
Mr. J. Aurisch, who was chairman of yesterdya's miners' aggregate meeting at Branxton, today informed the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Call Off Plans For Breakaway
MUSWELLBROOK: Yesterday's defeat of the miners' leaders at aggregate meetings has caused north-western…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wonthaggi Miners May Not Go Back
MELBOURNE.—Despite yesterday's vote by N.S.W. miners it is not certain that work will be resumed at the Wonthaggi…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mine Council's First Rebuff In 20 Years
[?]miners yesterday and to-day rejected a Central Council recommendation for the first time since 1929…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Hold-up Expected With Coal Trains
Union officials do not expect any Hold-up in resumption of work by South Maitland railway employees when the coal strike ends. Employees of the railway were dismissed because they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Likely to Work Monday Vote Against Council Overwhelming
Indications last night were that miners would go back to work on Monday after a seven-week strike. The total vote at miners' aggregate meeting in New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shiftmen Authorised to Prepare Mines Resumption Directed By Miners' Council
The Acting Central Executive of the Miners' Federation has authorised the employment of members required by mine managements to prepare collieries for work on Monday. First-class…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letter Box Miners' Constitution
Apart from the merits or demerits of the miners' struggle, it seems strange to the uninitiated that aggregate meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welsh Coal Reaches Newcastle
The British steamer Laomedon arrived in Newcastle yesterday with 1600 tons of high quality anthracite coal from Swansea, Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five Fishermen Killed by Mine
ROME, August 11. A.A.P.—A floating mine off the Sardinian coast blew up a fishing boat, killing all five occupants. Two bodies were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Early For Steel Works
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The steel industry would receive normal quantities of coal front the first day's production when miners resumed work on Monday, a Joint Coal Board spokesman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipowners Ask For Coal Allocation
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Shipowners have asked for an immediate allocation of coal for ships immobilised by the strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rose From Pitboy To Mining Professor
SYDNEY.—A pitboy in a Welsh coalmine who rose to be a professor arrived at Sydney today in the Orontes to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Govt. Coal Reserve Plan Backed By A.L.P.
SYDNEY: There will be no hitch in the building of a reserve stockpile of coal, A.L.P. leaders today having given a pledge that they will support the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Authority Says: Mining Should Be Made Easier
SYDNEY, Friday.—Professor D. W. Phillips said to-day the aim in coalmining should be to make mining easier for men in the industry. Professor Phillips arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Mines May Not Resume
All mines on the South Maitland field, with the possible exception of Bellbird and Aberdare Extended, should resume production on Monday after six weeks' idleness…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All-round Trial In Mine Resumption
THIS WEEK-END will be a busy time for those charged with getting everything ready for the mines at start on Monday…
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