Mining Unions' Claims Rejected
BROKEN HILL, Friday.—Mining companies have rejected a further list of claims for a new agreement, resubmitted to them by the…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Coal Act Repeal To Be Examined
CANBERRA, Friday.—Repeat of the National Emergency (Coal Strike) Act, under which trade-union funds were frozen, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First South Maitland Coal trains
The first coal trains from the South Maitland fields should be on their way to Newcastle by noon on Monday, the superintendent of South Maitland Railways (Mr. J. Proctor) said today. He said that most mines had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Missing Gold Bullion Sought By Police
MELBOURNE: Police, railways and P.M.G. detectives are investigating the disappearance of gold bullion worth £3160, which was loaded on to the Bendigo mail train about midday on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Army To Quit Mines Unions Accept Multiple Shifts
SYDNEY: Coalmining union leaders, at a conference with the Joint Coal Board today, agreed to operate open-cut mines on multiple shifts. Troops will be withdrawn from the open cuts at midnight on Sunday. A Joint Coal Board spokesman said that 400 additional workers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Coal Shipments Should Leave On Monday Night
Shipments of coal from Newcastle are expected to be in full swing by next Monday night. "Sixty-milers" will be the first to leave with coal for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →75,000 Tons Of Coal Won At Open Cuts
SYDNEY, Friday.—In the 10 days that servicemen had been working open-cut fields in New South Wales, they had produced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Blacksmith Injured
Jim Stewart, 38, of Ellalong, a blacksmith at Stanford Main No. 2 colliery, was kicked by a horse he was shoeing on Saturday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First Coal Since Strike
FIRST COAL leaving the cage at John Darling Colliery, Belmont, this morning. Most mines resumed after the seven-weeks' strike, but with first-day difficulties to be overcome it was not expected that production figures would be very high…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letter Box Troops In Mines
The Government should keep the Army working in open-cut mines until there is enough coal on hand to alter the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collieries Ready to Start To-day First Trainload Due By Afternoon
Deputies went into Northern mines at 11 o'clock last night to make pre-shift inspections preparatory to the general resumption of work by mineworkers to-day after the seven-week strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queensland Miners Refuse To Sign On
BRISBANE: Miners in at least five mines in the West Moreton field refused to start work when required to sign on when they reported for work this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Bullion Worth £3160 Disappeared
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Gold bullion worth £3160 disappeared from a train between Bendigo and Melbourne last Wednesday, police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Workers Stood Down At 'Unlucky' Aberdare Extended
More than 250 mine workers have lost their jobs at Aberdare Extended mine—regarded by miners as the unluckiest colliery on the South Maitland field. The men were cavilled out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →20,000 Tons Expected From Northern Mines Today
New South Wales mineworkers resumed work today after their seven-weeks strike but the first day's coal production will be far below the State's normal peak production…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Leaders Apologise and Seek Release From Long Bay
SYDNEY: Five officials of the Miners' Federation sought their immediate release from gaol in applications lodged in the Arbitration Court in Sydney at 12.30 p.m. today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Strike Because They Didn't Get Free Coal Issue
SYDNEY.—Mine workers at the Government-owned State mine in the west struck today on a demand for immediate issue of a ton of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →5 Queensland Mines Idle
BRISBANE, Monday.—Five Ipswich coalmines which employ 230 men, with a total production of about 800 tons, are still idle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Household Coal From
Home deliveries of coal probably would be resumed on Friday, a spokesman for a city fuel supply company said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →7 Mines Idle In North
Although a slightly greater output is expected from the North today, the field's…
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