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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

2,299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 75 of 115

Bellbird Colliery Idle Again To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 3

Bellbird colliery will be idle again to-day because of the leaking seals in the 12 slants section. The Senior Mines inspector (Mr…

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Miners Bar Alleged Communist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Wednesday.—Employees of Preston Extended colliery, neat Gunnedah, to-day refused to work with a man who they…

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Motions For Miners' Board Conflict

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2

The Northern Miners' Board of Management will have conflicting notices of motion before it to-day. North Wallarah lodge has…

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Subsidy For Gold Unlikely

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Unless America, at the forthcoming international Monetary Fund Conference, agreed to raising the price…

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Mine Stowage Report For State Assembly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. —The Premier (Mr. McGirr) will lay on the table of the Legislative Assembly when it meets on August…

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No Industrial Disputes In Northn. Mines

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2

Northern N.S.W. mines were free of industrial disputes today. Coal production on the field, however, was down 3580 tons from other causes. The big gas coal mine…

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North Lost 4550 Tons Of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2

Coal production loss in the Northern district yesterday was 4550 tons. The idle mines were:—Bellbird: The mine was idle again…

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Barrier Miners' Threat Of Day A Week Stoppage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—A three to one majority in a vote of 3500 unionists at a stop-work meeting to-day decided that a…

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Miners' Strike Money Repayment In Court To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Miners, Federation will pay into the Arbitration Court to-morrow most of the £23,700 it withdrew from banks during the coal…

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Gunnedah Miners Told 'Wrong' Not to Work with Red

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 3

Mine wheelers at Curlewis Colliery, Gunnedah, who refused to work with a man on the grounds that he was a Communist, have been informed by the Miners' Federation that their action is…

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Miners' Strike Pay Plan to Be Referred to Lodges

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2

The proposal that an issue of strike relief pay should be granted by the Miners' Federation to members in the northern district is to be referred to lodges for discussion. The Miners' Northern Management Board considered the…

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Court At Kurri (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.) Stole Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 3

George Reginald Cardow, of Clark St., Weston pleaded guilty to charge of stealing a quantity of coal valued at 65, the property of…

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Mine Move Against Communists Fails

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 4

A proposal by North Wallarah lodge, that no members of the Communist Party should hold official positions in the miners' Federation, was ruled out of order at a meeting of the Northern Miners'…

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Miners Told Must Work With Communist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 2

The Northern Miners' Board of Management yesterday endorsed a letter written by the Secretary (Mr. Simpson) to the Secretary of…

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Army Returns Mine Gear to Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 1

Earth-moving equipment used by the Army on open-cut mining operations returned in Sydney yesterday. This section of a long…

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Angry Scenes Over ACTU Coal Report

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Angry scenes, in which delegates were invited to "come outside and have it out," marked the debate on the A.C.T.U. Executive's report on the coal strike at the Melbourne Trades Hall Council last…

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Mines Free Of Disputes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1949 · page 2

The State was clear of industrial disputes in coalmines yesterday. The only mine idle because men refused to work was Bellbird. Here…

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Discoverers Can Mine Uranium Deposits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1949 · page 4

CANBERRA, Friday.—Federal Cabinet decided to-day on new regulations ensuring that anybody discovering uranium deposits would…

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Clash On Week's Coal Output

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Joint Coal Board and the colliery proprietors clashed to-day on' how much coal had been lost on New South Wales coalfields this week by avoidable strikes…

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Soviet Miners Double Output

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 2

MOSCOW, Mon. (A.A.P.): Mechanisation in the Donetz coalfield has enabled workers in some pits to double…

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