Coal Board in Output Drive
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Joint Coal Board intends to launch a new propaganda drive on the New South Wales coalfields within a few weeks "to influence mineworkers to accept its plans and allow…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
2,299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 79 of 115
Mines Along Hungarian Border Annoy Austrians
VIENNA, Thurs. (O.S.R.): Strong protests are being voiced in the Austrian Press against danger to the Austrian population of a Hungarian minefield laid among the frontier barbed wire. The protests follow a personal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Best Coal Production Day Since Strike
Today was one of the best days for coal production on the northern field since the general strike ended. Only one mine, Stanford Greta, was unable to work. It has been out of operation since the strike because of…
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SYDNEY. — Sydney County Council wants 2000 of the State Government's 45,000 acres of coal leases in the Burragorang…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There's 15 Years' Coal In The Open Cuts
Open-cut mining, started as the easiest way of augmenting coal production from underground mines, will be an integral and…
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Production at coalmines throughout the State was almost at capacity yesterday. Every mine, except one, worked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Caught In Shot Blast
Two miners were sprayed with small coal when a shot exploded in Sulphide colliery, Boolaroo, yesterday. One was admitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wage-Rates Issue At Open Mines
SYDNEY.—An application for increased shift-work rates of pay at open-cut mines has been listed for mention before the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collier Leaves with Coal for Tasmania
After a stay of more than 11 weeks in Newcastle, the interstate collier, Goulburn, will leave late today with 3100 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hopes Minority Won't Rule Miners Again
The president of the Chamber of Manufactures (Mr. W. G. Wileman) says in his annual report that it was to be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners' First Pay Today For Nearly Three Months
Most mineworkers on northern N.S.W. coalfields today drew their first pay for nearly three months. The men have had to wait three weeks after the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Plan On First Aid In Pits
The Chief Medical Officer of the Coal Board (Dr. George) addressed a large meeting of first-aid men and miners' lodge representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal for N.S.W. Now to Go to W.A.
SYDNEY, Thursday.—State Cabinet had agreed to a joint Coal Board request to divert to Western Australia 30,000 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hope For Injured U.K. Miners
LONDON, Sat. (O.S.R.)—In South Wales a key experiment has begun to take mine-disabled men into new light…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Milk Supplies "Saved By Coal Strike"
But for the coal strike, which brought about a reduction in consumption of 100,000 gallons of milk a week, supplies would have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Output Record in 2 Coal Districts
SYDNEY, Friday.—Southern and Western New South Wales mineworkers set a production record this week and did not have a stoppage of any kind. The Joint Coal Board has given…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland Miners Reinstated
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Chairman of the Board of Reference (Mr. Murray) had ordered the reinstatement of 206 Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Booth And The Miners' Federation
SYDNEY, Sunday. — A recommendation that Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., be deprived of his membership of the Miners' Federation will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Western Miners Talk Of Weekly Stoppages
SYDNEY: Western Miners' Delegate Board today had before it recommendations from two miners' lodges for one-day weekly stoppages until miners' claims are granted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Injured In Fall Of Coal
In a fall of coal at Bloom-field Colliery today, Cliff Clarke, 23, a miner of Wickham-st., Wickham, suffered a…
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