Mine Pensions Amendments: Ms.L.A. Protest on Rejection
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Federal Government's rejection of vital amendments to the Miners' Pension Act brought protests from three coalfield members in the Legislative Assembly to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Plan Action Against Pillar Coal
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY: The Miners' Central Council today reaffimed its opposition to the use of machines on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Council May Split On Pillar Coal
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A split vote in the Miners' Central Council is likely to-morrow when a decision is made on the pillar coal issue…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gun Battle At Mine
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 2
SINGAPORE, Thursday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Special constables guarding a tin mine in the Kota Tinggi area of Pohore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Idle As Men Protest On Bill
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 4
Aberdare Central mineworkers decided at a pit-top meeting yesterday morning to take the day off as a protest against the Communist…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Callide Coal For Victoria Again
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 3
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Victorian Government has agreed to take another trial cargo of Callide coal from Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Question On Miners' Pensions "Too Involved"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 3
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A question asked by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Vincent) in the Legislative Assembly to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Position Today At North's Mines
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 1
On the northern coalfields today these mines were completely idle: Northern, Aberdare…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Denies Miners Divided On Anti-Red Bill
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 7
SYDNEY: The Miners' general president (Mr. I. Williams), on behalf of the rest of the executive, today issued a statement denying that the Miners' Council was divided on opposition to the Anti-Red Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Western Coal Loss: 8 Pits Idle
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 2
LITHGOW: Although only eight mines on the Western field were idle this morning, coal production was down to less than one-quarter they potential output. Western miners made it clear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big N.S.W. Coal Loss In Protest On Anti-Red Bill
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 1
Half of N.S.W.'s potential daily coal production was lost today when thousands of miners struck in protest against the Federal Government's Communist Party Dissolution Bill. Indications from pit-top meetings were that Communist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Move On Pillar Coal
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Miners' Central Council decided to-day to call aggregate meetings should any attempt be made to extract pillar coal mechanically…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Management Denies Colliery Idle
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 1
The management of Crofton Colliery issued a statement to-day denying that the mine had stopped work yesterday on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK No. 1 MINE
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 3
In a report of the decisions of pit-top meetings yesterday it was incorrectly stated that at Cessnock No. 1 mine a section…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Council Support For Southern Lodge
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Central Council of the Miners' Federation decided to-day to support fully any action taken by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Objection To Gold Price Rise
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 4
WASHINGTON, May 4, A.A.P.—The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund yesterday recommended the rejection of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One Protest Coal Stoppage In North
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 1
While there were no protest stoppages by northern miners today against the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tribunal Grants Height Money To Contract Miners
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 3
Increased payments for certain contract miners, bratticemen and members of mechanical units in the Northern N.S.W. district were announced by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) in Newcastle today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Pensioners Seek Amendments
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 4
Northern district mining pensioners would ask the Miners' Central Council to make another attempt to have the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Decide Congress Policy
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 3
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Central Council of the Miners' Federation to-day directed its delegates to the special congress of the Australian Council of Trade-unions in Melbourne on…
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