Western Miners To Discuss Retrenchments
LITHGOW, Wednesday.—The Western Miners' Board of Management is being summoned to discuss the number of retrenchments on…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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Miner Caught by Coal Fall
Caught by a fall of coal in Pacific Colliery yesterday. L. G. Mitchell, 32, miner, of Booragul, suffered a lacerated left shin and…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Minister for Fuel (Mr. McLeay) said to-day that he hoped to be able to announce the new chairman…
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Disputes in the North yesterday caused stoppages or partial stoppages at six collieries for a production loss of more than 5000…
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Killingworth Colliery, on the northern coalfields, is to be reopened after being out of production for about 20 years. It will have a planned…
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Caledonian Collieries Ltd. expects to get about 1000 tons of coal a day from Killingworth colliery, near Barnsley, which it is to reopen…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—Mr. Wentworth (Lib., N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives to-day announced postponement of his…
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The northern coalfields had a good production day today with only one mine idle. This was Hebburn No. 1…
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LITHGOW: Miners at the State Coal Mine, biggest on the Western field, today asked the State Mine Control Board to conduct an inquiry into an alleged attempt by the manager to stop the pit…
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SYDNEY: Unless miners produced the 18,000,000 tons of coal Australia needed annually workers could not have the standard sought by the unions, Mr. Justice Foster warned today…
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Four mines were idle in the North yesterday, for a coal production loss of 2500 tons. The mines were— Aberdare Central: A pit-top…
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SYDNEY: Coal output in N.S.W. to date this year is 200,000 tons up on the corresponding period last year. With the potential output in-…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters To the Editor Miners' Council Vote
ON MY return from Sydney after attending the meeting of the Miners' Central Council, my attention was drawn to a letter in…
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By Sunday more than 78,000 tons of coal will have been exported from Newcastle this week. The greater portion was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Disciplinary Code 2 to 1 Rejection In North
Northern miners' lodges, by a 2 to 1 majority, had rejected a proposed disciplinary code, the District Secretary of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. B…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Talks To-day On Strike Plan Of Southern Miners
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) has called a compulsory conference at 11 a.m. to-morrow to try to end…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners State Case on Pillar Coal
SYDNEY, Friday.—The age of the pillars—some were claimed to be 50 years old—and the fact that most Northern mines were not operated originally to permit the removal of pillars, are two potent points raised by the Miners' Federation in its case against the use of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Miners' Federation to-day stated a case against mechanical extraction of pillar coal from underground mines…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—As a general rule, employees ready and willing to work were entitled to payment for time occupied when remaining on transport, either pending their carriage to working places, or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion Kills 40 Miners
BRUSSELS, May 12. A.A.P.—Forty coalminers were killed in a mine explosion at Trazegnies yesterday…
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