Big Rise in Rail Coal Lift
The Railway Department is now running 85 coal trains a day on all lines except the South Maitland Railways, representing about…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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Miners May Set Output Record In 1950
SYDNEY Friday.—The Joint Coal Board figures issued to-day showed that, if New South Wales mineworkers maintained their rate…
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Health and medical problems of the coal industry were discussed yesterday, when the Federal Minister for Health (Sir Earle Page)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →8 Mines Idle Today In North
There were eight stoppages of work at mines on the northern coalfields today, bat only four of them were due to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Traffic On Flood Line Likely
Coal traffic on the South Maitland railway may resume to-morrow. The Secretary of South Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Dispute Extends
The dispute that has caused Millfield Greta colliery to be idle for three weeks has been extended to Ayrfield colliery. Rhondda (Northern) colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rising Water Delays Coal Line Opening
The reopening of the South Maitland coal line has been further delayed by a rise during the night in the flood water over the line at Fishery Creek. It was anticipated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Costly Programme To Make Miners Happy, Boost Output
pearly a million pounds has already been spent by the Joint Coal Board on community and social amenities for N.S.W. miners and much more will be spent in an effort to transform the industry from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Cutting Without Tears In U.K.
LONDON, July 10. A.A.P.— Britain will soon be using on a big scale a coalmining machine that will win 100,000 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Line-up Urged by Mine Leaders Seek Union Front On Korean Issue
SYDNEY, Monday.—Miners Federation leaders are trying to form a triple union front to support the "bands off Korea" campaign. They seek and alliance with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Retired Miners Seek Poll Jobs
Belmont-Swansea retired mineworkers decided to ask Mr. Booth, M.L.A., to ask the Federal and State Governments to fill the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Move on Korea "Not Discussed By Executive"
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation had not discussed the Korean situation, the General Secretary (Mr. G. W. S. Grant) said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Normal Haulage Of Coal Held Up By Floodwater
A rise in floodwaters covering the South Maitland Railways line to Cessnock has delayed plans for…
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PARIS, Thurs. (A.A.P.). — The Economic Committee of the Council of Europe yesterday recommended that the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Loyalty Test An Insult To Miners
The Communists on the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation have given Australian mineworkers until July 28…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Supplies Move Seamen, Miners React On Ban
Rank and file seaman and miners are beginning to react against moves by their leaders to oppose the Korean war. Sydney seamen yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Price Of State Mine Coal Criticised
LITHGOW, Thursday.—It was claimed at Blaxland Shire Council to-day that Lithgow power-house, which is near the State…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →N.Z. Mine Strike
AUCKLAND, July 13. A.A.P. Reuter.—Fifteen hundred miners at Waikato coalfields went on strike to-day to secure the reinstatement…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shunter Jammed in Mine
Pat Post, 21, of Bellevue-road, Cessnock, a shunter at Elrington colliery, injured his pelvis yesterday when jammed between a loco…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£1000 Awards To Miners' Widows
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The widows of two miners were each awarded £1000 by Judge Rainbow, in the Workers'…
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