Striking Miners Go Back in America
PITTSBURGH, Mon. (AAP). —Thousands of coalminers who were on strike last week returned to work today…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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National Fitness Camp For Miners' Children
The Secretary of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. N. Stuart) announced today that mineworkers' children in the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BLONDIE Worth Its Weight In Gold
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four Mines Idle In North: 2000 Tons Lost
Industrial disputes on the northern coalfields today threw four collieries idle and caused a loss of almost 2000 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suspended Wharfmen Defy Board And Unload Maitland Coal
MELBOURNE: Coal-handling members of the Waterside Workers' Federation in Melbourne this morning defied the Stevedoring Industry Board and unloaded Maitland coal from the collier…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Watersiders Defy Board, Unload Coal
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Members of the Waterside Workers' Federation handling coal defied threats of further suspension by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Most U.S. Miners Still On Strike
PITTSBURG, Tues. (A.A.P.) —Nearly 60,000 of the 90.000 miners on strike last week are still out…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Cup For Annual Corinthian Race
The distillers of White Horse Whisky have donated its Gold Cup to Newcastle Jockey Club for an annual Corinthian Cup race at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Callide Coal Test In Loco, 'Not Conclusive'
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Tests with Callide coal as fuel for a locomotive hauling a full load of goods between Melbourne and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Migrant Labour Seen As Aid In Coal Industry
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Chairman of the Commonwealth Immigration Planning Council (Mr. J. Storey) said to-day that with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board To Search For Branxton Coal
Five authorities to enter an area of 2291 acres in the parishes of Barford (Durham) and Branxton (Northumberland) were granted the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →3800-Ton Coal Output Loss
The coal production loss throughout the State yesterday was 3800 tons. Three mines were idle in the north, two in the south, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mutt and Jeff Coal Shudder
WELL, I CAN GIVE YOU A DAY'S WORK DELIVERING COAL TO MRS. CRABB!…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Discuss Pension, Leave With Minister
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The extension of long service leave benefits to Glen Davis shale miners and the rectification of anomalies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Increase For Northern Coal Wheelers
SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today refused to grant contract wheelers in northern N.S.W. collieries an increase of 3d per ton for base wheeling rates…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Loss Today In Coal Output
With only one mine idle and another partly manned, for a coal loss of about 930 tons, production on the northern field…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stowage Test For Bellbird Pillar Coal
Millions of tons of pillar coal might be recovered if an experiment to be carried out by the Joint Coal Board at Bellbird…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men To Resume Work On Coal Ship
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Waterside Workers' Federation will instruct members previously engaged on working the collier Dumosa to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortage Of Coal Hits U.S. Health
WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P.) : Because of reduced coal production, national health and welfare "is now or soon will be imperilled." Australian-born James Boyd…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Mining Needs Its Own Minister
The Prime Minister may strain a sound theory in his proposal to reallocate ministerial duties to avoid overlapping among…
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