Bigger Coal Darg Talks
SYDNEY, Monday.—Miners and coalowners' representatives will confer in Newcastle on Friday on increasing the darg as the result of…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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£1 Wage Rise For Miners Now Payable
SYDNEY, Monday.—The basic wage increase of £1 a week will be payable to New South Wales miners from yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Levy For Vic. Railwaymen
After hearing addresses by representatives of the Victorian rail strikers at pit-top meetings, a number of miners' lodges had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transport Of Coal "State Matter"
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Although the Joint Coal Board had certain powers concerning the transport of coal, it was primarily…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stay-In Strike By 67 Miners
Sixty-seven contract miners staged a stay-in strike at Stockrington No. 1 Colliery today. It was the first "stay-In" on the coalfields for some years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heating Stops Work At One Northern Mine
The omy Northern mine idle yesterday was South Waratah, on the Newcastle field, where a heating in a section of old workings…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Australia To Need "Little N.S.W. Coal"
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—When the new regional power station, now under construction at Port Augusta, was in full operation,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Minister Mine Pension Chairman
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Arthur) has been appointed Chairman of the Miners' Superannuation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wonthaggi Miners' Pay Rises
SYDNEY.—An interim order by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) today increases the wages of miners at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stay-In Mine Strikers Have No Food Worries
Mineworkers who are staging a stay-in strike at Stockrington No. 1 colliery have no food problems. When the strike began at 7 a.m. yesterday the men had…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Stay-in Mine Strike Food Sent In To Men
Sixty-five underground workers at Stockrington mine, West Wallsend, who started a stay-in strike yesterday morning, showed no sign late last night of leaving the pit…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →C.S.I.R.O. Survey Planned To Help Save Coal
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The conservation and efficient use of Australia's limited coal resources might be assisted by fuel research…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Williams Wins Miners' Ballot
SYDNEY.—The general president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Williams) has been re-elected for another two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Stay-In Strike Ends
Stockrington No. 1 colliery stay-in strikers marched out of the mine at 1 o'clock this morning. They had been in the pit 54 hours. They had been addressed by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Western Miners' Ballot Anti-Communist
LITHGOW, Thursday.—Of eight elected to the Western Board of Management of the Miners' Federation, not one is a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Week-end Coal Lifts Planned
LITHGOW, Thursday.—Five thousand tons of open cut coal will be railed from Lithgow to Bunnerong powerhouse in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stay-In Strikers Decided To Leave Mine Voluntarily
Before their decision to end their stay-in strike at Stockrington No. 1 Colliery early this morning, the 65 men in the mine had scattered throughout the workings to make it more difficult to get them out of the pit if any attempt were made to remove them…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Transport Breaks Down Under Near-record Coal Output
Unable to cope with the near-peak production of the northern coalfields this week, the coal transport system has choked up and several mines had to work considerably below their capacity today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Invincible Colliery's Net Profit £1909
Net profit of Invincible Colliers' Ltd. for the year ended September 9, was £1909, says the annual report. This was Otter providing £5044 for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners Show New Strike Technique
Strikers at Stockrington No. 1 colliery this week revealed a technique new to the coalfields. Their stay-in strike was mostly a…
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