Dispute On Coal Filling Rate
Large-scale stoppages might occur because of the dispute concerning the miners' filling rate for machine-cut coal, a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1951
1,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 79
6 Mines Out Over Food Shortages
Miners at six South Coast collieries stopped work yesterday in protest against the shortage of butler and other foodstuffs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Board Hopes Build Gas Coal Stocks
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Joint Coal Board hopes to build coal stocks at the Mortlake and other gas plants to avoid periodic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners To Pay Berlin Youth Festival Levy
Members of the Burwood Miners' Lodge at a pit-top meeting had agreed unanimously to a 5s levy to help meet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opposition To System Of Mining
Opposition to the machine contract system was expressed at a meeting of the B.H.P. Miners' Merger Committee last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North's Good Coal Week
The northern N.S.W. coalfields this week have had one of their best production weeks of the year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coffee Pots Hold Up Coal Ship
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A dispute over coffee pots has prevented the sailing or the coastal freighter Coolana…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oil From Coal Arthur's Plea To Menzies
SYDNEY: An appeal to the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) to prevent the closing down of Glen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increase in Coal Shipments
Coal shipments from Newcastle this week were almost 26,000 tons more than last week and the highest for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Machine-Cut Coal Rates
Plans to publicise the miners' case in the dispute about rates of pay for machine-cut coal were discussed at a meeting at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Coal Tonnage This Week
The State had another good coal production day yesterday. Only three Northern mines were on strike, for a coal production loss of about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill Miners Are Moneyed Men
BROKEN HILL, wonder city of the Far West, is a worker's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Challenge To Coal Laws; Unions' View
SYDNEY, Friday.—Representatives of four coalmining unions to-day called upon the Federal Government to fulfil its promise to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Idle As Butter Protest
First protest stoppage on the northern coalfields against the butter shortage occurred to-day at a small colliery, Austral…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →50 Years With Coal Company
Mr. J. M. Proctor today completed his 50th year of service with the old East Greta Coal Mining Co. and its successor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Research Lab. Favored
The Minister for Mines (Mr. Arthur) told a deputation from the Cessnock branch of the A.L.P. yesterday that he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Boycott Pension Case
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Miners" Federation will boycott proceedings before the Mineworkers' Superannuation Tribunal in Newcastle on Friday week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Northern Mines Idle
Stoppages at five mines to-day caused a loss of 1870 tons on the northern field. A dispute, involving the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Watersiders, Miners to See Farmers
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Miners' Federation and Waterside Workers' Federation will seek a deputation to the Primary Producers' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.k. Coal Profits Drop
LONDON, June 25. A.A.P.— Britain's nationalised coalmines earned a surplus of only £980,000 in the first three months of this…
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