Serious Shortage Of Coal In Britain
LONDON, Wed. (AA.P.): The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. Alfred Robens) said…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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Miners Vote For Stoppage In the South
SYDNEY: Miners at Wollongong today voted overwhelmingly for one-day weekly national coal stoppages as a protest against the Gallagher incentive pay award…
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CANBERRA: "We will go. as far as any Australian Government has ever gone," said one Minister today in commenting on yesterday's Cabinet decision for a "show-down" unless the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One-day Stoppage Plan Miners Meet On Issue
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—New South Wales coalminers will meet to-morrow and on Thursday to consider a one-day stoppage each week. Mines will be idle on the New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal-Trimmers Favor One Shift Each Day
Newcastle coal-trimmers, who at present work a three-shift system round the clock, today carried a motion favoring restriction of their work to one shift between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Egypt Tries To Check Food, Gold Smuggling
CAIRO, Jan. 23. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Egypt is tightening the control of her eastern frontiers to check smuggling of foodstuffs, gold and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Industry Throughout Australia Suffers As Coal Losses Mount
A coal output loss of 19,500 tons in N.S.W. today and an anticipated loss tomorrow of nearly 50.000 tons could have the .effect of bringing Australian industry to its knees…
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LONDON. Thurs. (A.A.P.).— Rescuers are fighting to save three miners tranced for 12 hours by a roof fall in a…
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The Avismoat, due to sail tonight for Adelaide with 8500 tons of coal, will be the last interstate collier to leave Newcastle this week. Probably it will be late next…
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Strikes caused a coal production loss of about 2125 tons in the North yesterday. Another 4460 tons were lost because mines could…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Crisis Faces U.K. Industry
LONDON, Jan. 24. A.A.P.—Many people in Britain may be thrown out of work soon because of coal shortages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Vote Fayors Stoppage Northern Miners' Decision
Miners on the northern coalfields this morning voted overwhelmingly in favor of weekly one-day stoppages in protest against their new award. This result followed yester-…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Community to Fight Back, Says Coal Tribunal
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) said to-night that an attempt was being made to bring Australia to the point of ruination by mine stoppages. "I hope and feel sure the community will fight back—and fight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Conference, Continued Appeal Suggested by Tribunal
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) said at the compulsory conference to-night that it was open to the Miners' Federation to him for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Emergency" Orgders To Army In Coal Crisis: Threat To Jobs
CANBERRA. — The Army has been instructed to recreate, as an emergency measure, the coal-winning organisation that was used in the general coal strike during the regime of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lead Mine to Stop; No Coal
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Mt. Isa mines will cease production from Monday because of the shortage of coal, caused by floods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Meet At Belmont
Miners listen to their leaders at the aggregate meeting held at Belmont yesterday morning. The meeting, by 313 votes to four, favoured the recommendation for weekly stoppages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Agree to Weekly Stoppages
Miners at aggregate meetings in four States yesterday voted in favour of a one-day stoppage each week as a protest against the new award. The Miners' General President (Mr. I…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Security Check On Miners' Photos Feared
Photographs of miners taken by the Joint Coal Board could be used for identification under the Communist Party Dissolution Act. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Pension, Under New Act Delayed
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Delay had occurred in paying miners' pensions and compensation under the new State Act, the Minister for…
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