Students Inspect Burwood Colliery
Eighteen youths from Sydney and Newcastle, who are seeking Coal Board scholarships to Sydney University and the University of…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
1,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 79
Boys Tour Burwood Colliery
Eighteen boys from Sydney and Newcastle were taken on a tour of Burwood colliery yesterday by Joint Coal Board officials…
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Only two coalmines were idle on the Northern field yesterday. The production loss was about 1200 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.K. Coal Consumption Exceeds Production
LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Britain this year has burned 1,000,000 tons more coal than she has produced and stocks…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Letters To The Editor Miners and Unionism
MILITANTS of Newcastle Trades Hall have remained strangely silent on criticism of the ever-backward working-class activities of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Decision Expected Today On Weekly Coal Stops
SYDNEY: No decision on the proposed one-day weekly mine stoppages had been reached by the Miners' Central Council by the lunch adjournment today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Rationing
On the coal-stock position revealed by the electricity undertakings and the Railway Department early last week, the State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Accidents At Kurri
Jack Stein (57), shiftman, of Abermain St., Pelaw Main, had his left eye and face injured when struck by a piece of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Blind Leadership For The Miners
Everybody who has any regard for the mineworkers and their organisation must regret the failure of the men's leaders to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Retirement Case On
LITHGOW, Wednesday.—The adjourned hearing of the application by the Western Coalowners' Association to dispense with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Challenge On British Coal Policy
LONDON, Jan. 31. A.A.P. Mr. Churchill's Opposition in the House of Commons last night decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shiftman Killed By Coal Fall
A shiftman was killed instantly in Aberdare colliery late yesterday afternoon when he was caught by a fall of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Mines On Strike In North
Five Northern mines were on strike yesterday for a coal production loss of about 4500 tons. Other losses through flooding and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death Gave Up Stolen Gold
BOMBAY, Jan. 31. A.A.P.—A man died in agony with his stomach loaded with gold. He had swallowed a quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Output Down 7500 Tons Today
A loss of coal output of 7500 tons due to stoppages on the northern field today added to the acuteness of Australia's fuel problem. Although the stringent rationing of coal imposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Killed By Fall Of Coal
Mineworkers at Aberdare Colliery late yesterday afternoon dug for a half an hour to recover the body of one of their…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Govt. To Act Against Miners After First Stoppage
SYDNEY: The Commonwealth Government will take action against the miners immediately they stage the first of their one-day stoppages. There were strong indications in Canberra today that the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Cabinet Meeting Today on Coal Crisis and Rationing
SYDNEY: State Cabinet is meeting today to discuss the Miners' Central Council decision yesterday to begin weekly one-day stoppages on the coalfields next week and the cuts in gas and electricity…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Central Council of the Miners' Federation to-day decided by nine votes to six to call one-day a week stoppages of miners in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Owner Injured In Fall At Colliery
Norman Marheine, 40, of Curry-street, Merewether, part-owner of Kent colliery, severely lacerated his index finger and the palm of…
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