Rotary Meeting at Colliery
Wallsend Rotary Club will hold its normal meeting and dinner on Monday at Newstan colliery…
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Mining & the mines, 1953
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Decision For Mine Mechanics
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day varied the mining mechanics' long-service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Drop In Coal Shipments
Coal shipments from Newcastle to interstate ports and Sydney fell sharply this week to 65,950 tons. The average is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sackings In West 170 Miners Get Notice
Dismissal notices were issued to 170 mineworkers on the Western field yesterday. On Thursday 120 men at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fishing Threat, Miners Claim
The mass collection of molluscs or "pipis" from New South Wales beaches threatened to destroy beach fishing as a sport and menaced the livelihood of thousands of Australians,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hearing Begins Of Miners' Log
WOLLONGONG: The Miners' Federation is claiming a 35-hour working week, a minimum £2 a week increase in wages, a 20 per cent increase in contract rates and a 25 per…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Talks To-day On Mine Unions' Clash
A compulsory conference called by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) for 11 a.m. to-day in Sydney will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lithgow Miners Demonstrate
LITHGOW: More than 500 western mine workers this morning demonstrated outside the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Claims Case Opens
WOLLONGONG, Monday.—The Miners' Federation to-day claimed a wage increase of £2 a week and a 35-hour hour week…
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"DARE TO TAKE IT OFF ME!" London Zoo's black-footed penguins are agreeable little creatures as long as no one tries to take their fish. This little fellow neatly caught his dinner thrown from 20 feet—a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six Northern Mines Idle
Idleness of six mines on the northern coalfields to-day caused a 3780 tons loss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Job Shortage In Mines 'Exaggerated'
SYDNEY, Monday.—Reports of unemployment on the N.S.W. Coalfields were "grossly exaggerated," the Chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Working More Shifts, Tribunal Told
WOLLONGONG: Miners are not only working more shifts now, but they are working more full shifts, according to a witness appearing before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) at Bulli today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Board Chief On Two Charges
SYDNEY: The chairman of the Joint Coal Board, Samuel Fogo Cochran, 54, of Drumalbyn Rd., Bellevue…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Fear On Output
WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.—There was fear among South Coast mine-workers, the Coal Industry Tribunal was told to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Talks On Gas Mine Dispute
The threatened hold-up to-day of gas-coal mines on the South Maitland field was averted yesterday when a compulsory conference was called for Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal "Allowed To Lie Idle"
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. James (Lab., N.S.W.) charged the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seventh Coal Shipment For Japan
The British ship Tynebank is in Newcastle loading the seventh cargo of coal for Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Chief In Court
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Samuel Fogo Cochran, chairman of the Joint Coal Board, in Paddington Court to-day, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Miners To Go To South Coast
SYDNEY: The Joint Coal Board is to seek accommodation on the southern coalfields for men…
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