Concern On Coal Train Continues
Newcastle Council Health Committee asked the Chief Health Inspector (Mr. Meddows) last night to confer with…
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Mining & the mines, 1953
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Joint Coal Board Grants To Council
The Joint Coal Board told Lower Hunter Shire Council today that it had approved expenditure of…
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The northern N.S.W. coalfields had their worst working day of the year today with a loss of more than 23,000 tons of output because of strikes. Continuing heavy losses are expected to precipitate a gas coal crisis…
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Of the Northern 30 mines idle yesterday over the John Darling dispute, 19 were on the South Maitland field and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Vital Talks On Pillar Coal
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Two important conferences on the mechanical extraction of pillar coal will be held in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Millfield Decision Coal Board Asked To Reopen Pit
A special meeting of the miners' Northern Board of Management decided today to ask the Joint Coal Board to order the immediate reopening of Millfield Greta colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Conference On Mine Stops
The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) has called a compulsory conference in Sydney for 11 a.m. to-day to consider the reference from the Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Feeder Buses For Miners
Normal feeder bus services will run to Burwood colliery this morning, thus preventing a stoppage over lack of trans…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Official Ordered Off
WOLLONGONG, Thursday. —Police to-day ordered Mr. W. Gardner, a John Darling colliery delegate, to leave the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners Give £400 To Spastics
Cessnock district miners' lodges contributed £400 to the annual appeal of the Cessnock Spastic Centre…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Open Inquiry on Tuesday on John Darling Mine Dispute
SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) decided at a compulsory conference today to conduct an open inquiry next Tuesday into the facts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Shipments Down
Coal shipments from Newcastle dropped by more than half the normal export this week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Mechanics Laid Off
It was reported to the Newcastle office of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association that five men employed on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Endorse Medical Plan
The medical plan for the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation has been approved unanimously by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gas Coal Loss Serious
Five stoppages in the North yesterday over the John Darling dispute brought the total loss on this field to more than 150,000 tons…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) will hold an open inquiry into the John Darling colliery dispute in Sydney on Tuesday. Mr. Gallagher said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Miners' Tour
LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Four Russian miners led by Pavel Schelahin, general secretary of the Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mine Experts, Metallurgists On Visit Here
The seCond party of representatives from the fifth Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress to visit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Coal Loss In Today's Strikes
Mass stoppages on the John Darling issue flared up again on the northern coalfields today and cut output by more than 13,300 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →8 Gas Coal Mines Idle Again Today
Production of gas coal on the northern N.S.W. field was well down again today, with eight mines in the Cessnock area out of operation. Heavy losses of this type…
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