Mines Safety Talks "Unsatisfactory"
SYDNEY: Miners' check inspectors had reported that the outcome of the Mines Safety Committee meeting on Tuesday was completely unsatisfactory to the Miners'…
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Mining & the mines, 1954
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Coal Freights Cut
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Interstate coal freight charges will be reduced from next Monday. The coal freight reduction…
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PENNSYLVANIA (Reuter).—The biggest coal fire in the world has, for the past 14 years, been burning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Vital Talks Today On Coal Disputes
Discussions on the northern coalfields and in Sydney to-day are expected to produce important developments in the two major disputes which have dislocated mining operations this week…
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The Lord Mayor (Ald. Purdue) and City Engineer (Mr. Baddeley) inspected Wallsend Coal Company's railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Judgment Is Given On Coal-Washing Plant
In a judgment announced today in a dispute concerning the manning of the newly-installed coal washing plant at Newstan Colliery, the Local Coal Authority (Mr. M. Lydon) left it open to the employee selected by the management to elect which of three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Cup Plan Changed Fot N.J.C. Corinthian Races
The new £500 gold cup for N.J.C. Corinthian races cannot be won outright. Previously any owner winning two Corinthian races at Newcastle became the owner of the gold cup…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Four Mine Appeals Dismissed
One appeal by William James Colvin, manager of Bellbird Colliery, was upheld and four dismissed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. L. Moore To Manage State Mine
SYDNEY.—A former manager of Glen Davis mine, Mr. Leslie Moore, has been appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Change In Coal Strike Picture Richmond Vale Settlement
Discussions in Sydney and in the North yesterday changed the strike picture on the South Maitland coalfields. A settlement was reached in the Richmond Vale railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal-Washing Plant Judgment No Exclusive Right to Job
The work of manning the new coal-washing plant at Newstan colliery was not the exclusive right of three unions, Mr. M. Lydon said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brighter Coal Picture: One Strike Ends, Two Pits Idle
Return to work today of Richmond Vale railway strikers and the endorsement this morning by the miners' Northern Board of a proposal for a resumption at Hebburn No. 1…
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The strike wave on the Northern coalfields subsided yesterday with the return to work of enginedrivers on the Richmond Vale coal line…
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Replying to an editorial in the "Newcastle Morning Herald," a Vice-President of the Northern Miners' District of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Mahon) said…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Coal in stock would ensure that the Miners' Federation could no longer hold the country to ransom, Senator Spooner said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters To the Editor Mine Disputes
BY your editorial, "Avoiding Second John Darling," it seems you must think we enjoy putting on these…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Break on Pillar Mining
SYDNEY, Friday.—Talks before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day on the mechanical extraction of pillar coal again ended in deadlock…
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SYDNEY: The Miners' Federation Central Executive today announced an intensification of Its campaign on the "machines-in-pillar" issue…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Central Council of the Miners' Federation will hold it special meeting on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kurri Miners Urged To Help Cardiff
The executive of Kurri Kurri Miners' Area Committee last night urged lodges in the Kurri Kurri and Abermain…
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