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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The increase in annual recruiting figures for Queensland coalmines since World War II proved wages and working conditions generally in the Queensland coal industry were highly attractive, Mr. W. Thomas told the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ROME, May 5. A.A.P.—Eighteen miners are now known to have been killed in a firedamp explosion in a brown coal mine at Ribolla, 18 miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Northern mines were idle yesterday for a production loss of 3080 tons. They were Bellbird (protest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —The Victorian Government's huge brown coal development project at Morwell, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Board officials in Sydney had suggested that the management of Normaine colliery should put coal at grass to prevent dismissals, Mr. W. Mahon said last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Subject to approval of New South Wales the Joint Coal Board organisation would be strengthened. Dr. Evatt said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday. —Applications by coalowners to place mine stoppages under the penalty provisions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A conference would be held in Sydney next Tuesday to discuss threatened dismissals from Normaine Colliery, said Mr. W. Mahon, a Northern Miners' vice-president, today. Notices, due to expire on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY.—The Joint Coal Board has advised that it cannot grant a ton of free coal to old age and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' officials will confer with Joint Coal Board representatives in Sydney on Tuesday on dismissal notices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern branch of the Miners' Federation to-day will ask Northern Labour parliamentarians to urge the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five mines were idle in-the north yesterday for a loss of about 2000 tons of coal. Employees of Aberdare…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A request for a ton of coal for pensioners from coal stocks at grass in the northern district could not be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Friday.—The South Australian Premier (Mr. Playford) said to-day that he had told the Chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: The Miners' Federation executive conferred today with the Joint Coal Board on three major industrial problems. Miners are seeking clarification of the following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Wilson (53) of Main-rd., Cardiff, a fuelman employed on the Government railways, received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only two mines on the northern coalfields were reported out of operation for today's shift…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday. — The Coal Industry Tribunal will resume consideration of the miners' log of claims for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) will resume hearing the miners' general…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A compulsory conference will be held at 2 p.m. in Newcastle to-morrow to deal with the strike at Millfield Greta…
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