Mines Hit By Rail Tic-up
Continued working of some mines on the northern N.S.W. coalfields is threatened because of a tie-up in transport from the field…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1954
1,307 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 66
Mining
DETAILS of the expected issue by Associated Australian Oilfields N.L. were announced this week…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →48 Miners Registered As Jobless
SYDNEY, Friday. — Only 48 mineworkers were registered up to yesterday as unemployed with the employment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Overtime Ban Coal Exports Delayed
The British freighter Ranger, which is taking a record cargo of 10,000 tons of coal to Korea, will be delayed several days by the boilermakers' ban on overtime…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Retrenched Miners Seek Compensation
SYDNEY: Miners' leaders would tomorrow ask the Federal and State Ministers for compensation payments to miners retrenched by the coal glut, a Federation spokesman said today. He said that the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Ballot Count Starts
The District Returning Officer for the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. Appleton), aided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Leaders In W. Australia
SYDNEY.—The miners' general president (Mr. I. Williams) and secretary (Mr. G. H. Neilly) are at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →32 Miners May Lose Jobs
Thinty-two men from three small mines in the Newcastle district will lose their jobs on August 6 unless new markets can be found for the pits'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rail Ban Threat To Mines
SYDNEY Only a big railway coal lift at the weekend had enchied many mines to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Race to Beat Creep in Mine
A creep has caused a race against time to save some millions of tons of coal in a section of Bellbird colliery. The section is No. 12…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Talk With State Coal Ottee
SYDNEY. — District Miners' Federation executives from the north, south and west conferred today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leg Broken at Mine
Thomas Peden, 45, of Johnstone-street, Cardiff, a fitter at Killingworth colliery, had his left leg broken when caught…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Northern Mines Idle
Three Northern mines were idle yesterday. The coal production loss was about 3000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Lag Overcome
Coal loading in the port of Newcastle is back to normal. An overtime ban by railway boilermakers caused a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners "Sleep In Bathhouse"
Some Swansea miners who had taken jobs on the South Maitland field were sleeping in a colliery bathhouse, the miners' Northern President (Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strikes At 13 Mines
A wave of strikes gave the northern coalfields one of their worst…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners Gaoled For Using Car
Two mine workers were sent to gaol for six months by Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M, at Maitland Court today after they had pleaded guilty to having illegally used a motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Train Hits Sleeper On Line
A coal train travelling to Burwood colliery about 1 p.m. yesterday struck a sleeper on the line near Kahibah. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Many Miners May Lose Their Jobs In Coal Crisis
SYDNEY: A hint of widespread unemployment in the coal industry and also that miners over 50 would find difficulty in securing employment was given by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Gollan) today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stoppages at Six Mines
Stoppages at six northern mines today cost more than 6500 tons of coal output…
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