Use-more-coal Talks Soon
A meeting of union committees and Union executives in the Cessnock-Kurri Kurri area will be held on October 13 to consider plans to stimulate a campaign for greater use…
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Mining & the mines, 1954
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Oakdale Mine Idle After Second Death
SYDNEY: Miners at Oakdale State Mine have stopped work for two days following the death of one of their mates yesterday in the mine's second fatal accident within six days. The man was a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Letters To the Editor Miners' Convention
OUR attention has been drawn to C. Laidler's letter ("N.M.H.," 17/9/54). This purports to give an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Controversy Likely Over Trip For Miners' Chief
Controversy is likely to develop at miners' lodge committee meetings next week on the recent recommendation by the federation's national convention to send the General President (Mr. I. Williams) abroad to investigate mining matters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners to Get Explanations
Controversial decisions made at the miners' national convention in Sydney in August will be explained by Central Executive officers of the union to night meetings on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Oppose FEDFA Interest
SYDNEY: The Miners' Federation today opposed intervention by the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association in a Federation application for variation of rates of pay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mission to Far East
CANBERRA: A three-man coal trade mission will visit Par East countries next month to try to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£3M. Coal Plant For Sale
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Joint Coal Board has plant worth £3,265,000 which it has been unable to sell so far…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Aboriginal Art Galleries Surround Uranium Mine
DARWIN, Thursday.—Many aboriginal art galleries, in eaves surrounded the Slicebeck uranium field near the Arnhem Land border, Mr. C. P. Mountford, ethnologist, said to-day. Mr. Mountford, who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letters To the Editor British Coal Imports
I READ some time ago in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" of a proposal which was advanced at a conference…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sweeping Plan for Coal New Industries Wanted
The State Government will be asked to establish coal-using industries in the Northern coalfields as part of a sweeping plan to save the coal industry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →J. G. Arthur To Be Coal Co. Chairman
Mr. J. G. Arthur, former Minister for Mines, is to become chairman of a new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining
AUSTRALASIAN Oil Exploration is finding interesting if unprofitable formations in the drill hole at Reid's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →J. G. Arthur Heads Mine Combine
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. J. G. Arthur, former New South Wales Minister for Mines, has been appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Plant Plan 'Alarming'
SYDNEY, Sunday. — The proposal to sell abroad earthmoving equipment overbought by the Joint Coal Board in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Basis For Faith In Coal
The House of Commons was told in July that in the next five years more than £2200 million would be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Leaders Order Men To End Strike
The miners' Northern Board of Management to-day directed striking members of the Federation at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Election Nomination Rejected
SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. W. Riddiford has been disqualified as a candidate for the general presidency of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Councils Put Coal Plan
Cessnock and Kearsley Councils last night drew up a plan for the fuller use of coal. The council's plan urged—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2 Mines Idle In North
Two Northern mines were idle yesterday for a coal production loss of about 1500 tons…
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