More Mine Strikes High Coal Losses SYDNEY
Mass meetings to discuss grievances on dust and compensation payments have laid all South Coast coal mines idle today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1947
31 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Coal Miners Threat Govt. Must Meet Proposals SYDNEY
Unless the Federal and State Governments promise some action to meet the miners' demands, it is expected that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Discovery May Start Rush at Temora TEMORA
Following the discovery of a rich gold reef at Sebastapol, where a successful syndicate, working an old mine on James Haggarth's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Coal Strike? Sydney
According to leaders of the Miners' Federation, there seems little hope of averting a general coal strike unless the coal conference previously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strike Discussion Miners Receive P.M.'s Appeal All South Coast Pits Idle SYDNEY
Rank and file proposals for a general coal strike are being debated in Sydney today by the Central Executive of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →16,000 Tons Lost Through Idle Mines SYDNEY
As the Central Executive of the [?]iners' Federation Assembled today for a meeting at which the recommendation on the general stroke…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Mines Regulations Bill Sydney
Amendments to be made to the Coal Mines Regulations Bill now before the State Parliament, will take away from the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Return to Work Sydney
Only nine mines are idle in N.S.W. today, the remaining 127 pits which stopped for yesterday's aggregate meetings, having resump[?] production…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Training British Boys and Men to Become Coal Miners
Coal mining in Britain is being treated as a scientific and specialised job. Today trainees receive a thorough course of instruction; they are taught all aspects of coal mining including geology…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Invention May Save Lives Of Trapped Miners
A Parisian engineer (M. Leau) last week demonstrated a new invention designed to save the lives of miners trapped by underground explosions or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blue and Gold
Most notable event in the C.W.A. Jubilee Week for Narrabri will be the C.W.A Younger Set's Blue and Gold Ball; Town Hall to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →May Mine Polar Coal in 25 Years
Rear Admiral Byrd believes that coal will be mined in the Antarctic within 25 years. He also foresees the development…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Coal Crisis Thirteen Mines Idle Sydney Reserves Dwindle SYDNEY
Thirteen mines on the northern coalfields, also six open cut mines are idle again today as the result of withdrawal of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Fall Caused £10,000 Damage Lithgow
Damage caused by subsidences in Vale of Clwydd, now estimated to have caused £10,000, worth of damage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Hold-up in Industry If Miners Work
If production is maintained at last Friday's rate, there was no fear of a hold-up in the industry in N.S.W. because of coal shortages…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Coal-cutting Machine
More than 400 tons of coal a shift is a normal output from each A.B. Meco-Mopre simultaneous cutter-loader now being installed in British coal mines. An all British machine it does away with shot firing in pits. It cuts unbroken directly from the face and loads on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Economy in Coal Consumption at Hospital
To effect economy in coal consumption, the engineer at the district Hospital, Mr. R. Smibert, has conducted extensive tests,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Miners Disciplined By Union
The Hebburn No. 2 Miner's Lodge (Maitland field), last night, upheld the right of its officials to descipline men for irresponsible stoppages. As…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners to Work on "Back" Saturday. Sydney
The joint Coal Board last night issued a direction that all coal mines in NSW are to be prepared for work on "back" Saturdays,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Sinks R.A.N. Corvette BRISBANE
Two seamen were killed, one is missing and 26 officers and ratings were injured, when the 780 ton Australian corvette…
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