Machine 'Scoops' Coal Output
A new coal-digging machine that can gouge out five tons and load it on a truck in two and one half minutes holds promise of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
66 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 1 of 4
Miners Back at Work Sydney
All mines except two small ones in the northern fields re-opened today at the end of the miners' three weeks holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blair Athol—Giant of the Coal Trade
The Blair Athol coal project to Queensland is the biggest post-war undertaking by any-British private enterprise…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steel Industry Being Forced to CloseDown Due to Coal Strike Thousands May Be Out Of Work By Week-End SYDNEY
B.H.P. and industries dependent on steel began closing down last night because of a strike at B.H.P's. three coal mines. Hundreds more still will be stood down to-day and by Friday night it is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →B.H.P. Mines Back to Normal NEWCASTLE
The strike at B.H.P's coal mines ended this morning when miners at a pit-top meeting decided by an overwhelming…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Medallist for Architecture
Mr. Howard Robertson, M.C., F.R.I.B.A., has been selected by the Royal Institute of British Architects as recipient of the Royal Gold Melad for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Mines Resume Work SYDNEY
Coal from northern mines is being rushed to Sydney and Newcastle by colliers and special trains and lorries to prevent mass unemployment and breakdown in gas services…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ashford Coal Seams Now Being Tested CANBERRA
The Vice-President of the Executive Council, Mr. W. J. Scully, said today that coal deposits at Ashford, near Inverell, which it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Defy Strike Demands SYDNEY
Lange groups of miners, ironworkers and waterside workers throughout Australia, to-day defied their leaders' calls for an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious Shortage of Coal Stocks SYDNEY
The loss of 56,000 tons of coal today because of the miners May Day holiday, will aggravate the already serious coal shortage. Commenting on the shortage, a spokesman for the Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Ordeal BRISBANE
George Scown (65) who was admitted to Cairns hospital last night with a fractured shoulder and six broken ribs, had lain for two days and nights…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal at Ashford. Tests Reveal Deposits at 341 Feet
The Vice-President of the Executive Council, Mr. Scully, states that drilling tests for coal at Ashford, in the Inverell…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Approach to Miners' Claims Sydney
The Central Council of the Miners' Federation is meeting in Sydney this afternoon to consider its approach to the coal owners on mine workers'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain's Coal Industry. Coal Output in April
Although the United Kingdom coal output last month was adversely affected by the Easter holidays, the actual production in the two holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Impending Nation-Wide Coal Strike SYDNEY
Miners are today holding a one-day nation-wide stoppage in defiance of an order of the Coal Industry Tribunal Commissioner, Mr. Gallagher, and an appeal by the Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, to consider a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proposed Drastic Power Cuts Must Paralyse Industry No Alteration to General Coal Strike Plans Despite Flood's Aggravation of Shortage SYDNEY
Industry will be brought to a standstill and thousands of people unemployed as a result of drastic power cuts decided on by the State Cabinet today. Cuts will be made to comply with the Joint Coal Board's order for a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →employment Mounts to 300,000 On Strike's First Day Miners Refuse To Allow Coal Already In Rail Trucks and at Pitheads To Be Moved SYDNEY
Miners prevented the transport of coal by road from the mines to the railhead at Awaba immediately the general strike began at midnight last night. About ten thousand tons of gas and power coal on the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Emergency Bill Freezes Miners' Funds. Canberra
The National Emergency Coal Striks Bill which prohibits any form of assistance to striking miners received Royal assent last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ano[?]ious Threat On Life of Miners' Federation President Being Investigated By C.I.B.
A threat against the life of the General President of the Miners' Federation, Mr. I. Williams, is being investigated by the C.I.B. Mr. Williams is also Chairman of the Combined Mining Unions Council. The threat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strike May Collapse This Week CANBERRA
Belief is growing in government circles that the coal strike may collapse within a week. Antagonism towards communists is reported to be increasing on the northern N.S.W. coalfields, and Labor…
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