Big Coal Talks on
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Federal Cabinet will discuss on Tuesday the Miners' Federation request for a nationwide conference ot Miners'…
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Mining & the mines, 1946
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Plans to Discipline Coal Miners
CANBERRA, Monday: Plans for disciplining coal miners in New South Wales were discussed at a conference today…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—In the United States, Great Britain and on the continent the shortage of coal has hindered the turn over at mills and…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—The Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley) had not discussed the question of disciplining coalminers with the…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday: Mines laid during the war were now breaking loose and had been found on beaches and in sea lanes…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday: Cabinet will resume tomorrow consideration of a scheme to discipline coal…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A warning that the Federal Government would be well advised to make no decisions on proposals by Senator Ashley to a meeting of the Federal Cabinet was given by the President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Wells) to-day…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Following a suggestion by the Natural Gas and Oil Corporation Limited that its colliery might provide a solution to…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: It coal stocks cannot be built up in the meantime, Brisbane may have further gas an electricity…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday: Cabinet today approved the main provisions of the proposed coal bill to establish a joint coal board to control the production and distribution of coal in…
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CANBERRA, Thursday A world authority on coal research and dust abatement will be brought to Australia to advise on the dust…
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CANBERRA, Thursday: Inclusion of powers in the new Bill to enable the new joint coal authorities to eliminate contract…
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CANBERRA, Friday. — The Commonwealth Government will introduce legislation into Parliament next week giving effect to the proposal to establish a joint authority to control the coal industry in New…
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LONDON, Friday: The Ruhr Miners' Trade Union has warned British Military Government officials of the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Coastal shipping has been warned by the Australian Navy to beware of floating mines. The Navy says that gales and the vagaries…
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CANBERRA, Friday: The Government hopes that the Coal Bill to establish a new joint control board and to…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Miners and enginedrivers will decide to-morrow whether to hold stoppages on the New South Wales coalfields. The decision will be made while the miners' leaders confer in Canberra with Federal Ministers on draft legislation to place the New South…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Industrial paralysis in almost a matter of days faces the Wollongong-Port Kembla zone, which is third mostly heavily industrialised area in New South Wales, with some of Australia's greatest iron and steel plants…
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CANBERRA, Monday. —Strong objections were raised by the miners' leaders today to certain features of the Federal…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The threatened stoppage on all New South Wales coalfields by the withdrawal of 1000 key enginedrivers is…
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