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Mining & the mines, 1946

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Board Finds Coal Industry Is Tottering

Tweed Daily · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday: The Australian coal industry in its major fields was a tottering industry as the result or constant industrial troubles, in the form of incessant pit-top meetings, absenteeism, stoppages of production…

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"Coal Industry Tottering ' Stoppages, Strikes Blamed by Board of Inquiry

Northern Star · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 5

CANBERRA, Friday. — 'The Australian coal industry in its major field is a tottering industry as the result of constant industrial troubles in the form of incessant pit-top meetings, absenteeism, stoppages of production and strikes."…

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The Northern Star Published at Lismore Daily. Saturday, March 23, 1946. Plain Speaking On Coal

Northern Star · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 4

THE most bitterly critical member of the Federal Opposition could scarcely have penned a more searching and…

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Criticism of Coal Report

Tweed Daily · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: There is little likelihood that the Miners' Federation will co-operate in giving effect to the…

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No Work at Many Mines in Nsw

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: In one of the worst series of stoppages and breakdowns in NSW collieries this year, a coal output…

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Peer and Miners

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 3

A plea that the comradeship formed on the battlefield between young peers and the coal miners should be carried to the…

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Coal Talks Today

Tweed Daily · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Peace in the NSW and Queensland coal industry and the avoidance of a further period of power…

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400,000 U.s. Miners to Strike

Tweed Daily · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 3
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WASHINGTON, Sunday: The secretary of Labor (Mr Schwellenback), after conferring with the mine owners and union…

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Vessel Strikes Mine Near Penang

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 1

PENANG, Monday (AAP).—Two Japanese and two Malays were killed and two Japanese and a Sepoy are missing and 30 persons…

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Legal Study of Decision on Miners

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday: A recent decision which the miners' leaders said threatened to cause a general strike in New South…

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4 Hour Coal Talks in Canberra

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 5

CANBERRA, Monday.— Recent decisions which miners' leaders said threatened to cause a general strike in N.S.W. and Queensland…

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Big Reduction in German Coal Output

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 5

HEREFORD (Germany), Tuesday: German coal output in the British zone during the last week of March showed a fall…

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Charges Gov't with Hoarding Gold

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: "The Commonwealth Government is hoarding gold and thus failing to cooperate with Britain and…

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May Have Been French and Belgian Gold

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: Gold ingots valued at £180million deposited in Swiss banks by the Nazis during the war may have…

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Nine Mines Idle

Northern Star · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Nine mines were idle to-day for the loss of 7250 tons of coal. Only one of these was idle as the result of a…

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Britain's Coal Production Up

Northern Star · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 6

There are signs of real improvement in Britain's coal situation. The long prevailing loss of labour appears to have been arrested at last and an increase in the number of men going into the mines is now…

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Jail Hiding Place For Gold

Tweed Daily · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday: A secret hiding place for £1million worth of gold in Australia during the war was…

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Gaol, War Cache For Aust. Gold

Northern Star · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday. — The secret hiding place for millions of pounds worth of gold in Australia during the war was the…

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Spanish Gold Returns

Northern Star · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 1

Spanish gold valued at several million being returned to Spain. It was held in safe custody during the war and is shown being unloaded under heavy guard on arrival at the Bank of Spain in Madrid…

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