British Mines Nationalised Today
LONDON, Tuesday: A one-man colliery near Abertillery is among Britain's mines which will be nationalised…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
632 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 32
Coal Crisis in England
LONDON, Tuesday: The Northwestern Regional Industrial Board, at an emergency meeting to discuss the critical…
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LONDON, Wednesday: Nationalisation of Britain's coal mines became effective from to-day. "We begin a new epoch today,"…
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BERLIN, Wednesday: A great export drive from the British and American zones of Germany will be launched late in January, when…
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LONDON, Wednesday: A drive to speed the turnaround of coal wagons, rivalling the wartime drive to unload ships to get…
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VIENNA, Thursday: The city's factories, which were brought, to a standstill on Christmas Eye, remain idle owing to the acute…
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LONDON, Thursday (AAP). — In return for the arrangement by which all grievances will be settled either at the pithead, regional or…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The nationalisation of British coalmines will not mean any major chance in the critical coal situation which will continue…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Miners Promise No More Lightning Strikes
LONDON, Thursday: Britain's miners have given an undertaking that there will be no more strikes in return for an arrangement whereby ail grievances will be settled either at the pithead or…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—An oboe player from the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra who arrived in Sydney to play With the Sydney Symphony Orchestra…
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LONDON, Thursday (AAP).— Addressing a miners' meeting at Haydock, Lancashire, Edwin Hall, General Secretary of the…
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LONDON, Friday: "Every pit the Government s[?]ks or reconstructs as the owner of Britain's coal will be a model pit," said…
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Mr. K. A. Cameron, of Broken Hill, Chairman of the Joint Coal Board…
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ATHENS, Sunday: The British cargo steamer, Herberton, sailing from Alexandria to Chalcide, hit a mine about a mile off the coast…
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LONDON Sunday (AAP).—A despatch from the Athens correspondent of the "Exchange Telegraph" says the British cargo…
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HAMBURG, Sunday: Police in the past week, have arrested a thousand coal looters. The police swooped on railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore. Monday, January 6, 1947. Gold In Our Beaches
ALL DISTRICT seaside resorts attracted record crowds for the current holiday season. Among the thousands who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Back After Holidays; Absenteeism
SYDNEY, Monday: The New South Wales coal miners returned to work today after their Christmas holidays…
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LONDON, Monday: Baden Baden Radio says: Twenty-five miners, including six German prisoners of war, were killed in a fire in a…
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LONDON, Monday: One member of the crew was killed when the steamer Harbertson struck a mine off the coast of Greece in…
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