Training for Miners
Coal mining in Britain is being treated as a scientific and specialised job. Unlike the oM days when boys were sent down…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
632 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 32
Communist Chief of Miners
SYDNEY, Friday: Mr. I. Williams, well known Communist, has been elected Miners Federation general…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—I. Williams, Secretary of the Victorian miners and a member of the Communist Party, has won the ballot for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Entombed Miners 16 More Bodies Found
NEW YORK, Friday.—Sixteen more bodies, all mutilated by an explosion which occurred on Tuesday, were recovered from…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Members of the Illawarra branch of the Deputies and Shotfirers' Association decided at Wollongong yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →John L. Lewis Attacks "Debauched Mine Saftey Administration"
WASHINGTON, Sunday: The President of the United Mine Workers' (Mr John L. Lewis) has called for a stoppage of work throughout the soft coal industry from April 1 to April 6 to mourn for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. Strike Called to Mourn Dead in Mine Disaster
WASHINGTON, Sunday (AAP).—The President of the United Mineworkers (John L. Lewis) has called a stoppage of work throughout the soft coal industry from April 1 to April 6 to mourn for the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The News Behind The News Mining Peace
For years Australian mining fields have been a source of industrial disquiet. Neither legislation, boards nor commissions have yet provided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Southern Mines Idle
WOLLONGONG, Monday.—A stop-work meeting of members of the Illawarra branch of the Deputies and Shotfirers' Association has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trapped Miners Left Heartrending Messages
ASHINGTON, Monday.—Heartrending notes were left by some of the 111 miners who died in the Centralia disaster last week. Rescue crews found the notes by the last group of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →602 Mines Destroyed Off Q'ld. Coast
MELBOURNE, Monday. —The 20th Minesweeping Flotilla has destroyed 602 mines since the…
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AUCKLAND, Monday: The strike in all mines on the Waikato, coalfields continues. Drastic reductions in railway services,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Britain To Import Coal
LONDON, Tuesday: The British Government has decided to import coal and expects, despite the limited…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Miners' Mourning Stoppage
NEW YORK, Tuesday: The 350,000 to 400,000 soft coal miners who will be idle this week "jumped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wants Detail About German Gold
MOSCOW, Tuesday: The Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister (M. W[?]nsky) at a meeting of deputies about Germans insisted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →350,000 Ruhr Miners Strike Over Food Industrial Pulse of Germany May Stop
LONDON, Thursday (AAP). — Widespread food strikes in Germany are creating the most critical situation there since the Allied occupation began. It is estimated that 350,000 miners are affected by the decision…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. Mines Closed for Safety Report
WASHINGTON, Friday (AAP).—The Secretary for the Interior. (Mr. Krug) announced today that [?]18 Government-operated soft coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Krupps Workers Strike in Sympathy with Ruhr Miners
LONDON, Friday: Reuter's representative at Essen says that 10,000 workers at Krupps works struck in sympathy with the miners. Fifteen hundred marched in the city's main square for a demonstration. Miners' wives gate-crashed the delegates' meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Crisis in S.a. Brings Rail Cuts
ADELAIDE, Friday: The most serious coal crisis yet experienced in Adelaide developed suddenly yesterday and disrupted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Recruits for British Mines
The foundations are being laid for the increase in the great national production drive in Britain which was revealed to be vital to…
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