Lewis Wants Mines Closed As Unsafe
WASHINGTON, Sunday: The secretary of the miners (John J. Lewis) yesterday balled on the Government te close all but…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Almost All Mines Opening To-day
SYDNEY, Monday. — It is expected that all but one of the N.S.W. coal mines will operate normally after the Easter week-end…
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NEW YORK, Monday: A nationwide soft coal strike, beignning this morning, was considered a virtual certainty late last night, when it was learned that United Mine Workers'…
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The scene of the Centralia, Illinois, mine disaster last week when 111 miners were trapped below the surface by an explosion. This air view of the tipple of the Centralia Coal Co., Mine No. 5, shows activities of rescue workers, squad cars and ambulances…
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PARIS, Tuesday (AAP)—A motor car driver challenged by the police near the Swiss border turned…
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The Government is planning to ask the court on Thursday to restore the…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP) —Under an agreement announced in Dublin, Britain will supply Eire with a weekly ration of 11,000 tons…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: If coal miners were ill or had valid reasons for not working on the day preceding or following a…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday (AAP).—The Department of the Interior last night announced that 66,000 members of the United Mine Workers' Association had reported for work at 700 pits during the second day of the "safety stoppage". This represented an increase of 12,000 on the number working last Mon…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday: An instruction that miners ate to resume work as fast as each mine is…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The hearing of the claim by miners for weekly pays instead of fortnightly commenced today before…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The hearing of the claim by miners for weekly pays instead of fortnightly commenced today before…
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CASINO, Thursday.—Charged before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., at Casino Court of Petty Sessions to-day, with having stolen four battery stamper…
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EXETER (Pennsylvania), Friday: A gas explosion yesterday in an anthracite mine 350 feet underground, killed nine…
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WASHINGTON, Friday (AAP). America's second coal mine disaster within a month occurred at Exeter, Pennsylvania,…
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LONDON, Friday: The chairman of the town mangement board during a wayside halt of the Royal train at…
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STOCKHOLM, Sunday: The Swedish motorship, Acacia (2075 tons), bound from Stock[?]m to Cadiz with a cargo of wood pul[?]…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday: Mr John L. Lewis has instructed UMWA district officials to permit the re-opening: of any soft…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday (AAP). —John L. Lewis has instructed United Mineworkers' district officials to permit the reopening of any soft…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Mr. I. Williams, prominent Communist, was installed today as the new general president of the Miners'…
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