Miners Living Worse Than Beasts
TOKIO, Thursday: Seventy-five thousand Japanese miners are working as slaves, under conditions unbearable for…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Conditions for Jap. Miners Are Appalling
TOKIO, Thursday (AAP).-- Seventy five thousand Japanese miners are working as staves under conditions unbearable for animals in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners To Seek 35-Hour Week
SYDNEY, Thursday: A 35-hour week would be the major air of the Miners' Federation in 1948, the general secretary (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →British Gold Sales
LONDON, Friday (AAP).--A Treasury announcement reveals that the gross sales of gold by Britain during December totalled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Miners Just Missed 1947 Coal Target
LONDON, Sunday: Estimates show that the total British coal output for 1947 amounted to 189, 715.587 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.k. Coal Estimates
LONDON, Sunday (AAP).--Official estimates show the total British coal output in 1947 amounted to 199,715,587 tons, says the "Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Survey of Qld. Coal Resources
BRISBANE, Monday: A technical team assembled by Powell Duffryn Technical Services Ltd., which would carry out a survey of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.k. Miners Just Fail to Reach Target
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).--British miners, in the 53-week period which ended on Saturday, produced 199.7 million tons of coal compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scheme to Improve Miners' Health
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Joint Coal Board will start a medical survey this month of mine workers on the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Medical Survey Oe N.s.w. Miners
SYDNEY, Wednesday.-- The Joint Coal Board will start a medical survey this month of mineworkers on New South Wales coalfields to raise…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warning to Mine Workers Who Threaten Strike
LONDON, Friday: Mr Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, has warned enginemen in the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seventeen Mines Idle Yesterday
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The "honeymoon" on the northern coalfields of NSW apparently ended with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trainer Denies Mine Host Lame
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A denial that champion sprinter, Mine Host, was lame was made by trainer Arthur Croall after the Ajax colt appeared to favour his left foreleg after galloping at Moorefield this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Start Definite for Mine Host
SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Denying recent rumours that Mine Host was in poor form, Mrs. Croall, wife of trainer A. S. Croall, said. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal for Overseas Bunkers
On January 1 Britain began exporting 200,000 tons of coal a week, an increase of 8000 tons a week on the figure which previously had been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Host Gallop Scotched Rumours
SYDNEY, Thursday.-- Mine Host, fancied Challenge Stakes entrant, stepped out well over five furlongs at Moorefield this morning and showed no sign of the reported lameness…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners Best Paid Manual Labourers
Miners are easily the best-paid manual labourers in Australia, according to the latest quarterly business survey by the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners May Become Idle
SYDNEY, Monday: Some of the New South Wales collieries may be thrown idle, with the consequent loss of up to 59,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shock for Backers of Mine Host
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Backers of Mine Host in the Challenge Stakes received a nasty jolt this morning when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Host Easily Beaten In Trial By Moderate
SYDNEY, Tuesday,--Mine Host, firm favourite for Saturday's Challenge Stakes, surprised track watchers at Moorefield this morning when he was beaten by five lengths by the moderate Lady Dorothy…
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