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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
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SINGAPORE, Monday: Between 70 and 100 Communists today seized the colliery township of Batu Arang for 90 minutes while skilled saboteurs disabled vital equipment on Malayans only coal mine. In a well-planned attack, they cut the roads and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,--Your correspondent "A.S." ignores the fact that "Coal Barons" still determine methods of production while the Coal Board,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Monday: Miners' representatives today issued an appeal to mine employees to avoid stoppages and asked the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday,--The miners' leaders to-day postponed for one week a decision on a Joint Coal Board proposal that New South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Joint Coal Board recently purchased all the shares of Mine Owners' Insurance Pty. Ltd. for approximately…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Tuesday: Tooth's draft beer supplies to hotels, will be cut down by 10 per cent from tomorrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday: Ten mines were idle in New South Wales today, 21 hours after the Miners' Federation had appealed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--Good news for Mr. "A. Brown." The British Minister for Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan) said: "Socialisation saved the nation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Wednesday: No State enterprise would be handicapped by a shortage of fuel when the Government's plan for more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday:-- Western district coal miners broke tradition today by returning to work after a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday: They are now really carrying "coal to Newcastle." Three hundred tons were taken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday. —More than 1,500 people at a public meeting tonight, organised by the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday: Miners' Federation leaders at a public meeting at the Town Hall tonight urged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following the decision of Coolangatta Town Council to agree to the granting, on certain conditions, of beach mining, rights to Messrs Neumann and Casey at Curr[?]n, the council has been advised by the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir.—Your curious correspondent, "Victim", has come to light with a few further illusions. He states as a fact that owners still determine…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Premier (Mr. McGirr) said to-night he had been advised by the Joint Coa[?] Board that the total average saving…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday: Higher coal production would follow the granting of a 35-hour working week to miners, the Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr F. Gallagher, was told today at the opening today of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday: The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr F. Ga[?]agher, at Lithgow today granted a coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—In his latest letter, Mr. Crowther has succeeded in producing, apropos of nothing in particular, a wonderful collection of snake…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Federal Government is investigating the possibility of bringing coalminers to Australia for employment in the industry here, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said today…
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