Miners Urged to Maintain Output
SYDNEY, Sunday. — The President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Williams) tonight urged miners to maintain fall production to…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Miners to Confer with Government
SYDNEY, Monday: The National Convention of the Miners Federation today, directed miners' leaders to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) will address two mass meetings of mine workers next Sunday on the northern…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Miner's Federation convention today decided not to permit Polish and…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—"We cannot get too many Polish miners into this country and the Government will not be intimidated by anybody," the Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) said today…
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BRUSSELS, Friday: Police arrested nine people following thefts of gold teeth, rings and other valuables from corpses of American soldiers who were…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Mr. Williams (Lab., N.S.W.) in the Address in Reply debate in the House of Representatives today urged the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.— A Southern Miners Delegates' Board meeting in Wollongong tomorrow will consider two questions, each of which is capable of causing a stoppage of all South Coast coalmines and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chifley Rebukes Miners in Effort to Increase Output
SYDNEY, Sunday; The Prime Minister, Mr Chifley, today told coal miners at Cessnock and Kurri Kurri that too many "petty, paltry and piffling, short ages" had occurred, and if there was going to be a decent standard of living in Australia, the miners would have to step-up production. Mr Chifley said that miners who failed to do their best were cheating on their fellow unionists and fellow…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Six mines in New South Wales were on strike today. The coal loss, according to Joint Coal Board…
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TENTERFIELD, Monday.—Large scale bismuth mining operations will commence at Swamp Oak Creek, about nine miles from Tenterfield,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Another coal crisis is looming in NSW because miners object to members of the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Early returns from three New South Wales coalfields today showed a majority vote in favour of working "back"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Denial of Smuggling Opium And Gold to S.E. Asia
SINGAPORE, Tuesday: Indonesian representatives in Singapore, at a press conference today, denied a Dutch allegation that the Republican Government had smuggled opium or gold from Indonesia to other countries in South…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: The stoppage of work threatened for tomorrow by South Coast coal miners was averted today at a…
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BANGKOK, Wednesday: Gold, valued at £10,000 disappeared from an aircraft at Bangkok Airport yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Coal production would be lifted b[?] 25,000 tons by Christmas, following a decision by coal miners [?]…
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Disabled New South Wales miners are Attending the Jervis Bay rehabilitation centre under a provisional agreement between the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—"Back" alternate Saturday shifts will be worked only on the southern New South Wales coalfields tomorrow. Disputes involving…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—There will be no "back" Saturday work on northern coalfields unless claims by members of the A.R.U. employed at…
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