Board Order Seeks to End Coal Strike
SYDNEY, Friday. — The Joint Coal Board tonight issued an order aimed at ending the South Coast coal strike and preventing a…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Plausible or Flying Duke for Gold Cup
The six events listed for decision at Rand wick this afternoon consists mostly of horses who failed to win a race at the recent A.J.C spring meeting…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—South Coast miners to-day agreed to continue their strike following a refusal by Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. to obey an order by the Joint Coal Board to cease work on the Kemeira rock…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. has defied the Joint Coal Board order to stop work on Kemeira tunnel, near Woollongong. As a result, all South Coast…
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PARIS, Monday: Strike pickets today barred the entrances to strike-bound mines in many regions following the decision of…
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SYDNEY, Monday The Central and New South Wales District Executives of the Miners' Federation today decided to…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A conference of leaders of the Miners Federation today threatened another general strike in NSW unless the Kemelra dispute is settled…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: A conference will be held to-morrow between the Miners Federation, the…
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PARIS, Wednesday (AAP).—Soldiers and police by this evening had seized dozens of strikebound coal mines, but the Army had not moved…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: An eight-hour conference today, between the ACTU, the Miners' Federation and…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Joint Coal Board today issued a summons against Australian Iron and Steel Limited for allegedly failing to…
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PARIS, Wednesday: French police and armed forces began at dawn today to clear the strike-bound mines in central and eastern France after receiving orders to save the pits from Looding. They met with no resistance from the strikers in…
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PARIS, Thursday (AAP).—A violent battle flared up today at Saint Etienne, where 1200 workers—including some factory workers who…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Australian industry at present could pay more for Australian produced coal, the Chairman of the Sydney County…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The South Coast coalfields dispute took a turn today for the worse when the settlement talks between the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Police from Wollongong and a strong poss e of coal miner pickets faced each other across Mt. Kembla main road today…
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Under the instruction of Mr. J. Andrews, young mining trainees learn how to chain tubs onto an endless rope in the main gallery at the Lea Green Colliery, St. Helens, where they are under training…
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PARIS, Sunday. (AAP).—Two thousand French troops armed with rifles, grenades and tear gas yesterday launched an assault to recapture the Alouette pit at Monceau Les Mines after strikers had stormed, taken…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Central Council of the Miners' Federation, which meets in Sydney tomorrow, is considered certain to agree to…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) tonight appealed to employers and employees in the coal industry to sink their differences and cooperate with the Coal Board to produce coal…
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