Miners Resist Troops
PARIS, Monday: In their first attempt to eject strikers from coalmines in Northern France today,…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Coal Loss Grows
In the 57 days since the Miners' leaders, promised to step up production, coal losses from all causes have amounted…
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BRISBANE, Monday: The Mines Department is being rushed with applications for dredging leases in the hunt for…
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London: Mining engineers in Britain are freezing a section of the earth's surface to a depth of over 400 feet…
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PARIS, Tuesday (AAP).—The occupation of more coal pits in France by troops and police has apparently been carried out with little trouble. Minor scuffles between strikers…
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PARIS, Tuesday: The Ministry of the Interior announced that strikers this morning fired on police and troops clearing road blocks from a road in Southern France…
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JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday (AAP).—One of the richest gold finds in the Sand River area, Orange Free State, with the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A 21year-old Mount Kembla miner was arrested in Wollongong today for assaulting a Kemeira tunnel…
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SYDNEY. Wednesday.—A.C.T.U leaders will re-open negotiations with the Miners' Central Council in Sydney, tomorrow in a fresh effort…
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WASHINGTON, Thursday: Mr j. L. Lewis, President of the American Miners Union, urged…
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PARIS, Friday: Sevan thousand Mobile Guards captured the Couriot mine in St. Etienne, which is the…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley.) said to-day he had issued authority for four N.S.W. coalmines to be placed under control. He was examining the possibility of controlling two others…
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PHILADELPHIA, Friday: An alchemist's dream has come true, according to Mr Sumner Pike, a member…
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CANBERRA, Friday: The Prime Minister, Mr Chifley, said today that he had issued authorities for four New South Wales…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation will meet in Sydney tomorrow to decide whether the…
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PARIS, Sunday (AAP).—It is now clear that the French Government, in effect, has won the battle for the pit-heads and a trial of strength with the Communist Party is being waged in the ports, where French troops have already begun to unload some ships…
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PARIS, Sunday: It is now clear that the Government has in effect won the battle of the pitheads, says Reuter's correspondent. A trial of strength with the Communist Party is now being waged in all ports. Police and troops have completed the occupation of 80 per cent. of idle…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Following the failure of negotitions for a settlement of the South Coast dispute, a general strike on the New South Wales coalfields seems almost certain to begin tomorrow. Miners' leaders left for the northern and western fields tonight to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Swift action followed the decision by the northern and western miners to-day to join southern miners in the first general coal strike in New South Wales since 1940. The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) has called compulsory…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Coal Strike Commences in New South Wales Severe Rationing in Sydney Today
SYDNEY, Wednesday: A general coal strike in New South Wales has begun and severe rationing of transport, power, electricity and gas will be introduced in Sydney and Newcastle tomorrow. The northern and western miners, at aggregate meetings today, voted…
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