Several Deaths in Gold Coast Rioting
ACCRA, Gold Coast, Wednesday (AAP).--Rioting, which occurred at Kumasi, 120 miles north of Accra on Monday, resulted in several…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
521 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 6 of 27
Miners' Leaders to Discuss Nationwide Coal Strike
BRISBANE, Thursday: The miners Unions' Federal Executive will meet in Sydney next Tuesday to discuss a nation-wide coal strike as a protest against the "anti-union" legislation of the Queensland, Victoria and South Australian Governments…
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BELGRADE, Thursday (AAP).--Seventy-one miners were killed and 10 are missing in an explosion at the Pacha coalmines on March 14,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The southern States would face a black Easter if the heavy coal losses caused by the…
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ROME. Thursday: About 300 were killed and many hundreds injured in an explosion which occurred in former Italian mines in…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The general president of the Miners' Federation (Mr Williams) said on his arrival from Brisbane to day that a nation-wide dispute seemed inevitable unless the Queensland…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Proposals for a general coal strike in support of Queensland strikers will be…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday: The president of the united Mine Workers' Association (Mr John L. Lewis) yesterday accepted the…
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BRISBANE, Sun day: The Federal President of the Miners' Federation (Mr I. Williams) and the general secretary (Mr G. Grant) flew to Brisbane today to ask the Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Exchange Blows at Noisy Ipswich Meeting
IPSWICH, Monday: At a mass meeting today at the National Theatre, Booval, miners from Ipswich fields rejected by 510 votes to 278 a three-point resolution protesting against…
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The annual report on of operations in the L.smore mining Division for 1947--issued by the warden of the division, Mr. F. C. H. Tompson--…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Central Council of the Miners' Federation made no decision today on the Queensland strike,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Mine Host broke an 18-year-old track record when he won the first heat of the Moorefield barrier trial over six…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The decision of the Miners' Central Council today not to call an immediate nationwide coal stoppage in…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday: President Truman today invoked the Taft Hartley labor act in an attempt…
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SYDNEY: Wednesday: All fears of a general coal strike in support of the Queensland railwaymen…
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WASHINGTON, Thursday (AAP). -- Coinciding with President Truman's appointment of a three-man board to investigate the crippling…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Permission will be sought for Mine Host to start from outside the barrier stalls in the Doncaster Handicap. Mine Host has,…
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WITHIN ITS borders, and with in relatively restricted areas, New South Wales produces most of the coal used in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: The central executive of the Miners' Federation today issued a statement condemning petty…
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