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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1948

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Miners Leaders to Make Vital Decision Today

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Miners leaders will decide in Sydney tomorrow whether to recommend strike action to miners on the…

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Looted Gold to Be Given Back to Italians

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The State Department announced today that 31million dollars worth of gold looted by the Germans will…

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RAAF "Romeos" Said To Have Been "Gold Running Smugglers"

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Air Force crews looking for vegetables and RAAF "Romeos" making rendezvous with farmers' daughters were the "gold running smugglers" recently reported to be operating in the Northern Territory,…

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Requests By Miners' Federation

Tweed Daily · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Representatives of the Miners' Federation today asked the Joint Coal Board to withdraw its…

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Deadlock in Coal Parley

Northern Star · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--In a three-hour talk today between miners' leaders and the Coal Board the miners demanded…

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Big Rise in U.k. Coal Output

Tweed Daily · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: The British coal output jumped last week by over one million tons to 4,267,900 tons, which was the…

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Coal Board, Miners in Agreement

Northern Star · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.--An agreement reached between the Miners' Federation and the Joint Coal Board today prevented general…

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Arabs Mine, Ambush Jews

Northern Star · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 1

Eight Jews were killed when Arabs mined and ambushed their convoy and blasted their armoured car two miles south of Bethlehem on the Hebron Road. While the Arabs were still attacking the Jews a staff photographer of the New York "Times" in Rome radioed this picture. The picture shows some of the bodies of the Jews…

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Denali Mine Host For Canterbury

Northern Star · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.--Winners seem well concealed in several of the races at Canterbury to-morrow, but three with bright prospects are Denali and Mine Host in the divisions of the…

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Betting Shops Boost W.a. Coal Production

Northern Star · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 1

PERTH, Friday.--S.P. betting facilities are responsible for the highest coal production per head in the world, according to Mayor…

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Miners Accused of Not Playing the Game

Tweed Daily · Monday 19 April 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday: Sir Charles Reid, National Coal Board Production, speaking at Edinburg, accused the miners of not playing…

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British Miners Criticised by Coal Board Chief

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 4

LONDON, Monday: Sir Charles Reid. National Coal Board production director, speaking in Edinhurgh accused the miners of…

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Lunchroom at South Coast Colliery

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: An underground lunchroom in which tea is served from insulated stainless steel containers, has been installed…

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Mine Blast Kills 20

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 3

PARIS, Tuesday: Twenty miners have been killed and 30 gravely injured as a result of an…

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Many U.S. Miners Stop Work

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday: Angry miners stopped work at various pits last night in protest against the…

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Long Service Leave Asked for Aust. Miners

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr Gallagher) reserved his decision on the Miners' Federation application for three months long service leave for all miners after seven years' aggregate service…

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U.s. Miners' Union Fined £437,600

Northern Star · Thursday 22 April 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Wednesday (AAP).-- Federal Judge Alan Goldsborough yesterday fined the United Mineworkers' Union of America…

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1,420,000 Dollars Fine on Lewis and U.S. Miners' Union

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 April 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: Mr John L. Lewis was today fined 20,000 dollars and his United Mine Workers' Union 1,400,000 dollars for contempt of court in [?]gnoring the order to stop the miners' strike. Afterwords, Lewis [?]…

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Q. Plans Coal Export

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday: Queens and would embark on a considerable overseas coal trade as soon a…

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New Order To U.S. Miners' Union

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thursday: -- Judge Goldsborough today issued an injunction ordering the United Mine Workers' Union to…

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