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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Central Council of die Miners' Federation today decided to call aggregate meetings of N.S.W. miners, on Tuesday in the southern and western fields, and on Wednesday in the north. The meetings will be asked to endorse the attitude taken by the central…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A small coinage of not more than 100,000 sovereigns was recently undertaken by the Royal Mint to preserve the knowledge of gold coinage that has been handed down from craftsman to craftsman. The sovereigns will be struck from the dies used for the 1925 issue. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.— The first movement of coal by sea since the Communi controlled Seamen's Union banned the shipment of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday. — Left-wing miners' officials admitted tonight that the coal strike had virtually ended, but said there would not be a return to work on the coalfields until some time next week. A general resumption of work on the Australian coalfields is expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The coal strike and its attendant unemployment was a catastrophe due to the criminal negligence and cowardice of the present Government. This was stated by Sir Earle Page,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—"Worker," in his letter (20/7/49) put over the Communist line about the coal strike admirably. However, he seems right…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The withdrawal of troops from the open-cuts as a condition of settlement of the coal strike would not be considered by the Government, said the Minister for Shipping and Fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WITH THE FIRST chance they have been given in the seven weeks old strike, rank and file miners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The coal strike will be called off at the weekend, which will mean that mine workers will be back at work early next week. Decision to end the strike was made by miner s' leaders after aggregate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday. — Naval party officers [?] ratings manned Melbourne's seven tugs today, following the refusal by the Seamen a Union to berth the collier Saint Gregory, loaded with 6000 tons of Indian coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Federal and State Governments will seek further information from the coal authorities before they decide how long troops will remain in open-cut mines in N.S.W. This decision was made by a conference in Sydney today of Federal and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Mine workers will be asked to work extra shifts if they want troops withdrawn from New South Wales open-cut mines. Unless they agree to work the extra shifts, troops…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Preparations were completed at the week-end for the re-opening of coal mines today after the seven weeks' strike. First coal trains from the northern N.S.W. field will leave Newcastle to-day, and interstate shipments are expected to leave Newcastle by collier within…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—North Wallarah Miners' Lodge, at a pit-top meeting this morning, carried a motion, by 120 votes to 10, outlawing Communists from official positions in the lodge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—This coal strike affair has certainly made a funny mess of a lot of the dope Mr. Chifley puts over with the idea of persuading…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — All coal stocks held by consumers during the coal strike will be unfrozen by the Joint Coal Board from midnight tomorrow. This means that all…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday — Bunnerong powerhouse, Sydney's main power source, had wasted 287,000 tons of coal in five years, the Chairman of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—N.S.W. colliery proprietors warned today that an effective code of discipline was needed among mine workers if the lag between the demand and supply of coal was to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The 2000 troops who manned open-cut mines during the coal strike each received a bonus of £10 for their 13 days of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BROKEN HILL, Thursday.—A lock-out in all Broken Hill mines is threatened by the Mining Managers' Association as a counter to the union threat of weekly stopwork meetings…
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