Coal Survey on Tweed Urged
MURWILLUMBAH, Wednesday.— Tweed Shire Council decided at its meeting today to ask the Lands Department to make a survey of the…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Coal Survey of Tweed Area Sought
Tweed Shire Council decided at its meeting yesterday to ask the Mines Department to carry out a survey of the district to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Threaten Weekly Strike
BRISBANE, Thursday.— Queensland miners would stop work one day in every week unless their demands for better conditions were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Trains May be Idle On
SYDNEY, Friday.—Railwaymen are not expected to man coal trains on Monday (Australia Day holiday) following a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Output Below Average Yesterday
SYDNEY, Monday: Although many New South Wales miners were at work today at treble time rates, coal production was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Report Holding Up Plans for Coal Mine
BRISBANE, Sunday: Plans for the mechanisation of the Collinsville State coal mine have been postponed until the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oil from Coal Project
BRISBANE, Sunday: A pilot plant to extract oil from coal will be erected at Callide if the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lawyers To Work In Coal Mines
PRAGUE, Monday: The trade union newspaper, Prace, stated that graduates of the Czech University law faculties must…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thrust By Miners At AWU?
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A decision of the Miners Federation Central Council today to accept as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communists Still at Head Of Miners
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Communists retained their control of the central executive of the Miners' Federation today after…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pit Pony Too Fast for Miners
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Two hundred miners at Maitland Main colliery went on strike today because of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Set New Demands
SYDNEY, Thursday: The central Council of the miners' Federation today approved a number of demands for improved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Winning Trial By Mine Host
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mine Host ran a winning trial at Moorfield this morning and will be hard to beat at next Saturday's Glenfield…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners Trapped in Fire
PRAGUE, Sunday: Nineteen miners are trapped without hope of rescue behind burning methane, gas in a coal pit at Ostrava,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain's Flat Miners Leave A.w.u.?
SYDNEY, Sunday: "If metalliferous miners at Captain's Flat have joined the Miners' Federation they have done a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →19 Lost When Ship Hits Mine
ATHENS, Monday: All hands except one were lost when the Greek freighter, Areti (500 tons), 20 crew and passengers aboard,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →19 in Mine to Be Sealed Off
PRAGUE, Monday: A five-man rescue party which went into the burnin[?] coal pit at [?]stravia, northern Moravia, yesterday to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Body Urges More Coal
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Central Council of the Miners Federation today appealed to coal miners to raise production…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bride Wore Mother's Gold Brooch
FOR "something old", a gold brooch given to her by her mother, was worn by Mildred June, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£20 a Week Minimum for Broken Hill Miners
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The lead bonus for Broken Hill miners has been fixed at £1326, with a basic wage of £706 and 3 war loading…
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