Fresh Threat to Newcastle Steel Works Two or Three Mines Remain Idle
Tweed Daily · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday: The B.H.P. steelworks at Newcastle, already working at only one-third of its normal production rate, may be forced to shut down completely after mid-day on Monday. The miners at two of the company's collieries, John…
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Tweed Daily · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Sunday: Striking miners at B.H.P. collieries are expected to return to work tomorrow morning on terms which they rejected at a pit-top meeting on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Second B.h.p. Mine Votes to Resume Work
Northern Star · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—Lambton miners at a special lodge meeting today voted for a return to work tomorrow morning, and miners at the John Darling pit are expected to make the same decision at the pit-top meeting in the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners To Claim 35Hour Week
Tweed Daily · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 2
SYDNEY. Monday: All the mining unions will make the same claims for a new award as the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →B.h.p. Mines Resume
Tweed Daily · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday: The striking miners at the BHP collieries at Lambton, Burwood and John Darling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Strike in French Guiana
Tweed Daily · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 5
PARIS, Monday: Gold quarrying will start soon at the foot of Treasure Mountain, in French Guiana, when an expedition of 18…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Friendly Mine Strike Goes on
Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 3
They're having quite a neighborly little strike at Captain's Flat, a mining settlement Which straggles along a deep gully 35…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Coal, Steel Crisis Threatens
Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Another coal and steel crisis is threatening at Newcastle, where a stoppage at one mine and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Sandilands" Coal Search By Miner, 70
Northern Star · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 4
CASINO, Wednesday. — A 70-year-old miner was today granted permission to prospect for coal in a 640 acre area of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.s May "Secure" Japanese Gold
Northern Star · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 8
NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP). —There is a strong possibility that American authorities may decide to remove Japan's 140 million dollar…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Railway Trucks to Move Coal
Tweed Daily · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 4
SYDNEY, Thursday: Mines in the Cessnock field, which produce more than 6000 tons a day, were idle because of a…
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Tweed Daily · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1
BRISBANE, Thursday: A warning to shipping in North Queensland waters had been issued following the sighting of five floating mines in the shipping lanes off Cooktown,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Desperate Efforts To Save Miners
Northern Star · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 1
BROKEN HILL, Friday.—Since 8 o'clock last night miners have been making desperate efforts to rescue two men trapped in the North Mine by a fall of earth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Hope for Miners Buried at Broken Hill
Tweed Daily · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday: Rescuers have been unable to reach two men who were trapped in a mine at Broken Hill last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burwood Miners Decide to Work
Tweed Daily · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sunday: The Burwood miners, who have been on strike since Wednesday, decided at a meeting at Charlestown today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Buried Miners Not Yet Located
Northern Star · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 5
BROKEN HILL, Sunday.—The North mine has resumed production following the serious accident last Thursday when two miners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labor M.L.A. Slates Northern Miners Cannot Tolerate It Much Longer?
Tweed Daily · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sunday: Mr Jim Chalmers, Labor M.L.A. for Hartley on the western coalfields today attacked miners on the northern coalfields. He was speaking at the Hartley district A.L.P…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Medallist
The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 1
Mr. Howard Robertson, M[?] F.R.I.B.A., who has been selected the Royal Institute of British A[?]chitects as recipeint of the Ro[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Coal Loss
Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday: The Joint Coal Board announced tonight that coal losses in New South Wales amounted to 9620 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Suburb's Narrow Escape From Landslide
Northern Star · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 5
LITHGOW, Monday.—Homes in the mining suburb of Cobar Paddock narrowly escaped destruction to-day when a landslide sent…
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