Britain Passes Coal Target
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). — Britain's 1949 deep-mined coal target of 202,000,000 tons has been passed…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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Miners Ordered To Resume
NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP). —The Miners' Union lias ordered nearly 16,000 miners,. which are on strike in Illinois and Indiana, to…
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SINGAPORE (AAP-Reuter).— About £12,000 sterling worth of gold bars seized by Singapore Customs officers from a Chinese seaman on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal To Be Rushed South For Essential Services
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Joint Coal Board has issued instructions for coal produced from northern N.S.W. mines, tomorrow, to be rushed to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide for urgent use by, essential…
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Britain has enough workable coal to last more than two hundred years, assuming it is mined at the rate of 250 million tons a year…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—Trade union leaders learned last night with a shock of surprise that the nation's coal miners have rejected their appeal to back the Labour Government by sacrificing wage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Strike; Pit Horses Too Frisky
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Wheelers at Maitland Main mine went on strike today, because they objected to the friskiness of their pit horses. This was the only strike on the…
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PITTSBURGH, Wednesday (AAP).—About 57,000 miners are now idle in seven States, as a result of this week's surprise strike by…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Important talks to try to boost Australia's coal production began in Sydney to-day. The Minister for Fuel…
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PITTSBURGH, Sunday (AAP).— A large bloc of members of the United Mineworkers' Association voted yesterday against a suggestion…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Miners' Federation will oppose the right of the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to deal with the application of the combined colliery owners of N.S.W. for the extraction of…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Miners' Federation leaders today withdrew from a hearing before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher). They did this after they, claimed that Mr. Gallagher had no jurisdiction to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pillar Coal Case: Bulli Stoppage in Protest At Hearing
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) said today that he would ignore a protest by Bulli miners against the hearing of the pillar coal case…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fear of Coal Strike Spread
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mining union officials fear that a strike today at Commonwealth open-cut mine, the largest on the western N.S.W. coalfield, may spread to a number of adjoining open-cuts…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday. —Northern miners' leaders have accepted an invitation to attend talks with the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) in…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The heavlest coal loss of the N.S.W. coalfields since last October occurred today…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—More than 250 waterside workers marched to the Metropolitan Gas Company's works, this morning and volunteered to unload 8500 tons of gas coal from the collier, Her[?]nspool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wharfies Defy S.I.B. THREAT Unload Gas Coal
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Waterside Workers' Federation coal handling members defied threats of further suspension by the Stevedoring Industry Board, when they began unloading badly-needed gas coal from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bride Wears Grandmother's Gold Cross
At Nuptial Mass in St. John's Catholic Church, Mullumbimby, at 9 a.m. on January 18, the wedding was celebrated of Marie Joan, only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Coin May Miss Kirkham
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Fancied contender. Gold Coin, may be scratched from the Kirkham Stakes on Monday…
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