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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

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Unions Seek Change In Mining Act

Northern Star · Saturday 23 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday. — Representatives of four coalmining unions today called upon the Federal Government to fullill…

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Miners Protest on Glen Davis Plans

Northern Star · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Miners' Federation today protested to the Federal Government against its proposal to transfer part of the Glen Davis shale oil plant elsewhere for use in the refining of crude oil…

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Miners Threaten Stoppages on Glen Davis Issue

Northern Star · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.-Australia-wide stoppages of coal miners are threatened unless the Federal Government agrees to confer with the Miners' Federation and other unions on the…

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Strike Threat By Miners

Northern Star · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday. — Australia-wide strike action by miners is threatened as a result of the Federal Government's…

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Glen Davis Protest Coal Tribunal Attempting to Avert Stoppages

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher), today intervened in an attempt to prevent stoppages by western miners on the Glen Davis issue…

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N.Z. Miners To Resume Today

Northern Star · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 1

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday (AAP-Reuter). — The Prime Minister (Mr. Sydney Holland) told the House of…

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Less Coal, Chaos If Secret Ballots Bill Passed-James

Northern Star · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday. — "The secret ballots bill will not get, the Commonwealth Government more coal. It will get them less," declared Mr. James (Lab., N.S.W.) in the House of…

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Miners Call for One-day Stoppages

Northern Star · Saturday 7 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Miners' Federation has called for one-day stoppages next week of all unionists in coalfield…

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Year's Record Coal Output Possible

Northern Star · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—N.S.W. miners will establish a new record this year if the present production rate is maintained…

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Body Found In Mine Shaft

Northern Star · Saturday 14 July 1951 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—A man was murdered and his body dragged 400 yards through the bush and dumped into a…

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Early Solution of Mine Shaft Murder

Northern Star · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—Detectives made extensive inquiries at the weekend into the murder of John Maher, 46, of…

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Youths in Coal Mines Can Be Called Up

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The general secretary of the Miners' Federation. (Mr. Grant) said today he had…

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Mine Stoppage Protest Against Foreign Migrants

Northern Star · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Miners at Kandos colliery on the Western N.S.W. field came out today in protest against the unrestricted immigration of Balts and Germans to Australia…

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Murwillumbah Beach Mining Worth £750,000

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 9

Beach mining had grown from a small beginning to an industry of great national and international importance, the Under Secretary to the…

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Miners Told to Vote "No""

Northern Star · Saturday 21 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—The central executive of the Miners Federation today diluted pit top meetings of miners to…

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Miners Not to Replace Trainees

Northern Star · Saturday 21 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Members of the Miners' Federation are likely to refuse to fill vacancies caused by the…

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Broken Hill Miners Leave Jobs

Northern Star · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 1

BROKEN HILL, Monday.—About 1,600 men walked off the Zinc Corporation and New Broken Hill Consolidated jobs…

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Czechs In Soviet Mine Rebel

Northern Star · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday (AAP).—Czech workers in a Russian controlled uranium mine at Jachymov…

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Poor Coal For Refinery Blamed For Sugar Cuts

Northern Star · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Joint Coal Board was doing everything possible to help the Colonial Sugar Refining Company out of its troubles, the chairman of the board (Mr; S. F. Cochran)…

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Big Increase in Coal Production

Northern Star · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—N.S.W. coal miners this week passed their output for the corresponding period last year…

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