Solving Dust Menace in Mines Darwin
The British mining export, Professor Thomas Davis Jones, who reached here by flying boat last night to advise the Commonwealth on mining problems said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1947
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Miners Union And Emergency Committee Co-operate For Production LONDON
More food and more houses are being provided for mining areas to stimulate coal production as a result of a conference between the executive of the National Union of Mine-workers and Mr. Attlee's Fuel Emergency Committee at 10…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Committee Appointed To Investigate Corfu Channel Mines Lake Success, (New York) Friday—
On Australia's motion the Security Council appointed Australia, Colombia and Poland to a committee to obtain the facts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →100,000 Tons of Coal Lost in Week's Production SYDNEY
The loss in coal production this week reached the 100,000 tons mark. To-day, with all southern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Coast Governor Postpones Native Executions LONDON
The Colonial Secretary Mr. Creech Jones briefly announced in the Commons that the Governor of the Gold Coast had postponed the execution of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Mines Resume Five Others Idle Sydney
Although the six mines idle yesterday resumed work today, five mines are idle on the N.S.W. coalfields today and the production loss in estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Contempt Upheld Against John L. Lewis and Mine-workers Washington, Friday
The Supreme Court upheld the contempt of court convictions against John L. Lewis and the United Mine-workers, but ordered the three and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Leader Lewis Complies With Court Mandate WASHINGTON
The miners' leader, John L. Lewis, complying with a Supreme Court Mandate, has cancelled his notice of termination of contract with the Government. In a letter to the Secretary of The Interior (Mr. Krug)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →France Insists Germany's Coal Be Exported Moscow
The French Foreign Minister (M. Bidault) informed the Foreign Ministers that France would not be a party to any agreement on German economic unity, level of German industry, or reparations, unless the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Decision On Corfu Channel Mines Lake Success (New York)
Because of Albania's "unexplained hatred" of Britain, and because previous negotiations between the two countries had failed, it would be useless for Britain and Albania to try by direct discussion to reach a settlement of the dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Control of Coal Industry
When the Coal Mines Regulation Amendment Bill was under discussion in the Legislative Assembly, Mr. R. S. Vincent (C.P., Raleigh) scathingly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Faint Hope For Miners Entrapped In Gas Filled Tunnel CENTRALIA (Illinois)
It is now hoped that rescue parties will reach 110 entrapped miners in the Centralia Colliery, within a few hours, but there is little hope of finding them alive. RESCUE SQUADS MAICE…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hope Abandoned for Trapped Miners New York
Sixteen more bodies have been recovered from the soft coal mine near Centralia, Illinois, where a violent, explosion on Wednesday entombed nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Socialisation Of Coal, Basic Industries Wanted By German Union LONDON
It is estimated that 350,000 miners are affected by the decision of the German miners union at a meeting at Bochum, yesterday, to call out all Ruhr miners for a one day strike today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car Bumper Bars Made of Gold Paris
A motor car driver, challenged by police near the Swiss border, turned round and raced away. The police overtook the ear near the Dijon, over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telephone Strike Fogs True Coal Position New York
Because of the telephone strike, which chiefly affects long distance calls, Government officials experienced difficulty in learning the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Corfu Mines Dispute For International Court Lake Success, (New York)
The Security Council at Britain's request, has sent the dispute with Albania, about the mining of the Corfu Channel to the International Court of Justice. Eight delegates voted for the British resolution, and Russia, Poland, and Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →America Shocked by Second Mine Disaster In Month WASHINGTON
America's second coal mine disaster within a month occurred at Exeter, Pennsylvania, yesterday, when a gas explosion in an anthracite mine, 350 feet underground, killed nine of 18 men in the pit at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →City Gossip From Coal Pit Through Cambridge to High Commissionership
The amazing career of Mr. Williams — "Ted," as he is called in England — drew a large attendance of members to the Journalists Institute luncheon in the state ballroom (Dr. C. E. Bean in the chair)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Compensation Grants Follow Mine Disaster New York, Friday
Every family who lost menfolk in last month's coalmine disaster at Centralia, Illinois, will receive approximately 4,775 dollars compensation…
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