Idle Coal Mines
Fifteen mines were idle in New South Wales yesterday. More than 4,800 men stopped work resulting in the loss of 17,430 tons of coal…
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Mining & the mines, 1944
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Telegraphic News Coal Mines Idle
Fifteen mines were idle in N.S.W. to-day, the loss of coal amounting to 17,400 tons, haking a total loss this week of more than 55 000 tons. About…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dealing with Coal Strikers
The chairman of the central coal authority, Mr. A. C. Willis, said to-day that a number of mine workers who had refused to accept the discipline of…
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Eight coal mines were idle in New South Wales yesterday, involving a loss of production of 11,500 tons. Five of the idle mines were on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners and the Soldier
A miner from the Welsh coalfields told the story of a poster—a poster that had great influence upon him and his comrades—in a recent BBC…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegraphic News South Coast Miners Strike
Defying their leaders, miners employed at south coast collieries struck to-day, and as a consequence 10 major pits and three smaller mines are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Won’t Resume South Coast Miners Ignore Coal Commissioner SYDNEY
South Coast miners to-day ignored the order of the Commonwealth Coal Commissioner, Mr. Mighell, to resume [?]…
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Call-up notices are being served on 500 South Coast mine workers following failure to obey the order of the Commonwealth Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegraphic News South Coast Mine Strikers Served with Call-up Notices
WOLLONGONG.—Army call-up notices are being served to-day on 500 south coast miners between the ages of 18 and 25 who have been on strike…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic News Coast Miners Still on Strike
[?]RA.—With all the South lines still on strike in de[?] the instructions of the Min[?]on, the Attorney-General…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic News South Coast Miners Resume Work
Without demanding any guarantee from the Government the Miners' Central Council yesterday decided to instrict the striking South Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic News. Another Coal Strike
Coalcliff colliery, over which t[?] Australian flag was hoisted a fortnight ago to indicate that it was under the control of the Common…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners and Farmers. Government Attitude Provides Striking Contrast. Sydney
"The ease with which miners, who so desire it, can be released from the Array, is in striking contrast to the difficulty of securing the release or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mines in Danube River Placed by Allies LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)
Mines dropped by Allied planes along the Danube River have sunk seriously injured at least 30 enemy ships…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Losses of Coal
During the first quarter of this year the coal output in New South Wales was 330,000 tons less than for" the same period of 1943 and 574,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flanders’ Rabbits Explode Mines LONDON, Sunday (A.A.R.)
The wild rabbits of Flanders are the latest to Join the ranks of French saboteurs who are preparing the way. for the second front…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Short-lived Gold Rush
One day the writer lay down to drink at a small rock-hole near to the site of a former quartz-crushing battery at Bell's Creek and saw quite…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegraphic News Another Coal Strike
Five collieries on the Newcastle field were idle to-day as a protest against the reduction in the baiter ration, which is to operate from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Protest Do Not Like Butter Ration SYDNEY
The number of mines idle to-day a protest against the cut in the butter rationing was increased to six, while miners at six more pits…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy’s Ordeal in Mine
Ray Box, 16, fell 84 feet down a mine shaft at St. Arnaud, (Vic.), on Sunday, and suffered only a, broken ankle…
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