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Mining & the mines, 1940

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Our Serial Story Laracus Potof Gold Chapter 9 [?] (Continued)

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 4

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Mining Unions May End Connection with Arbitration Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 1

The question of whether the mining unions should be recommended to continue their relationship with the Federal Arbitration Court, or resort instead…

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Sinking Mines by Rifle London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 1

Asked in the Commons to-day whether, in view of the danger to local fishermen, the practice of sinking unexploded mines by rifle fire would…

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Mines Idle Again Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 1

All northern mines were idle today to enable enginedrivers and firemen to hold stop-work, meetings. The men are alleging a violation of award…

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ROSEHILL Adios Completes Hat Trick Prospector on Protest Handicap to Gold Spark Sigh SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 8

Adios completed the hat trick when he won the Flying Handicap at Rosehill this afternoon. He had a very easy win, being eased up over the last half furlong. "Miss Lorna Doone" won a double with Prospector and…

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Russian and Hungarian Coal Shortage Moscow

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 1

The Russian coal industry has made an unpromising start for 1940, the output so far being only 77 per cent, of the country's minimum requirements…

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South Coast Mine Trouble Over Dismissals Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 2

A serious position threatens at Mattai Bulli Colliery on the South Coast, where a dispute has developed, and it is feared that the management…

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Russian Coal Shortage Hungary Also Affected Moscow

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 1

The Russian coal industry has made an unpromising start for 1940, the output so far being only 77 per cent. of the country's minimum requirements…

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Mines Dispute Companies Accused of Provoking Unrest Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 2

Industrial trouble on the coalfields was banking up to such an extent that it was expected to come to a head in the near future, said the general…

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Mine Dispute Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 2

At a meeting of about 30 men on strike at the Nattai-Bulli Colliery in the Burragorang Valley to-day it was decided not to return to work until…

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Danes Destroy 550 Mines Copenhagen

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 1

Danish patrols have destroyed 550 mines since the outbreak of the war. The values of the mines was £100,000…

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U.S. Coal Ban Washington

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 5

Apparently as a move to safeguard the mid-Pacific bases, the United States Navy has announced that hereafter coal will not be obtainable at…

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Cease Work at 60 Inquiry Into Coal Miners' Proposal Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1940 · page 2

The personnel of a committee to inquire into the question of the compulsory retirement of employees in the coal mines of New South Wales at…

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Coal Prices Subject to Control Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1940 · page 2

A price control order, covering the coal industry, was issued to-day by the Commonwealth Price Commissioner The maximum prices…

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A.J.C. Challenge Stakes Brilliant Victory by High Caste Caesar and Denis Placed Handicap to Gold Spark Breeze SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 January 1940 · page 8

High Caste, the brilliant three-year-old, easily won the Challenge Stakes at the opening of the Anniversary Day meeting at Randwick to-day by two and a half lengths from Caesar, with Denis half a length away third. Waireka…

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Empire Gold Huge Quantities Sent to U.S.A. New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 2

According to the Washington correspondent of the United Press, the British Empire has shipped to the United States the following amounts of gold…

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Miners Ate Pit Ponies' Feed

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 3

Many of the stay-in strikers at the Upton Colliery (Yorkshire} ate the pit ponies' bran. The strike ended when the last 57 half-starved miners came…

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Mines Explode on Coast London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 1

Two German mines struck a sea wall on the south-east coast and exploded. The explosions damaged two' empty houses and blew in many…

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Coal Shortage Industrial Chaos in Japan New York

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 1

The Tokio correspondent of the American Associated Press states that industrial centres throughout the country are at a standstill, a coal…

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Miners' Dispute Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 1

The vice-president of the Miners' Federation, Mr. G. W. S. Grant, said today that 90 per cent, of those who attended the mass meetings were in…

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