Coal Strike Whistles Blow at Collieries For Resumption of Work Little Response by Miners Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 3
Although the four collieries in the Lithgow district, which the Federal Government had decreed should reopen to-day, sent out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Volunteers Required for Work in Coal Mines May Register at Any Police Station
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 3
Volunteers for surface and underground work at the coal mines of New South Wales are required, and in an advertisement in this issue the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Wanted for Urgent Defence Works Mr. Menzies Invits Miners to Do Their Duty Canberra
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 3
Mr. Menzies said to-night that unless ample supplies of coal were received soon from the mines not working at present, The war programme…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wife Sees Husband Struggle in Sea with Mine
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 4
A woman went on washing up at a South East Coast town in England while her husband struggled in the sea 100ft. below to secure a drifting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Strike Conference This Afternoon SYDNEY
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 1
A conference between A.C.T.U. representatives and the combined unions will be resumed in Sydney this afternoon, when, it is understood,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Movement to End Coal Strike SYDNEY
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 2
Swift moves are being made to end the coal strike in view of the war crisis, and hopes are high that a settlement will be reached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Mines Operating In Northern Fields SYDNEY
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 1
The Greta mine, which can produce 600 tons of coal daily, and Rothbury which has been producing 1100 tons a day for some weeks, were the only…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Collieries Working Newcastle
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 4
The only collieries which were working on the northern coalfields today were the Millfield-Greta and Rothbury collieries. The production capacity of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.S.W. Coal Mines Output Taken Over by Government Compensation to Owners CANBERRA
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 1
The output of the New South Wales coal mines has been acquired by the Federal Government by an order issued last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Call for Mine Volunteers Sydney
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 2
The Premier said last night that a number of suitable applicants had applied, in Sydney yesterday for work on the coal mines in sufficient numbers to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mines Whole Output in N.S.W. To Be Taken Over by Government Compensation to Be Paid to Owners Canberra
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 4
The output of the New South Wales coal mines has been acquired by the Federal Government by an order issued tonight under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Holland's Gold £154,000,000 in Netherlands 600,000 Men Under Arms
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 7
Holland has 600,000 men under arms, with an undisclosed number in reserve. Her navy consists of 12 armored and 60 unarmored ships, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Strike Over Miners to Resume Work
The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 2
A settlement of the coal strike has been announced. It is expected that all mines will be in operation next week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Settled Prime Minister's Announcement Miners to Resume Immediately Canberra
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 2
The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) announced early this morning that the coal strike had been settled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Settled
Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday: The settlement of the coal strike was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzes) in Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Rescued Overcome by Fumes Melbourne
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 4
Two miners, James M'Caig, aged 27 years, and Bob Woods, were rescued from the Bendigo mine to-day after they bad been overcome by fumes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Free Labor in Mines Many Applications in City Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 2
Very heavy applications had been received in the metropolitan area For persons willing to accept work as free laborers in the coal mines, stated the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners in Collision Cessnock
Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 4
The worst fog for years in the Cessnock district was responsible for a head-on collision between two motor cars at Mulkabs this morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Strike Settled SYDNEY
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 2
The coal strike is now settled and no further restrictions will be placed on industry. It will be some time, however, before the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Production Will Start Next Week
Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday: Aggregate meetings of mine workers on the northern, southern, and western coalfields today are expected to result in a large…
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