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Mining & the mines, 1942

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Britain's Tin Mines, Second Richest in the World

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 4

TIN mining is Britain's oldest metal industry and prior to the opening of the Malayan mines, Cornwall was the world's main source of tin. Now Britain turns once more to Cornwall for supplies of this metal, vital to her war industries. Here the tin ore is recovered in…

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Coal Trouble Enginedrivers and Firemen Issue Warning to Board

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Officials of the Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association to-day warned the Central Coal Reference Board…

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State Minister Supports Miners' Stand Employer May Be Ordered to Make Pit Safe

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The New South Wales Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) to-day endorsed the stand taken by the miners at…

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Idle Mines

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The only mine on strike in New South Wales to-day was Pelton, in the north, where about 220 miners have been idle since…

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Miners' Claim Ten Per Cent. Wage Rise

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Claims will be pressed by the Miners' Federation before the Central Coal Reference Board for 10 per cent,…

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Pelton Mine Management's Claim For Federal Intervention in Dispute

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tueaday—Contending that the matter was an industrial dispute calling for intervention by the Commonwealth and not by the State, the…

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One Mine Idle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The only mine on the New South Wales coalfields idle to-day was the Pelton. As a result of the…

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Coal Industry Greater Production Plan

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Re-organisation of the coal industry to meet the increased demands of Australia's war effort was…

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Failed to Keep Mine Open

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 August 1942 · page 2

Under National Security Regulations, the owners of the Pelton Colliery are to be charged in the Arbitration Court with failing to keep the…

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Mine Owners and Employees Summonsed Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 August 1942 · page 1

Summonses have been launched by the Commonwealth Government under the new coal regulations against the owners, manager, and five…

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Pelton Mine Owners and Employees To Be Proceeded Against

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Summonses have been launched by the Commonwealth Government under the new coal regulations against the owners…

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Idle Mines

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—Owing to lack of transport, eight northern New South Wales mines were held up to-day with the loss of 7600…

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Prosecuted Miners Conference with Federation President

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Miner's Federation general president (Mr. Wells) will confer to-morrow with the five employees of Pelton Colliery. Who…

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Victorian Coal Supplies Below Safety Margin

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1942 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Coal Commissioner (Mr. Mighell) said to-day that coal stocks in Victoria were considerably below the margin of…

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Coal Difficulties Overcome

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—An assurance that transport difficulties which had held up production at seven New South Wales coalmines on Friday and…

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The Mines Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 August 1942 · page 1

"Every colliery in N.S.W. is working today, and a record output is likely this week," the general secretary of the Miners' Federation, Mr. G. W. S…

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Pelton Mine Prosecution of Owner and Emloyees Timbering System

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—In the first prosecutions of the kind the owners and the manager of Pelton Colliery and five employees…

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All Mines Working

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Every coal mine in New South Wales worked to-day, there being a complete absence of industrial disputes or…

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Pelton Mine Alleged Security Act Breaches

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 August 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Until he has heard all the evidence to be proffered against the five miners who have been charged with breaches of the National…

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Miners' Rights When Danger Exists Pelton Case

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Replying to the Crown allegations in the case in which he and three other employees of Felton Coal…

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