New Coal Industry Proposal Federal and State Action
CANBERRA, Thurs.: The Victorian Government will examine the possibility of entering into a…
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Distribution of Coal Supplies
SYDNEY, Sunday: Eight union leaders will ask the Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley) in Sydney to-morrow to…
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TOKYO, Sunday. (A.A.P.): Pacific shipping has been warned, that 30,000 mines have broken loose from…
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"Seme of us are glibly accused of arguing a special case for the coal owners said the Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr. R. G…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: "The coal owners have received hundreds of thousands of pounds in subsidies from the Federal Government, and at the same time, in the past few weeks, have spent thousands of…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday: The Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley said to-day: "Calamity howlers and political propagandists are using the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Premier Supports Coal Bill Says Deposits Exploited
SYDNEY, Wednesday: "Should we permit the whole future of Australia to be torpedoed when we can prevent it?" asked the Premier (Mr. McKell) in the Legislative Assembly to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sick Coal Industry
King Coal nowadays is by no mesas the merry old soul of tradition. On the contrary, coal is officially described as "a sick industry." It is therefore the subject of much solicitous…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Unless a dispute at the Metropolitan Colliery on the southern N.S.W. coalfields is settled within 14 days all…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: "Nationalisation of the coal industry is only one more step towards Communist domination of this country," said Mr. Drummond (C.P., Armidale) in the Legislative Assembly to-day…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The Coal Industry Bill passed the final stages in the Legislative Assembly at 5 o'clock this morning, without an amendment…
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LITHGOW, Friday: Western miners again reached nearly record production this week, during which no mines were idle. The week's…
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SYDNEY, Friday: At [?] a.m. to-day the Cool Industry Bill was passed without amendment in the Legislative Assembly. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Coal-hewing Record Broken
SYDNEY, Friday: Miners at Burwood Colliery yesterday broke all Australian records when they hewed coal at the rate of 12½ tons a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Unions' Plan For Better Output
SYDNEY, Sunday: Several coal union branches in the Cessnock district an Saturday pledged themselves to work together to obtain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Member for Yass Warns Miners “Fighting Their Fellow Workers”
Appealing to coal miners not to take part in frivolous or unjustified strikes, Mr Sheahan (Lab. Yass) declared in the Legislative last week that if the min-ers were not careful some other mean than coal might be found to meet Australia’s power needs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chifley's Warning to Miners on Christmas Break
The Prime Minister. Mr. Chifley, has told miners that if adequate coal reserves for Christmas cannot be accumulated they should consider…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Sheahan Is Annoyed with Miners "They Are Fighting Their Own Fellow Workers," He Says
The miners were fighting their fellow-unionists and their families, Mr. W. F. Sheahan (Lab., Yass) said in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Engine-men Ignore Coal Commissioner
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Despite an order by the Coal Commissioner to-day for the reopening of the South Coast Metropolitan Collier, which…
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