Miners Threaten to Ban Coal for South Australia
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: If the Premier of South Australia (Mr. Playford) challenged the validity of the Coal Industry Act, the Miners'…
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322 stories in Riverina's papers · page 13 of 17
Victorian Miners to Work Alternate Saturdays
SYDNEY, Thursday: Victorian miners have decided to work every second Saturday until Christmas to build up coal reserves…
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LONDON, Monday: Ninety bodies wen located in Whitehaven Colliery, where there was an explosion on Friday…
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LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Eighty bodies have been found and 24 men are still missing as the result of an explosion in the William Fit underwater coal mine at Whitehaven…
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LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): A long procession of sad-faced men and weeping women passed through the ambulance room at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Persistent Absenteeism" Four Miners Get Notice
LONDON, Tuesday: Dismissal notices for "persistent absenteeism"—the first issued since the coal mines were nationalised—have been served on four…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Football Group Mine Final Cootamundra and Young Meet at Murrumburrah Doug Wall in Hospital
The Group Nine 1947 competition will be finalised at Roberts Park, Murrumburrah, on Sunday next, when Cootamundra, winners of Zone 2, and…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Claude Anelzark. 18, of Cessnock, one of the State's most promising lightweight boxers arrived by a special…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clerks to Join Striking Miners in England
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): The coal miners' strike' took a new turn last night when the executive council of the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union decided to call out on strike their 10,000 members employed…
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LONDON, Wednesday: Twenty-nine Yorkshire collieries are now wholly or partially on strike—more, than one-fifth of the mines in…
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LONDON, Thursday: With 15 more pits involved in the Yorkshire coal strike, 46 pits are now affected, including 33 where work has totally stopped…
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In the Gundagai Warden's Court yesterday, the Warden upheld the contention of H. W. Pearce that the conditions relating to the mining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Indignant U.S. Comment on Bevin's Plan For Gold Redistribution
NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P.): Mr. Henry Morgenthau, jnr., former Secretary to the Treasury, has branded as "cockeyed and ridiculous" the proposal by the British Foreign Secretary (Mr. Bevin) that the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Strike Blacks Out 15 Villages
LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.):—Yorkshire gas cuts caused by the coal strike have brought a blackout as complete as wartime to 15 West…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motors and Motoring Britain's Drive For Motor Exports Depends on Coal
The success of Great Britain's "all-out" campaign to increase greatly her export of motor vehicles, not only to sterling countries, but also into dollar areas, will depend on the ability of her coal mining industry to increase coal production, and so in turn expand her steel output, thereby enabling the British motor industry to obtain the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Strike Claim in Wagga District
Gold has been discovered on Mr. J. Roach's property, "Moorong," about five miles south of Wagga. This was claimed last night by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Strike Near Wagga Rich Quartz Claimed
Gold has been discovered on Mr. J. Roach's property, "Moorong," about five miles south of Wagga. This was claimed last night by Mr. William Palmer,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga Gold Claim Believed to be a “Very Rich,’ Find
Mr William Palmer, aged 65, of Wagga, claims to have discovered gold on Moorong, Mr J. Roach’s property, about five miles south of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: In the Special Federal court today, Thomas Henry Arrowsmith, 52, business man of King's Cross, was charged, together with other…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Montreal Theatre "Make Mine Music"
Melody, fantasy and fun peravade Walt Disney's new technicolor feature, "Make Mine Music". Having pioneered recently in the field of Latin American…
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