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322 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 17
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The industrial chaos which has already gripped Victoria as a result of the metal trades' dispute now threatens to spread to New South Wales. Metal trades unions, representing 55,000 work…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Thursday: Little hope is held out for the 110 miners trapped in the Central colliery at Wamac (Ilinos). Carbon monoxide fumes have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CENTRALIA (Ill.), Wednesday: It is known that 20 men were killed when they were trapped in a softcoal mine at Wamac, near Centralia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British railways are tackling the problem of converting locomotives from coal to oil burning. The converted locomotives can…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LAKE SUCCESS (N.Y.), Wednesday: Russia used the veto yesterday to block a Security Council decision in Britain's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Friday: sixteen more bodies, all mutilated by the explosion which occurred on Tuesday, were recovered from the Wamac soft coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CENTRALIA (Illinois), Thursday: It is now hoped that rescue parties will reach the 110 entrapped miners in the Centralia colliery within a few hours, but there is little hope of finding them alive…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Someone once trenchantly observed that "There's nothing like a good laugh." This fact was borne home to us when, depressed by a week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday: The secretary of the Victorian miners and a member of the Communist Party (Mr. I. Williams) won the ballot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Friday: Sixteen more bodies have been recovered from the soft coal mine near Centralla (Illinois), where…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Sunday: A stoppage of work throughout the soft-coal industry from April 1 to April 6 to mourn for the miners killed in the Centralia coalmine disaster has been called by the president…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Syndicates from Sydney and Melbourne have offered to buy a Sebastopol mine, reported to be yielding gold up to six ounces a ton. The mine is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WOLLONGONG, Tuesday: An inter-union dispute is now threatening to dislocate coal production in South Coast mines, and the dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday: It is estimated that 350,000 miners are affected by the decision of the German Miners' Union to call out all Ruhr mines for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wednesday: Ruhr miners will decide to-day whether they will call a general strike as a protest against the food situation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Friday: Miners' wives gate-crashed the meeting of Ruhr miners at Bochum yesterday, says the Essen correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five hundred and eighteen Government-operated soft coal mines, affecting 40,000 miners, will remain closed until committees determine them reasonably safe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday: It is expected that all but one of the New South Wales coalmines will operate normally after the Easter week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Monday: A nation-wide soft-coal strike is considered a virtual certainty. It has been learned that district…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Tuesday (A.A.P.): The strike of 350,000 soft-coal miners and 325,000 telephone workers is causing serious dislocation in industry and communications…
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