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Mining & the mines, 1948

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Italian Miners May Come Here, Says Mr. Chifley

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The Federal Government is investigating the possibility of bringing Italian coalminers to Australia for employment in the industry here, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said today…

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No Hot Tea and Bath Temperatures Cause Miners to Strike

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—Miners at Cessnock No. 1 struck today on a demand fora hot tea service in the mine, and at…

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Coal Shortage Will Delay Housing

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The secretary of John Lysaght (Aust). Pty. Ltd. (Mr. J. Gould) said today that the coal shortage…

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More Coal Wanted to Shift Wheat

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Additional coal to lift the 38,000,000 bushels which remained of last year's record 100,000,000 bushels…

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Coal Board Plans to Outlaw Unauthorised Mine Stoppages

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Joint Coal Board will take action to outlaw all unauthorised stoppages on the N.S.W. coalfields. The board will apply to the Coal Industry…

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Coal Deposits at Awaba

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Deposits of at least 52 million tons of coal were contained in 8,500 acres of land at Awaba…

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State Parlt. Told of Coal Plans

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Everything possible was being done in N.S.W. to meet the increasing demands for coal, the Premier…

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Miners Threaten Trouble If Privileges Lost

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) will hear an application by the Joint Coal Board…

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Nationwide Action Mooted by Miners

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Miners' leaders today decided to call a special meeting of their central council in Sydney next Tuesday…

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Miners May Hold Big Meetings on Penalty Decision

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Aggregate meetings of coal miners may be called as a protest against a decision of the Joint…

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How Communists Control Industry Through Coal

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 2

Stoppages at five northern collieries, and subsequent disputes in the coal industry, have inflicted drastic gas rationing on much of N.S.W…

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Miners Agree on Common Policy Over Penalties

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: All mining unions, covering 23,000 mineworkers on the Australian coalfields, have agreed on a…

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Miners to Decide on Crisis Issue

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The outcome of a sitting of the Coal Industry Tribunal in Sydney tomorrow will deride whether…

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14 Miners Killed

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 1

PRINCETON (Indiana), Wednesday: Fourteen miners were, killed in an explosion in the King's Mine yesterday. The…

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Reds Seeking Control of Mt. Isa Lead Mines, Says Fadden

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Communists were now concentrating on getting control of Mt. Isa where lead mines formed an important defence industry in the event of war with Russia. This was stated today by the Federal leader of the Country Party (Mr…

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Miners to Hold One-day Stoppage

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 1
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SYDNEY, Friday — Miners' leaders will confer before they decide on what stop-work meetings will be held next week on…

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Miners Show Defiance of Tribunal Meeting to Fix Day for Stoppage

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Despite an order from the Coal Industry Tribunal against the Miners' Federation holding its threatened one-day stoppage next week-miners' leaders will meet tomorrow to fix a day next…

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Gold Rush at Nundle

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 2

There has been a mild gold rush to Nundle, where a rich reef of gold was discovered a week ago by Alexander Tarvainen, a Finn. Well…

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All Coalmines Idle on Thursday; Miners to Consider Future Action

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: All coalmines in New South Wales will be idle next Thursday. Stopwork meetings will be held on all coalfields in accordance with an instruc-ion from the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation "to consider a…

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