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394 stories in Riverina's papers · page 17 of 20
Mining engineers in Britain are freezing a section of the earth's surface to a depth of over 400 feet. This is a preparatory step…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday: The calling of a Statewide coal strike next week by the Miners' Federation now appears inevitable unless there is Government intervention on the Kemeira tunnel dispute within the next…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WOLLONGONG, Thursday: Meetings of men who had been stood down in heavy industries because of the strike…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, Thursday (A.A.P.): For the first time in more than a week there were no clashes yesterday between French strikers and Security Forces. The Government is convinced that, by sending troops to the mines, it has gained the upper hand…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday—The coal loss this week as a result of the South Coast stoppages is expected to be the heaviest since…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said today that he had issued authorities for four N.S.W. coalmines to be placed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday: "The action of Australian Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. in disregarding the direction of the Joint Coal Board to cease work on the Kemeira tunnel was not in defiance of the law, but in the firm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is understood that big mining interests have obtained an option over most of the tin mines at Ardlethan and intend…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday: An appeal to the coal miners to exercise common sense and return to work on the southern fields was made in the Legislative Assembly today by the Acting Premier (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, Wednesday.—The French strikers delivered their first blow, after a two-day truce on the coalfields by hurling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday: A general stoppage of coal production throughout N.S.W. will be recommended at Miners' aggregate meetings on the northern and western coalfields tomorrow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Prime Minister Chifley, in last minute attempts to prevent the threatened state-wide coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PARIS, Thursday.—French troops have freed all coal mines strikers had held the Minister of the interior, Jules…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wednesday An official survey of British coal production for the first 43 weeks of 1948 shows that each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is understood that big mining interests have obtained option over most of the tin mines at Ardlethan and intend to proceed with diamond…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The State faces almost immediately one of its worst industrial crisis as a result of the decision of the Northern and Western miners to join the Southern miners in a general NSW coal Strike— the first since 1940…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wed.: The State faces almost immediately one of its worst industrial crises as a result of the decision of the Northern and Western miners to join the Southern miners in a general New South Wales coal strike—the first…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PARIS, Thursday: French troops have freed all coal mines which the striking coalminers had held. The Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Coast miners have been striking for several weeks because members of the A.W.U. constructing a tunnel from one mine to another,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday: The most drastic rationing system ever introduced on the consumption of coal was announced by the…
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