Multiple Coal Shifts Begin Today Miner's Death Causes Big Loss
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday: First step towards increasing coal production following the seven weeks' strike will be made tomorrow, when multiple shifts will be worked in New South Wales open-cut mines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gas Position in Cootamundra Works Still on 50 Per Cent. of Usual Coal
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 2
Cootamundra Municipal Council Engineer, Mr. H. D. Willis, said this morning that coal stocks at the gas works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Coal Loss Follows Strike Stoppages Over Miners' Supplies
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday: N.S.W. colliery proprietors warned today that an effective code of discipline was needed among mineworkers if the lag between the demand and supply of coal was to be overcome…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strike Off in U.k. Mines
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 3
LONDON, Wednesday: Leaders of 1580 mine lift operators have decided to call off their strike, threatened for Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Troops Out of Mines by
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Instructions for the withdrawal of all troops from the coalfields were issued this afternoon by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Allegation on Recent Coal Strike
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2
Prague, Wednesday: Australian churches and religious societies spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on anti-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Act Repealed From Today
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 1
CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Attorney General (Dr. Evatt) today announced the repeal of the National Emergency Coal Strike Act. He said a proclamation would be issued today formally declaring…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bath Not Warm Enough for Miners So They Go Home
Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Miners at the Steel Works collery, in the western district, again refused to work today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Union Will Pay Money Into Court No Application Yet on Claims
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Miners' Federation will pay into the Arbitration Court tomorrow most of the £23,700 withdrawn from banks during the coal strike…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good Bonuses for Troops Who Worked in Mines
Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday: The 2000 troops who manned open-cut mines during the coal strike have each received a bonus of £10 for their 18 days of work. This means that they received from £5 to £8…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lockout Threat to All Mines at Broken Hill
Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 2
BROKEN HILL, Thursday: A lockout in all Broken Hill mines is threatened by the Mining Managers' Association as a counter to the union threat of weekly stop-work meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dollar and Gold Reserves May be Wiped Out
Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 1
LONDON, Friday.—Difficulties in carrying out the 25 per cent. cut in Britain's dollar import programme are believed here…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strip Hap Effect on Wool. Overseas Tops Business Considered Satisfactory
Junee Southern Cross · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 6
Business in wool tops abroad is very satisfactory in volume, and machinery is well occupied. The cheif exporters of tops overseas…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrong Gold Price Forcing Depression
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1949 · page 5
Sir Walter Massy-Greene, a director of some of Australia's leading gold-mining companies, stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wagga A.L.P. Resolution on Coal Strike
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1949 · page 6
At the monthly meeting of the Wagga branch of the A.L.P. last night the following resolution was carried:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Warning to Govt
Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sunday: The meting president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Hamilton) told a Domain meeting today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thousand Years of Coal
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 7
There are some 11,688,000,000 tons of coal reserves beneath the ground in NSW—sufficient on the 1946 output to last 1000 years, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blues Retained Eric Weissel Gold Cop in Stiffest Game Since the Trophy Came to Junee
Junee Southern Cross · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 2
YOUNG LAST SATURDAY GAVE JUNEE THEIR STIFFEST TUSSLE FOR THE WEISSEL CUP SINCE THE HOLDERS WON THE TROPHY FROM TEMORA SEVERAL WEEKS AGO. A MISSED GOAL BY O'MALLEY, OF YOUNG, FROM…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's Coal Output in July
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 2
United Kingdom coal output last month totalled 14,616,000 tons, just over half a million tons more than in July, 1948. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Straight Talking to Miners "We Won't Take It," Says Local Member
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 3
They could get away with It for some of the time, but they couldn't get away with it all the time because the people of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →