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Mining & the mines, 1949

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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-…

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Coal Strike Act Repealed From Today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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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:—…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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