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Mining & the mines, 1949

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Communists Lose Control of Northern Miners

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 November 1949 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Friday: A.L.P. supporters have captured control of the Miners' Northern N.S.W Board of Management, which is…

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Impressions of Newcastle During A Recent Visit Miners Go On Strike

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 4

Mr. R. A. Struck gave some interesting impressions of his recent holiday in Newcastle to a representative of the…

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Coal Output May be Record

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Only one N.S.W. mine was idle today, when about 60,000 tons of coal was produced…

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Liberals' Policy on Coal Mining

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 November 1949 · page 2

Speaking over 2WG on Friday evening, the Liberal candidate for Farrer (Mr. David Fairbairn) outlined his party's policy…

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400 Miners Killed

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 3

BERLIN, Mon.: Four hundred miners were killed in a fire in Soviet Zone uranium mines at Johannegeorgenstadt on…

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U.k. Coal and Steel Output New High Levels

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 3

British coal miners in October achieved the highest shift output since well before the war. Overall production per shift,…

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Australian Streets Paved with Gold

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 8

Away back in the “roaring fifties" when gold find followed upon gold find, Australia was spoken overseas as a country where the streets of…

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Best Coal Output for Seven Years

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Coal produced by N.S.W. mineworkers on five working days last week was the highest in seven years…

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All Silos Cleared for Wheat Harvest Oat Transport Affected By Coal Traffic

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 7

The need to -provide trucks to build up coal stocks to overcome the three weeks' Xmas holiday break in the miners' production is…

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Bandits Snatched £17,000 PAYROOL Cordon Thrown Around A Mining Town

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 1

(A. A. P.) LONDON: Police threw a cordon around the Scottish coal mining town of Motherwell last night after four armed…

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High Coal Output Continues

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Today's coal report from the Joint Coal Board read: "All collieries reported working in the Northern,…

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"Miners Will Not Respond to Menzies"

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 December 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: The general [?] (Mr. I. Williams) said tonight that Australian…

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Christmas Coal Now Assured

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Coal held in dumps near Lithgow has risen to more than 60,000 tons because there are not enough…

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Plenty of Coal for Xmas

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—Coal held in dumps near Lithgow has risen to more than 60,000 tons, because there are not…

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Australian Streets Lined with Gold. Interesting Facts of the Good Old Days

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 7 December 1949 · page 11

Away back in the "roaring fifties" when gold find followed upon gold find, Australia was spoken of overseas as a country where the…

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British Coal Mines to Mare Profit

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 1

- (A.A.P.) LONDON: National- ised coal mines made a profit of £2,350,235 sterling for the third quarter of IMP. 1949…

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Coal Facts Mr. Fairbairn’s Broadcast

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 6

Speaking over 2WG last Friday week, Mr. Fairbairn, Liberal candidate for Farrer said:-To-night I want to give you a…

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Miners' Shorter Week Claim Rejected a Question of Output

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday — The Coal Industry Tribunal. Mr. F. H. Gallagher, today rejected a claim by the Miners' Federation for a…

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Miners Reject Judgment

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Miners' leaders said tonight that the judgment today by the Coal Industry Tribunal…

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Miners Reject Tribunal Judgment

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—Miners' leaders said last night that the judgment by the coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher)…

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