Coal Position May Cause Railway Delays
SYDNEY, Wednesday—The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Garside, warned today that delays and minor, dislocations of…
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Aims to Convert Coal Into Gas Underground
Britain's first experiment in converting coal into gas without mining it will be conducted by the Ministry of Fuel and Power…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The Joint Coal Board has issued instructions for coal produced from northern N.S.W. mines tomorrow to be rushed to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide for urgent use by essential…
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Britain has enough workable coal to last more than two hundred years, assuming it is mined at the rate of 250 million tons a year. This estimate…
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LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.): Trade union leaders learned last night with a shock of surprise that the nation's coal miners have rejected their appeal to back the Labor Government by sacrificing wage increases for 12 months. REUTER says the miners'…
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A revolutionary electrolytic process for recovering gold from iron pyrites ores is claimed to have been…
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Thousands of tons of Gypsum essential for the building industry in N.S.W. have passed through Orange on the way to…
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WASHINGTON, Thurs.: Miners' leader, John L. Lewis, has suggested to 77,000 miners involved in wild-cat strikes in…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Important talks to try to boost Australia's coal production began in Sydney today…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The Miners' Federation will oppose the right of the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gal…
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MAHONEY CITY (Pennsylvania), Sunday: Rescue workers are blasting with dynamite through a solid wall of coal in…
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NEW YORK, Sunday: Siamese Government gold bullion, worth about 43-million dollars has been flown to the United…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Reps. Withdraw From Hearing Claim Tribunal Has No Power on Coal Scheme
SYDNEY, Monday: Miners' Federation leaders today withdrew from a hearing before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher). They did this after they claimed that Mr. Gallagher had no jurisdiction to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—Heavy coal losses were reported from northern and southern coalfields today, when 13 pits were…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) said today that he would ignore a protest by Bulli minors against the hearing of the pillar coal case…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Miners at Stanford Main No. 2 Colliery on the northern coalfield stopped work to-day in protest against…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—Miners at Stanford Main No. 2, on the northern coalfield, stopped work today in protest against…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday: The South Australian Electricity Trust announced today that it was installing special plant to…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday: Northern miners' leaders have accepted an invitation to attend talks with the Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Violence in Pittsburgh Coal Dispute
PITTSBURGH, Fri (A.A.P.): Violence flared at two pits involved in the coal-miners' strike yesterday when two big…
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