Diggers' Column Miners' Long Service Leave
The ruling that miners, who served in World War 11, could not have such service included when calculating long service…
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Wagga Bishop Lose Gold Cross
During his stay at a hotel in Rome a few months ago, the Bishop of Wagga (the Most Rev. [?] A henschi[?] D.D. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Benvolo, Chitral Popular for Gold Cup Today
MELBOURNE, Friday: Sydney horses, Benvolo and Chitral, are in strong demand for the Moonee Valley Gold Cup tomorrow. Benvolo is outright favorite for the race—a point and a half shorter than Chitral…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners Threaten Stopwork Meetings Soon
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Miners' Federation Central Council today decided to call stopwork meetings on the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Demand Basic Wage Rise Paid at Once
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Miners' central Council has authorised the calling of aggregate meetings on the coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Down Tools to Join in Search No Trace Yet of Two Missing Boys
PORTLAND, Friday: About 2500 men, including miners, soldiers and airmen, are now searching for the two boys missing from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Unions and Rise in Basic Wage
SYDNEY, Sunday: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) tomorrow will consider an application by mining unions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners to Hold Meetings on Anti-Red Act
SYDNEY, Monday: The Miners' Federation Central Executive will call nationwide stopwork meetings on the coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →M.H.R.'s Plea for Miners
CANBERRA, Tues,. Mr. Watkins (Lab., N.S.W.) said miners wanted to be looked upon as good citizens—not as foreigners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Idle—men Had Missed Cup
SYDNEY, Wednesday: About 150 South Coast miners staged a stoppage today because they claimed they didn't get out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Holds Less Gold
WASHINGTON, Wed.: The United States' holding of monetary gold declined more than £595,982,142 in the last 12…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →German Coal Shortage
FRANKFORT, Sunday: American authorities yesterday reported that a serious coal shortage was crippling West Germany's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Subsidy for Callide Coal
CANBERRA, Friday: The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) has offered to subsidise Victoria at a rate of 15/ a ton for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Throat of Coal Stoppages Over £1 Basic Wage Increase
SYDNEY, Monday — A dispute over, the payment of the £1 basic wage increase to miners threatens to lead to stoppages on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Smuggling Australian and American Arrested
NEW YORK. Tuesday — An Australian and an American arrested as they were about to board a plane for India allegedly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Plans May End Shortage by 1952
CANBERRA, Monday: If the Coal Board plans for the mechanisation of N.S.W. mines came to fruition, Australian coal production could probably be brought up to a level sufficient to meet all Commonwealth demands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Problem
The Federal Government has high hopes that Coal Board plans for the mechanisation of mines will solve Australia's coal shortages by the end of 1952. People who have suffered everything from blackouts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lucky Dip for U.K. Miners
LONDON, Tuesday: The West Midlands division of the Coal Board has introduced a weekly "lucky dip"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dramatic Rescue of Entombed Men in Broken Hill Mine They Were Trapped by a Fall
BROKEN HILL, Friday — Four miners wore rescued this morning after 15 hours in a mine shaft 400 feet below the surface. They wore uninjured, but showed signs of their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trapped Miners Rescued
BROKEN HILL, Friday: Four men entombed 300 feet below the surface of the Zinc Corporation's mine for 14 hours were…
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