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Mining & the mines, 1950

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Minister Wants Survey of Coal Demands

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: The Minuter for Fuel and Shipping (Senator McLeay) said today he had asked the Joint Coal Board to make a Commonwealth-wide survey of probable coal needs over the next few years…

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Wharf Men Volunteer to Unload Coal Bid to Avoid Cas Cuts in Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: More than 250 waterside workers marched to the Metropolitan Gas Company's works this morning and volunteered to unload 8500 tons of gas coal from the collier Heronspool…

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U.s. Miners Refuse to Return

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 January 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday (AAP): Pittsburg district officials of the United Mineworkers' Union failed yesterday to…

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Glen Davis Miners Approach Govt

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday: An extension of long service leave benefits to Glen Davis shale miners and rectification of…

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Gold Coin May Miss the Kirkham Stakes

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Fancied contender Gold Coin may be scratched from the Kirkham Stakes on Monday…

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Stoppage Expected in Mines Maitland Dispute

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: A stoppage of all mines on the Maitland coalfields, which produce 21,000 tons of coal daily, is likely on Tuesday. If the stoppage is held, it will also mean a serious…

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Big Coal Loss; 27 Idle Mines

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Whether all or any of 27 mines idle yesterday would resume work tomorrow could not be…

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Big Coal Loss Yesterday

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—Whether all or any of 27 mines idle yesterday would resume work to-day could not be indicated last…

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Miners Walk Out of Coal Inquiry

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Miners' representatives today walked out of a hearing by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher),…

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Miners Expected to Rebuff Militants

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Sunday: The Northern board of management of the Miners' Federation has directed five lodges to ignore…

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Big Prize Money Fixed for Wagga Gold Cup

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 2

Prize money for the Wagga Gold Cup meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, April 26 and 27, has been fixed at…

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Miners Sentence Confrere to Unemployment

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 2

LITHGOW, Tuesday: On a charge of breaking down conditions made by their lodge, a miner was sentenced to two…

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Miners' Threat to the Govt

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday—The central council of the Miners' Federation pledged itself by resolution not to "co-operate"…

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Miners' Threat to Menzies Govt

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation today pledged itself by resolution not to…

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Striking U.s. Miners Angry with Truman

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): President Truman has invoked the Taft-Hartley Labor Law in an effort to end the…

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Coal Strike and Super Stocks. Reduced Supplies Available for Ploughing

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 7

A well-known district identity took the opportunity of visiting a Sydney firm producing superphosphate during a trip to Sydney last…

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Gold Coin, Minted in Year 1837 Found in Old Junee Garden

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

Digging in his garden at "Wyoming," Old Junee, yesterday morning, Mr. Pat Hogan dame across a gold sovereign minted in 1837. The sovereign was heavily…

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Miners' Hostility "Unreal, Unjust"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday: The Minister for Labor (Mr. Holt) said today that the declaration by the Miners' Central Council…

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21 N.s.w. Mines Idle Yesterday

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Twenty-one mines were idle in New South Wales today for a production loss of 11,896 tons…

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Coal Shortage Threat to Railways Only a Week's Supply in Hand

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Cuts in railway time-tables are threatened by a serious coal shortage. THE Minister for Transport…

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