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Mining & the mines, 1950

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Mine Closed Over Stoppages

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY. Friday—Coalowners decided to close down Stockrington No. 2 Colliery, on the Northern N.S.W. coalfields, because of…

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Mine Will Close Over Stoppages

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Coalowners decided today to close down Stockrington No. 2 Colliery, on the Northern N.S.W. coalfields, because of continued stoppages of work at the mine…

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"Miners Have Us All Begging"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 4

Mr Justice Foster declared in the Federal Arbitration Court recently that Australians were all on their…

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Egypt Buys Gold

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 June 1950 · page 1

CAIRO, Sunday: Egypt has bought 61,200,000 dollars' worth of gold to back her currency, the Egyptian Finance Minister…

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Europe to Proceed with Dramatic Plan to Pool Coal, Steel Talks to Continue Despite Last-minute British Move

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 June 1950 · page 1

PARIS, Sunday (A.A.P.): France announced yesterday that six Western European countries would go ahead without Britain with their negotiations on the Schuman plan to pool coal and steel resources. The British Government in a last-minute proposal had urged a preliminary…

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The Oaklands Coalfield Minister for Mines Writes to Mr. Kendell

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 7

The Hon. E. W. Dickson, Minister for Mines in the New South Wales Government, has written to Mr. E. T. Kendell, M.L.A., as follows: Knowing the great interest yoll…

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Miners to Test Validity of "Red" Bill When it Becomes Law

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY. Tuesday — The Miners' Federation will challenge the validity of the communist Party Dissolution Bill…

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Miners Will Test Validity of "Red" Bill Will Co to Court If It Becomes Law

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The Miners' Federation will challenge the validity of the Communist Party Dissolution Bill immediately it becomes law…

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European Move to Pool Coal Praised in U.S. New York, Mon. (A.A.P.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 2

Averell Harriman, united States Special Am assador for the Marshall Plan, said yesterday the decision by six European…

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Vast Possibilities If Oaklands Coal Were Developed

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 June 1950 · page 5

Next to full conservation of our water resources, and irrigation over as large an area as possible, no single factor could have a greater influence on the suture of the whole Murray Valley than full…

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Gaol Warning to Miners' Leaders Coal Tribunal on Strike Possibility

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today warned miners' leaders that they might face a gaol sentence if they brought…

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Gold Found in Hen

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: Mrs. D. Stephens, a delicatessen shopkeeper, of Prahran, found more than 50 pieces of gold-bearing…

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Miners to Stop Work Next

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Miners Federation central Executive has decided to coll a one-day stoppage next Monday on…

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Miners to Stop in Four States Next

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Miners' Federation Central Executive today decided to call a one-day stoppage next Monday on…

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Move to Prevent Miners Stopping Next

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Coalowners' representatives today applied to the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) for…

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McCirr Claims Big Rise in Coal Output

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Coal production in the first quarter of 1950 was up 250,000 tons compared with the same quarter…

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Five Trapped in Mine

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 1

MONTREAL, Friday: Rescue crews are st[?]gling to reach five men trap, in a coal-mine near Cadomin (Alberta) by…

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Miners' Leaders Split On Strike Issue

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The Miners' Federation Central Executive admitted tonight that a split among Federation officials caused proposed stoppages on the coal fields on Monday to be called off…

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Ascot Gold Cup to Supertello

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 10

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.) : Australian jockeys were unplaced yesterday in the Ascot Gold Cup, which saw an English colt,…

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Five Miners Dead

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 1

CADOMIN (Alberta), Sunday: Mine officials said yesterday that all hope had been abandoned for the five men who were…

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