Miners Refuse To Let A.C.T.U. Handle Dispute
SYDNEY, Friday: The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation today refused to hand over control of the coal dispute to Australian Council of Trade Unions…
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Coal Strikes Condemned at Wagga Meeting
At the monthly meeting of the Wagga Trades Labor Council on Saturday the following resolution was unanimously carried: "This Wagga Trades and Labor Council representative of thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Talks with A.c.t.u. May End Strikes Rationing to Co?
SYDNEY, Sunday: When miners' leaders meet the A.C.T.U. tomorrow in an endeavor to settle die coal strikes "there is a possibility of getting somewhere," the Miners' Federation secretary (Mr. Grant)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Big Coal Loss in N.S.W. Stop-Work Meetings Cost Over 70,000 Tons
SYDNEY, Monday; Miners in the four coal states--New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania--to-day are holding…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday — A two-and-a-half-hour conference in Sydney yesterday afternoon failed to find a solution to the coal…
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CANBERRA, Monday: The National Security Resources Board today began planning the readjustment of public and private investment programmes…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday — "If the parties to tomorrow's coal talks would join with the miners in an application to the Coal…
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MENANGLE, Tuesday: There were genuine industrial grievances and unresolved anomalies in Mr. Gallagher's incentive bonus award, the Superintendent of the Waverley Methodist Mission (the Rev. Alan…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The full interstate executive of the A.C.T.U., in a statement today, said that the miners' and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation in Sydney this afternoon decided to ask all parties to Thursday's coal conference…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A settlement of the coal crisis depended upon the spirit prevailing at tomorrow's conference, the general president of the Miners, Federation (Mr. I. Williams) said tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Vessel Sank in Mountainous Sea, Says Witness
GOSFORD, Thursday: The seas in which the coal vessel Kiama foundered on January 19 were "mountainous," a survivor of the vessel told the Coroner (Mr. C. J. Staples) today…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The resumed conference on the coal crisis collapsed today when the N.S.W. mine-owners refused to attend. The conference, called on Monday to find a solution to the coal dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Worth More Than Gold or Diamonds to South Africa
South Africa's gold mines (the most productive in the British Commonwealth) today play second fiddle to wool as the Union's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Evatt: Miners Gave No 1949 Promise
MELBOURNE, Friday: Three miners' leaders had never given an undertaking to the Court in 194[?] to give precedence to the law over union rules, Dr. H Evatt, K.C., declared in the Full Arbitration Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Blame Owners For Collapse Of Conference Proprietor's Refusal to Attend Talks
SYDNEY, Friday: The Sydney office of the Minors' Federation to-day issued an "information bulletin" laying the bla[?]s for the collapse of this week's coal-crisis negotiations on the mine-owners and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Out Again Today; Zoning Talks
SYDNEY, Sunday: Miners tomorrow will hold their third one-day-a-week stoppage in protest against the Gallagher "incentive" award payment for working 10 days a fortnight Industry will lose 62,000 tons of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday — Today's meeting between the A.C.T.U. emergency committee and the Miners' Federation has beer…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Plans were well in hand for a vigorous coal production programme for 1951, the Minister for Shipping and Fuel (Senator McLeay) said today. The statement was made following weekend conference between himself…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →K.c. Admits Miners Did Not Give Pledge on Strikes
MELBOURNE, Monday: Mr. G. E. Barwick, K.C. (for the Attorney-General) told the Arbitration Court today that the Commonwealth did not suggest there was an underakmg by the three miners' leaders in 1949 that they would never participate in strikes…
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