Pensions for Miners. Proposals by Unions. Retirement at 60
A scheme to provide for the compulsory retirement at the age of 60 of employees in coal and shale mines and coke works in New South Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mining & the mines, 1940
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Biggest Coal Strike in History Sydney, Mar. 4
The combined mining unions will call a halt to coal production, throughout the Commonwealth, as from this Friday, March 8. Prime cause of the struggle is the withdrawal of the 40-hour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Crisis Move Menzies Urged to Inter Vene
CIVIC leaders in all coal centres yesterday requested the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, immediately to intervene in the threatened coal stoppage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Escape Mines New Vessel's Device New York
A British liner has arrived here with metal hooks welded to the sides from bow to stern. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners and a Ballot. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—After reading Mr. A. de R. Barclay's letter, I feel compelled to voice what must be in the minds of many thousands of people who will be most seriously affected by a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gigantic Gold Plan for U.S.A. WASHINGTON
Senator Thomas, who Initiated devaluation of the gold dollar, to-day introduced a bill to redistribute, through the Export-Import Bank,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Italian Protest on Coal London, Monday. Our Own Cable Service
The text of the Italian protest to Britain concerning the stoppage of German coal export to Italy was published…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Leaders Urge Strike Circulars on Coalfields "Stoppage To Force Settlement" NEWCASTLE
On the eve of the mineworkers' aggregate meetings to-morrow, the Combined Mining Unions Committee has flooded the coalfields with circulars appealing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Will Owners Cause Black-out? Warned Not to Use Current to Work Mines
AFTER the general coal stoppage is declared, all labor will be withdrawn from coalfields power houses unless assurances are given and fulfilled that the electricity from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paris-War Time Women Trundle Coal, But City Still Holds World's Fashion Title... PARIS, Jan. 26
ENGLISHWOMEN who enlist with one of the women's services promise to wear uniform for the duration of the war. They never get out of it…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Italian Ships Defy Coal Blockade Ignore British Warning Rumored New Links With Berlin Crisis Threat London
Six Italian steamers have left Rotterdam with German coal for Italy, and five more are preparing to sail in defiance of a British warning that their cargoes are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Horses. Seven Fifty and Gold Salute Returning from Melbourne. From Our Special Representative. Melbourne
The former Queensland galloper, Seven Fifty, now in B. R. Payten's Randwick stable, and Mr. Alan Cooper's three-years-old colt Gold Salute, are…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Bond Yield at Record Low Level Industrial Prices Mostly Steady Brighter Reports Give Gold Shares Lift
Trading continued along quiet lines on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day. Except for a few minor price fluctuations, the industrial market was generally steady. Commonwealth Bonds, in spite of light trading,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Wentworth Goldfields
Wentworth (Lucknow) Goldfields N.L. reports "Struck rich gold driving east Golden Point reef at 300ft level. Location is within 10ft of the point where the old London company…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Miners' Choice
To-day the aggregate meetings of miners on the northern coalfields will vote on the recommendation for a general strike put forward by their…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"Mine Deputies Friendless"
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- "When a man is appointed mine deputy he often finds he is losing his friends."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Italy's Coal Imports
WHILE the British Government's reply to the Italian Note on the German coal dispute is not yet available, an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Mean to Fight
Last minute reports from all coalfields on the eve of the northern aggregate meetings to-day, showed that the mine-workers he[?]e never been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Gold Price
GOLD: Fine ounce, £10/13/3, unch.; standard ounce (22 carats), £9/15/5¾, unch. (Commonwealth Bank). SOVEREIGNS: £2/9/, unch…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ngahere Gold Dredging
During February the dredge of Ngahere Gold Dredging Ltd. ran 460 hours and treated 189,000 cubic yards for 34[?]oz of gold…
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