Mine Strike Brisbane Pledges Aid Brisbane, Mar. 15
A special meeting of Queensland Labor Council on Monday declared its full support fort the mineworkers’ general strike…
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89 Miners Entombed. New York, March 18. (A.A.P.)
Hope has been abandoned for 89 coalminers entombed in Willowgrove Pit, Bellaire (Ohio). [An explosion, which killed three men…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Support For Miners Levies Struck by Unionists in Two States
Financial support for the mining unions in the coal strike was granted yesterday by Queensland and West Australian workers. A mass meeting of representatives of all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Strike. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Mr. Mallet, is to be commended for throwing back Mr. Mair's remarks about shadow sparring. Had the State Government been endowed with a little backbone in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Richmond Main. Winding of Coal Reported. Kurri Kurri
Reports that Richmond Main colliery, one of the J. and A. Brown and Abermain-Seaham Collieries, Ltd., group, was winding coal from…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Menzies and Hughes Will Confer Govt. And Coal Dispute
A statement on the coal dispute to-morrow after he has discussed the situation with the Minister for Industry (Mr. Hughes) was promised by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Yield From Gold Tax May Be £1,250,000
To emphasise, as the authorities were doing, the scarcity of dollar credits, and to employ at the same time a policy which in certain directions definitely…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Tasmanian Support in Coal Strike Premier Blames Menzies for Stoppage Funds Growing
MINE-WORKERS involved in the general coal stoppage have the support of the Tasmanian Labor Government, the Premier of Tasmania, Mr. Cosgrove, said yesterday at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Riding Engagements. F. Shean for Gold Salute. H. Mornement for Denis
F. Shean will ride Gold Salute in the Doncaster Handicap. It was suggested, after the failure of the colt to get away on terms with the Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →B.H.P., Smith and Fallon Join Common Front Against Miners BRISBANE. Mar. 16
The Queensland “Labor” parliamentary caucus and the Fallon gang at the head of the Australian Workers’ Union in that State are practically…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Complete Solitary Of Miners Strike Will Be Successful Says Nelson Levy For All Unionists SYDNEY. Mar. 16
“Our vigil to Melbourne and interviews with the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions proved very fruitful,” Mr. C. Nelson, president of the combined mining unions, stated today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Guinea Goldfields
New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., reports that production of fine gold at the Golden Ridges mill in February was erroneously given by the company as 623oz. The figure should have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unemployed Behind Miners
The secretary of the Unemployed Department of the N.S.W. Labor Council, Mr. W. Geraghty, said last night that the unemployed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railmen and Coal
NEWCASTLE, Tues. -- The State secretary of the Australian Railways Union, Mr. Lloyd Ross, assured the Northern Mining Combined Unions'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Your Choice and Mine."
It is the general belief that "Highbrow" and "Lowbrow" music won't mix and that radio programmes featuring one or the other must be kept…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Board to Meet
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- A meeting of the Northern Miners' board of management has been convened for to-morrow at 10 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Crushed to Death
KALGOORLIE. Tuesday. -- Crushed under two tons of rock, which, fell without warning from the roof of a stone at the 1400ft. level of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overtures to Rothbury Miners
Proposals were discussed at a union conference in Sydney yesterday to withdraw the non-unionists employed on the Rothbury Estate, where 10,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Australian Gold Price
GOLD. Fine ounce, £10/13/3, unch.; standard ounce (22 carats) £9/15/5[?], unch. (Commonwealth Bank). SOVEREIGNS: £2/9/, unch…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Support Miners Pledge By Unions
"We pledge full industrial as well as financial support to the mining unions. The full force of…
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